al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5212

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ saw a man chasing a bird and said: “A devil following a devil.”

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• Dāraquṭnī

  والمرسل أصح

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  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 5212

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4940Sunan Ibn Majah 3764Sunan Ibn Majah 3765

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAmr

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nakhaʿī

   Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AH
   شَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدع
   نا
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿĀmir b. Zurārah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 237 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَامِرِ بْنِ زُرَارَةَصدوق
   نا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbdūs b. Kāmil

   d. 293 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبْدُوسٍ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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