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Musnad Ahmad 2718

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حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ حَدَّثَنَا حِبَّانُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا عُقَيْلُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

خَيْرُ الْأَصْحَابِ أَرْبَعَةٌ، وَخَيْرُ السَّرَايَا أَرْبَعُمِائَةٍ، وَخَيْرُ الْجُيُوشِ أَرْبَعَةُ آلَافٍ، قَالَ: وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: لَنْ يُغْلَبَ قَوْمٌ عَنْ قِلَّةٍ يَبْلُغُونَ أَنْ يَكُونُوا اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ أَلْفًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yūnus
  2. Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī
  3. ʿUqayl b. Khālid
  4. al-Zuhrī
  5. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah
  6. Ibn ʿAbbās

✧ The best companions are four, the best raiding parties are four hundred, and the best armies are four thousand. He said: And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: A people will never be defeated due to small numbers if they reach twelve thousand.

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    يرويه أبو سلمة العاملي عن الزهري عن أنس وأبو سلمة هذا عندنا هو الحكم بن عبد الله بن خطاف وهو متروك الحديث وروي عن عباد بن كثير عن عقيل عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله عن ابن عباس والمحفوظ عن الزهري المرسل

    machine translationAbū Salamah al-ʿĀmilī narrates it from al-Zuhrī, from Anas. This Abū Salamah, in our view, is al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdillāh b. Khaṭṭāf, and he is abandoned in ḥadīth (matrūk al-ḥadīth). It is also narrated from ʿAbbād b. Kathīr, from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdillāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās. But what is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from al-Zuhrī is the mursal version.

    in مسند أحمد, p. 2744

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 2827

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَثقة فقيه ثبت
    عن
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. ʿUqayl
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
    عُقَيْلُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  5. Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī
    weak (ḍaʿīf), and he had jurisprudence and meritd. 171 AH or 172 AH
    حِبَّانُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّضعيف ، وكان له فقه وفضل
    حدثنا
  6. Yūnus
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 207 AH, or 208 AH
    يُونُسُثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  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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