Musnad Ahmad 21751

Translation

✧ A man came asking Sa'd about the plague. Usama b. Zayd said: I will tell you about it. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: This is a punishment, or something like that, which Allah sent upon people before you, or a group of the Children of Israel. It comes sometimes and goes sometimes. If it occurs in a land, do not enter it, and if it occurs in a land, do not leave it fleeing from it.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1251Sunan Ibn Majah 1606

Narrators

1. 1
   Usāmah b. Zayd b. Ḥārithah dhū al-Buṭayn

   a well-known Companiond. Ibn Ḥibbān said: he died after ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān was killed. In al-Samʿānī's Amālī: 40 AH. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr deemed correct that he died in the year 54 AH. Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: 58 AH or 59 AH
   أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ ذُو الْبُطَيْنِصحابي مشهور
   فقال
2. 2
   ʿĀmir b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, also said: 96 AH
   عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Dīnār al-Athram

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
   عَمْرٍوثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   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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