Sahih Muslim 1051
The virtue of contentment and encouragement thereof
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حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لَيْسَ الْغِنَى عَنْ كَثْرَةِ الْعَرَضِ وَلَكِنَّ الْغِنَى غِنَى النَّفْسِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zuhayr b. Ḥarb and Ibn Numayr
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Richness does not lie in the abundance of (worldly) goods but richness is the richness of the soul (heart, self).
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 6217Sahih Ibn Hibban 679al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 2686al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7280Musnad Abi Ya'la 6605
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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