Musnad Ahmad 8723

Translation

✧ It was said: O Messenger of Allah, you jest with us. He said: I say nothing but the truth.

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What scholars said about it

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

  وإسناده حسن

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 8799

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
   Saʿīd al-Maqburī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
   سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
   عن
3. 3
   Usāmah b. Zayd

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 153 AH
   أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍصدوق يهم
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   ابْنُ مُبَارَكٍ [١]ثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq) but narrates unfamiliar reports (yughrib)d. 214 AH, or 215 AH, or 233 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يغرب
   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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