Sahih Ibn Hibban 3356

Translation

✧ 'A man said, "I will certainly give charity." He went out with his charity and placed it in the hand of an adulteress. In the morning people were saying, "Charity was given last night to an adulteress." He said, "O Allah, to You be praise—to an adulteress! I will certainly give charity." He went out with his charity and placed it in the hand of a thief. In the morning people were saying, "Charity was given last night to a thief." He said, "O Allah, to You be praise—to a thief! I will certainly give charity tonight." He went out with his charity and placed it in the hand of a rich man. In the morning people were saying, "Charity was given last night to a rich man." He said, "O Allah, to You be praise—to a rich man!" Then he was told, "As for your charity, it has been accepted. As for the adulteress, perhaps she will become chaste by it and refrain from her adultery. As for the thief, perhaps he will refrain from his theft. And perhaps the rich man will take heed and spend from what Allah, Exalted is He, has given him."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1421Sahih Muslim 1022Sunan an-Nasa'i 2523

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   سمع
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
   الْأَعْرَجُثقة ثبت عالم
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Abū al-Zinād

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AH
   أَبُو الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيه
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Warqāʾ

   truthful (ṣadūq), there is softness in his hadith from Manṣūrd. between 161 and 170 AH
   وَرْقَاءُصدوق ، في حديثه عن منصور لين
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Shabābah

   trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, accused of Irjāʾd. Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Thiqāt: 204 AH, al-Ṭarsūsī said: 206 AH
   شَبَابَةُثقة حافظ , رمي بالإرجاء
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Mushkān

   d. 359 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُشْكَانَ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Daghūlī

   d. 325 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الدَّغُولِيُّ
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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