Sahih Ibn Hibban 4176
✧ The companionship of married couples
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ الضَّرِيرُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«أَكْمَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِيمَانًا أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا وَخِيَارُكُمْ خِيَارُكُمْ لِنِسَائِهِمْ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān al-Shaybānī
- Muḥammad b. al-Minhāl al-Ḍarīr
- Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “The most complete of the believers in faith are those with the best character, and the best of you are those who are best to their wives.”
Grades by grader
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Abī Ḥatim
حديث الحارث بسنده لعائشة أشبه ومحمد بن عمرو بسنده لابي هريرة لزم الطريق
machine translationThe hadith of al-Ḥārith with his chain of transmission to ʿĀʾishah is more likely [to be correct], while Muḥammad b. ʿAmr with his chain of transmission to Abū Hurayrah kept to the [well-known] route.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 4181
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 278"أكمل المؤمنين إيمانا أحسنهم خُلقا، وخياركم خياركم لنسائهم"
- Riyadhus Shalihin 627“أكمل المؤمنين إيماناً أحسنهم خلقاً وخياركم خياركم لنسائهم”.
Other narrations of this report
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 (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهامحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 231 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ الضَّرِيرُثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ الشَّيْبَانِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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