Musnad Ahmad 23279

Translation

✧ I indeed know better than the Dajjal what is with the Dajjal. With him are two flowing rivers: one appears to the eye as white water, and the other appears to the eye as blazing fire. If any of you reaches him, let him go to the river that he sees as fire, then let him close his eyes, then lower his head and drink, for it is cold water. And the Dajjal has a defective left eye, upon it a thick covering, and between his eyes is written 'kafir' (disbeliever), which every believer, literate or illiterate, can read.

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What scholars said about it

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• Qurṭubī

  صح في حديث حذيفة اليسرى

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23694
• Dāraquṭnī

  سئل عن حديث ربعي عن أبي مسعود قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لقي رجل ربه عز وجل فقال ماذا عملت فقال ما عملت من خير إلا أني كنت أداين الناس فأنظر الموسر وأتجاوز عن المعسر فقال الله عز وجل تجاوزوا عنه وأسرف رجل فقال عند موته إذا أنا مت فاحرقوني الحديث فقال يرويه أبو مالك الأشجعي ونعيم بن أبي هند وعبد الملك بن عمير عن ربعي عن حذيفة وأبي مسعود ووهم فيه أبو خالد الأحمر فرواه عن أبي مالك الأشجعي عن ربعي عن حذيفة وقال فيه فقال عقبة بن عامر الجهني وأبو مسعود الأنصاري هكذا سمعناه من النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والصواب فقال عقبة بن عمرو أبو مسعود

  machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of Ribʿī from Abū Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A man met his Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, and He said: What did you do? He said: I did no good except that I used to lend to people, so I would give respite to the well-off and overlook the one in difficulty. So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, said: Overlook his faults." And "A man was extravagant (in sin) and said at the time of his death: When I die, burn me..." - the hadith. He said: It is narrated by Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, Nuʿaym b. Abī Hind and ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfah and Abū Masʿūd. Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar made an error (wahima) in it: he narrated it from Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfah, and said in it: ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir al-Juhanī and Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī said: "This is how we heard it from the Prophet ﷺ." The correct version is: ʿUqbah b. ʿAmr Abū Masʿūd said. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 23694

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6576Sahih al-Bukhari 6583Sahih Muslim 2291bSahih Muslim 2933a

Narrators

1. 1
   Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān

   An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an error
   حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقين
   عن
2. 2
   Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh al-ʿAbsī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Saʿd said: after al-Jamājim, during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, Abū ʿUbayd said: 100 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr said: 101 AH. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī: 104 AH
   رِبْعِيُّ بْنُ حِرَاشٍثقة عابد
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 140 AH approximately
   أَبُو مَالِكٍ الْأَشْجَعِيُّ سَعْدُ بْنُ طَارِقٍثقة
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
   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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