Musnad Ahmad 6612

Translation

✧ A man came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of God, permit me to castrate myself.' The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'The castration of my community is fasting and standing in prayer.'

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

  رجاله ثقات وفي بعضهم كلام

  in مسند أحمد, p. 6687

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ

   One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd al-Maʿāfirī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100 AH
   أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيِّثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥuyayy b. ʿAbdillāh

   truthful (ṣadūq), has lapses (wahm).d. 143 AH, or 148 AH.
   حُيَيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِصدوق يهم.
   حدثني
4. 4
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥasan

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AH
   حَسَنٌثقة
   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

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