Ahmad 7329

Its isnad is sahih. Abu Dawud narrated it (4961) [4:445, Awn al-Mabud], from Ahmad bin Hanbal, with this isnad. Muslim narrated it (2:169–170) from Saeed bin Amr, Ahmad bin Hanbal, and Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba, all three of them from Sufyan bin Uyayna, with the same wording. Bukhari narrated it (10:486–487) from Ibn Madini, from Sufyan, with the same wording, and before that narrated it by way of Shuayb, from Abu Zinad. Tirmidhi narrated it (4:29) from Muhammad bin Maymun Makki, from Sufyan bin Uyayna, and said, "This is a hasan sahih hadith." A similar wording will come later (8161), from the narration of Hammam bin Munabbih, from Abu Hurairah, and Muslim also narrated it from his narration.His saying, "akhnaa," means most abased and most lowly, from khunu, and the khani is the abased, submissive one. Ahmad reported its explanation from Abu Amr Shaybani, whom he asked about it and who answered him, and Muslim likewise reported Ahmad's narration from Abu Amr. Tirmidhi explained it, saying, "Akhnaa means most vile."As for his saying, "Malik al-Amlak" (King of Kings), it is malik with a kasra under the lam. In Lisan, malik and malak, like the pattern of fakhidh and fakhdh, as though malak is a lightened form of malik, and mulk is a shortened form of maalik or maliik. The plural of malak is amlook, the plural of malik is amlaak, and the plural of maliik is mulakaa.In the narrations of both Muslim and Tirmidhi, its explanation is given, from Sufyan, that it is like "Shahan Shah." In Bukhari's narration, Sufyan said, "Others say its explanation is Shahan Shah." Hafiz said, "Perhaps Sufyan said it once as something he had heard from another, and once on his own authority." As for "Shahan Shah," Hafiz said, "It has sukun on the nun and a ha at the end, and it may take tanwin, and that ha is not a feminine ha, so it should never be pronounced with a ta."