Musnad Ahmad 17078

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ set out with his uncle al-Abbas to the seventy of the Ansar at al-Aqabah under the tree. He said: Let your speaker speak and not prolong the sermon, for the polytheists have an eye on you, and if they learn of you they will expose you. Their speaker, who was Abu Umamah, said: Ask, O Muhammad, for your Lord whatever you wish, then ask for yourself and your companions whatever you wish, then...

Notes

• أَخْبِرْنَا مَا لَنَا مِنَ الثَّوَابِ عَلَى اللهِ ﷻ وَعَلَيْكُمْ إِذَا فَعَلْنَا ذَلِكَ؟ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَسْأَلُكُمْ لِرَبِّي ﷻ أَنْ تَعْبُدُوهُ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا وَأَسْأَلُكُمْ لِنَفْسِي وَلِأَصْحَابِي أَنْ تُؤْوُونَا وَتَنْصُرُونَا وَتَمْنَعُونَا مِمَّا مَنَعْتُمْ مِنْهُ أَنْفُسَكُمْ قَالُوا فَمَا لَنَا إِذَا فَعَلْنَا ذَلِكَ؟ قَالَ لَكُمُالْجَنَّةُ قَالُوا فَلَكَ ذَلِكَ

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

  مرسلا ورجاله رجال الصحيح وقد ذكر الإمام أحمد بعده سندا إلى الشعبي عن أبي مسعود عقبة بن عمرو وقال بنحو هذا قال وكان أبو مسعود أصغرهم سنا وفيه مجالد وفيه ضعف وحديثه حسن إن شاء الله

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17284
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  إسناد قوي

  machine translationThe chain is strong (qawī). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17284

Same hadith, other wordings

• Musnad Ahmad 17080مَا سَمِعَ الشِّيبُ وَلَا الشُّبَّانُ خُطْبَةً مِثْلَهَا

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
2. 2
   Zakariyyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to practice tadlīs (concealment of defects in the chain)d. 147 AH, or: 148 AH, or: 149 AH
   أَبِيثقة ، وكان يدلس
   حدثني
3. 3
   Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā b. Abī Zāʾidah

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة متقن
   حدثنا
4. 4
   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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