Musnad Ahmad 661

Translation

✧ O 'Ali, if you are given authority over this matter after me, then expel the people of Najran from the Arabian Peninsula.

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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

  وفيه قيس غير منسوب والظاهر أنه قيس بن الربيع وهو ضعيف وقد وثقه شعبة والثوري وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 665

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Ẓibyān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 89 AH, or 90 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 or thereabouts
   أَبِي ظِبْيَانَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAdī b. Thābit al-Ẓafarī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Shīʿismd. 115 AH, or 116 AH
   عَدِيِّ بْنِ ثَابِتٍثقة رمي بالتشيع
   عن
4. 4
   Ashʿath b. Sawwār

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 136 AH, or 140 AH, or 143 AH
   الْأَشْعَثِ بْنِ سَوَّارٍضعيف
   عن
5. 5
   Qays b. al-Rabīʿ al-Asadī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), changed when he grew old, his son inserted into his [material] what was not of his hadith, and he narrated itd. 165 AH, or: 166 AH, or: 167 AH, or: 168 AH
   قَيْسٌصدوق تغير لما كبر ، وأدخل عليه ابنه ما ليس من حديثه فحدث به
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Khalaf

   the jurist of the people of opinion (ahl al-raʾy), deemed weak by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and accused of Irjāʾd. 205 AH, or 215 AH, or 220 AH
   خَلَفٌفقيه أهل الرأي ، ضعفه يحيى بن معين ، ورمي بالإرجاء
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.