Musnad Ahmad 20358

Translation

✧ A man said: 'O Messenger of God, tell me a saying and be brief with me.'

Notes

• فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ

  machine translationSo he mentioned the hadith. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  والمحفوظ عن هشام عن أبيه عن الأحنف بن قيس

  machine translationThe preserved (maḥfūẓ) report is from Hishām, from his father, from al-Aḥnaf b. Qays. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 20621

Narrators

1. 1
   Jāriyah b. Qudāmah b. Zuhayr al-Tamīmī

   Companion, by the correct viewd. during the reign of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah
   جَارِيَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ بْنِ زُهَيْرٍ التَّمِيمِيُّصحابي على الصحيح
   عن
2. 2
   al-Aḥnaf b. Qays

   a mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. it is said: 67 AH, or: 68 AH, also said: 71 AH, also said: 72 AH
   الْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍمخضرم ثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   أَبِيثقة فقيه مشهور
   أخبرني
4. 4
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامٌثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   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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