Musnad Ahmad Q20843

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

Risāla number (standard)
not established
Qurṭuba number
20843
Printed (Qurṭuba edition)
vol. 5, p. 88

This hadith has no established Risāla number, so it is cited by its Qurṭuba number as Q20843. The two numberings differ — do not read Q20843 as Risāla 20843.

Companion section: حديث جابر بن سمرة رضي الله عنه(أول مسند الكوفيين)

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا سليمان بن داود ثنا شعبة عن سماك قال سمعت جابر بن سمرة وسئل عن شيب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : كان في رأسه شعرات إذا دهن رأسه لم تتبين وإذا لم يدهنه تبين

Urdu translation

حضرت جابر بن سمرہ (رض) کی مرویات

حضرت جابر (رض) سے کسی نے نبی (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) کے سفید بالوں کے متعلق پوچھا تو انھوں نے فرمایا کہ نبی (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) کے سر میں چند بال سفید تھے جب آپ سر پر تیل لگاتے تو بالوں کی سفیدی واضح نہیں ہوتی تھی اور جب تیل نہ لگاتے تو ان کی سفیدی واضح ہوجاتی۔

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

Comment of Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ (Qurṭuba edition)

صحيح لغيره وهذا إسناد حسن من أجل سماك

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Isnād — the people who carried this hadith

7 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
  3. حدثني
  4. ثنا
  5. ثنا
  6. عن
  7. سمعت
  8. عن
  9. The Prophet ﷺ

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Similar wording found in…

1 same wording · 0 partial · group of 2 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