Musnad Ahmad 3685

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ went out to relieve himself and said to me: "Find me three stones." I brought him two stones and a piece of dung. He took the two stones and threw away the dung, saying: "It is filth."

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  أحسنها سياقا الطريق الأولى التي أخرجها البخاري ولكن في النفس منها شيء لكثرة الاختلاف فيه على أبي إسحاق

  machine translationThe best of them in wording is the first route, which al-Bukhārī transmitted, but there is something in the heart about it because of the great disagreement about it from Abū Isḥāq. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3741
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  رجح رواية إسرائيل

  machine translationHe gave preference to the narration of Isrāʾīl. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3741
• أبو زرعة الرازي

  رجح رواية إسرائيل

  machine translationHe gave preference to the narration of Isrāʾīl. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3741
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  الذي يظهر أن الذي رجحه البخاري هو الأرجح وبيان ذلك أن مجموع كلام الأئمة مشعر بأن الراجح على الروايات كلها إما طريق إسرائيل وهي عن أبي عبيدة عن أبيه وأبو عبيدة لم يسمع من أبيه فيكون الإسناد منقطعا أو رواية زهير وهي عن عبد الرحمن بن الأسود عن أبيه عن ابن مسعود فيكون متصلا وهو تصرف صحيح لأن الأسانيد فيه إلى زهير وإلى إسرائيل أثبت من بقية الأسانيد وإذا تقرر ذلك كانت دعوى الاضطراب في هذا الحديث منتفية لأن الاختلاف على الحفاظ في الحديث لا يوجب أن يكون مضطربا إلا بشرطين

  machine translationWhat appears is that the narration al-Bukhārī preferred is the most preferable, and the explanation is that the sum of the imams' statements indicates that what is preferable over all the narrations is either the route of Isrāʾīl, which is from Abū ʿUbaydah from his father, and Abū ʿUbaydah did not hear from his father, so the chain would be broken (munqaṭiʿ); or the narration of Zuhayr, which is from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Aswad from his father from Ibn Masʿūd, so it would be connected (muttaṣil). This is a sound judgement, because the chains to Zuhayr and to Isrāʾīl are more reliable than the rest of the chains. Once that is established, the claim of inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in this hadith is negated, because disagreement among the memorizers about a hadith does not make it inconsistent except under two conditions. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3741

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
   Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 81 AH, also said: 82 AH, and al-Dhahabī was certain of it
   أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   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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