Musnad Ahmad 4402

Translation

✧ There was never a prophet but that he had among his companions a close disciple and companions who followed his example and took guidance from his way. Then after that come successors and rulers who say what they do not do, and do what they are not commanded.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 50a

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
   أخبرني
2. 2
   Abū Rāfiʿ al-Qibṭī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. A short time before ʿUthmān or after him, or during the caliphate of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
   أَبِي رَافِعٍصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Miswar b. Makhramah

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. 89 AH, or 90 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْمِسْوَرِ بْنِ مَخْرَمَةَمقبول
   عن
4. 4
   Abī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 AH and 120 AH
   جَعْفَرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Al-Ḥārith b. Fuḍayl

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   الْحَارِثُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar

   there is no harm in him (laysa bihi baʾs)d. 170 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ ( يَعْنِي الْمُخَرِّمِيَّليس به بأس
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Saʿīd

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 197 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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