Musnad Ahmad 25158

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out for Badr, and a man from the polytheists followed him and caught up with him at al-Jamrah. He said: I intended to follow you and attain a share with you. He said: Do you believe in Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and His Messenger? He said: No. He said: Then go back, for I will not seek help from a polytheist. He said: Then he caught up with him at the tree, and the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were pleased with that, for he had strength and endurance. He said: I have come to follow you and attain a share with you. He said: Do you believe in Allah and His Messenger? He said: No. He said: Go back, for I will not seek help from a polytheist. He said: Then he caught up with him when he appeared at al-Bayda' and said to him the same thing. He said: Do you believe in Allah and His Messenger? He said: Yes. He said: Then he went out with him.

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه مالك بن أنس واختلف عنه فرواه وكيع عن مالك عن عبد الله بن يزيد عن ابن نيار عن عروة عن عائشة ووهم فيه وكيع وخالفه عبد الرحمن بن مهدي ويحيى القطان وبشر بن عمر وابن وهب رووه عن مالك عن الفضيل بن أبي عبد الله عن عبد الله بن نيار عن عروة عن عائشة وهو الصواب

  machine translationMālik b. Anas narrated it, and there is disagreement about it from him. Wakīʿ narrated it from Mālik, from ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd, from Ibn Niyār, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, and Wakīʿ erred in it. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Bishr b. ʿUmar and Ibn Wahb contradicted him; they narrated it from Mālik, from al-Faḍl b. Abī ʿAbdillāh, from ʿAbdullāh b. Niyār, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, and this is the correct version. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 25743
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  قال هذا وهم وهم فيه وكيع إنما هو عن الفضيل بن أبي عبد الله عن عبد الله بن نيار عن عروة عن عائشة وهذا الصحيح

  machine translationHe said: This is an error (wahm), and Wakīʿ erred in it. Rather, it is from al-Faḍl b. Abī ʿAbdillāh, from ʿAbdullāh b. Niyār, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, and this is the correct (ṣaḥīḥ) version. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 25743

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1558a

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Niyār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 110 and 120 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نِيَارٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Fuḍayl b. Abī ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   فُضَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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