Musnad Ahmad 19661

Translation

✧ The heart is only called qalb because of its turning over. The example of the heart is like a feather hanging from the root of a tree, turned over by the wind from front to back.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 103وَعَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَثَلُ الْقَلْبِ كَرِيشَةٍ بِأَرْضِ فَلَاةٍ يُقَلِّبُهَا الرِّيَاحُ ظَهْرًا لِبَطْنٍ». رَوَاهُ أَحْمد

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 88

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
   سمعت
2. 2
   Abū Kabshah

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أبو كبشة السدوسيمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Sulaymān al-Aḥwal

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   عاصم بن سليمان الأحولثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād

   Trustworthy (thiqah); there is some criticism concerning his narrations from al-Aʿmash aloned. 176 AH, or 177 AH, or 179 AH
   عبد الواحد بن زيادثقة ، في حديثه عن الأعمش وحده مقال
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عفان بن مسلم الصفارثقة ثبت
   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 103