Musnad Ahmad 21546

Translation

✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was in the mosque, and I sat down. He said: 'O Abu Dharr, have you prayed?' I said: 'No.' He said: 'Get up and pray.' He said: 'So I got up and prayed, then I sat down.' He said: 'O Abu Dharr, seek refuge in Allah from the evil of the devils among humans and jinn.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, are there devils among humans?' He said: 'Yes.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what about prayer?' He said: 'It is the best thing prescribed; whoever wishes may do little, and whoever wishes may do more.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what about fasting?' He said: 'It is a loan that is repaid, and with Allah is increase.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what about charity?' He said: 'It is multiplied many times over.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which of them is best?' He said: 'An effort from one with little, or a secret given to the poor.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which of the prophets was the first?' He said: 'Adam.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, was he a prophet?' He said: 'Yes, a prophet who was spoken to.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, how many are the messengers?' He said: 'Three hundred and some tens, a great multitude.' And once he said: 'Fifteen.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, was Adam a prophet?' He said: 'Yes, a prophet who was spoken to.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which verse that was sent down to you is the greatest?' He said: 'The Verse of the Throne: "Allah, there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting."

Notes

• [البقرة 255]

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  وفيه المسعودي وهو ثقة ولكنه اختلط

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21886
• ابن الملقن

  أبو عمرو هذا قال الدارقطني في حقه إنه متروك

  machine translationOf this Abū ʿAmr, al-Dāraquṭnī said concerning him that he is abandoned (matrūk). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21886
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه أبو عمرو الدمشقي وهو متروك

  machine translationIn it is Abū ʿAmr al-Dimashqī, and he is abandoned (matrūk). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21886

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5737وَعَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَيُّ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ كَانَ أَوَّلَ؟ قَالَ: «آدَمُ». قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَنَبِيٌّ كَانَ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ نَبِيٌّ مُكَلَّمٌ». قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كم المُرْسَلُونَ؟ قَالَ: «

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4003

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī

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

   weak (layyin)
   عُبَيْدِ بْنِ الْخَشْخَاشِلين
   عن
3. 3
   Abū ʿUmar al-Shāmī

   weak (ḍaʿīf)
   أَبُو عُمَرَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّضعيف
   أنبأني
4. 4
   al-Masʿūdī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) before his death, and the rule is: whoever heard from him in Baghdad heard after the confusion.d. 160 AH, also said: 165 AH
   الْمَسْعُودِيُّصدوق ، اختلط قبل موته ، وضابطه : أن من سمع منه ببغداد فبعد الاختلاط
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   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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Mishkat al-Masabih 5737