Musnad Ahmad 25993

Translation

✧ I was reclining with 'A'ishah, and she said: 'O Abu 'A'ishah, I was the first to ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about this. He said: "That is Jibril. I did not see him in his form in which he was created except twice. I saw him descending from the heaven, the greatness of his form filling what is between the heaven and the earth."'

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وهذا القدر أخرجه مسلم كما قال الترمذي وأظن الزائد بعده مدرجا في الخبر فإن الراوي له عن داود لم يكن بالحافظ

  machine translationMuslim recorded this portion, as al-Tirmidhī said, and I think the addition after it is an interpolation (mudraj) in the report, for the one who narrated it from Dāwūd was not a reliable memorizer (ḥāfiẓ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 26580

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 174c

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
   فقالت
2. 2
   Masrūq b. al-Ajdaʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AH
   مَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرم
   عن
3. 3
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   عَامِرٍثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   Dāwūd b. Abī Hind

   Trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah mutqin), though he would make mistakes (yahim) toward the end of his lifed. 139 AH, or 140 AH, or: 141 AH, also said: 127 AH
   دَاوُدُثقة متقن ، كان يهم بآخره
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُثقة متقن عابد .
   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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