Musnad Ahmad 25288

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

Risāla number (standard)
25288
Qurṭuba number
25327
Printed (Qurṭuba edition)
vol. 6, p. 161

Companion section: حديث السيدة عائشة رضي الله عنها(باقي مسند الأنصار)

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبى ثنا حماد أنا هشام عن أبيه عن عائشة قالت : ما خير رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بين أمرين أحدهما أيسر من الآخر الا اختار أيسرهما ما لم يكن إثما فإذا كان إثما كان أبعد الناس منه

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

Comment of Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ (Qurṭuba edition)

إسناده صحيح على شرط الشيخين

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

Isnād — the people who carried this hadith

6 narrators · 0 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.

  1. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241)(compiler)
  2. حدثنا
    عبد الله
  3. حدثني
    أبى
  4. ثنا
    حماد
  5. أنا
    هشام
  6. عن
    أبيه
  7. عن
    عائشة

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).

Similar wording found in…

5 same wording · 6 partial · group of 12 texts

Found automatically by comparing the Arabic wording of the text (not the chain). This is not a scholarly takhrīj — check the source before citing. Grades are each source’s own.

Same report — the wording matches