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Musnad Ahmed: Hadith 3758

26. 'Musnad of Abdullah bin Mas''ood'

مسند احمد

3758
Musnad Ahmed
Its isnad is da'eef because Mujalid - bin Sa'eed al-Hamdani - is da'eef]
It was narrated that Masrooq said:
We were sitting with 'Abdullah bin Mas'ood and he was teaching us the Qur'an. A man said to him: O Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman, did you ask the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) how many caliphs this ummah would have? 'Abdullah said: Nobody has asked me about that before you, since I came to Iraq. Then he said: Yes, we asked The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (about that) and he said: “Twelve, like the number of the leaders of the Children of Israel."
Reference: Musnad Ahmad 3781
Arabic/English book : Book 26, Hadith 3781