Musnad Ahmad 23845

Translation

✧ To the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he said: "My mother has passed away, so should I give charity on her behalf?" He replied: "Yes." He then asked: "Which charity is the best?" He said: "Giving water to drink." He said: "That is the watering place of the family of Sa'd in Madinah." Shu'bah said: "So I asked Qatadah, who says that it is the watering place of the family of Sa'd?" Al-Hasan said: "Yes."

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• ابن الملقن

  مرسل الحسن لم يدرك سعدا

  machine translationIt is a mursal report (mursal) of al-Ḥasan; he did not meet Saʿd. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 24311
• M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī

  وهو منقطع أيضا

  machine translationIt is also broken in its chain (munqaṭiʿ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 24311

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6056Sahih Muslim 105cSunan Abi Dawud 1679Sunan an-Nasa'i 3664

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿd b. ʿUbādah

   one of the Nuqabāʾ, chief of the Khazraj, and one of the generousd. 15 AH or 16 AH, also said: 14 AH, also said: 11 AH, aH, also said: 10 AH
   سَعْد بْن عُبَادَةأحد النقباء وسيد الخزرج ، وأحد الأجواد
   يحدث عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنَثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   سمعت
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   يحدث عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقن
   سمعت
5. 5
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   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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