Musnad Ahmad 9291

Translation

✧ A man visited a brother of his in another village, so Allah posted an angel on his path. When he came to him, the angel said: Where are you going? He said: I am visiting a brother of mine in this village. He said: Does he have any favor over you that you maintain? He said: No, except that I love him for the sake of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. He said: Then I am [meaning] the messenger of Allah to you, that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has loved you as you have loved him.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2567aSahih Muslim 2567b

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
   Nufayʿ b. Rāfiʿ al-Ṣāʾigh

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   أَبِي رَافِعٍثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Thābit al-Bunānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
   ثَابِتٌثقة عابد
   حدثنا
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.
   حَمَّادٌثقه 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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.