Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 7279
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وَأَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ، أنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، نا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، نا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ، نا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيِّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ،
قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ الشَّفَاعَةُ، بِهَا يُفَكُّ الْأَسِيرُ "
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machine translationAnd ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān informed us, (he said) Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd informed us, (he said) Hishām b. ʿAlī narrated to us, (he said) Abū al-Rabīʿ narrated to us, (he said) Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar narrated to us, from Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī, from al-Ḥasan, from Samurah b. Jundub,
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He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The best charity is intercession, by which the captive is freed."
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- Misykatul Mashabih 3387وَعَن سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ الشَّفَاعَةُ بِهَا تُفَكُّ الرَّقَبَة». رَوَاهُ الْبَيْهَقِيّ فِي «شعب الْإِيمَان»
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Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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