Musnad Ahmad 21064

Translation

✧ They entered a village, and 'Abdullah b. Khabbab came out terrified, dragging his cloak. They said: Do not be afraid. He said: By Allah, you have terrified me. They said: Are you 'Abdullah b. Khabbab, the companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? He said: Yes. He said: Have you heard from your father a hadith that he narrates from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that you can narrate to us? He said: Yes, I heard him narrate from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that he mentioned a tribulation in which the one sitting is better than the one standing, and the one standing is better than the one walking, and the one walking is better than the one running. He said: If you live to see that, then be the servant of Allah who is killed. Ayyub said: I do not know except that he said: And do not be the servant of Allah who kills. They said: Did you hear this from your father narrating it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? He said: Yes. He said: Then they brought him to the bank of the river and struck his neck, and his blood flowed as if it were the strap of a sandal, without scattering. And they split open the belly of the mother of his child, revealing what was in her womb.

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What scholars said about it

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

  لم أعرف الرجل الذي من عبد القيس وبقية رجاله رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21388
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  ولم أعرف الرجل الذي من عبد القيس وبقية رجاله رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21388

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4258

Narrators

1. 1
   Khabbāb b. al-Aratt al-Tamīmī

   among the first to embrace Islam, and he was tortured for the sake of Allah, and he was present at Badrd. 37 AH, also said: 19 AH, also said: 39 AH
   خَبَّاب بْن الأَرَتّ التَّمِيمِيّمن السابقين إلى الإسلام ، وكان يعذب في الله ، وشهد بدرا
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Khabbāb

   It is said that he saw the Prophet ﷺ (ruʾyah); al-ʿIjlī declared him trustworthy, saying: "trustworthy (thiqah)"d. 37 AH, or 38 AH
   عبد الله بن خباب بن الأرت التميمييقال : له رؤية ، ووثقه العجلي ، فقال : ثقة
   في حكم العنعنة
3. 3
   A man from ʿAbd al-Qays
   رجل من عبد القيس
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍثقة عالم
   عن
5. 5
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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