Musnad Ahmad 40

Translation

I went out with Abu Bakr following 'Asr prayer a few days after the death of the Prophet ﷺ, and ‘Ali was walking beside him. He passed by al-Hasan bin ‘Ali who was playing with some boys. Abu Bakr carried him on his shoulder, saying: May my father be sacrificed for him, the one who looks like the Prophet ﷺ and does not look like 'Ali. He said: And ‘Ali smiled

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Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   ʿUqbah b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿĀmir al-Nawfalī

   Companion, embraced Islam at the Conquest of Meccad. after 50 AH
   عُقْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِصحابي من مسلمة الفتح
   أخبرني
3. 3
   Ibn Abī Mulaykah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 117 AH, also said: 118 AH, and al-Dhahabī stated it definitively
   ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَثقة فقيه
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUmar b. Saʿīd b. Abī Ḥusayn

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 151 AH
   عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Aḥmad

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), except that he may err in the narrations of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِثقة ثبت إلا أنه قد يخطئ في حديث الثوري
   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.