Musnad Ahmad 4714

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ used to pray on his mount, facing whatever direction it took him, from Makkah to Madinah, and about this the verse was revealed: 'So wherever you turn, there is the face of God.'

Notes

• [البقرة 115]

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 400Sahih Muslim 700aSahih Muslim 700bSahih Muslim 700gJami' at-Tirmidhi 2958

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
   أن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Jubayr al-Asadī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 145 AH or 147 AH
   عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِصدوق له أوهام
   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

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