Sunan Ibn Majah 25

Translation

We said to Zaid bin Arqam: 'Tell us a Hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' He said: 'We have grown old and have forgotten, and (narrating) Ahadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is difficult (not a simple matter).'"

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 19546Musnad Ahmad 19547Musnad Ahmad 19324Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26748Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 27170Musnad al-Tayalisi 713

Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Arqam al-Anṣārī

   a well-known Companiond. 66 AH, also said: 68 AH, also said 65 AH, also said: 60 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهور
   قلنا
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Laylá

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistake
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقة
   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
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   عن
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   غُنْدَرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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