al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3170

Translation

✧ Whoever wipes the head of an orphan, for him is a good deed for every hair.

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• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  في سنده ضعف

  machine translationThere is weakness (ḍaʿf) in its chain of transmission. Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 3170

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī

   a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AH
   أَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Dimashqī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), narrates unusual reports oftend. 112 AH, or 118 AH
   الْقَاسِمِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق يغرب كثيرا
   عن
3. 3
   Khālid al-Tujībī

   jurist, truthful (ṣadūq).d. 125 AH, or 129 AH
   خَالِدِ بْنِ أَبِي عِمْرَانَفقيه صدوق.
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   أنا
5. 5
   Shuʿayb b. Yaḥyā

   truthful (ṣadūq), devout (ʿābid)d. 211 AH, al-Ḥākim said: 215 AH
   شُعَيْبُ بْنُ يَحْيَىصدوق عابد
   نا
6. 6
   Bakr

   d. 289 AH
   بَكْرٌ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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