Musnad Ahmad 20484

Translation

✧ A man praised a companion of his in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ, and he said: 'Woe to you! You have cut his neck. If you must praise, then say: "I reckon him to be such and such," and Allah is his reckoner, and I do not commend anyone over Allah [the Exalted].'

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  وقول من قال عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكرة أحب إلي

  machine translationAnd the statement of the one who said: "ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakrah is more beloved to me." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 20751

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2662Sahih al-Bukhari 6061Sahih Muslim 3000aSunan Abi Dawud 4805Sunan Ibn Majah 40

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 50 AH, or: 51 AH, or: 52 AH, or: 59 AH, also said: 53 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرَةَ الثَّقَفِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 96 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.
   خَالِدٍثقة يرسل.
   عن
4. 4
   Maḥbūb b. al-Ḥasan

   truthful (ṣadūq), with some softness (layyin), and accused of Qadarism (qadar)
   مَحْبُوبُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِصدوق فيه لين ورمي بالقدر
   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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