Musnad Ahmad 26125

Translation

✧ About the virtue of fasting, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her, "Do you engage in it as he did? Indeed, whatever sins he committed in the past and in the future have been forgiven for him, and his actions were voluntary for him."

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  ورجاله رجال الصحيح وفي الصحيح بعضه

  in مسند أحمد, p. 26713

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
   سألت
2. 2
   Muʿādhah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 83 AH
   مُعَاذَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd al-Rishk

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, whoever considered him soft (layyin) erred.d. 130 AH.
   يَزِيدُ - يَعْنِي الرِّشْكَ -ثقة عابد ، وهم من لينه .
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Wārith

   trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AH
   أَبِيثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنه
   حدثني
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Ṣamad

   truthful (ṣadūq), reliable (thabt) in the narrations of Shuʿbahd. Ibn Ḥibbān said 206 AH or 207 AH
   عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِصدوق , ثبت في شعبة
   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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