Sahih al-Bukhari 5028
The best among you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ
إِنَّ أَفْضَلَكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Nuʿaym
- Sufyān
- ʿAlqamah b. Marthad
- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "The most superior among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it."
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2908Musnad Ahmad 412al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10354al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3066al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8003
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 74 AH, Ibn Ḥajar reported his death from Ibn Qāniʿ in the year 85 AH, also said: 70 AH, also said: 72 AH, also said: 73 AH, also said 92 AH, ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Qāniʿ said, as al-Dhahabī reported from him: 105 AH, and he said: it is an error, not to be followedأَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AHعَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AHأَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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