Musnad Ahmad 3996

Translation

✧ While Ibn Masud was giving a sermon one day, a snake passed by walking on the wall, so he interrupted his sermon, struck it with his stick until he killed it, then said: 'I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: "Whoever kills a snake, it is as if he has killed an idolatrous man whose blood has become lawful."'

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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
   قال
2. 2
   ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
   أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ الْجُشَمِيِّثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Aʿyan al-ʿAbdī
   أَبِي الْأَعْيَنِ الْعَبْدِيِّ
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Zayd

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍمقبول
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Dāwūd b. Abī al-Furāt

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 167 AH
   دَاوُدُ يَعْنِي : ابْنَ أَبِي الْفُرَاتِثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Ṣamad

   truthful (ṣadūq), reliable (thabt) in the narrations of Shuʿbahd. Ibn Ḥibbān said 206 AH or 207 AH
   عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِصدوق , ثبت في شعبة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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