Musnad Ahmad 9739

Translation

✧ I brought one-year-old sheep to Madinah, but they did not sell. I met Abu Hurayrah and asked him, and he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'How excellent—or what an excellent—sacrificial animal is a one-year-old sheep.' So the people took them eagerly.

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن غريب

  machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9821

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2798

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
   فقال
2. 2
   Abū Kibāsh

   unknown (majhūl)
   أَبِي كِبَاشٍمجهول
   عن
3. 3
   Kidām b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   unknown (majhūl)
   كِدَامِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّمجهول
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUthmān b. Wāqid al-ʿUmarī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. between 151 and 160 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ - يَعْنِي الْعُمَرِيَّصدوق ، ربما وهم
   حدثني
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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