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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad:11044 – Abū Saʿīd > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Rijāl > ʿUmārah b. Ghaziyyah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Saʿīd from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever asks and has the equivalent of one date pit, then he has insisted."  

أحمد:١١٠٤٤ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الرِّجَالِ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَارَةُ بْنُ غَزِيَّةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ قِيمَةُ أُوقِيَّةٍ فَقَدْ أَلْحَفَ  

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ahmad:16411 – Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Zayd b. Aslam > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār > a man from Banī Asad

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever asks for help when he already has the means or capability, he is asking for something excessive."  

أحمد:١٦٤١١ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي أَسَدٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أُوقِيَّةٌ أَوْ عَدْلُهَا فَقَدْ سَأَلَ إِلْحَافًا