Musnad Ahmad 16802

Translation

✧ Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is gentle; He loves gentleness and grants for gentleness what He does not grant for harshness.

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Sahih al-Bukhari 6256Sahih Muslim 2165aSahih Muslim 2593

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Mughafal b. ʿAbd Nahm al-Muzanī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī), who gave the pledge of allegiance under the treed. Musaddad said: 59 AH, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: 60 AH, also said: 61 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُغَفَّلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ نَهْمٍ الْمُزَنِيُّصحابي ، بايع تحت الشجرة
   عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥumayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.
   وَحُمَيْدٌثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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