Musnad Ahmad 9420

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never raised his head to the sky except that he said: "O Turner of hearts, make my heart firm upon obedience to You."

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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

  فيه مسلم بن محمد بن زائدة قال بعضهم وصوابه صالح بن محمد بن زائدة وقد وثقه أحمد وضعفه أكثر الناس وبقية رجاله رجال الصحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9496

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثر
   عن
3. 3
   Ṣāliḥ b. Muḥammad b. Zāʾidah

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 145 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him among those who died between 140 and 150 AH
   مُسْلِمِ [١]بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَائِدَةَضعيف
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl

   His book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors (yahim)d. 186 AH or 187 AH
   حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَصحيح الكتاب ، صدوق يهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُثقة 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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