Musnad Ahmad 21219

Translation

✧ That the polytheists said to the Prophet ﷺ: 'O Muhammad, describe to us your Lord,' so God, blessed and exalted is He, revealed: {Say: He is God, the One; God, the Eternal; He did not beget nor was He begotten; and there was none equal to Him.}

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What scholars said about it

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• ابن عدي

  وهذا لم يروه عن أبي جعفر بهذا الإسناد غير أبي سعد هذا الضعف بين على رواياته

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21548

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1810Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3364Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3365Sunan Ibn Majah 3364

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
   Rufayʿ b. Mihrān

   trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 90 AH, or: 93 AH, or: 96 AH, or: 98 AH, or: 106 AH, or: 111 AH
   أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِثقة ، كثير الإرسال
   عن
3. 3
   al-Rabīʿ b. Anas

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 139 AH or 140 AH, also said: before it
   الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), but of poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), especially in his narrations from Mughīrah.d. around 160 AH
   أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيُّصدوق . سيئ الحفظ خصوصا عن مغيرة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Abī Zakariyyā

   weak (ḍaʿīf), and accused of Irjāʾd. between 201 and 210 AH
   أَبُو سَعْدٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُيَسَّرٍ الصَّاغَانِيُّضعيف ، ورمي بالإرجاء
   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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