Musnad Ahmad 880
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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ ح وَأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جُحَيْفَةَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا يَقُولُ
خَيْرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ، وَلَوْ شِئْتُ لَحَدَّثْتُكُمْ بِالثَّالِثِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- Ibn Abū Khālid [Chain 2] Ismāʿīl
- al-Shaʿbī
- Abū Juḥayfah
- ʿAlī
✧ "The best of this ummah after its Prophet are Abu Bakr and Umar, and if I wished, I would tell you the third."
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound Chain | hadithunlocked |
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| Darussalam | lts isnad is Sahih | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
قد ثبت عنه رضي الله عنه أنه فضل أبا بكر على نفسه من طرق صحاح
machine translationIt is established from him, may God be pleased with him, that he preferred Abū Bakr over himself through sound (ṣaḥīḥ) chains of transmission.
in مسند أحمد, p. 887 - 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.
in مسند أحمد, p. 887
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبسمعت
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيًّاأحد العشرةسمعت
- well-known Companiond. 74 AHأَبِي جُحَيْفَةَصحابي معروفعن
- 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-Tamīmīالشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHوَأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهعن
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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