Musnad Ahmad 26750

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ used to fast on Saturday and Sunday more than he fasted on other days, and he would say: They are the festival days of the polytheists, so I love to differ from them.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 2068قَالَتْ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَصُومُ يَوْمَ السَّبْتِ وَيَوْمَ الْأَحَدِ أَكْثَرَ مَا يَصُومُ مِنَ الْأَيَّامِ وَيَقُولُ: «إِنَّهُمَا يَوْمَا عِيدٍ لِلْمُشْرِكِينَ فَأَنَا أُحِبُّ أَن أخالفهم». رَوَاهُ أَ

Narrators

1. 1
   Umm Salamah Hind bt. Abū Umayyah

   Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AH
   أُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنين
   سمع
2. 2
   Kurayb b. Abī Muslim al-Ḥijāzī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 98 AH
   كُرَيْبٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   his father

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. after 130 AH
   أَبِيصدوق
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. at the end of the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّمقبول
   أخبرني
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ - يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُبَارَكٍ -ثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAttāb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 212 AH
   عَتَّابُ بْنُ زِيَادٍصدوق
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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