Musnad Ahmad 19951

Translation

✧ A man was brought who had freed six slaves at his death, and he had no wealth besides them. The Prophet ﷺ drew lots among them, freed two, and kept four enslaved.

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  أثر صحيح

  machine translationA sound (ṣaḥīḥ) athar (report from a Companion). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 20205

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
   حدثني
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Mubārak b. Faḍālah

   Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (tadlīs) including tadlīs al-taswiyahd. 164 AH, or 165 AH, or 166 AH
   الْمُبَارَكُصدوق يدلس ويسوي
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   هَاشِمٌثقة ثبت
   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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