Musnad Ahmad 14887

Translation

✧ My likeness and your likeness is that of a man who lit a fire, and moths and grasshoppers began falling into it. He said: And he was pushing them away from it. He said: And I am holding onto your waists to keep you from the Fire, while you are slipping from my hand.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 163"مثلي ومثلكم كمثل رجل أوقد ناراً فجعل الجنادب والفراش يقعن فيها وهو يذبهن عنها وأنا آخذ بحجزكم عن النار، وأنتم تفلتون من يدي"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6483Sahih Muslim 2284aSahih Muslim 2284bJami' at-Tirmidhi 2874

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   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 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Mīnāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 AH and 120 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ مِينَاءَثقة
   أخبرنا
3. 3
   Sulaym b. Ḥayyān

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   سَلِيمُ بْنُ حَيَّانَثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   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 view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.