Musnad Ahmad 15777

Translation

✧ The soul of a believer, when he dies, is a bird that clings to the trees of Paradise until Allah, Blessed and Exalted, returns him to his body on the day He resurrects him.

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Sunan Ibn Majah 4271

Narrators

1. 1
   Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī

   a well-known Companiond. during ʿAlī's caliphate, or in the days when ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was killed, or in the year 51 AH, also said: 50 AH, and al-Wāqidī and Abū Ḥātim stated it definitively
   كَعْب بْن مَالِك الأَنْصَارِيصحابي مشهور
   بلغه
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. in the reign of Sulaymān, or: Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍثقة عالم
   حدثني
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Ṣāliḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), jurist (faqīh)d. after 130 AH, or after 140 AH
   صَالِحٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه
   عن
5. 5
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
6. 6
   and Saʿd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 201 AH
   سَعْدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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