Musnad Ahmad 25548

Translation

✧ The month most beloved to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to fast was Sha'ban; then he would connect it with Ramadan.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1969Sunan Abi Dawud 2435Sunan Abi Dawud 4875Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2502Jami' at-Tirmidhi 736Jami' at-Tirmidhi 737

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
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Qays

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي قَيْسٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   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
   مُعَاوِيَةَصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   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
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.