Musnad Ahmad 22575

Translation

✧ Abu Qatadah? I said: "Yes, O Messenger of God." He said: "May God preserve you as you preserved us since last night." Then he said: "I think we have only made it hard for you. Take us off the road — or: turn us away from the road." He said: So we turned off the road, and the Messenger of God ﷺ made his mount kneel. Each man of us rested his head on his mount's foreleg, and we did not wake until the sun had risen. He mentioned the sound of the shrike. He said: I said: "O Messenger of God, we are ruined; the prayer has escaped us." The Messenger of God ﷺ said: "You are not ruined, and the prayer has not escaped you. It only escapes the awake, not the sleeper. Is there any water?" He said: I brought him a waterskin — or he said: a small ablution vessel — with water in it. The Messenger of God ﷺ performed ablution, then handed it to me with some water left in it. He said: "Keep it, for it will have a story." He ordered Bilal, and he gave the call to prayer, then prayed two rak'ahs. Then he moved from his place and ordered him, and he made the iqamah, and he prayed the Fajr prayer. Then the Prophet of God ﷺ said: "If the people obeyed Abu Bakr and Umar, they were kind to themselves and did right. If they opposed them, they were harsh to themselves." Abu Bakr and Umar, when they missed the Prophet ﷺ, said to the people: "Stay by the water until morning." But they refused them. The Messenger of God ﷺ reached them at the end of the day, and they had almost perished of thirst. They said: "O Messenger of God, we are ruined." He called for the small ablution vessel, then called for a vessel, and a vessel larger than a cup but smaller than a bowl was brought. The Messenger of God ﷺ tucked them under his arm, then began pouring into the vessel, and the people drank until they all drank. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ called out: "Is there anyone still thirsty?" He said: Then he returned the small ablution vessel with about as much water as was in it. He said: We asked him: "How many were you?" He said: "With Abu Bakr and Umar there were eighty men, and we were with the Messenger of God ﷺ twelve men."

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  صح

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22954
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله رجال الصحيح

  machine translationIts narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 22954

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 681

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Qatādah al-Anṣārī fāris Rasūl Allāh

   He took part in Uḥud and the battles after itd. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān said: 40 AH, al-Wāqidī said: 54 AH, the people of Kufa reported that he died: 38 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in al-Awsaṭ, among those who died between 50 AH and 60 AH
   أَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَارِسُ رَسُولِ اللهِشهد أحدا وما بعدها
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Rabāḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Ibn Ziyād, or around the year 90 AH, or around the year 95 AH
   عبد الله بن رباح الأنصاريثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قتادة بن دعامةثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سعيد بن أبي عروبةثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   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
   غندر ربيب شعبةثقة 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

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