Musnad Ahmad 16938

Translation

✧ He saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ shorten some of his hair with an arrowhead. I said to Ibn Abbas: This matter has only reached us from Muawiyah? He said: Muawiyah was not suspect in (matters related to) the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

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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
   أخبره
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AH
   وَعَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منه
   عن
4. 4
   Khuṣayf

   truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), his memory became confused at the end, and accused of Irjāʾd. 136 AH, or: 137 AH, or: 138 AH, or: 139 AH, also said 132 AH, or: 133 AH
   خُصَيْفٌصدوق سيئ الحفظ ، خلط بآخره ، ورمي بالإرجاء
   حدثني
5. 5
   Marwān b. Shujāʿ

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 184 AH
   مَرْوَانُ بْنُ شُجَاعٍصدوق له أوهام
   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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