Musnad Ahmad 1775

Translation

✧ I witnessed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ the Battle of Ḥunayn. He said: I saw the Prophet ﷺ with no one but me and Abū Sufyān b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. We stayed close to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and did not leave him while he was on a grayish mule—and sometimes Maʿmar said: white—a gift given to him by Farwah b. Naʿāmah al-Judhāmī. When the Muslims and the disbelievers met, the Muslims turned back in retreat, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ began spurring his mule toward the disbelievers. Al-ʿAbbās said: I was holding the bridle of the Messenger of Allah's mule, restraining it, while he spared no effort speeding toward the polytheists, and Abū Sufyān b. al-Ḥārith was holding the stirrup of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: O ʿAbbās, call out: O companions of the samurah tree. He said: I was a loud-voiced man, so I called out at the top of my voice: Where are the companions of the samurah tree? He said: By Allah, it was as if their turning when they heard my voice was like the turning of cows toward their calves. They said: At your service, at your service, at your service. The Muslims came forward and fought with the disbelievers. The Anṣār called out, saying: O company of the Anṣār. Then the call was restricted to the Banū al-Ḥārith b. al-Khazraj, and they called: O Banū al-Ḥārith b. al-Khazraj. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked on while on his mule, as if leaning forward over it at their fighting, and said: Now the oven has heated up. He said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took some pebbles and threw them at the faces of the disbelievers, then said: They have been defeated, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah; they have been defeated, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah. He said: I went to look, and the fighting appeared to me as it had been. He said: By Allah, it was only when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ threw his pebbles at them that I kept seeing their strength weakened and their affair in retreat until Allah defeated them. He said: It is as if I am looking at the Prophet ﷺ spurring on behind them on his mule.

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Narrators

1. 1
   al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ʿamm Rasūl Allāh

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 33 AH, or: 34 AH
   العَبَّاس بن عَبْد المُطَّلِب عَمّ رَسُول اللهصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Kathīr b. al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim

   Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. during the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik
   كَثِيرُ بْنُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِصحابي صغير
   أخبرني
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   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
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   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.