Musnad Ahmad 187

Translation

“Why do I see you disheveled and covered in dust since the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away? Perhaps, Talha, you are displeased by the leadership of your cousin?” He said, “Allah forbid! I, more than any of you, should not do that. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “Indeed, I know a phrase that no man utters in the presence of death except that his soul finds comfort in it as it leaves his body, and it will be a light for him on the Day of Resurrection.” But I did not ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about it, nor did he tell me what it was. That is what has troubled me.” Umar said, “I know it.” He said, “Then praise belongs to Allah.” He asked, “What is it?” He replied, “It is the phrase he said to his uncle: “There is no god but Allah.”” Talha said, “You have spoken the truth.”

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• Dāraquṭnī

  أحسنها إسنادا حديث علي بن مسهر ومن تابعه عن مطرف عن الشعبي عن يحيى بن طلحة عن أبيه والله أعلم وحديث مسعر عن إسماعيل بن أبي خالد حسن الإسناد أيضا فإن كان محفوظا فإن يحيى بن طلحة حفظه عن أبيه عن أمه والله أعلم

  machine translationThe best of them in chain of transmission is the ḥadīth of ʿAlī b. Mushir and those who followed him, from Muṭarrif, from al-Shaʿbī, from Yaḥyā b. Ṭalḥah, from his father, and God knows best. The ḥadīth of Misʿar, from Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid, is also good (ḥasan) in its chain. If it is preserved (maḥfūẓ), then Yaḥyā b. Ṭalḥah memorized it from his father, from his mother, and God knows best. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 187

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   سمعت
2. 2
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   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
4. 4
   Mujālid

   Not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life.d. 144 AH, also said: 143 AH
   مُجَالِدٍليس بالقوي ، وقد تغير في آخر عمره
   عن
5. 5
   Ibn Numayr

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