Musnad Ahmad 16590

Translation

✧ There will be people who have a covenant. Whoever kills a man from among them will not smell the fragrance of Paradise, and its fragrance can be found at a distance of seventy years’ travel.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3166Sahih al-Bukhari 6914Sunan Ibn Majah 2686

Narrators

1. 1
   rajul
   رَجُلٌ
   عن
2. 2
   Hilāl b. Yasāf al-Ashjaʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
5. 5
   al-Ashjaʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (maʾmūn), the firmest of people in terms of written record from al-Thawrīd. 182 AH
   الْأَشْجَعِيُّثقة مأمون ، أثبت الناس كتابا في الثوري
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   أَبُو النَّضْرِثقة ثبت
   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

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

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