al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7917
✧ Mahmud b. al-Faraj al-Asbahani
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حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ، نَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، نَا شَرِيكٌ وَجَرِيرٌ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَحَبَّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللهِ بَعْدَ الْفَرَائِضِ إِدْخَالُ السُّرُورِ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maḥmūd b. al-Faraj
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAmr
- Sharīk and Jarīr
- Layth
- Mujāhid
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The most beloved of deeds to God after the obligatory acts is bringing joy to a Muslim.
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Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became badly confused (ikhtilāṭ), his hadith could not be distinguished, so he was abandonedd. 138 AH, or 141 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH, or 148 AHلَيْثٍصدوق اختلط جدا ، ولم يتميز حديثه فتركعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHوَجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهنا
- d. 227 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍونا
- d. 293 AH, also said 290 AHمَحْمُودُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.