Sahih Muslim 996
The virtue of spending on one's family and slaves, and the sin of the one who neglects them or withholds maintenance from them
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حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَرْمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبْجَرَ الْكِنَانِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍ عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ
كُنَّا جُلُوسًا مَعَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو إِذْ جَاءَهُ قَهْرَمَانٌ لَهُ فَدَخَلَ فَقَالَ أَعْطَيْتَ الرَّقِيقَ قُوتَهُمْ قَالَ لاَ قَالَ فَانْطَلِقْ فَأَعْطِهِمْ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ إِثْمًا أَنْ يَحْبِسَ عَمَّنْ يَمْلِكُ قُوتَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Saʿīd b. Muḥammad al-Jarmī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abjar al-Kinānī
- his father
- Ṭalḥah b. Muṣarrif
- Khaythamah
While we were sitting in the company of 'Abdullah b. 'Umar there came in his steward. He (Ibn 'Umar) said: Have you supplied the provision to the slaves? He said: No. Upon this he said: Go and give (the provision) to them, for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has said: This sin is enough for a man that he withholds the subsistence from one whose master he is.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 1154وَهُوَ عِنْدَ مُسْلِمٍ بِلَفْظِ: "أَنْ يَحْبِسَ عَمَّنْ يَمْلِكُ قُوتَهُ".
- Sunan Abu Dawud 1692كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ إِثْمًا أَنْ يُضَيِّعَ مَنْ يَقُوتُ
- Misykatul Mashabih 3346وَعَن عبد الله بن عَمْرو جَاءَهُ قَهْرَمَانٌ لَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَعْطَيْتَ الرَّقِيقَ قُوتَهُمْ؟ قَالَ: لَا قَالَ: فَانْطَلِقْ فَأَعْطِهِمْ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «كَفَى بِالرَّجُلِ إِثْمًا أَنْ يَح
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 4241al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14444al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15875Musnad al-Bazzar 2423
Narrators
- One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاءصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah), and he used to narrate mursal reportsd. after 80 AH, before Abū Wāʾil, Ibn Qāniʿ dated it to the year 80 AH, also said: 85 AHخَيْثَمَةَثقة ، وكان يرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a Qurʾān reciter, virtuousd. 110 AH, or: 112 AH, or: 113 AHطَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍثقة قارئ فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. between 141 AH and 150 AHأَبِيهِثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 181 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبْجَرَ الْكِنَانِيُّثقةحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. between 221 AH and 230 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَرْمِيُّصدوق، رمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- 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)
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