Musnad Ahmad 3907

Translation

✧ I heard a man reciting a verse differently from how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had taught me to recite it, so I took him by the hand until I brought him to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: “Both of you are doing well. Do not differ.” This is the extent of my knowledge, otherwise it is Mis’ar.

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
   سمعت
2. 2
   Al-Nazzāl b. Sabrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 71 and 80 AH
   النَّزَّالَ بْنَ سَبْرَةَثقة
   سمعت
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik b. Maysarah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the time of Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh al-Qasrī
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مَيْسَرَةَثقة
   أخبرني
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.