Musnad Ahmad 969

Translation

It is not like the obligatory prayer, but it is a Sunnah that was done by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions, and they continued doing it until the end of their lives.

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What scholars said about it

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• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد

  machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 976

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 453Sunan Ibn Majah 1169

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah al-Salūlī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AH
   عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥajjāj

   Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AH
   الْحَجَّاجُصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   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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