Musnad Ahmad 3940

Translation

✧ When you are told a hadith from the Messenger of God ﷺ, think of the Messenger of God ﷺ in the way that is most worthy, most guiding, and most God-fearing.

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
   قال
2. 2
   ʿAwn b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 110 and 120 AH
   عَوْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة عابد
   حدثني
3. 3
   Ibn ʿAjlān

   truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AH
   ابْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرة
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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.