al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 167
✧ Those named Ahmad
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْمَعِينِيُّ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحَرِيشِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِنِّي لَأَعْرِفُ حَجَرًا كَانَ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَيَّ قَبْلَ أَنْ أُبْعَثَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Maʿīnī Abū Saʿīd al-Aṣbahānī
- Zayd b. al-Ḥarīsh
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
- Shuʿbah
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- Jābir b. Samurah
- Rasūl Allāh Ṣallá Allāh ʿAlayh Wālih and Sallam
✧ I indeed know a stone that used to greet me before I was sent.
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- Dāraquṭnī
رواه أحمد بن عبد الخالق الضبعي عن أبي داود عن شعبة عن سماك ورواه بندار عن أبي داود عن سليمان بن معاذ الضبي عن سماك وهو أشبه بالصواب
machine translationAḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ḍubaʿī narrated it from Abū Dāwūd, from Shuʿbah, from Simāk. And Bundār narrated it from Abū Dāwūd, from Sulaymān b. Muʿādh al-Ḍabbī, from Simāk, and this is closer to the correct version.
in المعجم الصغير, p. 167
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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
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- d. between 241 AH and 250 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ الْحَرِيشِحدثنا
- أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْمَعِينِيُّ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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