Musnad Ahmad 19839

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ said to a man: "Have you fasted anything from the middle of this month?"—meaning Shaʿbān. He said: "No." He said to him: "When you have broken your fast at the end of Ramaḍān, fast one day or two days." [The narrator who doubted it] was unsure. He said: "And I think he said: two days."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1983Sahih Muslim 1161b

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUbayd b. Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī

   embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AH
   عِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلا
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2. 2
   Muṭarrif b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhkhīr al-Ḥarashī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AH
   مُطَرِّفًاثقة عابد فاضل
   سمعت
3. 3
   Ibn brother of Muṭarrif b. al-Shikhkhīr

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   ابْنِ أَخِي مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِمقبول
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.