Musnad Ahmad 16887

Translation

✧ Mu'awiyah said to Ibn 'Abbas: Do you not know that I shortened the hair of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a blade-arrow? Ibn 'Abbas said: No.

Notes

• قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّادٍ فِي حَدِيثِهِ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَهَذِهِ حُجَّةٌ عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  إسناد عبد الله بن أحمد بن حنبل رجاله رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17092

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1246aSunan an-Nasa'i 2737

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AH, also said: 59 AH
   مُعَاوِيَة بْن أَبِي سُفْيَانصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 100 AH, or: 101 AH, or: 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, or: 106 AH, or after: 110 AH
   طَاوُسٍثقة فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Hishām b. Ḥujayr

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. between 111 AH, and: 140 AH
   هِشَامِ بْنِ حُجَيْرٍصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbbād al-Makkī

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 234 AH or 235 AH
   وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍصدوق يهم
   حدثني
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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