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Sahih Muslim 85a

Clarifying that faith in Allah most high is the best of deeds

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ عَنِ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ الْعَيْزَارِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِيَاسٍ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَىُّ الْعَمَلِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ الصَّلاَةُ لِوَقْتِهَا قَالَ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَىٌّ قَالَ بِرُّ الْوَالِدَيْنِ قَالَ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَىٌّ قَالَ الْجِهَادُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَمَا تَرَكْتُ أَسْتَزِيدُهُ إِلاَّ إِرْعَاءً عَلَيْهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. ʿAlī b. Mushir
  3. al-Shaybānī
  4. al-Walīd b. al-ʿAyzār
  5. Saʿd b. Iyās Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

Prayer at its appointed hour. I (again) said: Then what? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Kindness to the parents. I (again) said: Then what? He replied: Earnest endeavour (Jihad) in the cause of Allah. And I would have not ceased asking more questions but out of regard (for his feelings).

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 568وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَي الْأَعْمَال أحب إِلَى الله قَالَ: «الصَّلَاةُ لِوَقْتِهَا» قُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَيُّ قَالَ: «بِرُّ الْوَالِدَيْنِ» قُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَيُّ قَالَ: «الْ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2782Musnad Ahmad 27105Sahih Ibn Hibban 1475Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 2237Sunan al-Daraqutni 967Sunan al-Daraqutni 975

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    عن
  2. Saʿd b. Iyās al-Shaybānī
    trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍramd. 95 AH or 96 AH or 98 AH or 101 AH
    سَعْدِ بْنِ إِيَاسٍ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيِّثقة ، مخضرم
    عن
  3. Al-Walīd b. al-ʿAyzār b. Ḥurayth
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AH
    الْوَلِيدِ ج١ / ص٦٣بْنِ الْعَيْزَارِثقة
    عن
  4. al-Shaybānī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH. Al-Wāqidī said, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr: 129 AH. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī: 138 AH. Abū Muʿāwiyah said, and Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr: 139 AH. Al-Bukhārī said: 141 AH or 142 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: he died when two years of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate had passed
    الشَّيْبَانِيِّثقة
    عن
  5. ʿAlī b. Mushir
    trustworthy (thiqah), with some odd reports (gharāʾib) after he went blindd. 189 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍثقة له غرائب بعد ما أضر
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  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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  7. Muslim
    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 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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