Musnad Ahmad 16278

Translation

✧ Uthman b. Abi al-As al-Thaqafi called for milk to give him to drink. Mutarrif said: "I am fasting." Uthman said: "I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: 'Fasting is a shield from the Fire, like the shield of any one of you in battle.'"

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Sunan an-Nasa'i 2230Sunan Ibn Majah 1639

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUthmān b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ Fāris al-Sarḥ

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 50 AH, or 51 AH, or 55 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي الْعَاصِي فَارِسُ السَّرْحِصحابي شهير
   أن
2. 2
   Muṭarrif b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhkhīr al-Ḥarashī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AH
   مُطَرِّفًا مِنْ بَنِي عَامِرِ بْنِ صَعْصَعَةَثقة عابد فاضل
   حدثه
3. 3
   Saʿīd b. Abī Hind

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 116 AH, also said: after it
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
   حدثني
5. 5
   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
6. 6
   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
7. 7
   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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