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Sahih al-Bukhari 6490

To look at the one who is inferior to and not the superior

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

إِذَا نَظَرَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى مَنْ فُضِّلَ عَلَيْهِ فِي الْمَالِ وَالْخَلْقِ فَلْيَنْظُرْ إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَسْفَلَ مِنْهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ismāʿīl
  2. Mālik
  3. Abū al-Zinād
  4. al-Aʿraj
  5. Abū Hurayrah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If anyone of you looked at a person who was made superior to him in property and (in good) appearance, then he should also look at the one who is inferior to him.

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Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiAgreed Uponhadithunlocked

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Riyadhus Shalihin 466انظروا إلى من هو أسفل منكم ولا تنظروا إلى من هو فوقكم فهو أجدر أن لا تزدروا نعمة الله عليكم"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2963aSahih Muslim 2963bMusnad Ahmad 8147Sahih Ibn Hibban 711Sahih Ibn Hibban 712al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 580

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. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj
    trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
    الْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالم
    عن
  3. Abū al-Zinād
    trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AH
    أَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيه
    عن
  4. Mālik b. Anas
    The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
    مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
    حدثني
  5. Ismāʿīl b. Abī Uways
    Truthful (ṣadūq); he made mistakes in some hadiths from his memoryd. 226 AH, also said: 227 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلُصدوق ، أخطأ في أحاديث من حفظه
    حدثنا
  6. al-Bukhārī
    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 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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riyad 466aMishkat al-Masabih 5242lulu-marjan 1867

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