Musnad Ahmad 7232

Translation

✧ I was commanded to go to a town that devours other towns. They call it Yathrib, but it is al-Madinah. It expels people as the bellows expel the dross of iron.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1382aMuwatta' Malik 45-5

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Yasār mawlá Maymūnah zawj Rasūl Allāh

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 116 AH or 117 AH, in another manuscript of Ibn Ḥibbān: 120 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة متقن
   عن
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
   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.