Musnad Ahmad 9038

Translation

✧ A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was with him and asked him, saying: "O Prophet of Allah, which deeds are best?" He said: "Faith in Allah and jihad in the way of Allah." He said: "What if I cannot do that?" He said: "Which slaves are greatest in reward?" He said: "The most expensive in price and the most precious to their owners." He said: "What if I cannot do that?" He said: "Help a lost person or do something for an inept person." He said: "What if I cannot do that?" He said: "Then restrain yourself from evil, for it is a good charity that you give on behalf of yourself."

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رواه أحمد ورجاله ثقات

  machine translationAḥmad narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9114
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  قال أبي كذا رواه عفان وحدثنا أبو سلمة عن خليفة بن غالب عن سعيد المقبري عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قلت لأبي أيهما أصح قال رواه أبو معشر عن سعيد عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قد اتفق نفسان وهو أشبه عندي فلا أدري ما قال عفان

  in مسند أحمد, p. 9114

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   his father

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. during ʿAbd al-Malik's caliphate, or in the caliphate of al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, or the year 100 AH, al-Ṭaḥāwī said: died in the year 125 AH, and this is a mistake on his part; for it is actually the year his son Saʿīd died
   أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Saʿīd al-Maqburī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيُّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Khalīfah b. Ghālib al-Laythī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 161 and 170 AH
   خَلِيفَةُ بْنُ غَالِبٍ اللَّيْثِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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