Musnad Ahmad 22074

Translation

✧ that the Prophet ﷺ said to him: 'O Muʿādh, for God to guide through your hands a man from the people of polytheism is better for you than having red camels.'

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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 إلا أن دويد بن نافع لم يدرك معاذا

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt), except that Duwayd b. Nāfiʿ did not meet Muʿādh. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22440

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1807aSahih Muslim 1807bSunan Ibn Majah 121

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
   Duwayd b. Nāfiʿ

   acceptable (maqbūl), and he used to narrate mursal reportsd. between 121 and 130 AH
   دُوَيْدِ بْنِ نَافِعٍمقبول ، وكان يرسل
   عن
3. 3
   Ḍubārah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī al-Sulayk

   unknown (majhūl)d. between 141 and 150 AH
   ضُبَارَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِمجهول
   حدثني
4. 4
   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
   بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   حدثني
5. 5
   Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah).d. 224 AH.
   حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍثقة.
   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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