Sunan an-Nasa'i 5064

Translation

"Ibn Mas'ud addressed us and said: 'How do you want me to recite? According to the recitation of Zaid bin Thabit, when I learned seventy-odd Surahs from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah [SAW] while Zaid was with the other boys with two braids?'"

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Musnad Ahmad 4412al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8466al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2897

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   أَبِي وَائِلٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   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
4. 4
   Abū Shihāb

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 171 AH or 172 AH
   أَبُو شِهَابٍصدوق يهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Saʿīd b. Sulaymān

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 225 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb

   trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, accused of Naṣb (hostility to ʿAlī)d. after 244 AH, or 256 AH, or 259 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَثقة حافظ ، رمي بالنصب
   أخبرني
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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