Musnad Ahmad 22254

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out upon a storyteller who was narrating, and he stopped. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Continue, for to sit from the morning until the sun rises is more beloved to me than freeing four slaves, and after the afternoon prayer until the sun sets is more beloved to me than freeing four slaves.'

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

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

  ورجاله موثقون إلا أن فيه أبا الجعد عن أبي أمامة فإن كان هو الغطفاني فهو من رجال الصحيح وإن كان غيره فلم أعرفه

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22627
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله موثقون إلا أن فيه أبا الجعد عن أبي أمامة فإن كان هو الغطفاني فهو من رجال الصحيح وإن كان غيره فلم أعرفه

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22627

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī

   a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AH
   أَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهور
   يحدث عن
2. 2
   Abū al-Jaʿd
   أَبَا الْجَعْدِ
   سمعت
3. 3
   Abū al-Tayyāḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 128 AH, or: 130 AH.
   أَبِي التَّيَّاحِثقة ثبت .
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   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

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

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