al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9259
✧ al-Nu'man b. Ahmad al-Wasiti
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حَدَّثَنَا النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ، نَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سِنَانٍ، ثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، أَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
يَدُ الْمُعْطِي الْعُلْيَا، وَخَيْرُ الصَّدَقَةِ مَا أَبْقَتْ غِنًى، وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُولُ، تَقُولُ امْرَأَتُكَ: أَنْفِقْ عَلَيَّ أَوْ طَلِّقْنِي، وَيَقُولُ وَلَدُكَ: يَا أَبَتِ إِلَى مَنْ تَكِلُنَا ؟ وَيَقُولُ خَادِمُكَ: أَطْعِمْنِي وَاسْتَعْمِلْنِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Nuʿmān b. Aḥmad
- Aḥmad b. Sinān
- Yazīd b. Hārūn
- Sharīk
- ʿĀṣim b. Abū al-Najūd
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The hand of the giver is the upper hand, and the best charity is that which leaves [one] free of need, and begin with those you support. Your wife says, 'Spend on me or divorce me,' and your child says, 'O father, to whom are you entrusting us?' and your servant says, 'Feed me and employ me.'
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
وهم إسحاق في اختصار هذا الحديث وذلك أن الحديث إنما هو عاصم عن أبي صالح عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ابدأ بمن تعول تقول امرأتك أنفق علي أو طلقني فتأول هذا الحديث
machine translationIsḥāq erred in abridging this hadith. The hadith is actually from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ: "Begin with those whom you support. Your wife says: 'Spend on me or divorce me.'" Then he interpreted this hadith.
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 9259
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِصدوق له أوهامعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعأنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. al-Nasāʾī said: it is said: 256 AH, also said: 258 AH, also said: 259 AH. In al-Silafī's questions to Khamīs al-Ḥawzī: 254 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said: the correct one is 259 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 250 AH, or shortly before or after itأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سِنَانٍثقة حافظنا
- d. 315 AHالنُّعْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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