Musnad Ahmad 17001

Translation

✧ Maslama b. Mukhallad—who was governor of Egypt—offered Ruwayfiʿ b. Thabit to appoint him over the tithes. He said: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: “The collector of unjust taxes is in the Fire.”

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

  فيه ابن لهيعة وفيه كلام

  machine translationIt contains Ibn Lahīʿah, and there is criticism of him. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17206

Narrators

1. 1
   Ruwayfiʿ b. Thābit al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 53 AH, or: 56 AH
   رُوَيْفِعُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Abū al-Khayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 90 AH
   أَبِي الْخَيْرِثقة فقيه
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة 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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