Musnad Ahmad 25547

Translation

✧ I entered upon Aishah, and she said: Do you recite Surah al-Ma'idah? He said: I said: Yes. She said: It is the last surah to be revealed. Whatever you find in it of what is lawful, deem it lawful, and whatever you find in it of what is unlawful, deem it unlawful. I asked her about the character of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and she said: The Quran.

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Sahih al-Bukhari 5383Sahih Muslim 2975aSahih Muslim 2975bSahih Muslim 2975c

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
   قال
2. 2
   Jubayr b. Nufayr b. Mālik al-Ḥaḍramī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 75 AH, also said: 80 AH, also said: after it
   جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Zāhirīyah Ḥudayr b. Kurayb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. at the turn of 100 AH, or 127 AH, or: 129 AH
   أَبِي الزَّاهِرِيَّةِصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 152 AH, said by Abū Bakr b. Kāmil, known as Ibn al-Qawwās, 158 AH, 168 AH, 172 AH, said by Abū Marwān b. Ḥayyān, author of the History of al-Andalus
   مُعَاوِيَةُصدوق له أوهام
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

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