Musnad Ahmad 9732

Translation

✧ For one of you to sit on a live coal until his clothes burn is better for him than to sit on a grave.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 1766قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم:" لأن يجلس أحدكم على جمرة، فتحرق ثيابه، فتخلص على جلده خير له من أن يجلس على قبر"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 972bSunan Abi Dawud 3228Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1050Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1051Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3292

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
   أَبِيهِثقة 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
   سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   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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