Sahih al-Bukhari 2793
To proceed in Allah's Cause
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حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُلَيْحٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ هِلاَلِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
لَقَابُ قَوْسٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِمَّا تَطْلُعُ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ وَتَغْرُبُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir
- Muḥammad b. Fulayḥ
- my father
- Hilāl b. ʿAlī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū ʿAmrah
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "A place in Paradise as small as a bow is better than all that on which the sun rises and sets (i.e. all the world)." He also said, "A single endeavor in Allah's Cause in the afternoon or in the forenoon is better than all that on which the sun rises and sets."
Notes
وَقَالَ لَغَدْوَةٌ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِمَّا تَطْلُعُ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ وَتَغْرُبُ
machine translationAnd he said: "A morning or an evening journey in the cause of Allah is better than everything upon which the sun rises and sets."
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1664Musnad Ahmad 15570Musnad Ahmad 23264Musnad Ahmad 23274al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5845al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17960
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: He did not have companionship (ṣuḥbah) with the Prophet.d. between 101 AH and 110 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرَةَقال ابن أبي حاتم : ليست له صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110-odd AH, or: at the end of the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malikهِلَالِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many errors (kathīr al-khaṭaʾ)d. 168 AHأَبِيصدوق ، كثير الخطأحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 197 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُلَيْحٍصدوق يهمحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 235 AH, or 236 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِصدوقحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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