Musnad Ahmad 9431

Translation

✧ What an excellent man Abu Bakr is; what an excellent man Umar is; what an excellent man Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah is; what an excellent man Usayd b. Hudayr is; what an excellent man Thabit b. Qays b. Shammas is; what an excellent man Muadh b. Jabal is; what an excellent man Muadh b. Amr b. al-Jamuh is.

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What scholars said about it

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• Maghlaṭay

  روى بسند صحيح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9507
• Dāraquṭnī

  والصواب عن فليح وعن غيره عن سهيل عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9507

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3795

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
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   ذكوان السمانثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH
   سهيل بن أبي صالح السمانصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
   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
   عبد العزيز بن محمد الدراورديصدوق ، كان يحدث من كتب غيره فيخطئ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قتيبة بن سعيدثقة 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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