Musnad al-Bazzar 4595
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْمُوَفَّقِ، قَالَ: نَا أَبِي، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيِّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَمُرَةَ ؓ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
أَفْضَلُ الْجِهَادِ أَنْ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْحَقِّ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ "، أَوْ قَالَ: " عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ
Translation
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- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Faḍl b. al-Muwaffaq
- my father
- Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī
- al-Ḥasan
- Samurah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "The best jihād is to speak a word of truth before a ruler," or he said, "before a tyrannical ruler."
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه أبو بكر الهذلي وهو ضعيف
machine translationIn it is Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in مسند البزار, p. 4595 - Bazzār
وهذا الحديث لا نعلم رواه عن الحسن إلا أبو بكر الهذلي وأبو بكر رجل من أهل البصرة لا يثبت أهل العلم حديثه وقد روى عنه ابن جريج فمن دونه
in مسند البزار, p. 4595
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, also said 59 AH,, also said beginning of 60 AH, also said between 55 AH and 60 AHسَمُرَةُ بْنُ جُنْدُبٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- a historian (akhbārī), abandoned in hadith (matrūk al-ḥadīth)d. 167 AHأَبِي بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيِّأخباري ، متروك الحديثعن
- there is weakness in himd. between 211 and 220 AHأَبِيفيه ضعفنا
- عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْمُوَفَّقِحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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