Musnad al-Bazzar 3016
✧ The first hadith of Abu Musa
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا خَلَّادُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي غَنِيَّةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ شَقِيقٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى، ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ - ﷺ
أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ: أَيُّ الْإِسْلَامِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " مَنْ عُقِرَ جَوَادُهُ وَأُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ " قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الصَّلَاةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
- Khallād b. Yazīd
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥumayd b. Abū Ghaniyyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Shaqīq
- Abū Mūsá
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ He was asked: 'Which aspect of Islam is best?' He said: 'One from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe.' It was said: 'Then which jihad is best?' He said: 'One whose horse is wounded and whose blood is shed.' It was said: 'Then which prayer is best?' He said: 'Long qunūt.'
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- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHشَقِيقٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 151 AH and 160 AHعَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي غَنِيَّةَثقةأخبرنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), eminentd. 220 AHخَلَّادُ بْنُ يَزِيدَصدوق جليلأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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