al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20842
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحُرْفِيُّ، وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي طَاهِرٍ الدَّقَّاقُ بِبَغْدَادَ قَالَا: أَنْبَأَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ الْقُرَشِيُّ الْكُوفِيُّ، ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَ، ثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ النَّوَّاسِ بْنِ سَمْعَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ:
سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنِ الْبِرِّ، وَالْإِثْمِ فَقَالَ: الْبِرُّ: حُسْنُ الْخُلُقِ، وَالْإِثْمُ: مَا حَاكَ فِي نَفْسِكَ وَكَرِهْتَ أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ عَلَيْهِ النَّاسُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥurfī and ʾAbū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abū Ṭāhir al-Daqqāq Bibaghdād
- Anbaʾ ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Zubayr al-Qurashī al-Kūfī
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAffān
- Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb
- Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Jubayr b. Nufayr b. Mālik al-Ḥaḍramī
- his father
- al-Nawwās b. Samʿān al-Anṣārī
Machine translation, not reviewed
I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about righteousness and sin, and he said: "Righteousness is good character, and sin is what wavers in your soul and you dislike that people should come to know of it."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 623“البر حسن الخلق، والإثم: ما حاك في نفسك وكرهت أن يطلع عليه الناس”
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- well-known Companiond. between 41 and 50 AHالنَّوَّاس بْن سَمْعَان الْكِلَابِيّصحابي ، مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 75 AH, also said: 80 AH, also said: after itأَبِيهِثقة جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 118 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْحَضْرَمِيُّثقةحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 152 AH, said by Abū Bakr b. Kāmil, known as Ibn al-Qawwās, 158 AH, 168 AH, 172 AH, said by Abū Marwān b. Ḥayyān, author of the History of al-Andalusمُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍصدوق له أوهامعن
- and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوريحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 270 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَصدوقحدثنا
- عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ الْقُرَشِيُّ الْكُوفِيُّأنبأ
- وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي طَاهِرٍ الدَّقَّاقُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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