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Sunan an-Nasa'i 2534

Giving Charity When You Are Self-Sufficient

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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

خَيْرُ الصَّدَقَةِ مَا كَانَ عَنْ ظَهْرِ غِنًى وَالْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُولُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah
  2. Bakr
  3. Ibn ʿAjlān
  4. his father
  5. Abū Hurayrah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The best of charity is that which is given when you are self-sufficient, and the upper hand is better than the lower hand, and start with those for whom you are responsible."

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniGood-Soundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 2533fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. His father
    no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. between 101 AH and 110 AH
    أَبِيهِلا بأس به
    عن
  3. Ibn ʿAjlān
    truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AH
    ابْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرة
    عن
  4. Bakr b. Muḍar
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 173 AH, or 174 AH
    بَكْرٌثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  5. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
    أخبرنا
  6. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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