Musnad Ahmad 412

Translation

✧ The best of you is one who teaches the Quran or learns it.

Notes

• قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ وَحَجَّاجٌ قال فَقَالَ أَبُوعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَذَاكَ الَّذِي أَقْعَدَنِي هَذَا الْمَقْعَدَقَالَ حَجَّاجٌ قَالَ شُعْبَةُ وَلَمْ يَسْمَعْ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ عُثْمَانَ وَلَا مِنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ وَلَكِنْ قَدْ سَمِعَ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ أَبِي وَقَالَ بَهْزٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ قَالَ عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ أَخْبَرَنِي وَقَالَ خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ

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• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  قال شعبة ولم يسمع أبو عبد الرحمن من عثمان ولا من عبد الله

  in مسند أحمد, p. 413

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2908

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

   One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥabīb al-Sulamī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 74 AH, Ibn Ḥajar reported his death from Ibn Qāniʿ in the year 85 AH, also said: 70 AH, also said: 72 AH, also said: 73 AH, also said 92 AH, ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Qāniʿ said, as al-Dhahabī reported from him: 105 AH, and he said: it is an error, not to be followed
   أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Saʿd b. ʿUbaydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of ʿUmar b. Hubayrah over Iraq, between 101 AH and 110 AH
   سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَثقة
   يحدث عن
4. 4
   ʿAlqamah b. Marthad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَ بْنَ مَرْثَدٍثقة
   سمعت
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   وَحَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   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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