Musnad Ahmad 5882

Translation

✧ People are like a hundred camels: you can hardly find among them one fit for riding—or: when do you find among them one fit for riding?

Notes

• قَالَ وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا نَعْلَمُ شَيْئًا خَيْرًا مِنْ مِائَةٍ مِثْلِهِ إِلَّا الرَّجُلَ الْمُؤْمِنَ

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What scholars said about it

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

  مداره على أسامة بن زيد بن أسلم وهو ضعيف جدا

  in مسند أحمد, p. 5954

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
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 127 AH, or 131 AH, or 136 AH, also said: 132 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Dībāj, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 145 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   Usāmah b. Zayd

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 153 AH
   أُسَامَةُصدوق يهم
   حدثني
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
   ابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Hārūn b. Maʿrūf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AH, or: 243 AH
   هَارُونُثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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