al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 1118

Translation

✧ The most excellent form of worship is understanding of religion, and the most excellent part of religion is piety.

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Laylá

   truthful (ṣadūq), of very poor memoryd. 148 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ جدا
   عن
4. 4
   Abī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 201 AH and 211 AH
   خَالِدُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْأَزْرَقُمقبول.
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 232 AH, or 233 AH, also said 234 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّصدوق يخطئ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Al-Walīd b. Ḥammād b. Jābir

   d. survived until close to 300 AH
   الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ الرَّمْلِيُّ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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