Musnad Ahmad 15802

Translation

✧ "To a man from the people, O Fulan, how did you hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ describe Islam?" He said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, 'Verily, Islam started as a shoot, then it became a sapling, then it grew into a young tree, then it became a fully grown tree, then it started to decline.'" Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "So what comes after decline, except loss?"

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

  فيه راو لم يسم وبقية رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIt contains an unnamed narrator, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15973

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   فقال
2. 2
   rajul
   رجل
   حدثني
3. 3
   ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100 AH
   عَلْقَمَةُ الْمُزَنِيُّثقة
   حدثني
4. 4
   ʿAwf b. Abī Jamīlah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AH
   عَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   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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