Musnad Ahmad 3943

Translation

✧ A black slave caught up with the Prophet ﷺ and died. He was brought to the Prophet ﷺ, who said: 'Look, did he leave anything?' They said: 'He left two dinars.' He said: 'Two brands.'

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  لعل الحديث صحيح عن شقيق وعن زر جميعا

  machine translationPerhaps the hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) from both Shaqīq and Zirr together. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 4003

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
   عن
2. 2
   Zirr b. Ḥubaysh al-Thaʿlabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH
   زِرٍّثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمٌصدوق له أوهام
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Zāʾidah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AH
   زَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Saʿīd

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 197 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ مَوْلَى بَنِي هَاشِمٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
   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.