Musnad Ahmad 6698

Translation

✧ The testimony of a treacherous man or a treacherous woman is not acceptable. He rejected the testimony of a dependent of a household and accepted it for others.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  لا يصح من هذا شيء عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationNone of this is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) from the Prophet ﷺ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 6773
• al-Bukhari

  وسليمان هذا هو المذكور في الطريق الأول أيضا وهو أموي مولاهم دمشقي الأشدق قال خ عنده مناكير وقال النسائي ليس بالقوي

  machine translationThis Sulaymān is the one mentioned in the first chain as well. He is an Umayyad by clientage (mawlā), from Damascus, known as al-Ashdaq. Al-Bukhārī said: "He has objectionable reports (manākīr)." Al-Nasāʾī said: "He is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī)." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 6773

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3601

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
   his father

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his hearing from his grandfather is established (thābit)d. between 81 and 90 AH
   أَبِيهِصدوق ، ثبت سماعه من جده
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 118 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   Sulaymān b. Mūsá al-Ashdaq

   truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, there is some softness in his hadith, and his mind became confused shortly before his deathd. 115 AH, or 119 AH
   سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَىصدوق , فقيه , في حديثه بعض لين , وخولط قبل موته بقليل
   عن
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Rāshid

   Truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, and accused of Qadarismd. after 160 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍصدوق يهم ورمي بالقدر
   عن
6. 6
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُثقة متقن عابد .
   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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