Sahih Muslim 2452
The Virtues Of Zainab, The Mother Of The Believers (RA)
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حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ أَبُو أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى السِّيْنَانِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا طَلْحَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ بِنْتِ طَلْحَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أُمِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
أَسْرَعُكُنَّ لَحَاقًا بِي أَطْوَلُكُنَّ يَدًا قَالَتْ فَكُنَّ يَتَطَاوَلْنَ أَيَّتُهُنَّ أَطْوَلُ يَدًا قَالَتْ فَكَانَتْ أَطْوَلَنَا يَدًا زَيْنَبُ لأَنَّهَا كَانَتْ تَعْمَلُ بِيَدِهَا وَتَصَدَّقُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān Abū Aḥmad
- al-Faḍl b. Mūsá al-Sīnānī
- Ṭalḥah b. Yaḥyá b. Ṭalḥah
- ʿĀʾishah Bint Ṭalḥah
- ʿĀʾishah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
One who has the longest hands amongst you would meet me most immediately. She farther said: They (the wives of Allah's Apostle) used to measure the hands as to whose hand was the longest and it was the hand of Zainab that was the longest amongst them, as she used to work with her hand and Spend (that income) on charity.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2541Musnad Ahmad 24899Sahih Ibn Hibban 3314Sahih Ibn Hibban 6665al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2300al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2334
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 100 AHعَائِشَةَ بِنْتِ طَلْحَةَثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or: 148 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbānطَلْحَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَصدوق يخطئأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), though at times he narrated unusual reports (aghraba)d. 192 AHالْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى السِّينَانِيُّثقة ثبت وربما أغربحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Bukhārī and others said: 239 AH. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad b. Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī said: 249 AHمَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ أَبُو أَحْمَدَثقةحدثنا
- 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
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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