Musnad Ahmad 3803

Translation

✧ I heard a man reciting Ḥā Mīm, the thirty, meaning al-Aḥqāf, and he recited one reading. Another man recited a reading his companion had not recited, and I recited readings my two companions had not recited. We went to the Prophet ﷺ and told him. He said: "Do not differ, for those before you perished only by their differing." Then he said: "Look for the best reciter among you and follow his recitation."

Grades by grader

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
   أَبِي وَائِلٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمٍصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Hammām

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AH
   هَمَّامٍثقة ربما وهم
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.