Musnad Ahmad 27525
✧ The rest of Abi Darda's speech.
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حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ أَعْمَالِكُمْ، وَأَزْكَاهَا عِنْدَ مَلِيكِكُمْ، وَأَرْفَعِهَا لِدَرَجَاتِكُمْ ؟ وَخَيْرٍ لَكُمْ مِنْ إِعْطَاءِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْوَرِقِ، وَخَيْرٍ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنْ تَلْقَوْا عَدُوَّكُمْ فَتَضْرِبُوا رِقَابَهُمْ وَيَضْرِبُونَ رِقَابَكُمْ ؟ ذِكْرُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥajjāj b. Muḥammad
- Abū Maʿshar
- Mūsá b. ʿUqbah
- Ziyād b. Abū Ziyād a freed slave of Ibn ʿAyyāsh
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Shall I not tell you of the best of your deeds, and the purest in the sight of your King, and the highest in raising your ranks, better for you than giving gold and silver, and better for you than meeting your enemy and striking their necks while they strike your necks? It is the remembrance of God, Mighty and Majestic.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه أحمد وإسناده حسن
in مسند أحمد, p. 28120 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
يروى مسندا من طرق جيدة عن أبي الدرداء
in مسند أحمد, p. 28120
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3377Sunan Ibn Majah 3790Muwatta' Malik 15-26
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 135 AHزِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ - مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), an imām in the military expeditions (maghāzī)d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, also said: 135 AH, also said: before 145 AHمُوسَى بْنِ عُقْبَةَثقة فقيه ، إمام في المغازيعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), he grew old and his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ)d. 170 AHأَبُو مَعْشَرٍضعيف ، أسن واختلطحدثنا
- 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 AHحَجَّاجُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موتهحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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