al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1227
✧ Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Jahm al-Simari
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: نَا أَزْهَرُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: نَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ أَبُو بَحْرٍ الْبَكْرَاوِيُّ، قَالَ: نَا قُرَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ. عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
أَفْضَلُ الْجِهَادِ مَنْ عُقِرَ جَوَادُهُ، وَأُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- Azhar b. Jamīl
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿUthmān Abū Baḥr al-Bakrāwī
- Qurrah b. Khālid
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The best jihad is of the one whose horse is hamstrung and his blood is shed.
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), precise (ḍābiṭ)d. 154 AH, or: 155 AH, or 170-odd AHقُرَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة ضابطنا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 195 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ أَبُو بَحْرٍ الْبَكْرَاوِيُّضعيفنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) but narrates unfamiliar reports (yughrib)d. 250 AH, or 251 AHأَزْهَرُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍصدوق يغربنا
- أَحْمَدُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.