Musnad Ahmad 9227
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حَدَّثَنَا عَتَّابٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو ثِفَالٍ الْمُرِّيُّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
الْجَذَعُ مِنَ الضَّأْنِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ السَّيِّدِ مِنَ الْمَعْزِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAttāb
- ʿAbdullāh
- Dāwud b. Qays
- Abū Thifāl al-Murrī
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ A jadha' (young sheep) from sheep is better than a sayyid (leader) from goats.
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفيه أبو ثفال قال البخاري فيه نظر
in مسند أحمد, p. 9302
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبُو ثِفَالٍ الْمُرِّيُّمقبولحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. during the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfarدَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍثقة فاضلأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 212 AHعَتَّابٌصدوقحدثنا
- 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.