Musnad Ahmad 23466

Translation

✧ When two inviters meet, answer the one whose door is nearer, for the one whose door is nearer is the nearer neighbor. If one of them has preceded, then answer the one who preceded.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 1058{ إِذَا اِجْتَمَعَ دَاعِيَانِ, فَأَجِبْ أَقْرَبَهُمَا بَابًا, فَإِنْ سَبَقَ أَحَدُهُمَا فَأَجِبِ اَلَّذِي سَبَقَ }

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3756

Narrators

1. 1
   Aḥad al-ṣaḥābah

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥimyarī

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist.d. between 91 and 100 AH
   حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة فقيه.
   عن
3. 3
   Dāwūd b. ʿAbdillāh al-Awdī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ الْأَوْدِيِّثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Khālid al-Dālānī

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran), and he used to practice concealment (tadlīs).d. 150 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ج١٠ / ص٥٥٧٩الدَّالَانِيُّصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان يدلس .
   حدثني
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Salām b. Ḥarb

   trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, has denounced reports (manākīr)d. 186 AH, or 187 AH
   عَبْدُ السَّلَامِ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة حافظ ، له مناكير
   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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