Musnad Ahmad 17608

Translation

✧ My grandfather had a son and named him Aziz. He came to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and said, "I had a son." The Prophet asked, "What did you name him?" He replied, "I named him Aziz." The Prophet said, "No, rather he is the servant of the Merciful." He said, "Then he is my father."

Notes

• قَالَ فَهُوَ أَبِي

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

  رجالها رجال الصحيح وظاهرها الإرسال

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17816

Narrators

1. 1
   Khaythamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Juʿfī

   trustworthy (thiqah), and he used to narrate mursal reportsd. after 80 AH, before Abū Wāʾil, Ibn Qāniʿ dated it to the year 80 AH, also said: 85 AH
   خَيْثَمَة بْن عَبْد الرَّحْمَن الجُعْفِيّثقة ، وكان يرسل
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
3. 3
   Yūnus b. Abī Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq), has a few lapses (wahm).d. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī said: 152 AH. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: 154 AH. Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: 158 AH. Ibn Ḥibbān and others said: 159 AH. Also said: 157 AH
   يُونُسُصدوق يهم قليلا .
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Nuʿaym

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AH
   أَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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