Musnad Ahmad 3531

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

Risāla number (standard)
3531
Qurṭuba number
3531
Printed (Qurṭuba edition)
vol. 1, p. 372

Companion section: مسند عبد الله بن العباس بن عبد المطلب عن النبي صلى الله(ومن مسند بنى هاشم)

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا حجين بن المثني ثنا إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن سعيد بن جبير عن بن عباس قال : كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يوتر بثلاث بسبح اسم ربك الأعلى وقل يا أيها الكافرون وقل هو الله أحد

Urdu translation

عبداللہ بن عباس کی مرویات

حضرت ابن عباس (رض) سے مروی ہے کہ نبی (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) تین رکعت وتر پڑھتے تھے اور ان میں سورت اعلی، سورت کافرون اور سورت اخلاص (علی الترتیب) پڑھتے تھے۔

Matched to this hadith automatically by its Arabic text, which is the same in both.

Comment of Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ (Qurṭuba edition)

إسناده صحيح رجاله ثقات رجال الشيخين

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

Isnād — the people who carried this hadith

7 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.

  1. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241)(compiler)
  2. حدثنا
  3. حدثني
  4. ثنا
    حجين بن المثنيMostly reliable (ṣadūq)
  5. ثنا
  6. عن
  7. عن
    سعيد بن جبيرReliable (thiqa)
  8. عن

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…

4 same wording · 18 partial · group of 7 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.