Musnad Ahmad 3251

Translation

✧ Some of them, when morning came, kept watch over him [the Prophet] securely, desiring to kill him. And some of them said, "Rather, let us drive him out [of the city]." And Allah conveyed to His Prophet [knowledge of] their plan. So Ali, that night, slept on the Prophet's bed, while the Prophet left and hurried to the cave. The polytheists were guarding Ali, assuming he was the Prophet. When they realized their mistake in the morning, they raced towards him. But when they saw Ali, Allah deceived them with his likeness, and they said, "Where is your companion?" He said, "I do not know, so solve the problem for yourselves." When they reached the mountain, it crumbled upon them, and they ascended into it. They passed by the cave, and they saw the spider's web at its entrance. They said, "If someone had entered here, the spider's web would not be on its door. So he must have stayed in it for three nights."

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  إسناد حسن

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 3294

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5934وَعَن ابْن عبَّاس قَالَ تَشَاوَرَتْ قُرَيْشٌ لَيْلَةً بِمَكَّةَ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِذَا أَصْبَحَ فَأَثْبِتُوهُ بِالْوِثَاقِ يُرِيدُونَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَلِ اقْتُلُوهُ وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَلْ أَخْرِج

Narrators

1. 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
   أخبره
2. 2
   Miqsam b. Bajrah

   truthful (ṣadūq), and he used to narrate with omission of the intermediary (yursil)d. 101 AH
   مِقْسَمًا مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍصدوق ، وكان يرسل
   أن
3. 3
   ʿUthmān al-Jazarī
   عُثْمَانُ الْجَزَرِيُّ
   أخبرني
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   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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