Musnad Ahmad 9073

Translation

✧ Woe to the Arabs from an evil that has drawn near—trials like patches of dark night. A man will wake up a believer and go to bed an unbeliever. A people will sell their religion for a paltry portion of this world. The one who clings to his religion on that day will be like one holding onto a burning ember—or he said: onto a thorn.

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

  فيه ابن لهيعة وفيه ضعف وبقية رجاله رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9148

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2880a

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 Yūnus

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 123 AH
   أَبُو يُونُسَثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ḥasan

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AH
   وَحَسَنٌثقة
   عن
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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