Musnad Ahmad 4045

Translation

✧ When one of you bows, let him spread his forearms on his thighs, for it is as if I am looking at the interlocking of Allah's Messenger's ﷺ fingers during prayer.

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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
   فقال
2. 2
   al-Aswad b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī

   Mukhaḍram (lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), trustworthy (thiqah), prolific narrator (mukthir), jurist (faqīh)d. 74 AH, or 75 AH
   الْأَسْوَدِمخضرم ، ثقة ، مكثر ، فقيه
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibn Numayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
   ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنة
   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.