Musnad Ahmad 16251

Translation

✧ On the day of Uhud, the people suffered wounds and severe hardship. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Dig and make the graves wide, and bury two or three in a grave." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, whom should we put forward?" He said: "The one who had memorized the most Qur'an."

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  قال ابن أبي حاتم في علله سألت أبي أي هذين الحديثين أصح فقال حديث حميد عن هشام يعني بدون واسطة

  machine translationIbn Abī Ḥātim said in his book of defects (ʿilal): I asked my father which of these two hadiths is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ), and he said: The hadith of Ḥumayd from Hishām, meaning without an intermediary. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16439

Narrators

1. 1
   Hishām b. ʿĀmir b. Umayyah al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. lived until the time of Ziyād
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عَامِرِ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍثقة عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah) — said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīnd. 165 AH
   سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِثقة ثقة ـ قاله يحيى بن معين
   عن
4. 4
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   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.