Musnad Ahmad 15616

Translation

✧ Whoever builds a building without wrongdoing or transgression, or plants a tree without wrongdoing or transgression, will have a continuous reward as long as any of the creation of God, Blessed and Exalted, benefits from it.

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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

  فيه زبان بن فائد ضعفه أحمد وغيره ووثقه أبو حاتم

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15783
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه زبان وثقه أبو حاتم وفيه كلام

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15783

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿādh b. Anas al-Juhanī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. survived until ʿAbd al-Malik's caliphate
   مُعَاذ بْن أَنَس الْجُهَنِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Sahl b. Muʿādh

   no harm in him (lā baʾsa bih) except in the narrations of Zabbān from himd. between 111 and 120 AH
   سَهْلِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍلا بأس به إلا في روايات زبان عنه
   عن
3. 3
   Zabbān b. Fāʾid

   weak (ḍaʿīf) in hadith despite his righteousness and worshipd. 155 AH
   زَبَّانُضعيف الحديث مع صلاحه وعبادته
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   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 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥasan

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AH
   حَسَنٌثقة
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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