al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1195
✧ The best charity
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ هُوَ ابْنُ يُونُسَ، حَدَّثَتْنِي أُمُّ الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ مُنْيَةَ، عَنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي بَرْزَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
كَانَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ تِسْعُ نِسْوَةٍ، فَقَالَ يَوْمًا: خَيْرُكُنَّ أَطْوَلُكُنَّ يَدًا. فَقَامَتْ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ تَضَعُ يَدَهَا عَلَى الْجِدَارِ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: لَسْتُ أَعْنِي هَذَا، وَلَكِنْ أَعْنِي أَصْنَعَكُنَّ يَدًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh
- Ibn Yūnus
- Um al-Aswad
- Munyah
- Ḥadīth Abū Barzah
✧ The Prophet ﷺ had nine wives, and one day he said: 'The best of you is the one with the longest hand.' So each one of them stood up and placed her hand on the wall. Then he ﷺ said: 'I do not mean this; rather, I mean the one among you who is most generous with her hand.'
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 64 AH, or: 65 AH, or after itنَضْلَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَابِدٍ الْأَسْلَمِيُّصحابيعن
- her status is not knownمُنْيَةَلا يعرف حالهاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)أُمُّ الْأَسْوَدِثقةحدثتني
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ هُوَ ابْنُ يُونُسَثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.