Musnad Ahmad 19624

Translation

✧ The believer to the believer is like a building, parts of it supporting other parts. The example of a good companion is like a perfume seller: if he does not give you some of his perfume, its scent will cling to you. The example of a bad companion is like a blacksmith's bellows: if it does not burn you, you will be affected by its sparks. The trustworthy treasurer who gives what he is commanded, seeking reward, is one of the two givers of charity.

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Sahih Muslim 2585Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1928

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Burdah b. Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AH
   أَبِي بُرْدَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Burayd

   trustworthy (thiqah), makes a few mistakesd. between 141 and 150 AH
   بُرَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَثقة ، يخطئ قليلا
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   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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