Musnad Ahmad 21429

Translation

✧ The most beloved words to God are for the servant to say: Glory be to God and with His praise.

Notes

• قَالَ حَجَّاجٌ إِنَّهُ سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْ أَحَبِّ الْعَمَلِ إِلَى اللهِ أَوْ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِنَّ أَحَبَّ الْكَلَامِ إِلَى اللهِ سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ

Grades by grader

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
   أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ṣāmit

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 70 and 80 AH, also said: between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Jasrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).
   أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ الْجَسْرِيِّثقة يرسل.
   عن
4. 4
   al-Jurayrī

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) three years before his deathd. 144 AH
   أَبِي مَسْعُودٍثقة ، اختلط قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقن
   سمعت
6. 6
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   وَحَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.