Musnad Ahmad 21971

Translation

✧ I asked the Prophet ﷺ about the food of the Christians, and he said: 'Let there not be any misgiving in your chest about food in which you resemble Christianity.'

Notes

• قَالَ وَرَأَيْتُهُ يَضَعُ إِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَىقَالَ وَرَأَيْتُهُ يَنْصَرِفُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَمَرَّةً عَنْ شِمَالِهِ

  machine translationHe said: And I saw him placing one of his hands over the other. He said: And I saw him turning away to his right, and at times to his left. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  حديث منقطع

  machine translationA disconnected (munqaṭiʿ) hadith. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22332

Narrators

1. 1
   Halab al-Ṭāʾī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 70 and 80 AH
   هَلَبٌ الطَّائِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Qabīṣah b. Hulb

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ الْهُلْبِمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
4. 4
   Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nakhaʿī

   Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AH
   شَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyá

   d. 235 AH
   زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ
   حدثني
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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