Musnad Ahmad 265

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ passed by, and I was with him, and Abū Bakr, while ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd was reciting. He stopped and listened to his recitation. Then ʿAbd Allāh bowed and prostrated. He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said: Ask and you shall be given; ask and you shall be given. He said: Then the Messenger of God ﷺ went on and said: Whoever would like to recite the Qurʾān fresh as it was revealed, let him recite it from Ibn Umm ʿAbd. He said: So I set out at night to ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd to give him good news of what the Messenger of God ﷺ had said. He said: When I knocked on the door, or he said: when he heard my voice, he said: What brings you at this hour? I said: I have come to give you good news of what the Messenger of God ﷺ said. He said: Abū Bakr has already preceded you. I said: If he did, he is indeed a forerunner in good deeds. We never competed in any good but Abū Bakr preceded us to it.

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• أبو بكر الأثرم

  علقمة لم يسمعه من عمر وبينهما رجل

  machine translationʿAlqamah did not hear it from ʿUmar, and between them there is a man. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 265
• Dāraquṭnī

  ليس بين علقمة وعمر أحد

  machine translationThere is no one between ʿAlqamah and ʿUmar. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 265

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   عن
2. 2
   Qays b. Marwān

   truthful (ṣadūq)
   قَيْسٍ ، أَوِ ابْنِ قَيْسٍ رَجُلٍ مِنْ جُعْفِيٍّصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   al-Qarthaʿ

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. during the time of ʿUthmān
   الْقَرْثَعِصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAlqamah b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), jurist, devout worshipperd. 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 65 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, also said: 63 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَثقة ثبت فقيه عابد
   عن
5. 5
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Ḥasan b. ʿUbaydillāh

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 139 AH, also said: 142 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة فاضل
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād

   Trustworthy (thiqah); there is some criticism concerning his narrations from al-Aʿmash aloned. 176 AH, or 177 AH, or 179 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ، في حديثه عن الأعمش وحده مقال
   حدثنا
8. 8
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
9. 9
   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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