Musnad Ahmad 896
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ حَدَّثَنِي شُرَيْحٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ
ذُكِرَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ عِنْدَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَهُوَ بِالْعِرَاقِ، فَقَالُوا: الْعَنْهُمْ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، قَالَ: لَا، إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: الْأَبْدَالُ يَكُونُونَ بِالشَّامِ، وَهُمْ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا، كُلَّمَا مَاتَ رَجُلٌ أَبْدَلَ اللهُ مَكَانَهُ رَجُلًا، يُسْقَى بِهِمُ الْغَيْثُ، وَيُنْتَصَرُ بِهِمْ عَلَى الْأَعْدَاءِ، وَيُصْرَفُ عَنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ بِهِمُ الْعَذَابُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Mughīrah
- Ṣafwān
- Shurayḥ / Ibn ʿUbayd
✧ The people of Syria were mentioned in the presence of Ali b. Abu Talib while he was in Iraq, and they said: Curse them, O Commander of the Faithful. He said: No, for I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: The substitutes (abdal) will be in Syria, and they are forty men. Whenever a man dies, God replaces him with another man. Through them rain is given, through them victory is gained over enemies, and through them punishment is averted from the people of Syria.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Da'if (Darussalam) because it is interrupted | sunnah.com |
| المناوي | Good Chainin مسند أحمد, p. 903 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رجاله رجال الصحيح غير شريح بن عبيد وهو ثقة وقد سمع من المقداد وهو أقدم من علي
in مسند أحمد, p. 903 - العزيزي علي بن محمد البولاقي
إسناد حسن
machine translationIts chain of transmission (isnād) is good (ḥasan).
in مسند أحمد, p. 903 - المناوي
إسناد حسن
machine translationIts chain of transmission (isnād) is good (ḥasan).
in مسند أحمد, p. 903
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 100 AHشُرَيْحٌ - يَعْنِي : ابْنَ عُبَيْدٍ -ثقةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 155 AH, or 158 AH, from Baqiyyah: 148 AH, and it is a mistakeصَفْوَانُثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 212 AH, or 215, 222 AHأَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِثقةحدثنا
- 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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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