Musnad Ahmad 6960

Translation

✧ Whoever kills a sparrow without right, Allah Mighty and Majestic will ask him about it on the Day of Resurrection.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  وأعله ابن القطان بصهيب مولى ابن عامر الراوي عن عبد الله فقال لا يعرف حاله

  machine translationIbn al-Qaṭṭān declared it defective (muʿall) because of Ṣuhayb, the freed slave (mawlā) of Ibn ʿĀmir, who narrates from ʿAbdullāh, saying: his condition is not known. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 7039

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4349

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
   Ṣuhayb al-Ḥadhdhāʾ

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   صُهَيْبًا ، مَوْلَى عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَامِرٍمقبول
   سمعت
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Dīnār al-Athram

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Rawḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AH
   رَوْحٌثقة فاضل ، له تصانيف
   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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