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Musnad Ahmad 6748

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حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ حَرْمَلَةَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ

الرَّاكِبُ شَيْطَانٌ، وَالرَّاكِبَانِ شَيْطَانَانِ، وَالثَّلَاثَةُ رَكْبٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad
  2. Muslim / Ibn Khālid
  3. ʿAbd al-Raḥman / Ibn Ḥarmalah
  4. ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb
  5. his father
  6. his father
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

✧ A lone rider is a devil, two riders are two devils, and three are a riding party.

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    كان مجاهد ينكر هذا الحديث مرفوعا ويجعله قول عمر ولا وجه لقول مجاهد لأن الثقات رووه مرفوعا

    in مسند أحمد, p. 6823

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Riyadhus Shalihin 959“الراكب شيطان والراكبان شيطانان والثلاثة ركب"

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1674

Narrators

  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. 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. ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 118 AH
    عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍصدوق
    عن
  4. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥarmalah
    truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 145 AH, also said: 144 AH
    عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ، يَعْنِي ابْنَ حَرْمَلَةَصدوق ربما أخطأ
    عن
  5. Muslim b. Khālid
    jurist, truthful (ṣadūq), with many errorsd. Ibn Saʿd said: 180 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 179 AH
    مُسْلِمٌ ، يَعْنِي ابْنَ خَالِدٍفقيه ، صدوق كثير الأوهام
    حدثنا
  6. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213, or a year or two after it
    حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة
    حدثنا
  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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