Musnad Ahmad 21980

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned charity and said: 'Let none of you come with a sheep that has bleating.'

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What scholars said about it

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

  ورجاله ثقات

  machine translationAnd its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22342
• ʿAlī al-Madīnī

  كذب أي طريق محمد بن حاتم عن ابن مهدي عن شعبة إنما روى هذا أبو داود

  machine translationFalse (kadhib) — that is, the route of Muḥammad b. Ḥātim from Ibn Mahdī from Shuʿbah. Only Abū Dāwūd narrated this. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22342

Narrators

1. 1
   Halab al-Ṭāʾī

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

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   قَبِيصَةَ بْنَ هُلْبٍمقبول
   سمعت
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
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
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5. 5
   Abū Dāwūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ وَهُوَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
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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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.