Sahih Muslim 2983
The Virtue Of Treating Widows, The Poor And Orphans Kindly
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حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عِيسَى حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الدِّيلِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْغَيْثِ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:
«كَافِلُ الْيَتِيمِ لَهُ أَوْ لِغَيْرِهِ أَنَا وَهُوَ كَهَاتَيْنِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ»،
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
- Isḥāq b. ʿĪsá
- Mālik
- Thawr b. Zayd al-Dīlī
- Abū al-Ghayth Yuḥaddith
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The one who cares for an orphan, whether his own or someone else’s, he and I will be like these two in Jannah." Malik indicated with the index finger and the middle finger.
Notes
وَأَشَارَ مَالِكٌ بِالسَّبَّابَةِ وَالْوُسْطَى.
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4748al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4791Musnad Abi Ya'la 4867al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3052al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3060
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 الصحابةيحدث عن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 AH and 100 AHأَبَا الْغَيْثِثقةسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr and Ibn Ḥibbān said: 135 AH. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 140 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's "book": 158 AHثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الدِّيلِيِّثقةعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Qāniʿ said: 214 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 215 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Muṭayyan said in his Tārīkh: 216 AH. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 224 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عِيسَىصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبتحدثني
- 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
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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