Musnad Ahmad 19697

Translation

✧ Whoever loves his worldly life harms his Hereafter, and whoever loves his Hereafter harms his worldly life. So prefer what remains over what perishes.

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

  رجالهم ثقات

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19945

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
   al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥanṭab al-Makhzūmī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), practises much concealment (tadlīs) and narrates mursal oftend. around 120 AH
   الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِصدوق كثير التدليس والإرسال
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Abī ʿAmr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. after 150 AH, or 144 AH
   عَمْرٌوثقة ربما وهم
   أخبرني
4. 4
   Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 180 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَعْفَرٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Sulaymān b. Dāwūd al-Hāshimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْهَاشِمِيُّثقة , جليل
   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.