Sahih al-Bukhari 11
Whose Islam is the best (Who is the best Muslim)?
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حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْقُرَشِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بُرْدَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى ؓ قَالَ
قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الإِسْلاَمِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ۔»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Saʿīd b. Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Qurashī
- my father
- Abū Burdah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Burdah
- Abū Burdah
- Abū Mūsá
Some people asked Messenger of Allah ﷺ, "Whose Islam is the best? i.e. (Who is a very good Muslim)?" He replied, "One who avoids harming the Muslims with his tongue and hands."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 46عَن عَمْرو بن عبسة قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُول الله من تبعك عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ قَالَ حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ قُلْتُ مَا الْإِسْلَامُ قَالَ طِيبُ الْكَلَامِ وَإِطْعَامُ الطَّعَامِ قُلْتُ مَ
- Shahih Muslim 42aقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الإِسْلاَمِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ
- Sunan an-Nasa'i 4999قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الإِسْلاَمِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ
- Musnad Ahmad 19435أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ مَعَكَ عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ ؟ قَالَ: حُرٌّ وَعَبْدٌ قُلْتُ: مَا الْإِسْلَامُ ؟ قَالَ: طِيبُ الْكَلَامِ، وَإِطْعَامُ الطَّعَامِ، قُلْتُ: مَا الْإِيمَانُ ؟ قَالَ: الصَّبْرُ وَالسَّمَ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17027Musnad Ahmad 8931Sahih Ibn Hibban 180al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14769al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3430
Narrators
- 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. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AHأَبِي بُرْدَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), makes a few mistakesd. between 141 and 150 AHأَبُو بُرْدَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَثقة ، يخطئ قليلاحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) but narrates unfamiliar reports (yughrib)d. 194 AHأَبِيصدوق يغربحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), sometimes erredd. 249 AH, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī erred and dated it to the year 259 AH, and al-Khaṭīb rejected thatسَعِيدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْقُرَشِيُّثقة ، ربما أخطأحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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