Musnad Ahmad 9820

Translation

✧ While I was at a well drawing water, Abu Bakr came and drew a bucket or two, and there was weakness in them, may God forgive him. Then Umar came and drew until it became a large bucket in his hand, and the people struck at the watering trough, and I never saw a noble chief achieve what he achieved.

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What scholars said about it

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• Qurṭubī

  و قوله ذنوبا أو ذنوبين هو شك من بعض الرواة وقد جاء بغير شك ذنوبين في الرواية الأخرى وهي أحسن

  machine translationHis saying "a bucket (dhanūb) or two buckets" is a doubt on the part of one of the narrators. It has come without doubt as "two buckets" in the other narration, and that is better. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9905

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
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAmr

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AH
   مُحَمَّدٌصدوق له أوهام
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُثقة متقن عابد .
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.