Musnad Ahmad 834

Translation

✧ 'Ali addressed us and said: 'Who is the best of this ummah after its Prophet?' I said: 'You, O Commander of the Faithful.' He said: 'No, the best of this ummah after its Prophet is Abu Bakr, then 'Umar, and it is not far-fetched that tranquility speaks upon the tongue of 'Umar.'

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• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الشعبي واختلف عنه فرواه يوسف بن أسباط عن سفيان الثوري عن إسماعيل بن أبي خالد عن الشعبي عن مسروق عن علي وخالفه عبد الرحمن بن مهدي وغيره ورووه عن الثوري عن إسماعيل عن الشعبي عن علي لم يذكروا بينهما أحدا وكذلك رواه أبو شهاب الحناط وعبيد الله الأشجعي وعبد الله بن إدريس وابن عيينة وداود بن الزبرقان عن إسماعيل عن الشعبي عن علي ورواه هريم بن سفيان عن إسماعيل عن الشعبي عن علي وزاد فيه ألفاظ لم يأت بها غيره وقيل عن هريم عن عبد الرحمن بن إسحاق عن الشعبي عن علي بغير هذا اللفظ وقال آدم بن أبي إياس عن قيس عن إسماعيل بن أبي خالد عن أبي عمرو الشيباني عن علي ورواه بيان بن بشر وأبو إسحاق الشيباني ومجالد عن الشعبي عن علي وخالفهم يحيى بن أيوب البجلي فرواه عن الشعبي عن أبي جحيفة عن علي والصحيح من ذلك قول من أرسله عن الشعبي عن علي

  machine translationAl-Shaʿbī narrates it, and there is disagreement about it from him. Yūsuf b. Asbāṭ narrated it from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid, from al-Shaʿbī, from Masrūq, from ʿAlī. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī and others contradicted him and narrated it from al-Thawrī, from Ismāʿīl, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAlī, without mentioning anyone between them. Likewise Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ, ʿUbaydullāh al-Ashjaʿī, ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs, Ibn ʿUyaynah and Dāwūd b. al-Zibriqān narrated it from Ismāʿīl, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAlī. Huraym b. Sufyān narrated it from Ismāʿīl, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAlī, and added wordings in it that no one else brought. It was also said, from Huraym, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAlī, with a wording other than this. Ādam b. Abī Iyās said, from Qays, from Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid, from Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī, from ʿAlī. Bayān b. Bishr, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī and Mujālid narrated it from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAlī. Yaḥyā b. Ayyūb al-Bajalī contradicted them and narrated it from al-Shaʿbī, from Abū Juḥayfah, from ʿAlī. The sound (ṣaḥīḥ) version among these is the statement of those who narrated it as a mursal report from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAlī. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 841

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   خطب
2. 2
   Wahb b. ʿAbdullāh al-Suwāʾī

   well-known Companiond. 74 AH
   وَهْبٍ السُّوَائِيِّصحابي معروف
   عن
3. 3
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb

   no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. between 151 and 160 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ الْبَجَلِيُّلا بأس به
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with a good memory (yaḥfaẓ).d. 203 AH, or 204 AH, or 205 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الطَّنَافِسِيُّثقة يحفظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Hadiyyah b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 241 AH
   أَبُو صَالِحٍ هَدِيَّةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِصدوق ربما وهم
   حدثني
7. 7
   ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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