Musnad Ahmad 909
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنَي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَوْنٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَخُو سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ خَيْرٍ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا يَقُولُ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ: أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا ؟ قَالَ: فَذَكَرَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِالثَّانِي ؟ قَالَ: فَذَكَرَ عُمَرَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: لَوْ شِئْتُ لَأَنْبَأْتُكُمْ بِالثَّالِثِ، قَالَ: وَسَكَتَ، فَرَأَيْنَا أَنَّهُ يَعْنِي: نَفْسَهُ، فَقُلْتُ: أَنْتَ سَمِعْتَهُ يَقُولُ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ، وَإِلَّا صُمَّتَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh Ḥaddathanay ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAwn
- Mubārak b. Saʿīd Akhū Sufyān
- his father
- Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
- ʿAbd Khayr al-Hamdānī
I heard ʿAli ؓ say on the minbar: Shall I not tell you of the best of this ummah after its Prophet? Then he mentioned Abu Bakr. Then he said: Shall I not tell you of the second one? Then he mentioned ʿUmar ؓ. Then he said: If I wished, I could tell you of the third one, And he kept quiet. We thought that he meant himself. I [the narrator] said: Did you hear him say that? He said: Yes, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah, otherwise may they [his ears] go deaf.
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Strong Chain | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | lts isnad is Qawi | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
والصحيح حديث عبد خير وأبي جحيفة
machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith is the hadith of ʿAbd Khayr and Abū Juḥayfah.
in مسند أحمد, p. 916
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةسمعت
- mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AHعَبْدِ خَيْرٍ الْهَمْدَانِيِّمخضرم ، ثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AHحَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 180 AHمُبَارَكُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَخُو سُفْيَانَصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 232 AH, also said: 231 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَوْنٍثقة عابدحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297عَبْدُ 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.