Musnad Ahmad 25252

Translation

✧ Al-Harith b. Hisham asked the Messenger of God ﷺ: “How does revelation come to you?” He said, “Sometimes it comes to me like the ringing of a bell, and that is the hardest on me. Then it leaves me, and I have retained what was said. Sometimes an angel comes to me in the form of a man, and I retain what he says.”

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Dāraquṭnī

  وهو الصحيح أي من مسند عائشة

  machine translationThis is the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) one, that is, from the Musnad of ʿĀʾishah. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 25835

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2333bJami' at-Tirmidhi 3634Sunan an-Nasa'i 933

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
   أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Bishr

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 203 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.