Musnad Ahmad 17642

Translation

✧ A Bedouin came to the Prophet ﷺ and asked him about the Hawd (cistern), and he mentioned Paradise. Then the Bedouin said: "Does it contain fruit?" He said: "Yes, and in it there is a tree called Tuba." Then he mentioned something I do not know what it was. He said: "Which tree of our land does it resemble?" He said: "It does not resemble anything from the trees of your land." The Prophet ﷺ said: "Have you been to al-Sham?" He said: "No." He said: "It resembles a tree in al-Sham called al-Jawzah (the walnut tree), which grows on a single trunk and its top spreads out." He said: "How large is its base?" He said: "If a young she-camel of your people's camels were to travel around its base, it would not encompass it until its collarbone breaks from old age." He said: "Does it contain grapes?" He said: "Yes." He said: "How large is the cluster?" He said: "A month's journey for the piebald crow, without tiring." He said: "How large is a single grape?" He said: "Did your father ever slaughter a large goat from his sheep?" He said: "Yes." He said: "And he skinned its hide and gave it to your mother, saying: 'Make for us a bucket from it'?" He said: "Yes." The Bedouin said: "Then that single grape would satisfy me and my household?" He said: "Yes, and the majority of your clan."

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• al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī

  لا أعلم له علة

  machine translationI do not know of any defect (ʿillah) in it. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17850
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  علته الاختلاف في سنده

  machine translationIts defect (ʿillah) is the disagreement over its chain of transmission (isnād). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17850

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUtbah b. ʿAbd al-Ḥimṣī

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 87 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH
   عُتْبَةُ بْنُ عَبْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّصحابي شهير
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿĀmir b. Zayd al-Bikālī
   عَامِرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الْبِكَالِيِّ
   عن
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
   عن
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Hishām b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 197 AH, or 199 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAlī b. Baḥr

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 234 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ بَحْرٍثقة فاضل
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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