Musnad Ahmad 441

Translation

✧ He saw Uthman b. Affan sit at the second door of the mosque of the Messenger of God ﷺ. He called for a shoulder bone, gnawed the meat off it, then stood and prayed without performing ablution. Then he said: "I sat in the sitting place of the Prophet ﷺ, and I ate what the Prophet ﷺ ate, and I did what the Prophet ﷺ did."

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

  ورجال أحمد ثقات

  machine translationThe narrators of Aḥmad are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 442

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

   One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرة
   أنه رأى
2. 2
   His uncle
   عمه
   أخبره
3. 3
   A shaykh from Thaqīf
   شيخ من ثقيف
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥumayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.
   حُمَيْدٌ الطَّوِيلُثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Bakr

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 207 AH, or 208 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بَكْرٍثقة حافظ
   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

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

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