Musnad Ahmad 18548

Translation

✧ I met al-Bara' b. 'Azib, and he greeted me, took my hand, and smiled in my face. He said: "Do you know why I did this to you?" He said: I said: "I do not know, but I see you did it only for good." He said: "The Messenger of God ﷺ met me and did to me the same as I did to you. He asked me, and I said the same as you said to me. He said: 'No two Muslims meet, one greets the other, and takes his hand—he does not take it except for God, Mighty and Majestic—but they part until they are forgiven.'"

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Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   Abū Dāwūd

   abandoned (matrūk)d. between 100 and 110 AH, or between 120 and 130 AH
   أَبِي دَاوُدَمتروك
   عن
3. 3
   Mālik b. Mighwal

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 157 AH, or 158 AH, or 159 AH
   مَالِكٌثقة ثبت
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Ibn Numayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
   ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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