Musnad Ahmad 2149
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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ
- أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ، إِنِّي شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ عَلِيلٌ يَشُقُّ عَلَيَّ الْقِيَامُ، فَأْمُرْنِي بِلَيْلَةٍ لَعَلَّ اللهَ يُوَفِّقُنِي فِيهَا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ ! قَالَ: عَلَيْكَ بِالسَّابِعَةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muʿādh b. Hishām
- my father
- Qatādah
- ʿIkrimah
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, 'O Prophet of Allah, I am an old, sick man, and standing is difficult for me. So order me with a night, perhaps Allah will grant me success in it—the Night of Decree!' He said, 'Upon you is the seventh.'
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
إسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in مسند أحمد, p. 2165
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AHأَبِيثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدرحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 200 AHمُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍصدوق ربما وهمحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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