Musnad Ahmad 15868

Translation

✧ I heard the Prophet ﷺ when he saw a fat man, and the Prophet ﷺ began gesturing to his belly with his hand and saying: If this were in something other than this, it would be better for you.

Notes

• قَالَ وَأُتِيَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ بِرَجُلٍ فَقَالُوا هَذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَقْتُلَكَ فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لَمْ تُرَعْ لَمْ تُرَعْ وَلَوْ أَرَدْتَ ذَلِكَ لَمْ يُسَلِّطْكَ اللهُ عَلَيَّ

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

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

  ورجاله رجال الصحيح غير أبي إسرائيل الجشمي وهو ثقة

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16040
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله رجال الصحيح غير أبي إسرائيل الجشمي وهو ثقة

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16040

Narrators

1. 1
   Jaʿdah b. Khālid b. al-Ṣimmah al-Jushamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   جَعْدَةُ بْنُ خَالِدِ بْنِ الصِّمَّةِ الْجُشَمِيُّصحابي
   سمعت
2. 2
   Abū Isrāʾīl

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبَا إِسْرَائِيلَمقبول
   سمعت
3. 3
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
4. 4
   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
5. 5
   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.