Musnad Ahmad 3612

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ was asked: “Which sin is greatest?” He said: “That you set up a rival to God while He created you.” He said: “Then which?” He said: “That you kill your child for fear that he will eat with you.” He said: “Then which?” He said: “That you commit adultery with your neighbor's wife.” Abdullah said: “Then God sent down confirming that: ‘And those who do not invoke another god besides God, nor kill the soul which God has forbidden except by right, nor commit adultery; and whoever does that will meet punishment.’”

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• Dāraquṭnī

  سئل عن حديث عمرو بن شرحبيل عن عبد الله قال رجل يا رسول الله أي الذنب أعظم الحديث فقال يرويه منصور عن أبي وائل عن أبي ميسرة عن عبد الله ورواه الأعمش واختلف عنه فرواه الثوري ومعمر وجرير وعبد الله بن نمير عن الأعمش عن أبي وائل عن عمرو بن شرحبيل عن عبد الله وخالفهم أبو شهاب الحناط وأبو معاوية الضرير وشيبان بن عبد الرحمن فرووه عن الأعمش عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله وكذلك رواه واصل الأحدب واختلف عنه فرواه الثوري وشعبة ومهدي بن ميمون عن واصل عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله ورواه عبد الرحمن بن مهدي عن الثوري عن واصل عن أبي وائل عن عمرو بن شرحبيل عن عبد الله ووهم على الثوري ورواه الحسن بن عبيد الله النخعي عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله والصحيح حديث عمرو بن شرحبيل

  machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl, from ʿAbdullāh, who said: A man said, "O Messenger of Allah, which sin is greatest?" – the hadith. He said: Manṣūr narrates it from Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Maysarah, from ʿAbdullāh. And al-Aʿmash narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Al-Thawrī, Maʿmar, Jarīr and ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl, from ʿAbdullāh. But Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr and Shaybān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān contradicted them, and narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. Likewise Wāṣil al-Aḥdab narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Al-Thawrī, Shuʿbah and Mahdī b. Maymūn narrated it from Wāṣil, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. But ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī narrated it from al-Thawrī, from Wāṣil, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl, from ʿAbdullāh, and he erred (wahima) regarding al-Thawrī. Al-Ḥasan b. ʿUbaydillāh al-Nakhaʿī narrated it from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. The correct (ṣaḥīḥ) one is the hadith of ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3663

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4014

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
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   شَقِيقٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   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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