Sunan an-Nasa'i 3170
The Virtue Of Ar-Ribat (Guarding The Frontier)
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَعْنٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زَهْرَةُ بْنُ مَعْبَدِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ قَالَ قَالَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ ؓ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
يَوْمٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ يَوْمٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
- Ibn al-Mubārak
- Abū Maʿn
- Zahrah b. Maʿbad
- Abū Ṣāliḥ a freed slave of ʿUthmān
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"uthman bin 'Affan said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: A day in the cause of Allah is better than a thousand days doing anything else.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 3170Another source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Sunan an-Nasa'i 3169رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ يَوْمٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهُ مِنَ الْمَنَازِلِ
- Misykatul Mashabih 3831وَعَنْ عُثْمَانَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ يَوْمٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهُ مِنَ الْمَنَازِلِ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَالنَّسَائِيّ
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 2770Musnad Ahmad 463Musnad al-Bazzar 383Musnad al-Bazzar 438
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةقال
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. during the governorship of Muʿāwiyahأَبِي صَالِحٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 127 AH, also said: 135 AHزُهْرَةُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), asceticd. after 150 AHأَبُو مَعْنٍثقة زاهدحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.