Musnad Ahmad 14761
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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى وَحَسَنٌ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ
مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ كَمَثَلِ السُّنْبُلَةِ تَخِرُّ مَرَّةً وَتَسْتَقِيمُ مَرَّةً، وَمَثَلُ الْكَافِرِ مَثَلُ الْأَرْزِ لَا يَزَالُ مُسْتَقِيمًا حَتَّى يَخِرَّ وَلَا يَشْعُرَ قَالَ حَسَنٌ: الْأَرْزَةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mūsá and Ḥasan
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
✧ The example of a believer is like a stalk of grain: it bends once and stands straight once. And the example of a disbeliever is like the cedar: it remains erect until it falls down without realizing it. Hasan said: the cedar tree.
Grades by grader
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه أحمد وفيه ابن لهيعة وفيه كلام ورواه البزار ورجاله ثقات
in مسند أحمد, p. 14917
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), a jurist, an ascetic, has errorsd. 216 AH, or 217 AHمُوسَىصدوق فقيه زاهد له أوهامحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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