Musnad Ahmad 22418
Thawban, the freed servant of the Prophet ﷺ
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ زُرْعَةَ قَالَ شُرَيْحُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ
مَرِضَ ثَوْبَانُ بِحِمْصَ وَعَلَيْهَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ قُرْطٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ فَلَمْ يَعُدْهُ، فَدَخَلَ عَلَى ثَوْبَانَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْكَلَاعِيِّينَ عَائِدًا، فَقَالَ لَهُ ثَوْبَانُ: أَتَكْتُبُ؟ فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، فَقَالَ: اكْتُبْ، فَكَتَبَ لِلْأَمِيرِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ قُرْطٍ: مِنْ ثَوْبَانَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّهُ لَوْ كَانَ لِمُوسَى وَعِيسَى مَوْلًى بِحَضْرَتِكَ لَعُدْتَهُ، ثُمَّ طَوَى الْكِتَابَ، وَقَالَ لَهُ: أَتُبَلِّغُهُ إِيَّاهُ، فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، فَانْطَلَقَ الرَّجُلُ بِكِتَابِهِ فَدَفَعَهُ إِلَى ابْنِ قُرْطٍ، فَلَمَّا قَرَأَهُ قَامَ فَزِعًا، فَقَالَ النَّاسُ: مَا شَأْنُهُ ؟ أَحَدَثَ أَمْرٌ؟ فَأَتَى ثَوْبَانَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ فَعَادَهُ وَجَلَسَ عِنْدَهُ سَاعَةً، ثُمَّ قَامَ، فَأَخَذَ ثَوْبَانُ بِرِدَائِهِ، وَقَالَ: اجْلِسْ حَتَّى أُحَدِّثَكَ حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: لَيَدْخُلَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا، لَا حِسَابَ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَلَا عَذَابَ، مَعَ كُلِّ أَلْفٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا
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Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Yamān
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh
- Ḍamḍam b. Zurʿah
- Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd
✧ Write and deliver a letter to Prince Abdullah bin Qurt from Thawban, the servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. As for what follows, if Musa and Isa were servants in your presence, you would have freed them and rewarded them. Then Thawban folded the letter and asked, "Should I deliver it to him?" He replied, "Yes." So the man left with his letter and handed it to Ibn Qurt. When he read it, he stood up in shock. The people asked, "What's the matter with him? Has something new happened?" Thawban approached him until he entered, and then he returned and sat with him for an hour. After that, he stood up, took off his cloak, and said, "Sit down until I narrate to you a hadith that I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I heard him say, 'Seventy thousand from my Ummah will enter Paradise without being held to account or punished. For every thousand, there will be another seventy thousand.'"
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AHثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابيفقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 100 AHشُرَيْحُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقةقال
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ زُرْعَةَصدوق يهمعن
- truthful (ṣadūq) in his narration from the people of his own land, but confused (mukhaliṭ) in his narration from othersd. 181 AH, or 182 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍصدوق في روايته عن أهل بلده ، مخلط في غيرهمحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 221 AH, or 222 AHأَبُو الْيَمَانِثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.