Sunan Abi Dawud 1449

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ was asked: Which of the actions is better ? He replied: Standing for long time (in prayer). He was again asked: Which alms is better ? He replied: The alms given by a man possessing small property acquired by his labour.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  إسناد قوي

  machine translationThe chain is strong (qawī). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1447
• al-Albani

  صحيح بلفظ: "أي الصلاة"

  in صحيح أبي داود, p. 1449

Same hadith, other wordings

• Jami at-Tirmidzi 387قِيلَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَىُّ الصَّلاَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
• Sunan Ibnu Majah 1421سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَىُّ الصَّلاَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
• Shahih Muslim 756bسُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَىُّ الصَّلاَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3833وَعَن عبدِ الله بنِ حُبَشيٍّ: أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سُئِلَ أَيُّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «طُولُ الْقِيَامِ» قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «جُهْدُ الْمُقِلِّ» قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْهِجْرَةِ أَفْضَ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 4986أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ سُئِلَ أَىُّ الأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ فَقَالَ إِيمَانٌ لاَ شَكَّ فِيهِ وَجِهَادٌ لاَ غُلُولَ فِيهِ وَحَجَّةٌ مَبْرُورَةٌ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 2526Musnad Ahmad 15401al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7867al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2318

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥubshī al-Khathʿamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ حُبْشِيٍّ الْخَثْعَمِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUbayd b. ʿUmayr b. Qatādah al-Jundaʿī

   Unanimously agreed to be trustworthy (thiqah)d. 68 AH, also said: 74 AH
   عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍمجمع على ثقته
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAlī al-Azdī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَلِيٍّ الْأَزْدِيِّصدوق ، ربما أخطأ
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Sulaymān al-Nawfalī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَثقة
   حدثني
5. 5
   Ibn Jurayj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AH
   ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسل
   قال
6. 6
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   نا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 3833