Musnad Ahmad 20984

The Musnad of Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal — Arabic text with Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ’s comment and, where available, an Urdu translation

Risāla number (standard): 20984
Qurṭuba number: 21022
Printed (Qurṭuba edition): vol. 5, p. 103

Companion section: ومن حديث أبي عبد الرحمن عن مشايخه من حديث جابر بن سمرة عن(أول مسند الكوفيين)

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا حجاج ثنا شعبة عن سماك بن حرب قال سمعت جابر بن سمرة قال : رأيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أتى بماعز بن مالك فذكر معناه إلا أنه قال تخلف أحدهم ينبب كنبيب التيس قال فحدثته الحكم فأعجبه وقال لي ما الكثبة فسألت سماكا عن الكثبة فقال اللبن القليل

No translation of this hadith is available yet. The Arabic is shown exactly as in the source.

Comment of Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ (Qurṭuba edition)

صحيح لغيره وهذا إسناد حسن من أجل سماك

Quoted as he wrote it. It is his assessment — Hidayah24 does not grade hadith.

Isnād — the people who carried this hadith

6 narrators · 2 identified

The printed Musnad begins with the book’s own transmission: «ḥaddathanā ʿAbd Allāh» is Aḥmad’s son ʿAbd Allāh (d. 290), who narrates the book from him, and «ḥaddathanī abī» is Aḥmad himself; the hadith’s own chain follows them.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241)(compiler)
حدثنا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
عبد الله
حدثني— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
أبي
ثنا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
حجاج
ثنا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
شعبة
عن— ʿAnʿana — hearing not stated; scrutinised for a mudallis
سماك بن حرب✓ profile
سمعت— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
جابر بن سمرةCompanion

Names are exactly as printed. A narrator is identified only where that is certain; tapping any other name searches for the possible men. Grades are the rijāl works’ — reliable narrators alone do not make a hadith ṣaḥīḥ (irregularity and hidden defects are weighed too).