Musnad Ahmad 21185

Translation

✧ "I asked Ubayy about the two protective surahs (Al-Falaq and An-Nas), and he said that he also asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about them. He said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed us to recite them."

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What scholars said about it

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• أبو زرعة الرازي

  حديث الثوري أصح عن أبي وهو أحفظهم وأعلى من هؤلاء بدرجات والحديث بأبي أشبه إذ كان قد رواه عاصم عن زر عن أبي عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وليس لحذيفة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في المعوذتين معنى

  machine translationThe hadith of al-Thawrī from Ubayy is more sound (aṣaḥḥ); he is the best memorizer among them and is higher than these by several degrees. The hadith is more fitting as from Ubayy, since ʿĀṣim narrated it from Zirr, from Ubayy, from the Prophet ﷺ, and Ḥudhayfah has nothing from the Prophet ﷺ concerning the two Muʿawwidhatayn that carries any weight. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21513
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  هو في الصحيح خلا حكهما من المصحف رواه أحمد والطبراني ورجال أحمد رجال الصحيح

  machine translationIt is in the Ṣaḥīḥ, except for their erasure from the muṣḥaf. Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and the men of Aḥmad are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21513

Narrators

1. 1
   Ubay b. Kaʿb

   One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AH
   أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابة
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Zirr b. Ḥubaysh al-Thaʿlabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH
   زِرٍّثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ بَهْدَلَةَصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   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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