al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1193
✧ The best charity
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ سَعْدٌ ؓ:
يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مُرْنِي بِصَدَقَةٍ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: اسْقِ، يَعْنِي الْمَاءَ. قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: فَنَصَبَ سِقَايَتَيْنِ كُنْتُ أَسْعَى بَيْنَهُمَا وَأَنَا غُلَامٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- ʿAbd al-Wārith
- Yūnus
- al-Ḥasan
- Saʿd
✧ O Messenger of Allah, command me with a charity. He ﷺ said: 'Give water to drink,' meaning water. Al-Hasan said: 'So he set up two drinking places between which I used to run while I was a boy.'
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- ابن الملقن
مرسل الحسن لم يدرك سعدا
machine translationIt is a mursal report (mursal) of al-Ḥasan; he did not meet Saʿd.
in المطالب العالية, p. 1193 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
وهو منقطع أيضا
machine translationIt is also broken in its chain (munqaṭiʿ).
in المطالب العالية, p. 1193
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1679Sunan an-Nasa'i 3664Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2744al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5385al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6474al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1511
Narrators
- one of the Nuqabāʾ, chief of the Khazraj, and one of the generousd. 15 AH or 16 AH, also said: 14 AH, also said: 11 AH, aH, also said: 10 AHسَعْد بْن عُبَادَةأحد النقباء وسيد الخزرج ، وأحد الأجوادصريح في السماع
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), virtuous, scrupulous.d. 138 AH, or 139 AH, or 140 AHيُونُسَثقة ثبت فاضل ورععن
- trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AHعَبْدُ الْوَارِثِثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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