Musnad Ahmad 18828

Translation

✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "Which jihad is best?" He said, "A true word before a tyrannical ruler."

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  حديث مرسل

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19064
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  مرسل

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19064

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4344Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2174Sunan Ibn Majah 4011

Narrators

1. 1
   Ṭāriq b. Shihāb al-Aḥmasī

   قال أبو داود : رأى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، ولم يسمع منهd. 80 AH
   طَارِقُ بْنُ شِهَابٍ الْأَحْمَسِيُّ
   عن
2. 2
   عَلْقَمَةَ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH
   عن
3. 3
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 159 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ
   عن
4. 4
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 196 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 241 AH
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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