Musnad Ahmad 859
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حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ يَعْنِي الْفَرَّاءَ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ يُثَيْعٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
قِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ تُؤَمِّرُ بَعْدَكَ ؟ قَالَ: إِنْ تُؤَمِّرُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ أَمِينًا، زَاهِدًا فِي الدُّنْيَا، رَاغِبًا فِي الْآخِرَةِ، وَإِنْ تُؤَمِّرُوا عُمَرَ تَجِدُوهُ قَوِيًّا أَمِينًا لَا يَخَافُ فِي اللهِ لَوْمَةَ لَائِمٍ، وَإِنْ تُؤَمِّرُوا عَلِيًّا، وَلَا أُرَاكُمْ فَاعِلِينَ، تَجِدُوهُ هَادِيًا مَهْدِيًّا، يَأْخُذُ بِكُمُ الطَّرِيقَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aswad b. ʿĀmir
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Abū Jaʿfar / al-Farrāʾ
- Isrāʾīl
- Abū Isḥāq
- Zayd b. Yuthayʿ
- ʿAlī
✧ It was said: 'O Messenger of Allah, whom shall we appoint as leader after you?' He said: 'If you appoint Abu Bakr, you will find him trustworthy, abstinent in this world, desirous of the Hereafter. If you appoint 'Umar, you will find him strong, trustworthy, not fearing in Allah the blame of any blamer. If you appoint 'Ali — and I do not think you will do so — you will find him a guide, rightly guided, taking you along the straight path.'
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Da'if (Darussalam)l | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī
سئل الدارقطني عنه فذكر الاختلاف فيه وقال إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن زيد بن يثيع مرسلا لم يذكر عليا ولا حذيفة والمرسل أشبه بالصواب وكان ذكره عن سليمان وعن حذيفة
machine translationAl-Dāraquṭnī was asked about it, and he mentioned the disagreement concerning it and said: Isrāʾīl narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Zayd b. Yuthayʿ, as a mursal report, not mentioning ʿAlī or Ḥudhayfah, and the mursal version is closer to being correct. He had mentioned it from Sulaymān and from Ḥudhayfah.
in مسند أحمد, p. 866 - Dāraquṭnī
هو حديث يرويه زيد بن يثيع واختلف عنه فرواه أبو إسحاق واختلف عن أبي إسحاق أيضا فقال يونس بن أبي إسحاق وإسرائيل من رواية عبد الحميد بن أبي جعفر الفراء عنه وفضيل بن مرزوق وجميل الخياط عن أبي إسحاق عن زيد ابن يثيع عن علي وقال الحسن بن قتيبة عن يونس بن إسحاق عن أبي إسحاق عن زيد بن يثيع عن سلمان الفارسي وقال الثوري عن أبي إسحاق عن زيد بن يثيع عن حذيفة وقال شريك عن أبي إسحاق وعثمان أبي اليقظان عن أبي وائل عن حذيفة وقال إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن زيد بن يثيع مرسلا لم يذكر عليا ولا حذيفة والمرسل أشبه بالصواب
machine translationIt is a hadith narrated by Zayd b. Yuthayʿ, and there is disagreement about it from him. Abū Isḥāq narrated it, and there is also disagreement from Abū Isḥāq. Yūnus b. Abī Isḥāq and Isrāʾīl (in the narration of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Abī Jaʿfar al-Farrāʾ from him), Fuḍayl b. Marzūq and Jamīl al-Khayyāṭ said: from Abū Isḥāq, from Zayd b. Yuthayʿ, from ʿAlī. Al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah said, from Yūnus b. Isḥāq, from Abū Isḥāq, from Zayd b. Yuthayʿ, from Salmān al-Fārisī. Al-Thawrī said, from Abū Isḥāq, from Zayd b. Yuthayʿ, from Ḥudhayfah. Sharīk said, from Abū Isḥāq and ʿUthmān Abū l-Yaqẓān, from Abū Wāʾil, from Ḥudhayfah. And Isrāʾīl said, from Abū Isḥāq, from Zayd b. Yuthayʿ, as a mursal report, not mentioning ʿAlī or Ḥudhayfah. The mursal version is closer to being correct.
in مسند أحمد, p. 866 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
سنده جيد
machine translationIts chain of transmission is good (jayyid).
in مسند أحمد, p. 866
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍram (lived through both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras)زَيْدِ بْنِ يُثَيْعٍثقة مخضرمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AHإِسْرَائِيلَثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجةعن
- عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ - يَعْنِي : الْفَرَّاءَحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AHأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقةحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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