Musnad Ahmad 9277

Translation

✧ The food of one person suffices two, and the food of two suffices four.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وقال ابن المنير ورد حديث بلفظ الترجمة لكنه لم يوافق شرط البخاري فاستقرأ معناه من حديث الباب

  machine translationIbn al-Munayyir said: A hadith has been reported with the wording of the chapter heading, but it did not meet the condition of al-Bukhārī, so he derived its meaning from the hadith of the chapter. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9352

Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 564" طعام الاثنين كافي الثلاثة، وطعام الثلاثة كافي الأربعة"

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3255

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
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿAmman
   عمن
   عمن
3. 3
   ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 131 AH
   عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍضعيف
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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