Musnad Ahmad 18665

Translation

✧ Whoever grants a gift of silver, or a gift of milk, or guides someone through a narrow alley, it will be for him like the reward of freeing a slave.

Notes

• وَقالَ مَرَّةً كَعِتْقِ رَقَبَةٍ

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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
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwsajah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, 86 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْسَجَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ṭalḥah b. Muṣarrif

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a Qurʾān reciter, virtuousd. 110 AH, or: 112 AH, or: 113 AH
   طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍثقة قارئ فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
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
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.