Musnad Ahmad 18769

Translation

✧ I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ and this part of him—and he pointed to his lower lip—was white. It was said to Abū Juḥayfah: What was someone like you doing then? He said: I was fletching arrows and trimming them.

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• أبو علي الطوسي كردوش

  حسن صحيح قال مغلطاي وليس هذا منه تصحيحا لحديث حجاج إنما أراد تصحيح حديث أبي جحيفة في نفس الأمر وكذلك هو صحيح الأصل

  machine translationGood and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ). Mughulṭāy said: This is not a declaration of soundness for the ḥadīth of Ḥajjāj; rather he meant to declare sound the ḥadīth of Abū Juḥayfah in itself, and likewise it is sound in its origin. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19005

Narrators

1. 1
   Wahb b. ʿAbdullāh al-Suwāʾī

   well-known Companiond. 74 AH
   وَهْبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ السُّوَائِيُّصحابي معروف
   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
   أَبُو إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Zuhayr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 172 AH, or: 173 AH, or: 174 AH, 177 AH
   زُهَيْرٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Kāmil

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), he used to narrate only from trustworthy narratorsd. 207 AH
   وَأَبُو كَامِلٍثقة متقن ، كان لا يحدث إلا عن ثقة
   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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