Musnad Ahmad 21673

Translation

✧ The best testimony is that which its bearer gives before he is asked for it.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  رجح حديث زيد بن خالد لكونه من رواية أهل المدينة

  machine translationHe gave preference to the hadith of Zayd b. Khālid because it is from the narration of the people of Medina. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22023

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1719Sunan Abi Dawud 3596Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2295Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2296

Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī

   a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), noble (sharīf)d. 96 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَثقة شريف
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Khazrajī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة عابد
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 132 AH
   أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadard. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق رمي بالقدر
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ
   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

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