Musnad Ahmad 6877

Translation

✧ I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, "O Messenger of Allah, command me to fast." He said, "Fast one day, and you will have the reward of nine." He said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, I find strength, so increase for me." He said, "Fast two days, and you will have the reward of eight days." He said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, I find strength, so increase for me." He said, "Then fast three days, and you will have the reward of seven days." He said: And he continued to reduce it for me until he said, "The best fast is the fast of my brother Dawud, or the Prophet of Allah Dawud" — al-Jurayri was uncertain — "fast one day and break the fast one day." Abdullah said when he became weak: "Would that I had been content with what the Prophet ﷺ commanded me."

Grades by grader

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 2413

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
   Muṭarrif b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhkhīr al-Ḥarashī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AH
   مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة عابد فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhkhīr al-ʿĀmirī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 108 AH, or: 111 AH or before it.
   أَبِي الْعَلَاءِثقة .
   عن
4. 4
   al-Jurayrī

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) three years before his deathd. 144 AH
   الْجُرَيْرِيُّثقة ، اختلط قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   أخبرني
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAṭāʾ

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. 204 AH, also said: 206 AH
   عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَطَاءٍصدوق ، ربما أخطأ
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.