Musnad Ahmad 22941

Translation

✧ I and my father entered upon Mu'awiyah, and he seated us on the cushions. Then food was brought to us, and we ate. Then drink was brought, and Mu'awiyah drank, then he passed it to my father, then he said: I have not drunk it since the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade it. Then Mu'awiyah said: I was the most handsome of the youth of Quraysh and the best of them in teeth. There was nothing I found more pleasurable as a young man than milk, or a person of good conversation talking to me.

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

  رجاله رجال الصحيح وفي كلام معاوية شيء تركته

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23350

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AH, also said: 59 AH
   مُعَاوِيَة بْن أَبِي سُفْيَانصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some errors (awhām)d. 159 AH, also said: 157 AH
   حُسَيْنٌثقة ، له أوهام
   حدثني
4. 4
   Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb

   and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوري
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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