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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:12306 – Sulaymān b. Dāwud > Shuʿbah > Hishām b. Zaydqāl > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] Zaid said, "I heard Anas ibn Malik say, 'Verily, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said about the Ansar (helpers in Medina), 'Indeed, you are among the people whom I love the most.'"  

أحمد:١٢٣٠٦ – حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ

زَيْدٍقَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ فِي الْأَنْصَارِ إِنَّكُمْ لَمِنْ أَحَبِّ النَّاسِ إِلَيَّ  

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muslim:2509a – Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná And Ibn Bashhār > Ghundar > Ibn al-Muthanná > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Hishām b. Zayd > Anas b. Mālik

By Him in Whose Hand is my life, you are dearest to me amongst the people. He repeated it thrice.  

مسلم:٢٥٠٩a – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ جَمِيعًا عَنْ غُنْدَرٍ قَالَ ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ

سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ جَاءَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ فَخَلاَ بِهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَقَالَ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنَّكُمْ لأَحَبُّ النَّاسِ إِلَىَّ ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ