Musnad Ahmad 4364

Translation

✧ I heard a man recite a verse that I had heard from the Prophet ﷺ differently, so I took him and brought him to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: I recognized displeasure in the face of the Prophet ﷺ. He said: 'Both of you are right. Do not differ, for the greatest of my knowledge is that...'

Notes

• قَالَ مِسْعَرٌ قَدْ ذَكَرَ فِيهِ لَا تَخْتَلِفُوا إِنَّ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمُ اخْتَلَفُوا فَأَهْلَكَهُمْ

Grades by grader

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
   يحدث عن
2. 2
   Al-Nazzāl b. Sabrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 71 and 80 AH
   النَّزَّالَ بْنَ سَبْرَةَ الْهِلَالِيَّثقة
   سمعت
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik b. Maysarah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the time of Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh al-Qasrī
   عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   هَاشِمٌثقة ثبت
   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

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.