Sunan Abi Dawud 4682

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said: The most perfect believer in respect of faith is he who is best of them in manners.

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• Ibn Abī Ḥatim

  حديث الحارث بسنده لعائشة أشبه ومحمد بن عمرو بسنده لابي هريرة لزم الطريق

  machine translationThe hadith of al-Ḥārith with his chain of transmission to ʿĀʾishah is more likely [to be correct], while Muḥammad b. ʿAmr with his chain of transmission to Abū Hurayrah kept to the [well-known] route. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4668

Same hadith, other wordings

• Jami at-Tirmidzi 1162قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَكْمَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِيمَانًا أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا وَخِيَارُكُمْ خِيَارُكُمْ لِنِسَائِهِمْ خُلُقًا قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ
• Jami at-Tirmidzi 2612إِنَّ مِنْ أَكْمَلِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِيمَانًا أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا وَأَلْطَفُهُمْ بِأَهْلِهِ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3263وَعَن عَائِشَة رَضِي الله عَنهُ قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «إِنَّ مِنْ أَكْمَلِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِيمَانًا أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا وألطفهم بأَهْله». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3264قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَكْمَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِيمَانًا أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا وَخِيَارُكُمْ خِيَارُكُمْ لِنِسَائِهِمْ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَقَالَ: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَرَوَاهُ أَبُو د

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2144Musnad Ahmad 19435Sahih Ibn Hibban 178al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14550al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5909al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7049al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8131al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20840Musnad al-Bazzar 923

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 Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAmr

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   نا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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