Musnad Ahmad 4261

Translation

✧ The hands are three: the Hand of Allah is the highest, the hand of the giver is next to it, and the hand of the beggar is the lowest.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  ورجاله موثقون

  machine translationIts narrators are deemed trustworthy (muwathhaqūn). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 4327

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
   ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
   أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Hajarī

   Weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth); he raised statements that were only the Companions' (mawqūfāt) to the Prophet ﷺd. between 141 and 150 AH
   الْهَجَرِيُّلين الحديث ، رفع موقوفات
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Al-Qāsim b. Mālik

   truthful (ṣadūq), with some softness (layyin)d. after 190 AH
   الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصدوق فيه لين
   حدثكم
5. 5
   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
   أَبِيثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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

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