Musnad Ahmad 985

Translation

✧ When you are told a hadith on the authority of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then think of it in the way that is most guided, most virtuous, and most God-fearing.

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Dāraquṭnī

  سئل الدارقطني عنه فذكر أن جماعة رووه لم يذكروا أبا عبد الرحمن قال والصحيح من ذكر أبا عبد الرحمن

  machine translationAl-Dāraquṭnī was asked about it, and he mentioned that a group narrated it without mentioning Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. He said: "The correct (ṣaḥīḥ) version is that of those who mentioned Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 992
• Dāraquṭnī

  والصحيح قول من ذكر أبا عبد الرحمن

  machine translationThe correct (ṣaḥīḥ) statement is that of those who mentioned Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 992

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū al-Bakhtarī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), there is a little Shīʿism in him, frequently narrates mursald. 81 AH or 82 AH or 83 AH
   أَبِي الْبَخْتَرِيِّثقة ثبت، فيه تشيع قليل، كثير الإرسال
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Murrah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
   عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   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

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

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