MajelisNoteDalilدليل
العربية

Musnad Ahmad 908

Show the chain

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنِي نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْأَزْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ خَيْرٍ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا يَقُولُ

أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh
  2. Naṣr b. ʿAlī al-Azdī
  3. Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal
  4. Shuʿbah
  5. Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
  6. ʿAbd Khayr
  7. ʿAlī

✧ Shall I not inform you of the best of this Ummah after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? Abu Bakr and Umar.

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundhadithunlocked
DarussalamSahih (Darussalam)sunnah.com

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

  • 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. 915
  • Dāraquṭnī

    وهذا حديث محفوظ عن حبيب بن أبي ثابت أنه سمعه من عبد خير

    in مسند أحمد, p. 915

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3671

Narrators

  1. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    سمعت
  2. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيًّاأحد العشرة
    سمعت
  3. ʿAbd Khayr
    mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
    عَبْدِ خَيْرٍمخضرم ، ثقة
    عن
  4. Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit al-Kāhilī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AH
    حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
    عن
  5. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقن
    عن
  6. Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 186 AH, or 187 AH
    بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِثقة ، ثبت ، عابد
    حدثنا
  7. Naṣr b. ʿAlī
    Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AH
    نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْأَزْدِيُّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنع
    حدثني
  8. ʿAbdullāh
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
    عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Something wrong with this text or grade? Tell us