Musnad Ahmad 1527

Translation

✧ The plague was mentioned in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: It is a punishment with which those before you were afflicted. If it is in a land, do not enter it, and if you are in a land where it occurs, do not leave it.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هذا حديث ضعيف الإسناد ترده أحاديث الحفاظ

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1534

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   One of the Ten (promised Paradise), and the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Godd. 50 AH or 51 AH or 54 AH, also said: 56 AH, also said: 57 AH, also said: 58 AH. And the second is better known
   سَعْد بْن أَبِي وَقَّاصأحد العشرة ، وأول من رمى بسهم في سبيل الله
   عن
2. 2
   Ibn Saʿd
   يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعْدٍ
   حدثني
3. 3
   ʿIkrimah b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. He died after ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ, and ʿAṭāʾ died in the year 115 AH; it is also said: in the year 114.
   عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ -ثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Sulaym b. Ḥayyān

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   سَلِيمُ بْنُ حَيَّانَثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   وَعَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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