Musnad Ahmad 26286

Translation

✧ The two rak'ahs of dawn are better than the whole world.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  وقول قتادة أصح

  machine translationAnd the statement of Qatādah is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 26874

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 725aJami' at-Tirmidhi 416

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
   Saʿd b. Hishām

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
   سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Zurārah b. Awfá

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 93 AH, or: 108 AH, also said: 106 AH
   زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَىثقة ، عابد
   عن
4. 4
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدٍثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   عن
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAṭāʾ

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. 204 AH, also said: 206 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِصدوق ، ربما أخطأ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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