Musnad Ahmad 3859

Translation

✧ We were sitting with 'Abdullah in the mosque while he was teaching us to recite. A man came to him and said: "O Ibn Mas'ud, did your Prophet tell you how many caliphs there would be after him?" He said: "Yes, like the number of the chiefs of the Children of Israel."

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  سند حسن

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 3917

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
   Masrūq b. al-Ajdaʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AH
   مَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرم
   عن
3. 3
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   Mujālid

   Not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life.d. 144 AH, also said: 143 AH
   مُجَالِدٌليس بالقوي ، وقد تغير في آخر عمره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū ʿAqīl

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 171 and 180 AH
   أَبُو عَقِيلٍصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   أَبُو النَّضْرِثقة ثبت
   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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