Musnad Ahmad 23755

Translation

✧ His parents disputed over him before the Prophet ﷺ, one of them being a Muslim and the other a disbeliever. He gave him the choice, and he turned toward the disbeliever. He said, 'O Allah, guide him.' Then he turned toward the Muslim, and he ruled in his favor.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  هذه الروايات لا تصح لأن عبد الحميد بن سلمة وأباه وجده لا يعرفون ولو صحت لم ينبغ أن تجعله خلافا لرواية أصحاب عبد الحميد بن جعفر عن عبد الحميد بن جعفر فإنهم ثقات وهو وأبوه ثقتان وجده رافع بن سنان معروف

  in مسند أحمد, p. 24195
• Mizzī

  وهو حديث مختلف في إسناده

  in مسند أحمد, p. 24195

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6575Sahih al-Bukhari 6589

Narrators

1. 1
   Salamah Abū Yazīd jadd ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yazīd b. Salamah
   سَلَمَة أَبُو يَزِيد جَدّ عَبْد الْحَمِيد بْن يَزِيد بْن سَلَمَة
   عن
2. 2
   Salamah al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   أَبِيهِصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Salamah

   unknown (majhūl)
   عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَمجهول
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUthmān al-Battī

   truthful (ṣadūq), they faulted him for issuing fatwas by opinion (raʾy)d. 143 AH
   عُثْمَانَ الْبَتِّيِّصدوق ، عابوا عليه الإفتاء بالرأي
   عن
5. 5
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظ
   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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