Musnad Ahmad 9760

Translation

✧ I entered upon Abu Hurayrah in his house and asked him about fasting the day of 'Arafah at 'Arafat. Abu Hurayrah said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade fasting the day of 'Arafah at 'Arafat."

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• ابن عدي

  وهذا لا يرويه غير حوشب بن عقيل عن مهدي عن عكرمة عن أبي هريرة ولا أعرف له من المسند إلا شيئا يسيرا

  machine translationNo one narrates this except Ḥawshab b. ʿAqīl, from Mahdī, from ʿIkrimah, from Abū Hurayrah, and I do not know of him [anything] from the Musnad except a little. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9842
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وفيه مهدي الهجري مجهول ورواه العقيلي في الضعفاء من طريقه وقال لا يتابع عليه

  machine translationIn it is Mahdī al-Hajarī, who is unknown (majhūl). Al-ʿUqaylī narrated it in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ through his route and said: "He is not corroborated in it." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9842
• Mubarakpūri

  وفيه مهدي الهجري وهو مجهول ووثق مهديا المذكور ابن حبان

  machine translationIn it is Mahdī al-Hajarī, who is unknown (majhūl), though Ibn Ḥibbān declared the said Mahdī trustworthy (thiqah). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9842
• Ibn Khuzaymah

  حديث أبي هريرة أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم نهى عن صوم عرفة بعرفة وقد صحح هذا الحديث ابن خزيمة والحاكم على ما قاله الحافظ في الفتح

  machine translationThe hadith of Abū Hurayrah: that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade fasting on the Day of ʿArafah at ʿArafah. Ibn Khuzaymah and al-Ḥākim declared this hadith authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), as al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Fatḥ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9842

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
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Mahdī al-Hajarī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   مَهْدِيٌّ الْعَبْدِيُّمقبول
   حدثني
4. 4
   Ḥawshab b. ʿAqīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah).
   حَوْشَبُ بْنُ عَقِيلٍثقة.
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.