Musnad Ahmad 15112
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حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
خِيَارُ النَّاسِ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ إِذَا فَقِهُوا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Rawḥ
- Ibn Jurayj
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The best people in the Jahiliyyah are the best people in Islam if they acquire understanding (fiqh).
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رجاله رجال الصحيح
in مسند أحمد, p. 15271
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 68 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيسمع
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 126 AHأَبُو الزُّبَيْرِصدوقأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 149 AHابْنُ جُرَيْجٍثقةحدثنا
- حدثناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 205 AH
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 241 AHأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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