Musnad Ahmad 22043

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the Night of Power, and he said: “It is in the last ten nights, or in the third, or in the fifth.”

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• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  روى ابن أبي عاصم بسند صالح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22408

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿādh b. Jabal

   well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AH
   مُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Baḥriyyah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 77 AH
   أَبِي بَحْرِيَّةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Khālid b. Maʿdān

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AH
   خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.
   عن
4. 4
   Baḥīr b. Saʿd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AH
   بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت
   حدثني
5. 5
   Baqiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
   بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yazīd b. ʿAbd Rabbih

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 224 AH.
   وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِثقة .
   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

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