Musnad Ahmad 15790

Translation

✧ I never stayed behind from the Messenger of God ﷺ in any raid he undertook except the raid of Tabūk. However, I had stayed behind from the raid of Badr, and he did not reproach anyone who stayed behind from it, because the Messenger of God ﷺ only set out intending the caravan that belonged to Quraysh, in which were Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb and a few men of Quraysh.

Notes

• ثُمَّ قَالَ تَعَالَ فَجِئْتُ أَمْشِي حَتَّى جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَقَالَ مَا خَلَّفَكَ أَلَمْ تَكُنْ قَدِ ابْتَعْتَ ظَهْرَكَ؟ قُلْتُ بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنِّي وَاللهِ لَوْ جَلَسْتُ عِنْدَ غَيْرِكَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا لَرَأَيْتُ أَنِّي سَأَخْرُجُ مِنْ سَخْطَتِهِ بِعُذْرٍ وَلَقَدْ أُعْطِيتُ جَدَلًا فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَقَالَ فِيهِ إِنِّي لَأَرْجُو عَفْوَ اللهِ وَقَالَ فَقُلْتُ لِامْرَأَتِي الْحَقِي بِأَهْلِكِ فَكُونِي عِنْدَهُمْ حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ اللهُ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ صَوْتَ صَارِخٍ أَوْفَى عَلَى أَعْلَى جَبَلِ سَلْعٍ بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ يَا كَعْبُ بْنَ مَالِكٍ أَبْشِرْ قَالَ فَخَرَرْتُ سَاجِدًا وَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ قَدْ جَاءَ فَرَجٌ وَآذَنَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ النَّاسَ بِالتَّوْبَةِ عَلَيْنَا حِينَ صَلَّى صَلَاةَ الْفَجْرِ فَذَكَرَ مَعْنَى حَدِيثِ ابْنِ أَخِي ابْنِ شِهَابٍ وَقَالَ فِيهِ فَأَقُولُ فِي نَفْسِي هَلْ حَرَّكَ شَفَتَيْهِ بِرَدِّ السَّلَامِ

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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
   قال
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 97 AH, or 98 AH; also said 89 AH
   عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة
   أن
3. 3
   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 كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة عالم
   أخبرني
4. 4
   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
5. 5
   ʿUqayl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
   عُقَيْلُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة ثبت
   حدثني
6. 6
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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.