Who is the Best of People?
203 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād al-Ṭahrānī narrated to us, saying: I heard ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtba, or ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yazīd, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: A man said: "Who among people is best, O Messenger of God?" He said: "A believer who strives with his life and his wealth in the cause of God." He asked: "Then who?" He said: "A man who secludes himself in a mountain pass, worshipping his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, and leaving people safe from his harm."
Notes
- (1) Sahih (Authentic): transmitted by ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in his Musnad (973 – al-Muntakhab), Muslim (3/1503), ʿAbd al-Razzāq (no. 20761), Aḥmad (3/37), Abū ʿAwāna (5/56), and al-Khaṭṭābī in al-ʿUzla (p. 19), from the transmission of Maʿmar, with it.
Maʿmar was supported in it; he was supported by Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamza, from al-Zuhrī, with it.
Transmitted by al-Bukhārī (2786), Aḥmad (3/88), Abū ʿAwāna (5/56), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in al-Jihād (36), Ibn Manda in al-Īmān (456), al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (9/159), al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunna (10/356), and others.
The hadith was transmitted by al-Bukhārī (2786), Muslim (1888), Abū Dāwūd (2485), al-Tirmidhī (1660), al-Nasāʾī (6/11), Ibn Abī Shayba (5/335–336), Abū Yaʿlā (1225), Ibn Ḥibbān (605, 458), al-Ḥākim (2/71), al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (9/159), in Shuʿab al-Īmān (4214), and in al-Ādāb (311), al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunna (10/356), Ibn ʿAsākir in Kitāb al-Arbaʿīn fī al-Ḥathth ʿalā al-Jihād (pp. 65–66), al-Ṭāʾī in al-Arbaʿūn al-Ḍāʾiyya (no. 32), Abū al-Faraj al-Muqrī in al-Arbaʿūn fī Faḍl al-Jihād wa-l-Mujāhidīn (no. 7), and others, from routes from al-Zuhrī, with it similarly.
I have documented the hadith comprehensively in al-ʿUzla by Imam al-Khaṭṭābī. And God is the Giver of success.
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