Muwatta' Malik 15-26

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ziyad ibn Abi Ziyad said that Abu'd-Darda had said, "Shall I not tell you the best of your deeds, and those that give you the highest rank, and those that are the purest with your King, and are better for you than giving gold and silver, and better for you than meeting your enemy and striking their necks?" They said, "Of course." He said, "Remembrance (dhikr) of Allah ta ala."

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  يروى مسندا من طرق جيدة عن أبي الدرداء

  in موطأ مالك, p. 454
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  صححه عن أبي الدرداء عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  in موطأ مالك, p. 454

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 1553{ مَا عَمِلَ ابْنُ آدَمَ عَمَلاً أَنْجَى لَهُ مِنْ عَذَابِ اَللَّهِ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اَللَّهِ }

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3377Sunan Ibn Majah 3790Musnad Ahmad 21702Musnad Ahmad 21704Musnad Ahmad 27525al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1825

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū al-Dardāʾ

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphate
   أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليل
   قال
2. 2
   Ziyād b. Abī Ziyād

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 135 AH
   زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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

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