Musnad Ahmad 4698

Translation

✧ When the Jews greet you, they say, 'Al-samu 'alayka (death be upon you),' so respond with, 'Wa 'alayka (and upon you).'

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What scholars said about it

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• Qurṭubī

  رواية حذف الواو أحسن معنى وإثباتها أصح رواية وأشهر

  machine translationThe narration that omits the conjunction "wāw" is better in meaning, while the narration that includes it is sounder (ṣaḥīḥ) in transmission and more well-known. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 4763

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 127 AH, or 131 AH, or 136 AH, also said: 132 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ دِينَارٍثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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

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