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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:871 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Mālik b. al-Ḥārith > ʿImārah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd

[Machine] Abdullah said, "Economy in following the Sunnah is better than exerting efforts in innovation."

الزهد لأحمد:٨٧١ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ وَعَنْ عِمَارَةَ كِلَاهُمَا عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ الِاقْتِصَادُ فِي السُّنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الِاجْتِهَادِ فِي الْبِدْعَةِ

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darimi:223 – Mūsá b. Khālid > ʿĪsá b. Yūnus > al-Aʿmash > ʿUmārah And Mālik b. al-Ḥārith > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "The intention in the Sunnah is better than the effort in innovation."

الدارمي:٢٢٣ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ عُمَارَةَ وَمَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

«الْقَصْدُ فِي السُّنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الِاجْتِهَادِ فِي الْبِدْعَةِ»