al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7926
✧ The Chapters on Voluntary Charity
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ: الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ بُرْهَانَ الْغَزَّالُ، وَأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ: عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرَانَ الْعَدْلُ، وَأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ، وَأَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ: عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بِبَغْدَادَ، قَالُوا: أَنْبَأَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ، ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَرَفَةَ، ثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ، عَنْ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ:
سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " لَتُنَبَّأَنَّ أَنْ تَصَدَّقَ وَأَنْتَ صَحِيحٌ شَحِيحٌ تَأْمُلُ الْبَقَاءَ وَتَخَافُ الْفَقْرَ، وَلَا تُمْهِلْ حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْحُلْقُومَ، قُلْتَ: لِفُلَانٍ كَذَا، وَلِفُلَانٍ كَذَا، أَلَا وَقَدْ كَانَ لِفُلَانٍ.
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar b. Burhān al-Ghazzāl and ʾAbū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Bishrān al-ʿAdl Waʾabū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān Waʾabū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār Bibaghdād
- Ūā Anbaʾ Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿArafah
- Jarīr b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd
- ʿUmārah b. al-Qaʿqāʿ
- Abū Zurʿah
- Abū Hurayrah
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The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked: "Which charity is best?" He said: "You will surely be informed: that you give in charity while you are healthy and miserly, hoping to live long and fearing poverty. And do not delay until, when it reaches the throat, you say: 'So-and-so gets such-and-such, and so-and-so gets such-and-such,' when it already belongs to so-and-so.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 2748Sahih Muslim 1032aSahih Muslim 1032cSunan an-Nasa'i 3611
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)d. between 91 and 100 AHأَبِي زُرْعَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 140 AHعُمَارَةَ بْنِ الْقَعْقَاعِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 252 AH, or 253 AH, or 257 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ ج٤ / ص١٩٠عَرَفَةَصدوقحدثنا
- d. 341 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُأنبأ
- وَأَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ : عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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