Musnad Ahmad 22387
Thawban, the freed servant of the Prophet ﷺ
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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ شَرِيكٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الرَّايَاتِ السُّودَ قَدْ جَاءَتْ مِنْ قِبَلِ خُرَاسَانَ فَأْتُوهَا، فَإِنَّ فِيهَا خَلِيفَةَ اللهِ الْمَهْدِيَّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Wakīʿ
- Sharīk
- ʿAlī b. Zayd
- Abū Qilābah
- Thawbān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ When you see the black banners coming from the direction of Khurasan, go to them, for among them is the caliph of God, the Mahdi.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 5461وَعَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الرَّايَاتِ السُّودَ قَدْ جَاءَتْ مِنْ قِبَلِ خُرَاسَانَ فَأْتُوهَا فَإِنَّ فِيهَا خَلِيفَةَ اللَّهِ الْمَهْدِيَّ». رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَالْبَي
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AHثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AHأَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسالعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 131 AHعَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍضعيفعن
- 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 AHشَرِيكٍصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدععن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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