al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7895
✧ The Chapters on Voluntary Charity
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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ، أَنْبَأَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:
أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ الْمَنِيحَةُ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَمْنَحُ أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ نَاقَةً تَغْدُو بِرِفْدٍ، وَتَرُوحُ بِرِفْدٍ إِنَّ أَجْرَهَا عِنْدَ اللهِ عَظِيمٌ.
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh Anbaʾ Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- Aḥmad b. Sahl
- ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Sufyān
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah Yablugh Bih al-Nabī ﷺ
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The best charity is the loan of a she-camel for its milk, except for a man among the Muslims who lends a household a she-camel that gives a vessel of milk in the morning and a vessel of milk in the evening; indeed its reward with Allah is great.
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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), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 248 AHعَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِلا بأس بهحدثنا
- d. 282 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَهْلٍحدثنا
- d. 346 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَأنبأ
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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