Sahih Ibn Hibban 4646
✧ The virtue of spending in the cause of Allah
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْقَزَّازُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى فَرَسِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ»
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah
- ʿImrān b. Mūsá al-Qazzāz
- Ḥammād b. Zayd
- Ayyūb
- Abū Qilābah
- Abū Asmāʾ
- Thawbān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "The best dinar is a dinar that a man spends on his dependents, a dinar he spends on his horse in the cause of Allah, and a dinar a man spends on his companions in the cause of Allah."
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AHثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malikأَبِي أَسْمَاءَثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AHأَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسالعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AHأَيُّوبَثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العبادعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.حدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. after 240 AHعِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْقَزَّازُصدوقحدثنا
- d. 311 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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