Musnad Ahmad 20039

Translation

✧ There was a servant among the servants of God, to whom God [Blessed and Exalted] gave wealth and children. He did not profess any religion to God [Mighty and Majestic]. Yazid said: He remained until one lifetime passed and another remained. Then he remembered, and he knew that he had not stored up any good with God [Blessed and Exalted]. He called his sons and said: 'O my sons, what kind of father do you know me to be?' They said: 'The best, O our father.' He said: 'By God, I will not leave with any man among you wealth that is from me except that I take it from him, or you must do what I command you.' He said: He took a covenant from them, and said: 'If not, then when I die, take me and throw me into the fire until I become charcoal, then crush me.' He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said, motioning with his hand on his thigh, as if saying: 'Grind me.' 'Then scatter me in the wind, perhaps I will elude God [Blessed and Exalted]!' He said: And by the Lord of Muhammad, that was done to him when he died. He said: Then he was brought in the best form he had ever been, and presented to his Lord [Blessed and Exalted]. He said: 'What made you face the fire?' He said: 'Fear of You, O my Lord.' He said: 'I certainly hear the fearful one.' Yazid said: 'I hear you as a fearful one.' So he was forgiven. Bahz said: I narrated this hadith to al-Hasan and Qatadah, and they narrated it to me: 'So he was forgiven,' or 'God [Mighty and Majestic] turned to him in mercy.'

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

  رجال أحمد ثقات

  machine translationThe narrators of Aḥmad are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 20293

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥaydah al-Qushayrī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 161 AH and 170 AH
   مُعَاوِيَة بْن حَيْدَة الْقُشَيْرِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   His father

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 101 AH
   أَبِيصدوق
   حدثني
3. 3
   Bahz b. Ḥakīm

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. before 160 AH
   بَهْزٌصدوق
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   وَيَزِيدُثقة متقن عابد .
   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

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

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