Musnad Ahmad 43
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنِي وَحْشِيُّ بْنُ حَرْبِ بْنِ وَحْشِيِّ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ وَحْشِيِّ بْنِ حَرْبٍأَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ عَقَدَ لِخَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَلَى قِتَالِ أَهْلِ الرِّدَّةِ وَقَالَ إِنِّي
أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ عَقَدَ لِخَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَلَى قِتَالِ أَهْلِ الرِّدَّةِ وَقَالَ: إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: نِعْمَ عَبْدُ اللهِ وَأَخُو الْعَشِيرَةِ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، وَسَيْفٌ مِنْ سُيُوفِ اللهِ سَلَّهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَى الْكُفَّارِ وَالْمُنَافِقِينَ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. ʿAyyāsh
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- And Ḥshī b. Ḥarb b. Waḥshī b. Ḥarb
- his father
- Jaddih Waḥshī b. Ḥarbʾan Abū Bakr ʿAqad Likhālid b. al-Walīd
- Qitāl Ahl al-Riddah
- Innī
✧ Abu Bakr appointed Khalid b. al-Walid to fight the people of apostasy and said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: What an excellent servant of Allah and brother of the clan is Khalid b. al-Walid, a sword among the swords of Allah which Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has drawn against the disbelievers and the hypocrites.'
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound Due to External Factors | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Sahih because of corroborating evidence, this is a Da'if isnad | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رجالهما ثقات
machine translationTheir narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in مسند أحمد, p. 43
Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمعن
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. lived until ʿUthmān's caliphateوَحْشِيِّ بْنِ حَرْبٍصحابيعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِيهِمقبولعن
- unknown in condition (mastūr)وَحْشِيُّ بْنُ حَرْبِ بْنِ وَحْشِيِّ بْنِ حَرْبٍمستورحدثنى
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 210 AH, or: 218 AH, or: 219 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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.