Sometimes some of the memorizers attribute hadiths to the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, but when we check them, we may not find them in it.
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The questioner : Okay, Shaykh, regarding the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, sometimes some of the memorizers attribute some hadiths to it, but when checked, they may not be found. Is the edition currently in our hands missing something, according to your research?
The Shaykh : I do not think so, although nothing is free from that due to the variation in narrations. But what we see is that a narration from a Companion may appear incidentally in a Musnad other than his own, appearing in the Musnad of another Companion, and we do not know the reason. However, some scholars, when they wrote biographies of al-Quta'i, attributed to him some error and confusion in classification. This is clear, because you see, for example, in some Musnads, the remainder of the Musnad of Abu ibn Ka'b, for example. What made it the remainder and what made it follow his Musnad there? It appears he had special circumstances that led him to lack precision in the arrangement.
The reader: Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, and Rubayy ibn 'Ulayyah, the brother of Isma'il ibn 'Ulayyah, narrated to us, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from 'Ata ibn Yasar, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah... and in the hadith: ... they are praying.
The Shaykh : Look, is there another narration?
The reader: The narration that follows does not include their enumeration of the righteous deeds for them.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The same chain of narration.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : The chain of narration he cited is the same as in Muslim.
The Shaykh : No, this is different, but it is from Abu Sa'id in any case.
The questioner : And also from 'Ata.
The Shaykh : I do not think so, although nothing is free from that due to the variation in narrations. But what we see is that a narration from a Companion may appear incidentally in a Musnad other than his own, appearing in the Musnad of another Companion, and we do not know the reason. However, some scholars, when they wrote biographies of al-Quta'i, attributed to him some error and confusion in classification. This is clear, because you see, for example, in some Musnads, the remainder of the Musnad of Abu ibn Ka'b, for example. What made it the remainder and what made it follow his Musnad there? It appears he had special circumstances that led him to lack precision in the arrangement.
The reader: Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, and Rubayy ibn 'Ulayyah, the brother of Isma'il ibn 'Ulayyah, narrated to us, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from 'Ata ibn Yasar, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah... and in the hadith:
Their pleading is more intense than that of their brothers who fell into the Fire. They say: "Our Lord, we used to fight together, and we used to perform Hajj together, and we used to perform 'Umrah together. How did we escape today while they perished?"
أشد مناشدة منهم من إخوانهم الذي سقطوا في النار فيقولون أي رب كُنَّا نَغْزُو جَمِيعًا، وَنَحُجُّ جَمِيعًا ، وَنَعْتَمِرُ جَمِيعًا ، فِيمَ نَجَوْنَا الْيَوْمَ وَهَلَكُوا؟The Shaykh : Look, is there another narration?
The reader: The narration that follows does not include their enumeration of the righteous deeds for them.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The same chain of narration.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : The chain of narration he cited is the same as in Muslim.
The Shaykh : No, this is different, but it is from Abu Sa'id in any case.
The questioner : And also from 'Ata.