Musnad Ahmad 18627

Translation

✧ Muhammad b. al-Qasim sent me to al-Bara b. Azib to ask him about the banner of the Messenger of God ﷺ, what it was. He said, 'It was black, square, made of a woolen cloak.'

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• ابن الملقن

  وأعله ابن القطان بيونس بن عبيد المذكور في إسناده وقال لا يعرف إلا في هذا الحديث

  machine translationIbn al-Qaṭṭān found it defective (aʿallahu) because of Yūnus b. ʿUbayd, who is mentioned in its chain of transmission, and he said: he is not known except in this ḥadīth. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18860

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2591Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1680Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3274

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   أسأله
2. 2
   Yūnus b. ʿUbayd mawlá Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   يُونُسُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ مَوْلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِمقبول
   حدثني
3. 3
   Abū Yaʿqūb al-Thaqafī

   there is weakness in him
   أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ الثَّقَفِيُّفيه ضعف
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā b. Abī Zāʾidah

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاثقة متقن
   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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