Musnad Ahmad 3072
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ
أَنَّ قُرَيْشًا أَتَوْا كَاهِنَةً، فَقَالُوا لَهَا: أَخْبِرِينَا بِأَقْرَبِنَا شَبَهًا بِصَاحِبِ هَذَا الْمَقَامِ ؟ فَقَالَتْ: إِنْ أَنْتُمْ جَرَرْتُمْ كِسَاءً عَلَى هَذِهِ السِّهْلَةِ، ثُمَّ مَشَيْتُمْ عَلَيْهَا أَنْبَأْتُكُمْ. فَجَرُّوا، ثُمَّ مَشَى النَّاسُ عَلَيْهَا، فَأَبْصَرَتْ أَثَرَ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ، فَقَالَتْ: هَذَا أَقْرَبُكُمْ شَبَهًا بِهِ. فَمَكَثُوا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، أَوْ قَرِيبًا مِنْ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، أَوْ مَا شَاءَ اللهُ، ثُمَّ بُعِثَ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Isrāʾīl
- Simāk
✧ The Quraysh came to a priestess and said to her: Tell us which of us most closely resembles the man of this station [Ibrāhīm’s station]? She said: If you drag a cloak over this smooth ground and then walk upon it, I will inform you. So they dragged it, and then the people walked upon it. She saw the footprint of Muḥammad ﷺ and said: This one is the closest among you in resemblance to him. They remained after that for twenty years, or nearly twenty years, or as long as God willed, and then he ﷺ was sent.
Notes
ﷺ ﷺ
Grades by grader
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 65 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍصحابيعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 104 AHعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 123 AHسِمَاكٍصدوقعن
- أخبرناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 160 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 211 AH
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 241 AHأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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