Musnad Ahmad 16438

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ wiped his head with his two hands, moving them forward and backward: he began at the front of his head, then moved them to the back of his neck, then returned them until they came back to the place where he had begun.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  أصح حديث في الباب

  machine translationThe most authentic (aṣaḥḥ) hadith on the topic. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16632
• ابن الملقن

  هذا الحديث صحيح

  machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16632
• Shawkānī

  صح حديث عبد الله بن زيد

  machine translationThe hadith of ʿAbdullāh b. Zayd is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16632
• Maghlaṭay

  أصح حديث في هذا الباب

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 16632

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 35وَفِي لَفْظٍ: { بَدَأَ بِمُقَدَّمِ رَأْسِهِ, حَتَّى ذَهَبَ بِهِمَا إِلَى قَفَاهُ, ثُمَّ رَدَّهُمَا إِلَى اَلْمَكَانِ اَلَّذِي بَدَأَ مِنْهُ }.

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Zayd b. ʿĀṣim b. Kaʿb al-Māzinī

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 63 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَاصِمِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْمَازِنِيُّصحابي شهير
   عن
2. 2
   Yaḥyá b. ʿUmārah al-Māzinī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 140 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة .
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 130 AH, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: the year 140 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ يَحْيَىثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   أخبرنا
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

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