Musnad Ahmad 21840

Translation

✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the delegation of Kindah. He said to me: 'Do you have any children?' I said: 'A boy was born to me on my journey to you, from the daughter of Jamd, and I wish that in his place the people had been fed.' He said: 'Do not say that, for in them is comfort of the eye and reward when they are taken. Then, even if you say that, they are indeed a cause of cowardice and grief, indeed they are a cause of cowardice and grief.'

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

  وفيه مجالد بن سعيد وهو ضعيف وقد وثق وبقية رجال أحمد رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22197

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Ashʿath b. Qays al-Kindī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 40 AH, or 41 AH, also said: 42 AH
   الْأَشْعَث بْن قَيْس الْكِنْدِيّالصحابي
   حدثنا
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Mujālid

   Not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life.d. 144 AH, also said: 143 AH
   مُجَالِدٌليس بالقوي ، وقد تغير في آخر عمره
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Hushaym b. Bashīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AH
   هُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفي
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Surayj

   trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 217 AH or 229 AH
   سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِثقة يهم قليلا
   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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