Musnad Ahmad 21718

Translation

✧ A man bequeathed dinars in the way of God, and Abu al-Darda was asked, so he narrated from the Prophet ﷺ that he said: The likeness of one who frees a slave — or gives charity — at his death is the likeness of one who gives a gift after he is full.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو حَبِيبَةَ فَأَصَابَنِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْءٌ

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3968Sunan an-Nasa'i 3614

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū al-Dardāʾ

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphate
   أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليل
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Abū Ḥabībah al-Ṭāʾī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبَا حَبِيبَةَمقبول
   سمع
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبَا إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   سمعت
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُ [١]ثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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