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Sahih Muslim 1034

The upper hand is better than the lower hand, and the upper hand is the one that gives and the lower hand is the one that receives

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَ جَمِيعًا عَنْ يَحْيَى الْقَطَّانِ قَالَ ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُوسَى بْنَ طَلْحَةَ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ حَكِيمَ بْنَ حِزَامٍ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ أَوْ خَيْرُ الصَّدَقَةِ عَنْ ظَهْرِ غِنًى وَالْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُولُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Bashhār and Muḥammad b. Ḥātim Waʾaḥmad b. ʿAbdah Jamīʿ
  2. Yaḥyá al-Qaṭṭān
  3. Ibn Bashhār
  4. Yaḥyá
  5. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
  6. Mūsá b. Ṭalḥah Yuḥaddith
  7. Ḥakīm b. Ḥizām
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The most excellent Sadaqa or the best of Sadaqa is that after giving which the (giver) remains rich and the upper hand is better than the lower hand, and begin from the members of your household.

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 4474Musnad Ahmad 6039Sunan ad-Darimi 1692al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7846al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7975Musnad al-Bazzar 9024

Narrators

  1. Ḥakīm b. Ḥizām
    embraced Islam on the day of the Conquest and accompanied the Prophet ﷺd. 50 AH, or 54 AH, also said 58 AH, or 60 AH
    حَكِيمُ بْنُ حِزَامٍأسلم يوم الفتح وصحب
    حدثه
  2. Mūsá b. Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Taymī
    trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 106 AH
    مُوسَى بْنَ طَلْحَةَثقة جليل
    سمعت
  3. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 151 and 160 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَثقة
    حدثنا
  4. Yaḥyā
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
    يَحْيَى الْقَطَّانِثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
    عن
  5. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdah
    trustworthy (thiqah), accused of nasb (hostility toward ʿAlī and the Ahl al-Bayt)d. 245 AH
    وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَثقة ، رمي بالنصب
    حدثنا
  6. Muslim
    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 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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