Musnad Ahmad 4121
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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
أَلَا إِنِّي أَبْرَأُ إِلَى كُلِّ خَلِيلٍ مِنْ خِلِّهِ، وَلَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا خَلِيلًا لَاتَّخَذْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ، إِنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ خَلِيلُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Wakīʿ
- al-Aʿmash
- ʿAbdullāh b. Murrah
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Indeed, I declare myself free to every friend from his friendship, and if I were to take a bosom friend, I would have taken Abū Bakr. Indeed, your companion is the bosom friend of Allah, Mighty and Glorious.
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What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
الصحيح حديث الأعمش عن عبد الله بن مرة
machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) report is the hadith of al-Aʿmash from ʿAbdullāh b. Murrah.
in مسند أحمد, p. 4183
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَثقةعن
- 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 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد 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.