Musnad Ahmad 8505

Translation

✧ From the prophet ﷺ said, "Whoever obeys me has indeed obeyed Allah, and whoever obeys the leader has indeed obeyed me."

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What scholars said about it

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• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 8578

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1835aSahih Muslim 1835dSahih Muslim 1835eSahih Muslim 1835gSunan Ibn Majah 2859

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
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Mūsá b. ʿUqbah

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), an imām in the military expeditions (maghāzī)d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, also said: 135 AH, also said: before 145 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ عُقْبَةَثقة فقيه ، إمام في المغازي
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Wuhayb

   memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AH
   وُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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