Musnad Ahmad 26956

Translation

✧ When the Messenger of God ﷺ stopped at Dhu Tuwa, Abu Quhafah said to a daughter of his from his youngest children: 'O my little daughter, show me from atop Abu Qubays.' She said: He had lost his sight. She said: So she took him up to it, and he said: 'O my little daughter, what do you see?' She said: 'I see a gathered blackness.' He said: 'Those are the horses.' She said: 'And I see a man moving among that blackness, coming and going.' He said: 'O my little daughter, that is the commander—meaning the one who commands the horses and advances to them.' Then she said: 'By God, the blackness has spread out.' He said: 'By God, then the horses have been dispatched, so hurry me to my house.' So she brought him down, and the horses met him before he reached his house. On the girl's neck was a necklace of silver, and a man met her and snatched it from her neck. She said: When the Messenger of God ﷺ entered Makkah and entered the mosque, Abu Bakr brought his father to him, leading him. When the Messenger of God ﷺ saw him, he said: 'Why did you not leave the old man in his house so that I would come to him there?' Abu Bakr said: 'O Messenger of God, he is more entitled to walk to you than you are to walk to him.' He said: So he seated him before him, then wiped his chest, then said to him: 'Submit,' and he submitted. Abu Bakr brought him to the Messenger of God ﷺ, and his head was like a white flower. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'Change this of his hair.' Then Abu Bakr stood, took his sister's hand, and said: 'I adjure you by God and Islam, the necklace of my sister.' But no one answered him. He said: 'O my little sister, consider your necklace as recompense.'

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

  رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 27545
• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  ورجاله ثقات

  machine translationAnd its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 27545

Narrators

1. 1
   Asmāʾ bt. Abī Bakr

   One of the senior Companionsd. 73 AH, or 74 AH
   أَسْمَاءُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍمن كبار الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 and 90 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 100 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِثقة
   حدثني
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   عن
5. 5
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaʿqūb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
   يَعْقُوبُثقة فاضل .
   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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