Sahih Ibn Hibban 3363
✧ The heading "صَدَقَةِ التَّطَوُّعِ" translates to "Voluntary Charity.
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أَخْبَرَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السَّاجِيُّ بِالْبَصْرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ بَهْدَلَةَ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
«خَيْرُ الصَّدَقَةِ مَا كَانَ عَنْ ظَهْرِ غِنًى وَالْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى وَلْيَبْدَأْ أَحَدُكُمْ بِمَنْ يَعُولُ تَقُولُ امْرَأَتُهُ أَنْفِقْ عَلَيَّ وَتَقُولُ أُمُّ وَلَدِهِ إِلَى مَنْ تَكِلُنِي؟ وَيَقُولُ لَهُ عَبْدُهُ أَطْعِمْنِي وَاسْتَعْمِلْنِي»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sājī Bi-al-Baṣrah
- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ghiyāth
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “The best charity is that given out of surplus wealth, and the upper hand is better than the lower hand. Let one of you begin with those he supports: his wife says, ‘Spend on me,’ and the mother of his child says, ‘To whom are you leaving me?’ and his slave says, ‘Feed me and employ me.’”
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Due to Additions | hadithunlocked |
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
وهم إسحاق في اختصار هذا الحديث وذلك أن الحديث إنما هو عاصم عن أبي صالح عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ابدأ بمن تعول تقول امرأتك أنفق علي أو طلقني فتأول هذا الحديث
machine translationIsḥāq erred in abridging this hadith. The hadith is actually from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ: "Begin with those whom you support. Your wife says: 'Spend on me or divorce me.'" Then he interpreted this hadith.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3368
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ بَهْدَلَةَصدوق له أوهامعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 238 AH or 239 AH 240 AHعَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ غِيَاثٍصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 307 AHزَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السَّاجِيُّثقة فقيهأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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