Musnad Ahmad 3908

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 and brought him to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: “Both of you have done well.” He said: And he became angry until anger was recognized on his face. Shu‘bah said: My strongest thought is that he said: “Do not differ, for those before you differed concerning it and were destroyed.”

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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
   يحدث عن
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
   حدثني
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

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

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 197 AH, ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-ʿAmmī said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: before 198 AH, others said: after 200 AH
   بَهْزٌثقة 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

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.