Musnad Ahmad 18640

Translation

✧ Indeed, Allah and His angels send blessings upon the front row.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  هل يدخل بين أبي إسحاق وبين البراء أحد قال نعم رواه عمار بن رزيق وحديج بن معاوية فقالا عن أبي إسحاق عن طلحة بن مصرف عن عبد الرحمن بن عوسجة عن البراء عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قلت أيهما الصحيح قال حديث حديج وعمار قد زادا رجلين

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18873

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
3. 3
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213, or a year or two after it
   وَحُسَيْنٌثقة
   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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