al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8330

Translation

✧ Do you know which charity is best? They said: 'God and His Messenger know best.' He said: 'The best charity is a grant, one of you giving the use of a dirham or the back of a riding beast.'

Grades by grader

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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
   ʿAlqamah b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), jurist, devout worshipperd. 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 65 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, also said: 63 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَثقة ثبت فقيه عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
5. 5
   Ḥafṣ b. Jumayʿ

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 180 AH
   حَفْصُ بْنُ جُمَيْعٍضعيف
   نا
6. 6
   ʿUmar b. Yaḥyá al-Ubullī
   عُمَرُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْأُبُلِّيُّ
   نا
7. 7
   Mūsá b. Zakariyyā
   مُوسَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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