al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3087
✧ Good Character
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ:
« إِنَّ خِيَارَكُمْ أَحَاسِنُكُمْ أَخْلَاقًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Nuʿaym
- Ṭalḥah
- ʿAṭāʾ
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ "The best of you are those with the best character."
Grades by grader
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 21121Musnad Ahmad 21264Sahih Ibn Hibban 477al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 2070Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25824
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AHعَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منهعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 152 AHطَلْحَةُمتروكحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AHأَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالحارث بن محمد بن أبي أسامة
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