Musnad Ahmad 18142

Translation

✧ The sun eclipsed in the forenoon until its darkness became intense. Al-Mughira b. Shuʿba stood and led the people in prayer. He stood for about the length of reciting a sūra from the mathānī, then bowed for a similar length, then raised his head and stood for a similar length, then bowed the second time for a similar length. Then the sun cleared, and he prostrated. Then he stood for about the length of reciting a sūra, then bowed and prostrated. Then he departed, ascended the pulpit, and said: 'The sun eclipsed on the day Ibrāhīm, the son of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, died. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood and said: The sun and the moon do not eclipse for the death of anyone. They are but two signs among the signs of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. So when one of them eclipses, hasten to prayer.' Then he descended and narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in prayer and began blowing in front of him. Then he extended his hand as if reaching for something. When he finished, he said: 'The Fire was brought near to me until I blew its heat away from my face. I saw in it the owner of the hooked staff, the one who slit the ears of the baḥīra, and the woman of Ḥimyar, the owner of the cat.'

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• Ibn Rajab

  في إسناده مجالد فيه ضعف

  machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Mujālid, in whom there is weakness (ḍaʿf). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18363

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 904aSunan an-Nasa'i 1482Sunan Ibn Majah 1265

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah

   A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before al-Ḥudaybiyyah.d. 49 AH, or: 50 AH, and al-Khaṭīb reported consensus on that, or: 56 AH, in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl: some said 36 AH, 58 AH, and both are errors
   المُغِيرَة بن شُعْبَةصحابي مشهور ، أسلم قبل الحديبية
   فقال
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   عَامِرٍثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Mujālid

   Not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life.d. 144 AH, also said: 143 AH
   الْمُجَالِدُليس بالقوي ، وقد تغير في آخر عمره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū

   truthful (ṣadūq) but narrates unfamiliar reports (yughrib)d. 194 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْأُمَوِيُّصدوق يغرب
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Mutaʿāl b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
   عَبْدُ الْمُتَعَالِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ
   حدثني
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
   أَبِيثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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