Musnad Ahmad 2029

Translation

✧ I said to Ibn Abbas: Your people claim that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ramal (brisk walking) around the House, and that it is a sunnah. He said: They have spoken truth and they have lied. I said: How have they spoken truth and lied? He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did perform ramal around the House, but it is not a sunnah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his companions arrived while the polytheists were on Mount Quayqi'an. It reached him that they were saying that the Muslims were weak and emaciated, so he commanded them to perform ramal in order to show them that they had strength.

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   قلت
2. 2
   ʿĀmir b. Wāthilah

   He saw the Prophet (ruʾyah) but did not meet him as a Companiond. 100 AH, or: 102 AH, or: 107 AH, or: 110 AH
   أَبُو الطُّفَيْلِله رؤية
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Fiṭr

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shiʿism (rumiya bi-l-tashayyuʿ)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 153 AH, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
   فِطْرٍصدوق ، رمي بالتشيع
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

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