Musnad Ahmad 3896

Translation

✧ Lying is not appropriate, whether in seriousness or in jest. And ‘Affān said once: in seriousness. And a man should not promise a child and then not fulfill it for him. He said: And Muhammad ﷺ told us: A man continues to be truthful until he is recorded with Allah as a truthful one (ṣiddīq), and a man continues to lie until he is recorded with Allah as a liar.

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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
   ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
   أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
   أنبأنا
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
   أَبُو إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   قال
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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.