Musnad Ahmad 16261

Translation

✧ My father was killed on the day of Uhud, and the Prophet ﷺ said, "Dig graves, make them wide, make them good, and bury two or three in a grave, and put forward the one who has memorized the most Quran." He said, "My father was the third of three, and he had memorized the most Quran, so he was put forward."

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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. 16449

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
   أخبرنا
2. 2
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ .ثقة عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبَثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   عن
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.