Musnad Ahmad 3993

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ زِرٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

فَغَضِبَ وَتَمَعَّرَ وَجْهُهُ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمُ الِاخْتِلَافُ.

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✧ He became angry, and his face turned red, and he said: 'Those before you were destroyed only by disagreement.'

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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
Zirr b. Ḥubaysh al-Thaʿlabī
trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH
زِرٍّثقة جليل
عن
ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah
Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AH
عَاصِمٍصدوق له أوهام
عن
Wuhayb
memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AH
أَبُو بَكْرٍالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخره
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Yaḥyá b. Ādam
trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 203 AH
يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَثقة حافظ فاضل
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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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