Musnad Ahmad 9860

Translation

✧ The prayer in congregation surpasses the prayer alone by twenty-seven degrees, or twenty-five degrees.

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  في إسنادها شريك القاضي وفي حفظه ضعف

  machine translationIn its chain is Sharīk, the judge (al-qāḍī), and there is weakness (ḍaʿf) in his memorization. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9946

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
   ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
   أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ashʿath b. Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125, or 131 AH
   أَشْعَثَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nakhaʿī

   Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AH
   شَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدع
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   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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