Musnad Ahmad 21212

Translation

✧ A cousin of mine lived far away, so I suggested, "Why don’t you get a donkey or something for transportation?" He replied, "I wouldn’t like it if my house was next to the house of Muhammad ﷺ." I found this statement from him quite unpleasant. Then it turned out that he was referring to the steps taken to the mosque. So he asked the Prophet ﷺ, who said, "For every step he takes, there is a degree (of reward)."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 654bSahih Muslim 2277Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3624

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
   عن
2. 2
   Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AH
   أَبِي عُثْمَانَثقة ثبت عابد
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Sulaymān al-Aḥwal

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   عَاصِمٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   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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