مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr al-Māzinī
(30)
مُسْنَدُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُسْرٍ الْمَازِنِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 306
Ḥassān ibn Nūḥ al-Ḥimṣī reported:
I saw ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr (may Allah be pleased with him) saying, “Do you see this palm of mine? I bear witness that I placed it on the palm of Muḥammad ﷺ.” He forbade fasting on Saturday except as an obligatory fast, and said, “If one of you finds nothing but the bark of a tree, let him break his fast with it.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 306
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَسَّانُ بْنُ نُوحٍ حِمْصِيٌّ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ بُسْرٍ، يَقُولُ: تَرَوْنَ كَفِّي هَذِهِ، فَأَشْهَدُ أَنِّي وَضَعْتُهَا عَلَى كَفِّ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَنَهَى عَنْ صِيَامِ يَوْمِ السَّبْتِ، إِلَّا فِي فَرِيضَةٍ، وَقَالَ: «إِنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَّا لِحَاءَ شَجَرَةٍ فَلْيُفْطِرْ عَلَيْهِ
| Grade: | Ṣaḥīḥ |
The narrators are thiqāt, but the ḥadīth is muʿallal (defective)
Chain: ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Alhānī al-Ḥimṣī → Ḥassān ibn Nūḥ al-Ḥimṣī → ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Alhānī: thiqah. (2) Ḥassān ibn Nūḥ al-Ḥimṣī: maqbūl. (3) ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr: as above. Takhrīj: Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah all narrate versions of the Saturday-fasting prohibition from ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr through other chains (via his sister al-Ṣammāʾ). This is one of the most debated hadiths on the subject of voluntary fasting: several senior critics, including Imām Mālik, Abū Dāwūd himself, and al-Nasāʾī, considered the chain muḍṭarib (confused, with conflicting versions), and noted it appears to contradict the authentic hadiths of the Ṣaḥīḥayn permitting fasting on Saturdays that coincide with other recommended days (e.g., ʿĀshūrāʾ or the day of ʿArafah). Later scholars such as al-Albānī, however, judged the report authentic when its various chains are combined, interpreting the prohibition as applying specifically to singling out Saturday alone for voluntary fasting out of reverence for it, in imitation of the Jews, rather than a blanket prohibition.
Chain: ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Alhānī al-Ḥimṣī → Ḥassān ibn Nūḥ al-Ḥimṣī → ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Alhānī: thiqah. (2) Ḥassān ibn Nūḥ al-Ḥimṣī: maqbūl. (3) ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr: as above. Takhrīj: Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah all narrate versions of the Saturday-fasting prohibition from ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr through other chains (via his sister al-Ṣammāʾ). This is one of the most debated hadiths on the subject of voluntary fasting: several senior critics, including Imām Mālik, Abū Dāwūd himself, and al-Nasāʾī, considered the chain muḍṭarib (confused, with conflicting versions), and noted it appears to contradict the authentic hadiths of the Ṣaḥīḥayn permitting fasting on Saturdays that coincide with other recommended days (e.g., ʿĀshūrāʾ or the day of ʿArafah). Later scholars such as al-Albānī, however, judged the report authentic when its various chains are combined, interpreting the prohibition as applying specifically to singling out Saturday alone for voluntary fasting out of reverence for it, in imitation of the Jews, rather than a blanket prohibition.
| Reference | : Three-Narrator Ahadith 306 |
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