Musnad Ahmad 8301

Translation

✧ I stayed in Madinah with Abu Hurayrah for a year. One day, while we were near the room of ʿĀʾishah, he said to me: I remember a time when we had no clothes except worn-out striped cloaks, and days would pass for one of us without finding food to sustain his back, until one of us would take a stone and tie it to the hollow of his belly, then bind it with his garment to keep himself upright. One day, the Messenger of God ﷺ distributed dates among us, and each of us received seven dates, among them a dry, inferior one. It would not have pleased me to have a good date in its place. I said: Why? He said: Because it gives me more to chew. Then he said to me: Where have you come from? I said: From Syria. He said: Have you seen the stone of Moses? I said: What is the stone of Moses? He said: The Children of Israel said something about Moses regarding what was under his garments, in his private parts. So he placed his clothes on a rock while he was bathing. The rock ran off with his clothes. He followed in its tracks, saying: O stone, give me back my clothes! O stone, give me back my clothes! Until it came with him to the Children of Israel, and they saw him as a well-formed man with good physique. [Then it struck him three blows.] By the One in whose hand is Abu Hurayrah's soul, had I looked, I would have seen the marks of Moses' blows on it.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله رجال الصحيح

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 8373

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 5441b

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
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some hostility toward ʿAlī (naṣb) in himd. during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf over Iraq, or 108 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍثقة ، فيه نصب
   عن
3. 3
   al-Jurayrī

   trustworthy (thiqah); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) three years before his deathd. 144 AH
   الْجُرَيْرِيُّثقة ، اختلط قبل موته بثلاث سنين
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Wārith

   trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AH
   أَبِيثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنه
   حدثني
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Ṣamad

   truthful (ṣadūq), reliable (thabt) in the narrations of Shuʿbahd. Ibn Ḥibbān said 206 AH or 207 AH
   عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِصدوق , ثبت في شعبة
   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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