Musnad Ahmad 8575

Translation

✧ Do not precede Ramadan by fasting a day or two days, except a man who is accustomed to fasting; then let him fast.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  فروي من وجوه من حديث سعيد بن المسيب وأبي سلمة والأعرج ومحمد بن زياد وغيرهم وهي ثابتة وسائر الطرق في هذا الحديث كلها حسان عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationIt is narrated through several routes: from the hadith of Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, Abū Salamah, al-Aʿraj, Muḥammad b. Ziyād and others, and it is established. All the other routes of this hadith are good (ḥasan), from the Prophet ﷺ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 8650

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 2172

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
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبُو سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hammām

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AH
   هَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهم
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.