Musnad Ahmad 3598

Translation

✧ I was shepherding sheep belonging to 'Uqbah b. Abi Mu'ayt. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Abu Bakr passed by me, and he said: 'O boy, is there any milk?' I said: 'Yes, but I am entrusted.' He said: 'Is there a ewe that no male has mounted?' So I brought him a ewe. He wiped its udder, and milk descended. He milked it into a vessel, drank, and gave Abu Bakr to drink. Then he said to the udder: 'Shrink,' and it shrank. Then I came to him after this and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, teach me some of this speech.' He wiped my head and said: 'May Allah have mercy on you, for you are a learned boy.'

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Zirr b. Ḥubaysh al-Thaʿlabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH
   زِرٍّثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمٌصدوق له أوهام
   حدثني
4. 4
   Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيح
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.