al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 8
✧ Those named Ahmad
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا الْإِيَادِيُّ الْأَعْرَجُ بِجَبَلَةَ سَنَةَ 279 تِسْعٍ وَسَبْعِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ قُبَيْسٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعَافَى بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الظِّهْرِيُّ الْحِمْصِيُّ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، عَنِ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عُتَيْبَةَ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
اسْتَقِيمُوا وَلَنْ تُحْصُوا، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ خَيْرَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ، وَلَا يُحَافِظُ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Zakariyyā al-Iyādī al-Aʿraj Bijabalah Sanah 279 Tisʿ and Sabʿīn Wamiāʾatayn
- Yazīd b. Qubays
- al-Muʿāfá b. ʿImrān al-Ẓihrī al-Ḥimṣī
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿUbaydullāh
- al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah
- Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd
- Thawbān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Remain upright, though you will not be able to do so completely. Know that the best of your deeds is prayer, and no one maintains wudu except a believer.
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AHثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqātسَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِثقة وكان يرسل كثيراعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), except that he sometimes practised concealment (tadlīs)d. 113 AH, or 114 AH, or 115; also said 110 AHالْحَكَمِ بْنِ عُتَيْبَةَثقة ثبت فقيه ، إلا أنه ربما دلسعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِضعيفعن
- truthful (ṣadūq) in his narration from the people of his own land, but confused (mukhaliṭ) in his narration from othersd. 181 AH, or 182 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍصدوق في روايته عن أهل بلده ، مخلط في غيرهمعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 201 and 210 AHالْمُعَافَى بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الظِّهْرِيُّ الْحِمْصِيُّمقبول .حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 221 and 230 AHيَزِيدُ بْنُ قُبَيْسٍثقةحدثنا
- أَحْمَدُ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا الْإِيَادِيُّ الْأَعْرَجُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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