Musnad Ahmad 23014

Translation

✧ God [Mighty and Majestic] commanded me to love four of my companions – I think Sharīk said: And He informed me that He loves them – ʿAlī is one of them, and Abū Dharr, and Salmān, and al-Miqdād al-Kindī.

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What scholars said about it

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

  فيه عبد النور بن عبد الله كذبه شعبة ووثقه ابن حبان

  machine translationIn it is ʿAbd al-Nūr b. ʿAbdillāh, whom Shuʿbah declared a liar (kadhdhabahu) and Ibn Ḥibbān considered trustworthy (wathaqahu). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23424

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3718

Narrators

1. 1
   Buraydah b. al-Ḥuṣayb al-Aslamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before Badrd. 62 AH, or 63 AH
   بُرَيْدَة بْن الْحُصَيْب الْأَسْلَمِيّصحابي ، أسلم قبل بدر
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
   ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Rabīʿah

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبِي رَبِيعَةَمقبول
   عن
4. 4
   Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nakhaʿī

   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 AH
   شَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aswad b. ʿĀmir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AH
   أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقة
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.