Musnad Ahmad 19666

Translation

✧ I came to the Prophet ﷺ with two men from the Ash'aris, one on my right and the other on my left. Both asked for an appointment, while the Prophet ﷺ was using a toothstick. He said, 'What do you say, O Abu Musa—or O Abd Allah b. Qays?' I said, 'By the One who sent you with the truth, they did not reveal to me what was in their minds, and I did not realize they were seeking an appointment.' He said—and it is as if I can see his toothstick beneath his lip, which had receded—'We do not—or I do not—appoint to our work anyone who seeks it. But go, O Abu Musa—or O Abd Allah b. Qays.' So he sent him to Yemen, then sent Mu'adh b. Jabal after him. When Mu'adh arrived, he said, 'Dismount,' and he placed a cushion for him. There was a man with him who was bound. He said, 'What is this?' He replied, 'He was a Jew who embraced Islam, then reverted to his religion, the evil religion, and became a Jew again.' Mu'adh said, 'I will not sit until he is killed—the decree of Allah and His Messenger.' He said it three times. So he ordered it, and the man was killed. Then they discussed night prayer. Mu'adh b. Jabal said, 'As for me, I sleep and I pray—or I pray and I sleep—and I hope in my sleep for what I hope in my prayer.'

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه خالد الحذاء عن حميد بن هلال عن أبي بردة عن أبي موسى ومعاذ ورواه أيوب عن حميد بن هلال مرسلا ورواه أبو إسحاق الشيباني عن سعيد بن أبي بردة عن أبيه وفي ذلك تقوية برواية خالد الحذاء

  machine translationKhālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ narrated it from Ḥumayd b. Hilāl, from Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā and Muʿādh. Ayyūb narrated it from Ḥumayd b. Hilāl as a mursal report (mursal). Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī narrated it from Saʿīd b. Abī Burdah, from his father. In that is a strengthening of the narration of Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19912

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4415Sahih al-Bukhari 6678

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
   قال
2. 2
   Abū Burdah b. Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AH
   أَبُو بُرْدَةَثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدُ بْنُ هِلَالٍثقة عالم
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Qurrah b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah), precise (ḍābiṭ)d. 154 AH, or: 155 AH, or 170-odd AH
   قُرَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة ضابط
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.