al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2109
✧ Ahmad b. Zuhayr al-Tustari
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: نَا أَبُو حَفْصٍ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: نَا خَلَّادُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْبَاهِلِيُّ قَالَ: نَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ أَبِي غَنِيَّةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ - ﷺ
أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ: أَيُّ الْإِسْلَامِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ، قِيلَ: وَأَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " مَنْ عُقِرَ جَوَادُهُ، وَأُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ "، قِيلَ: فَأَيُّ الصَّلَاةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: " طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- Abū Ḥafṣ ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
- Khallād b. Yazīd al-Bāhilī
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abū Ghaniyyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Wāʾil
- Abū Mūsá
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ He was asked: Which Islam is best? He said: "The one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe." It was said: "And which jihad is best?" He said: "The one whose horse is hamstrung and whose blood is spilled." It was said: "And which prayer is best?" He said: "Lengthy humble standing (qunut)."
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 151 AH and 160 AHعَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ أَبِي غَنِيَّةَثقةنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), eminentd. 220 AHخَلَّادُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصدوق جليلنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHأَبُو حَفْصٍ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظنا
- d. 310 AHأَحْمَدُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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