Musnad Ahmad 1546

Translation

✧ I fell ill in Makkah in the year of the conquest with a severe illness, and I was on the verge of death. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to visit me. I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I have much wealth, and no one will inherit from me except my daughter. Should I give two-thirds of my wealth as charity?' — and Sufyan said once: 'Should I give all my wealth as charity?' He said: 'No.' I said: 'Then a half?' He said: 'No.' I said: 'A third?' He said: 'A third, and a third is a lot. For you to leave your heirs wealthy is better than leaving them poor, begging from people. You will never spend anything seeking thereby the countenance of Allah except that you will be rewarded for it, even the morsel you raise to your wife's mouth.' I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, will I be left behind after my emigration?' He said: 'You will not be left behind after me such that you do a deed seeking thereby the countenance of Allah except that you will increase in rank and degree. Perhaps you will be left behind until some people benefit through you and others are harmed through you. O Allah, complete the emigration of my companions and do not turn them back on their heels. But the wretched one is Sa'd b. Khawlah.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ grieved for him that he died in Makkah.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري وهو صحيح عنه ورواه سعد بن إبراهيم فاختلف عنه فيه فرواه الثوري عن سعد عن عامر بن سعد عن أبيه وقال مسعر عن سعد حدثني بعض آل سعد عن سعد وهو صحيح عن عامر بن سعد عن أبيه من رواية الزهري ومن رواية سعد بن إبراهيم

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it, and it is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) from him. Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm also narrated it, and there is disagreement about him concerning it: al-Thawrī narrated it from Saʿd, from ʿĀmir b. Saʿd, from his father; and Misʿar said, from Saʿd: "Some of the family of Saʿd narrated to me, from Saʿd." And it is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) from ʿĀmir b. Saʿd, from his father, through the narration of al-Zuhrī and through the narration of Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1553

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1628cSahih Muslim 1628iSunan an-Nasa'i 3632Muwatta' Malik 37-4

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   One of the Ten (promised Paradise), and the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Godd. 50 AH or 51 AH or 54 AH, also said: 56 AH, also said: 57 AH, also said: 58 AH. And the second is better known
   سَعْد بْن أَبِي وَقَّاصأحد العشرة ، وأول من رمى بسهم في سبيل الله
   عن
2. 2
   ʿĀmir b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, also said: 96 AH
   عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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