A voice in the chain
أحمد بن أبي شعيب
أحمد بن عبد الله بن مسلم : أبي شعيب
Appears in 21 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
أحمد بن أبي شعيب
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
1
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
0
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
15
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
1
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
4
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
0
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
ثقة
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Kunya
- أبو الحسن
- Lineage / nisba
- الحراني ، القرشي مولاهم ، الأموي
- Generation
- العاشرة
- Died
- قال أبو شعيب : مات جدي سنة 231 هـ . وقال محمد بن يحيى بن كثير : 233 هـ ، وقيل : 232 هـ ، وقيل : 240 هـ ، وقيل : 241 هـ
- Lived in
- حران
- Relatives
- مولى عمر بن عبد العزيز ، والد الحسن ، جد أبي شعيب عبد الله بن الحسن بن أحمد
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Bukhari · 4677يَا أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ ، تِيبَ عَلَى كَعْبٍI heard Ka`b bin Malik who was one of the three who were forgiven, saying that he had never remained behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in any Ghazwa which he had fought except two Ghazwat Ghazwat- Al-`Usra (Tabuk) and Ghazwat8 narratorsAbu Dawud · 67إِنَّ الْمَاءَ طَهُورٌ لَا يُنَجِّسُهُ شَيْءٌNarrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah ﷺ: Water is brought for you from the well of Budaah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown.7 narratorsAbu Dawud · 155أَنَّ النَّجَاشِيَّ أَهْدَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ خُفَّيْنِ أَسْوَدَيْنِ سَاذَجَيْنِ فَلَبِسَهُمَا ، ثُمَّ تَوَضَّأَ وَمَسَحَ عَلَيْهِمَاNarrated Abu Musa al-Ashari: Negus presented to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ two black and simple socks. He put them on; then he performed ablution and wiped over them. Musaddad reported this tradition from Dulham bin Salih.7 narratorsAbu Dawud · 781كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا كَبَّرَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ سَكَتَ بَيْنَ التَّكْبِيرِ وَالْقِرَاءَةِ ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ : بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَأُمِّي ، أَرَأَيْتَ سُكُوتَكَ بَيْنَ التَّكْبِيرِ وَالْقِرAbu Hurairah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept silence between the takbir and the recitation of Quran. So I asked him, for whom I would give my father and mother as ransom: What do you say during you period of silence 8 narrators·parallel chainAbu Dawud · 1193فَجَعَلَ يُصَلِّي رَكْعَتَيْنِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ ، وَيَسْأَلُ عَنْهَا حَتَّى انْجَلَتْNarrated An-Numan ibn Bashir: There was an eclipse of the sun in the time of the Prophet ﷺ. He began to pray a series of pairs of rak'ahs enquiring about the sun (at the end of them) till it became clear.5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1255كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُخَفِّفُ الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ حَتَّى إِنِّي لَأَقُولُ : هَلْ قَرَأَ فِيهِمَا بِأُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ ؟Narrated Aishah: The Prophet ﷺ would pray two rak'ahs before the dawn prayer lightly so much so that I would say: Did he recite Surah al-Fatihah in them.6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1412كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقْرَأُ عَلَيْنَا السُّورَةَ ، قَالَ ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ : فِي غَيْرِ الصَّلَاةِ ، ثُمَّ اتَّفَقَا ، فَيَسْجُدُ وَنَسْجُدُ مَعَهُ حَتَّى لَا يَجِدَ أَحَدُنَا مَكَانًا لNarrated Ibn Umar: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would recite to us a surah (according to the version of Ibn Numair) outside the prayer (the agreed version goes), then he would prostrate along with him, and none of us could f7 narrators·parallel chainAbu Dawud · 1424وَفِي الثَّالِثَةِ بِ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ و الْمُعَوِّذَتَيْنِNarrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: Abdul Aziz ibn Jurayj said: I asked Aishah, mother of the believers: With which (surah) the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to observe witr? (She reported same as in the Hadith of Ubayy ibn Kab,5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1457الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ أُمُّ الْقُرْآنِ ، و أُمُّ الْكِتَابِ ، و السَّبْعُ الْمَثَانِيAbu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe" (1) is the epitome or basis of the Quran, the epitome or basis of the Book, and the seven oft-repeated verses.5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1600فَحَمَى لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَلِكَ الْوَادِيAmr bin Shuaib, on his father's authority, said that his grandfather reported: Hilal, a man from the tribe of Banu Mat'an brought a tenth of honey which he possessed in beehives to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He asked him 6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1668حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي شُعَيْبٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ ، قَالَتْ : قَدِمَتْ عَلَيَّ أُمِّي رَاغِبَةً فِي عَهْدAsma said My mother came to me seeking some act of kindness from me during the treaty of the Quraish (at Hudaibiyyah). While she hated Islam and she was a polytheist. I said Messenger of Allah ﷺ, my mother has come to me5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 2604لَا تُرْسِلُوا فَوَاشِيَكُمْ إِذَا غَابَتِ الشَّمْسُ حَتَّى تَذْهَبَ فَحْمَةُ الْعِشَاءِ ، فَإِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ تَعِيثُ إِذَا غَابَتِ الشَّمْسُ حَتَّى تَذْهَبَ فَحْمَةُ الْعِشَاءِJabir bin Abd Allaah reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying “Do not send out your beasts when the sun has set till the darkness of the night prevails, for the devils grope about in the dark when the sun has set till4 narrators