Musnad Ahmad 18906

Translation

✧ When the illness of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ became severe, and I was with him among a group of Muslims, he said: "Bilal called for prayer, and he said: 'Tell someone to lead the people in prayer.'" He said: "I went out and found Umar among the people, and Abu Bakr was absent." He said: "Rise, O Umar, and lead the people in prayer." He said: "So he stood up. When Umar said the takbir, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard his voice — Umar was a man with a loud voice." He said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Where is Abu Bakr? Allah and the Muslims refuse that. Allah and the Muslims refuse that.'" He said: "So he sent for Abu Bakr, and he came after Umar had prayed that prayer, and he led the people in prayer." He said: "Abdullah b. Zama'a said: Umar said to me: 'Woe to you! What have you done to me, O son of Zama'a? By Allah, when you ordered me, I thought only that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had ordered you to do that. Were it not for that, I would not have led the people in prayer.'" He said: "I said: 'By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not order me. But when I did not see Abu Bakr, I considered you the most deserving of those present to lead the prayer.'"

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 664Sunan Ibn Majah 1235

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Zamʿah b. al-Aswad al-Asadī

   a well-known Companiond. 35 AH, or 63 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ زَمْعَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ الْأَسَدِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman Rāhib Quraysh

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipperd. 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة فقيه عابد
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī Bakr al-Makhzūmī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. at the beginning of the reign of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ هِشَامٍثقة
   حدثني
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنُ شِهَابٍ الزُّهْرِيُّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   قال
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   عن
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Yaʿqūb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
   يَعْقُوبُثقة فاضل .
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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