Musnad Ahmad 318

Translation

✧ I came to Madinah when a disease had struck it. Abd al-Samad said: They were dying rapidly. I sat with Umar b. al-Khattab, and a funeral procession passed by him, and its occupant was praised with good. Umar said, 'It has become due.' Then another passed by, and its occupant was praised with good, and he said, 'It has become due.' Then another passed by, and it was spoken ill of, and Umar said, 'It has become due.' Abu al-Aswad said: I said to him, 'O Commander of the Faithful, what has become due?' He said, 'I said as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Any Muslim for whom four people testify to good, Allah will surely admit him to Paradise.' We said, 'And three?' He said, 'And three.' We said, 'And two?' He said, 'And two.' He said: And we did not ask him about one.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه عبد الله بن بريدة واختلف عنه فرواه داود بن أبي الفرات وهو ثقة عن ابن بريدة واختلف عن داود فقال يعقوب الحضرمي عنه عن ابن بريدة عن يحيى بن يعمر عن أبي الأسود ووهم في ذكر يحيى بن يعمر في إسناده لكثرة من خالفه من الثقات الحفاظ عن داود منهم عفان بن مسلم وعبد الصمد بن عبد الوارث وزيد بن الحباب ويونس بن محمد المؤدب وأبو عبد الرحمن المقري وأبو الوليد الطيالسي وشيبان بن فروخ وغيرهم فإنهم رووه عن داود عن ابن بريدة عن أبي الأسود لم يذكروا بينهما أحدا وكذلك رواه سعيد بن رزين عن عبد الله بن بريدة عن أبي الأسود كرواية الجماعة عن داود ورواه عمر بن الوليد الشني عن عبد الله بن بريدة مرسلا عن عمر لم يذكر بينهما أحدا والمحفوظ من ذلك ما رواه عفان ومن تابعه عن داود بن أبي الفرات

  machine translationʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Dāwūd b. Abī al-Furāt, who is trustworthy (thiqah), narrated it from Ibn Buraydah, and there is disagreement about Dāwūd as well. Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī said, from him, from Ibn Buraydah, from Yaḥyā b. Yaʿmar, from Abū al-Aswad. He erred in mentioning Yaḥyā b. Yaʿmar in its chain, because of the many trustworthy memorizers (ḥuffāẓ) who contradicted him from Dāwūd, among them ʿAffān b. Muslim, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. ʿAbd al-Wārith, Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb, Yūnus b. Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, Shaybān b. Farrūkh and others. They narrated it from Dāwūd, from Ibn Buraydah, from Abū al-Aswad, without mentioning anyone between the two. Likewise Saʿīd b. Razīn narrated it from ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah, from Abū al-Aswad, like the narration of the group from Dāwūd. ʿUmar b. al-Walīd al-Shannī narrated it from ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah as a mursal report from ʿUmar, without mentioning anyone between them. The preserved (maḥfūẓ) version of this is what ʿAffān and those who followed him narrated from Dāwūd b. Abī al-Furāt. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 318

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2642Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1058

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   قال
2. 2
   Abū al-Aswad al-Duʾalī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 69 AH
   أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ الدِّيلِيِّثقة فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Dāwūd b. Abī al-Furāt

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 167 AH
   دَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي الْفُرَاتِثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   وَعَفَّانُ [الْمَعْنَى] [١]ثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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