Musnad Ahmad 19435

Translation

I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, "O Messenger of Allah, who is ˹joining˺ you in this matter ˹of Islam˺" He said, "Free men and slaves."  I said, "What is Islam?" He said, "Good words and feeding others."  I said, "What is faith?" He said, "Patience and graciousness." I said, "Which aspect of Islam is best?" He said, "One who Muslims are safe from his tongue and hand." I said, "Which aspect of faith is best?" He said, "Good character." I said, "Which prayer is best?" He said, "Long standing in prayer." I said, "Which migration is best?" He said, "To abandon what your Lord dislikes." I said, "Which jihad is best?" He said, "To fight in the way of Allah with your wealth and your life." I said, "Which hours of the day are best?" He said, "The last part of the night, then the witnessed prayer until the dawn rises. When the dawn comes, there is no prayer except two units until you pray the Fajr prayer. When you have prayed the Fajr prayer, refrain from praying until the sun has risen. When the sun rises, it rises between the two horns of Satan, and the disbelievers prostrate to it. Refrain from praying until it has risen high. When it becomes high, pray, for the prayer is witnessed until the shadow of a spear's length has passed. When the shadow has passed, refrain from praying, for the prayer is witnessed until the sun has set. When it has set, refrain from praying, for it sets or disappears between the two horns of Satan, and the disbelievers prostrate to it."

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  في إسناده شهر بن حوشب وقد وثق على ضعف فيه

  machine translationIn its chain is Shahr b. Ḥawshab, who has been deemed trustworthy (wuthiqa) despite weakness (ḍaʿf) in him. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19679
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث صحيح وطرقه كثيرة حسان شامية إلا أن قوله في هذا الحديث ثم الصلاة محضورة مشهودة حتى تغيب الشمس قد خالفه فيه غيره في هذا الحديث فقال ثم الصلاة مشهودة متقبلة حتى يصلى العصر وهذا أشبه بالسنن المأثورة في ذلك

  machine translationA sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith, and its routes are many, good (ḥasan) ones from the Levant, except that his words in this hadith, "then the prayer is witnessed and attended until the sun sets," have been contradicted by others in this hadith, who said, "then the prayer is witnessed and accepted until the ʿAṣr prayer is prayed," and this is closer to the transmitted Sunnah reports on that matter. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19679

Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 11قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الإِسْلاَمِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ۔»
• Misykatul Mashabih 46عَن عَمْرو بن عبسة قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُول الله من تبعك عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ قَالَ حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ قُلْتُ مَا الْإِسْلَامُ قَالَ طِيبُ الْكَلَامِ وَإِطْعَامُ الطَّعَامِ قُلْتُ مَ
• Shahih Muslim 42aقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الإِسْلاَمِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 4999قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الإِسْلاَمِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1277Sunan an-Nasa'i 584Sunan Ibn Majah 1251

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah

   a well-known Companiond. in the last years of the caliphate of ʿUthmān
   عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Shahr b. Ḥawshab

   Truthful (ṣadūq), frequently narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl) and made many errors (awhām)d. 98 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 111 AH, or 112 AH
   شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍصدوق , كثير الإرسال والأوهام
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. Dhakwān

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ ذَكْوَانَضعيف
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥajjāj b. Dīnār

   no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)
   حَجَّاجٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ دِينَارٍلا بأس به
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibn Numayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
   ابْنُ 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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Mishkat al-Masabih 46