al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 450
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حَدَّثَنَاهُ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْفَقِيهُ أَنْبَأَ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ الْحَنَّاطُ بِبَغْدَادَ ثنا أَبُو بِلَالٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَازِمٍ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«اسْتَقِيمُوا وَلَنْ تُحْصُوا وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ خَيْرَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ وَلَنْ يُوَاظِبَ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq al-Faqīh Anbaʾ al-Ḥusayn b. Yasār al-Ḥannāṭ Bibaghdād
- Abū Bilāl al-Ashʿarī
- Muḥammad b. Khāzim
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Sufyān
- Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Adhere to righteousness even though you will not be able to do all acts of virtue. Know that the best of your deeds is Salat (prayer) and that no one maintains his ablution except a believer.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 277)
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AHأَبِي سُفْيَانَصدوقعن
- 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), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَازِمٍثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- d. 222 AHأَبُو بِلَالٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُّحدثنا
- الحسين بن يسار الحناطأنبأ
- d. 342 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْفَقِيهُحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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