Musnad Ahmad 17649

Translation

✧ If a man were to fall on his face from the day he is born until the day he dies of old age in seeking the pleasure of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), he would consider it insignificant on the Day of Resurrection.

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What scholars said about it

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

  فيه بقية وهو مدلس ولكنه صرح بالتحديث وبقية رجاله وثقوا

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17857
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه بقية وهو مدلس وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 17857

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
   عن
2. 2
   Khālid b. Maʿdān

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AH
   خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.
   عن
3. 3
   Baḥīr b. Saʿd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AH
   بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت
   حدثني
4. 4
   Baqiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
   بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah).d. 224 AH.
   حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍثقة.
   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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