Musnad Ahmad 3756
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حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجٌ أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ عَنِ الرُّكَيْنِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
الْخَيْلُ ثَلَاثَةٌ؛ فَفَرَسٌ لِلرَّحْمَنِ، وَفَرَسٌ لِلْإِنْسَانِ، وَفَرَسٌ لِلشَّيْطَانِ، فَأَمَّا فَرَسُ الرَّحْمَنِ فَالَّذِي يُرْبَطُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ فَعَلَفُهُ وَرَوْثُهُ وَبَوْلُهُ- وَذَكَرَ مَا شَاءَ اللهُ- وَأَمَّا فَرَسُ الشَّيْطَانِ فَالَّذِي يُقَامَرُ أَوْ يُرَاهَنُ عَلَيْهِ، وَأَمَّا فَرَسُ الْإِنْسَانِ فَالْفَرَسُ يَرْتَبِطُهَا الْإِنْسَانُ يَلْتَمِسُ بَطْنَهَا فَهِيَ تَسْتُرُ مِنْ فَقْرٍ.
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Chain of narrators
- Ḥajjāj
- Sharīk
- al-Rukayn b. al-Rabīʿ
- al-Qāsim b. Ḥassān
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ Horses are of three kinds: a horse for the Most Merciful, a horse for man, and a horse for Satan. The horse of the Most Merciful is the one that is tethered in the path of Allah, so its fodder, its dung, and its urine — and he mentioned what Allah willed — and as for the horse of Satan, it is the one upon which gambling or wagering is done. And as for the horse of man, it is the horse a man ties up seeking its belly (offspring), for it is a shield against poverty.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رجاله ثقات فإن كان القاسم بن حسان سمع من ابن مسعود فالحديث صحيح
in مسند أحمد, p. 3814 - Dāraquṭnī
يشبه أن يكون القول قول زائدة لأنه من الأثبات
machine translationIt seems that the statement of Zā'idah is the correct one, because he is among the reliable and firmly established narrators (al-athbāt).
in مسند أحمد, p. 3814
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ حَسَّانَمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AHالرُّكَيْنِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AHالْحَجَّاجُ ، [١]ثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موتهحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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