Musnad Ahmad 3837

Translation

✧ I went out at dawn to water a horse of mine and passed by the mosque of Banu Hanifa while they were saying: 'Musaylima is the Messenger of Allah.' I came to Abdullah and told him. He sent the police, and they brought them. He asked them to repent, and they repented, so he released them. But he struck the neck of Abdullah b. al-Nawwaha. They said: 'You took a people for one matter, yet you killed some and left others?' He said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when this man and Ibn Uthal b. Hajar came to him. He said: "Do you both testify that I am the Messenger of Allah?" They said: "We testify that Musaylima is the Messenger of Allah." The Prophet ﷺ said: "I believe in Allah and His messengers. Were I to kill a delegation, I would kill you two." So for that reason I killed him.'

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  وابن معيز لم أعرفه وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3895
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه عاصم بن أبي النجود واختلف عنه فرواه الثوري والمسعودي وسلام أبو المنذر عن عاصم عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله وخالفهم أبو بكر بن عياش فرواه عن عاصم عن أبي وائل عن أبي معير السعدي عن ابن مسعود وحدث بهذا الخبر هيثم الدوري عن شيخ له عن أبي عاصم عن الثوري عن الأعمش عن أبي وائل وذلك وهم والصواب عن الثوري عن عاصم

  machine translationʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Al-Thawrī, al-Masʿūdī and Sallām Abū al-Mundhir narrated it from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh differed from them, and narrated it from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Muʿayr al-Saʿdī, from Ibn Masʿūd. Haytham al-Dūrī related this report from a shaykh of his, from Abū ʿĀṣim, from al-Thawrī, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, and that is an error (wahm); the correct version is from al-Thawrī, from ʿĀṣim. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 3895

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
   قال
2. 2
   Ibn Muʿayz al-Saʿdī
   ابْنِ مُعَيْزٍ السَّعْدِيِّ
   عن
3. 3
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   أَبِي وَائِلٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمٌصدوق له أوهام
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Sulaymān b. Dāwūd al-Hāshimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْهَاشِمِيُّثقة , جليل
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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