Musnad Ahmad 6940

Translation

✧ The testimony of a traitor is not valid, nor of one who has been flogged for a prescribed punishment in Islam, nor of one who bears malice against his brother.

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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. 7019

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
   Ḥajjāj

   Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AH
   الْحَجَّاجِ بْنِ أَرْطَاةَصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليس
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

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