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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3433

✧ Definition of Islam and Iman

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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا زَائِدَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ قَالَ:

قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَيُّ الْإِسْلَامِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ، قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْإِيمَانِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: الصَّبْرُ وَالسَّمَاحَةُ، قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَكْثَرُ إِيمَانًا ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: مَنْ نُحِرَ جَوَادُهُ وَأُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ. قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الصَّلَاةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ، قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: جُهْدُ الْمُقِلِّ، قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الْهِجْرَةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ تَهْجُرَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللهُ عَلَيْكَ أَخْرَجُوهُ مُخْتَصَرًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr
  2. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī
  3. Zāʾidah
  4. Hishām
  5. al-Ḥasan
  6. Jābir

✧ It was said: "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, which Islam is best?" He ﷺ said: "The one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe." It was said: "Which Iman is best?" He ﷺ said: "Patience and magnanimity." It was said: "Which believers have the most Iman?" He ﷺ said: "The best of them in character." It was said: "Which jihad is best?" He ﷺ said: "The one whose horse is slaughtered and whose blood is shed." It was said: "Which prayer is best?" He ﷺ said: "Long devotion (standing)." It was said: "Which charity is best?" He ﷺ said: "The effort of one with little." It was said: "Which hijrah is best?" He said: "That you abandon what Allah has forbidden you." They narrated it in abridged form.

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Musnad Ahmad 19435Musnad Ahmad 22717Musnad Abi Ya'la 1852al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3434al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3755

Narrators

  1. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
    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 AH
    الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
    عن
  3. Hishām b. Ḥassān al-ʿAtakī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AH
    هِشَامٍثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهما
    عن
  4. Zāʾidah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AH
    زَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنة
    حدثنا
  5. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 203 AH, or 204 AH
    حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف

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