al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 140
✧ Those named Ahmad
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْخَلِيلِ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ الْبَصْرِيُّ بِبَغْدَادَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَمَامَةَ الْعَلَّافُ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَوَاءٍ، عَنْ رَوْحِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ:
سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنِ الضَّبِّ، فَقَالَ: أُمَّةٌ مُسِخَتْ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. al-Khalīl al-Jurayrī al-Baṣrī Bibaghdād
- And Hb b. Yaḥyá b. Zamāmah al-ʿAllāf
- Muḥammad b. Sawāʾ
- Rawḥ b. al-Qāsim
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr
- Jābir b. Samurah
✧ The Prophet ﷺ was asked about the lizard. He said, 'A nation that was transformed, and God knows best.'
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Ḥākim said: 72 AH, from Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ: 73 AH, Abū Bakr b. Manjawayh and others said: 74 AH. It is reported from Abū ʿUbayd that he said: 66 AH, and that is a mistakeجَابِرُ بْنُ سَمُرَةَ السُّوَائِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلسعن
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 141 AH, also said: 50-odd AHرَوْحِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِثقة حافظعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadard. 187 AH or 189 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَوَاءٍصدوق رمي بالقدرحدثنا
- وَهْبُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَمَامَةَ الْعَلَّافُحدثنا
- أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْخَلِيلِ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ الْبَصْرِيُّحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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