Musnad Ahmad 9103

Translation

✧ He was asked about the children of the polytheists, and he said: 'God knows best what they would have done.'

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  طرقه عن أبي هريرة صحاح ثابتة

  machine translationHis routes from Abū Hurayrah are sound (ṣaḥīḥ) and well established. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9179

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1383Sahih al-Bukhari 1384Sahih al-Bukhari 6597Sunan Abi Dawud 4712

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
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 107 AH
   عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir said, from Ibn Abī Fudayk: 158 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said, and others: 159 AH
   ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍثقة فقيه فاضل
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213, or a year or two after it
   حُسَيْنٌثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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