Musnad Ahmad 7867

Translation

✧ The upper hand is better than the lower hand, and begin with those you support.

Grades by grader

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
   حدثه
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Ziyād

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), sometimes narrates mursald. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ثبت ربما أرسل
   حدثني
3. 3
   al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some errors (awhām)d. 159 AH, also said: 157 AH
   حُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍثقة ، له أوهام
   حدثني
4. 4
   Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb

   and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوري
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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

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