Musnad Ahmad 9878

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

Risāla number (standard): 9878
Qurṭuba number: 9879
Printed (Qurṭuba edition): vol. 2, p. 456

Companion section: مسند أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه(مسند المكثرين من الصحابة)

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا بهز قال حدثنا شعبة قال حدثني علقمة بن مرثد قال سمعت أبا الربيع وكان يقاعد أبا بردة يحدث عن أبي هريرة أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : أربع في أمتي فذكر الحديث نحو حديث محمد بن جعفر أبي الربيع المدني

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 وهذا إسناد حسن رجاله ثقات رجال الشيخين غير

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

Isnād — the people who carried this hadith

7 narrators · 1 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)
بهز
حدثنا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
شعبة
حدثني— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
علقمة بن مرثدReliable (thiqa)
سمعت— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
أبا الربيع وكان يقاعد أبا بردة
عن— ʿAnʿana — hearing not stated; scrutinised for a mudallis
أبي هريرة
The Prophet ﷺ

The chain is abbreviated — «bi-hādhā al-isnād»: the rest is as in the previous hadith.

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).