Sunan an-Nasa'i 2542

Translation

"A man said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which kind of charity is best? He said: 'Giving charity when you are in good health, and feeling stingy, hoping for a long life and fearing poverty."'

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2748Sahih Muslim 1032aSahih Muslim 1032cSunan an-Nasa'i 3611Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2701al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6421

Narrators

1. 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. 2
   Abū Zurʿah b. ʿAmrū b. Jarīr al-Ghalābī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   أَبِي زُرْعَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUmārah b. al-Qaʿqāʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 140 AH
   عُمَارَةَ بْنِ الْقَعْقَاعِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Bukhārī and others said: 239 AH. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad b. Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī said: 249 AH
   مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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