Musnad Ahmad 39
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حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ وَحَدَّثَنِي حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
لَمَّا أَرَادُوا أَنْ يَحْفِرُوا لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَكَانَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ يَضْرَحُ كَحَفْرِ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ، وَكَانَ أَبُو طَلْحَةَ زَيْدُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ يَحْفِرُ لِأَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ، [وَكَانَ] يَلْحَدُ، فَدَعَا الْعَبَّاسُ رَجُلَيْنِ فَقَالَ لِأَحَدِهِمَا: اذْهَبْ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، وَلِلْآخَرِ: اذْهَبْ إِلَى أَبِي طَلْحَةَ، اللَّهُمَّ خِرْ لِرَسُولِكَ، قَالَ: فَوَجَدَ صَاحِبُ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ أَبَا طَلْحَةَ فَجَاءَ بِهِ فَلَحَدَ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm
- my father
- Ibn Isḥāq
- Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh
- ʿIkrimah a freed slave of Ibn ʿAbbāsʿan Ibn ʿAbbās
When they wanted to dig a grave for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abu 'Ubaidah bin al-Jarrah used to dig graves in the manner of the people of Makkah and Abu Talhah Zaid bin Sahl used to dig graves for the people of Madinah, and he would make a niche in the side of the grave. Al-'Abbas called two men and said to one of them, Go to Abu ‘Ubaidah; and to the other he said, Go to Abu Talhah. O Allah, choose for Your Messenger. The one who had been sent to Abu Talhah found him, so he came and dug a grave with a niche in its side for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound | hadithunlocked |
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| Darussalam | Sahih bishawahidihi | sunnah.com |
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
في إسناده ضعف
machine translationThere is weakness (ḍaʿf) in its chain of transmission.
in مسند أحمد, p. 39
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَ ، ( مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ )ثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 140 AH, or 141 AHحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِضعيفحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHابْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AHأَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادححدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AHيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة فاضل .حدثنا
- 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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