al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1726
✧ Ahmad b. Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: نَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَالَ: نَا سَيْفٌ عَنْ دَاوُدَ الطَّائِيِّ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ. عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
إِذَا كُنْتُمْ ثَلَاثَةً فَلَا يَنْتَجِي اثْنَانِ دُونَ الْآخَرِ، فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يُحْزِنُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- Muḥammad
- Sayf
- Dāwud al-Ṭāʾī
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Wāʾil
- ʿAbdullāh
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ When you are three, two should not hold secret counsel apart from the third, for that grieves him.
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Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- 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 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist, an asceticd. 160 AH, or 162 AH, also said: 165 AHدَاوُدَ الطَّائِيِّثقة فقيه زاهدعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 203 AHسَيْفٌصدوق له أوهامنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 245 AHمُحَمَّدٌثقة عابدنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHأَحْمَدُالحافظحدثنا
- 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.