Musnad Ahmad 18830

Translation

✧ A man asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after he had placed his foot in the stirrup, "Which jihad is best?" He said, "A true word before a tyrannical ruler."

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  حديث مرسل

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19066
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  مرسل

  machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ) Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19066

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4209

Narrators

1. 1
   Ṭāriq b. Shihāb al-Aḥmasī

   Abū Dāwūd said: He saw the Prophet ﷺ, but did not hear from him.d. 80 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān was certain of it, or: 84 AH, also said 123 AH, which is a mistake.
   طَارِقُ بْنُ شِهَابٍ الْأَحْمَسِيُّقال أبو داود : رأى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، ولم يسمع منه
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAlqamah b. Marthad

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

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   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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