Musnad Ahmad 3981

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ taught me to recite a sūrah of the thirty from the family of Ḥā Mīm—meaning al-Aḥqāf. When a sūrah was more than thirty verses, it was called “the thirty.” I went to the mosque, and there was a man reciting it differently from how he taught me. I said: “Who taught you?” He said: “The Messenger of God ﷺ.” I said to another: “Recite it,” and he recited it differently from my recitation and that of my companion. I took them both to the Prophet ﷺ and said: “O Messenger of God, these two disagree with me in recitation.” He became angry and his face changed, and he said: “Those before you were destroyed only by disagreement.” Zirr said: “There was a man with him, and the man said: ‘The Messenger of God ﷺ commands you that each of you recite as he was taught, for those before you were destroyed only by disagreement.’” ʿAbd Allāh said: “I do not know whether the Messenger of God ﷺ confided something to him or whether he knew what was in the Messenger of God’s ﷺ mind.” The man was ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib.

Notes

• صَلَوَاتُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رواه أحمد بإسنادين رجال أحدهما ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 4042

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
   زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيح
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyá b. Ādam

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 203 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَثقة حافظ فاضل
   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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