Musnad Ahmad 18026

✧ My father wants Anmari sheep.

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْعَدَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ عَنْ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ قَالَ

ضَرَبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَثَلَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مَثَلَ أَرْبَعَةِ نَفَرٍ

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✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ struck the likeness of this community as that of four people.

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al-Tirmidhi
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in مسند أحمد, p. 18245

Abū Kabshah al-Madhḥijī
Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 61 AH and 70 AH
أَبُو كَبْشَةَ الْمَذْحِجِيُّصحابي
عن
Sālim b. Abī al-Jaʿd al-Ghaṭafānī
Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqāt
سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِثقة وكان يرسل كثيرا
عن
Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir
Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
عن
Sufyān al-Thawrī
trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
حدثنا
ʿAbdullāh b. al-Walīd
truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. between 201 and 210 AH
عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْعَدَنِيُّصدوق ربما أخطأ
حدثنا
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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