al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12172
✧ The collection of chapters on a man's gift to his child
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْقَطَّانُ، ثَنَا قَطَنُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْقُشَيْرِيُّ، ثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، ثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا أُتِيَ بِطَعَامٍ سَأَلَ: " أَهَدِيَّةٌ هُوَ أَمْ صَدَقَةٌ ؟ " فَإِنْ قِيلَ: صَدَقَةٌ، قَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: " كُلُوا "، وَلَمْ يَأْكُلْ، وَإِنْ قِيلَ: هَدِيَّةٌ، ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ فَأَكَلَ مَعَهُمْ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf Anbaʾ Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan al-Qaṭṭān
- Qaṭan b. Ibrāhīm al-Qushayrī
- Ḥafṣ b. ʿAbdullāh
- Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān
- Muḥammad b. Ziyād
- Abū Hurayrah
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When food was brought to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he would ask: "Is it a gift or charity?" If it was said: charity, he would say to his Companions: "Eat," and he did not eat. And if it was said: a gift, he would strike his hand forward and eat with them.
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هذا الحديث صحيح
machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 12172
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), sometimes narrates mursald. between 121 AH and 130 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍثقة ثبت ربما أرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) who narrates unusual reports (yughrib); he was criticized for Irjāʾ (Murjiʾism), and it is said that he retracted itd. 158 AH, or 160 AH, or 163 AH, or 168 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَثقة يغرب ، تكلم فيه للإرجاء ، ويقال : رجع عنهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 209 AHحَفْصُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِصدوقحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 261 AHقَطَنُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْقُشَيْرِيُّصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْقَطَّانُأنبأ
- أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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