Musnad Ahmad 2105

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never fought a people without first calling them to Islam.

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

  رجاله رجال الصحيح

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 2118

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
   عن
2. 2
   Yasār al-Thaqafī mawlá al-Akhnas b. Sharīq

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 109 AH.
   أَبِيهِثقة .
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn Abī Najīḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and sometimes committed tadlīs (obscuring the source of a report)d. 131 AH, or 132 AH
   ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍثقة رمي بالقدر وربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Bishr b. al-Sarī

   he was a preacher, trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), he was criticised for holding the view of Jahm, then he apologised and repentedd. al-Bukhārī said: Maḥmūd told me he died in the year 195 AH, and others said the year 196 AH
   بِشْرُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّكان واعظا ، ثقة متقن ، طعن فيه برأي جهم ، ثم اعتذر وتاب
   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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