Musnad Ahmad 27485

✧ From the saying of Abu Darda, A'wwamir

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حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَخٌ لِعَدِيِّ بْنِ أَرْطَاةَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ

عَهِدَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ الْمُضِلُّونَ

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✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ made a covenant with us, that the most frightening thing I fear for you is the misleading leaders.

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Shuayb al-Arnaut	Sound Due to External Factors	hadithunlocked

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Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفيه راويان لم يسميا
in مسند أحمد, p. 28078

Abū al-Dardāʾ
Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphate
أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليل
عن
rajul
رجل
عن
Brother of ʿAdī b. Arṭāh
أخ لعدي بن أرطاة
حدثني
Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf
He was trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, and devout.d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AH or 130 AH
أَبِيهِوكان ثقة فاضلا عابدا
عن
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
Yaʿqūb
Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
يَعْقُوبُثقة فاضل .
حدثنا
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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