Musnad Ahmad Q20844

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
20844
Printed (Qurṭuba edition)
vol. 5, p. 88

This hadith has no established Risāla number, so it is cited by its Qurṭuba number as Q20844. The two numberings differ — do not read Q20844 as Risāla 20844.

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 سمع جابرا يقول : كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقرأ في الظهر بسبح اسم ربك الأعلى ونحوها وفي الصبح بأطول من ذلك

Urdu translation

حضرت جابر بن سمرہ (رض) کی مرویات

حضرت جابر (رض) سے مروی ہے کہ نبی (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) نماز ظہر میں سورت اعلی جیسی سورتیں پڑھتے تھے اور نماز فجر میں اس سے لمبی سورتیں پڑھتے تھے۔

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

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
    أبي
  4. ثنا
    سليمان بن داود
  5. ثنا
    شعبة
  6. عن
    سماك
  7. سمع
    جابرا

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…

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