Musnad Ahmad 9404

Translation

✧ The blood of a reddish-brown animal is more beloved to me than the blood of two black ones.

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Bukhari

  قال البخاري لا يصح رفعه

  machine translationAl-Bukhārī said: its attribution to the Prophet (raf'uh) is not sound (lā yaṣiḥḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9479

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
   Rabāḥ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Sufyān b. Ḥuwayṭib

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. 132 AH
   رَبَاحِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Thifāl al-Murrī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبِي ثِفَالٍ الْمُرِّيِّمقبول
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad

   Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to narrate from the books of others and would make mistakes.d. 182 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH, or 189 AH
   عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍصدوق ، كان يحدث من كتب غيره فيخطئ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة 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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