Musnad Ahmad 4000

Translation

✧ We talked one night in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until we stayed up late.

Notes

• الْحَدِيثَ فَذَكَرَهُ

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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
   عن
2. 2
   ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUbayd b. Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī

   embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AH
   عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلا
   عن
3. 3
   al-ʿAlāʾ b. Ziyād b. Maṭar

   One of the devout worshippers, trustworthy (thiqah)d. 94 AH
   وَالْعَلَاءِ بْنِ زِيَادٍأحد العباد ثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدٌثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Bakr

   Truthful (ṣadūq), may errd. 204 AH, also said 203 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍصدوق قد يخطئ
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.