Musnad Ahmad 4400
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حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حُدَيْجًا أَخَا زُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ
بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ وَنَحْنُ نَحْوٌ مِنْ ثَمَانِينَ رَجُلًا فِيهِمْ: عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ، وَجَعْفَرٌ، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُرْفُطَةَ، وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ مَظْعُونٍ، وَأَبُو مُوسَى، فَأَتَوُا النَّجَاشِيَّ وَبَعَثَتْ قُرَيْشٌ عَمْرَو بْنَ الْعَاصِ، وَعُمَارَةَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ بِهَدِيَّةٍ. فَلَمَّا دَخَلَا عَلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ سَجَدَا لَهُ، ثُمَّ ابْتَدَرَاهُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَا لَهُ: إِنَّ نَفَرًا مِنْ بَنِي عَمِّنَا نَزَلُوا أَرْضَكَ وَرَغِبُوا عَنَّا وَعَنْ مِلَّتِنَا. قَالَ: فَأَيْنَ هُمْ؟ قَالَ: هُمْ فِي أَرْضِكَ، فَابْعَثْ إِلَيْهِمْ. فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ، فَقَالَ جَعْفَرٌ: أَنَا خَطِيبُكُمُ الْيَوْمَ. فَاتَّبَعُوهُ. فَسَلَّمَ وَلَمْ يَسْجُدْ. فَقَالُوا لَهُ: مَا لَكَ لَا تَسْجُدُ لِلْمَلِكِ؟ قَالَ: إِنَّا لَا نَسْجُدُ إِلَّا لِلهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَالَ: وَمَا ذَاكَ؟ قَالَ: إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بَعَثَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولَهُ ﷺ وَأَمَرَنَا أَنْ لَا نَسْجُدَ لِأَحَدٍ إِلَّا لِلهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَأَمَرَنَا بِالصَّلَاةِ وَالزَّكَاةِ. قَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ: فَإِنَّهُمْ يُخَالِفُونَكَ فِي عِيسَى بْنِ مَرْيَمَ قَالَ: مَا تَقُولُونَ فِي عِيسَى بْنِ مَرْيَمَ وَأُمِّهِ؟ قَالُوا: نَقُولُ كَمَا قَالَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: هُوَ كَلِمَةُ اللهِ وَرُوحُهُ أَلْقَاهَا إِلَى الْعَذْرَاءِ الْبَتُولِ الَّتِي لَمْ يَمَسَّهَا بَشَرٌ، وَلَمْ يَفْتَرِضْهَا وَلَدٌ. قَالَ: فَرَفَعَ عُودًا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ الْحَبَشَةِ وَالْقِسِّيسِينَ وَالرُّهْبَانِ، وَاللهِ مَا يَزِيدُونَ عَلَى الَّذِي نَقُولُ فِيهِ مَا يَسْوَى هَذَا. مَرْحَبًا بِكُمْ وَبِمَنْ جِئْتُمْ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ، أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ؛ فَإِنَّهُ الَّذِي نَجِدُ فِي الْإِنْجِيلِ، وَإِنَّهُ الرَّسُولُ الَّذِي بَشَّرَ بِهِ عِيسَى بْنُ مَرْيَمَ. انْزِلُوا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ. وَاللهِ لَوْلَا مَا أَنَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْمُلْكِ لَأَتَيْتُهُ حَتَّى أَكُونَ أَنَا أَحْمِلُ نَعْلَيْهِ وَأُوَضِّئُهُ، وَأَمَرَ بِهَدِيَّةِ الْآخَرِينَ فَرُدَّتْ إِلَيْهِمَا، ثُمَّ تَعَجَّلَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ حَتَّى أَدْرَكَ بَدْرًا، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ اسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُ حِينَ بَلَغَهُ مَوْتُهُ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥasan b. Mūsá
- Ḥudayj Akhā Zuhayr b. Muʿāwiyah
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah
- Ibn Masʿūd
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent us to the Negus, and we were about eighty men, among them: Abdullah b. Mas'ud, Ja'far, Abdullah b. 'Urfutah, 'Uthman b. Maz'un, and Abu Musa. They came to the Negus, and Quraysh sent 'Amr b. al-'As and 'Umarah b. al-Walid with a gift. When they entered upon the Negus, they prostrated to him, then they hurried to his right and left. Then they said to him: 'A group of our cousins have settled in your land and have turned away from us and from our religion.' He said: 'Where are they?' They said: 'They are in your land, so send for them.' So he sent for them. Ja'far said: 'I am your spokesman today.' So they followed him. He greeted with salam and did not prostrate. They said to him: 'What is wrong with you that you do not prostrate to the king?' He said: 'We prostrate only to Allah, Mighty and Majestic.' He said: 'And what is that?' He said: 'Allah, Mighty and Majestic, sent His Messenger ﷺ to us and commanded us not to prostrate to anyone except Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and commanded us to pray and give zakah.' 'Amr b. al-'As said: 'They disagree with you about 'Isa b. Maryam.' He said: 'What do you say about 'Isa b. Maryam and his mother?' They said: 'We say as Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: He is the Word of Allah and His Spirit, which He cast into the virgin, the pure, whom no human touched and no child beset.' He said: So he picked up a stick from the ground, then said: 'O assembly of Abyssinians, priests, and monks, by Allah, they do not add to what we say about him even the weight of this. Welcome to you and to the one from whom you have come. I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah; for he is the one we find in the Gospel, and he is the Messenger whom 'Isa b. Maryam gave glad tidings of. Stay wherever you wish. By Allah, were it not for the kingship I am in, I would go to him until I myself carry his sandals and perform his ablution.' And he ordered the gift of the other two to be returned to them. Then Abdullah b. Mas'ud hastened until he caught up with Badr. And he claimed that the Prophet ﷺ sought forgiveness for him when news of his death reached him.
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What scholars said about it
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- Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
إسناد حسن
machine translationIts chain of transmission (isnād) is good (ḥasan).
in مسند أحمد, p. 4466 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناد حسن
machine translationIts chain of transmission (isnād) is good (ḥasan).
in مسند أحمد, p. 4466 - Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه حديج بن معاوية وثقه أبو حاتم وقال في بعض حديثه ضعف وضعفه ابن معين وغيره وبقية رجاله ثقات
machine translationIn it is Ḥudayj b. Muʿāwiyah, whom Abū Ḥātim declared trustworthy (thiqah) and said, "In some of his hadith there is weakness (ḍaʿf)." Ibn Maʿīn and others declared him weak (ḍaʿīf). The rest of its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in مسند أحمد, p. 4466
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
- Deemed trustworthy by al-ʿIjlī and a groupd. 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 99 AH, which is a mistakeعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَوثقه العجلي وجماعةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 171 AHحُدَيْجًا ( أَخَا زُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَصدوق يخطئسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AHحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقةحدثنا
- 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.