Musnad Ahmad 8822

Translation

✧ Shall I tell you about the worst of you? They are the talkative and the bombastic. Shall I tell you about the best of you? Those of you with the best character.

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

  فيه البراء بن عبد الله وهو ضعيف

  in مسند أحمد, p. 8898

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
   ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some hostility toward ʿAlī (naṣb) in himd. during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf over Iraq, or 108 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ شَقِيقٍثقة ، فيه نصب
   حدثني
3. 3
   Al-Barāʾ b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd

   weak (ḍaʿīf)
   الْبَرَاءُضعيف
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yaḥyā b. Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 210 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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