Musnad Ahmad 2447

Translation

✧ Being told is not like seeing for oneself. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, told Musa what his people had done with the calf, yet he did not throw down the tablets. But when he saw with his own eyes what they had done, he threw down the tablets and they broke.

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What scholars said about it

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• يحيى بن حسان بن حيان التنيسي

  دلسه

  machine translationHe concealed it (dallasahu). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2468
• ابن عدي

  ويقال إن هذا لم يسمعه هشيم من أبي بشر إنما سمعه من أبي عوانة عن أبي بشر فدلسه

  machine translationIt is said that Hushaym did not hear this from Abū Bishr; rather he heard it from Abū ʿAwānah, from Abū Bishr, and so he concealed it (dallasahu). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2468
• ابن عدي

  هشيم رجل مشهور وقد كتب عنه الأئمة وهو في نفسه لا بأس به إلا أنه نسب إلى التدليس الخ

  machine translationHushaym is a well-known man, and the imams wrote down from him. In himself he is not objectionable, except that he was ascribed to concealment (tadlīs), etc. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2468
• ابن عدي

  وهشيم رجل مشهور وقد كتب عنه الأئمة وهو في نفسه لا بأس به إلا أنه نسب إلى التدليس وله أصناف وأحاديث حسان وغرائب وإذا حدث عن ثقة فلا بأس به وربما يؤتى ويوجد في بعض أحاديثه منكر إذا دلس في حديثه عن غير ثقة وقد روى عنه شعبة والثوري ومالك وابن مهدي وابن أبي عدي وغيرهم من الأئمة وهو لا بأس به وبرواياته

  machine translationHushaym is a well-known man, and the imams wrote down from him. In himself he is not objectionable, except that he was ascribed to concealment (tadlīs). He has various compilations, good hadiths and unusual ones (gharāʾib). When he narrates from a trustworthy person, there is no harm in him. Sometimes he errs, and some of his hadiths are found to be rejected (munkar) when he practised concealment (tadlīs) in his narration from someone who is not trustworthy. Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, Mālik, Ibn Mahdī, Ibn Abī ʿAdī and other imams narrated from him, and there is no harm in him or in his narrations. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2468

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5738وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " لَيْسَ الْخَبَرُ كَالْمُعَايَنَةِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَخْبَرَ مُوسَى بِمَا صَنَعَ قَوْمُهُ فِي الْعِجْلِ فَلَمْ يُلْقِ الْأَلْوَاحَ فَلَمَّا عَايَنَ

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Jubayr al-Asadī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bishr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Saʿīd b. Jubayrd. 123 AH or 124 AH or 125 AH or 126 AH, also said: 131 AH
   أَبِي بِشْرٍثقة ، من أثبت الناس في سعيد بن جبير
   عن
4. 4
   Hushaym b. Bashīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AH
   هُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفي
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Surayj

   trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 217 AH or 229 AH
   سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِثقة يهم قليلا
   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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Mishkat al-Masabih 5738