Musnad Ahmad 17455

Translation

✧ I followed the Messenger of God ﷺ while he was riding, and I placed my hand on his foot and said: 'Teach me Sūrat Hūd or Sūrat Yūsuf.' He said: 'You will never recite anything more effective before God than "Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of the dawn."'

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 5431Sunan an-Nasa'i 5438

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir b. ʿAbs al-Faraḍī

   a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, or: close to 60 AH
   عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ بْنِ عَبْسٍ الْفَرَضِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Aslam b. Yazīd al-Tujībī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   أَبِي عِمْرَانَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
   حدثني
4. 4
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   لَيْثٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.