al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3587

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ was asked: Which deeds are most virtuous? He said: Prayer at its proper time, then kindness to parents, then striving in the path of God.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 1074سألت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: أي الأعمال أفضل؟ قال: "الصلاة على أوقتها" قلت: ثم أي؟ قال: "بر الوالدين" قلت ثم أي؟ قال: " الجهاد في سبيل الله"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2782

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿd b. Iyās al-Shaybānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍramd. 95 AH or 96 AH or 98 AH or 101 AH
   أَبِي عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيِّثقة ، مخضرم
   عن
3. 3
   Bayān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   بَيَانٌثقة ثبت
   نا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl

   truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيع
   نا
5. 5
   Yaḥyá b. Sulaymān

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH, also said: 239 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجُعْفِيُّصدوق يخطئ
   نا
6. 6
   Rawḥ b. al-Faraj Abū al-Zinbāʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 282 AH
   رَوْحُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ أَبُو الزِّنْبَاعِثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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