Musnad Ahmad 21576

Translation

✧ I caught a snake in al-Aswaf, and Zayd b. Thabit took it from me and released it, saying, “Do you not know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared sacred what lies between its two lava fields?”

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

  شرحبيل وثقه ابن حبان وضعفه الناس

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21916

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3172Sahih al-Bukhari 6755Sahih al-Bukhari 7300Sahih Muslim 1370bSahih Muslim 1370d

Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Thābit al-Anṣārī

   Famous Companion, scribe of the revelationd. 45 AH, also said: 40 AH, also said: 42 AH, also said: 43 AH, also said: 48 AH, also said: 51 AH, also said: 52 AH, also said: 54 AH, also said: 55 AH, also said: 56 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهور ، كاتب الوحي
   عن
2. 2
   Shuraḥbīl b. Saʿd al-Khaṭmī

   truthful (ṣadūq), but his memory deteriorated (ikhtalaṭa) toward the end of his lifed. 123 AH, or 124 AH
   شُرَحْبِيلَصدوق , اختلط بآخره
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī al-Rijāl al-Najjārī

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. between 181 AH and 190 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي ج٩ / ص٥٠٤٨الرِّجَالِصدوق ربما أخطأ
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Saʿīd

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 197 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ مَوْلَى بَنِي هَاشِمٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
   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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