Musnad Ahmad 15622

Translation

✧ He commanded his companions to set out on a military expedition. A man stayed behind and said to his family: I will stay behind until I pray the noon prayer with the Messenger of God ﷺ, then greet him and bid him farewell, so that he may supplicate for me with a supplication that will intercede for me on the Day of Resurrection. When the Prophet ﷺ had prayed, the man came and greeted him. The Messenger of God ﷺ said to him: Do you know by how much your companions have outdistanced you? He said: Yes, they outdistanced me by their early departure. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: By the One in whose hand is my soul, they have outdistanced you in virtue by as much as the distance between the two easts and the two wests.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  وفيه زبان بن فائد وثقه أبو حاتم وضعفه جماعة وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15789

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
   سَهْلٌلا بأس به إلا في روايات زبان عنه
   حدثنا
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.