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ahmad:12826 – Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Mukhtār b. Fulful > Anas > a man Lilnnabī ﷺ Yā Khayr al-Bariyyah

A man said to the Prophet: “O best of creatures!” So he said: “That is Ibrahim.” (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3352)  

أحمد:١٢٨٢٦ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ مُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسًا قَالَ قَالَ

رَجُلٌ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَا خَيْرَ الْبَرِيَّةِ قَالَ ذَاكَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ  

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Collected by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
muslim:2369a – [muslim:236ṣa Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > ʿAlī b. Mushir And Ibn Fuḍayl > al-Mukhtār [Chain 2] ʿAlī b. Ḥujr al-Saʿdī > ʿAlī b. Mushir > al-Mukhtār b. Fulful > Anas b. Mālik

O, the best of creation; thereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: He is Ibrahim (peace be upon him).  

مسلم:٢٣٦٩a – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ وَابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ ح وَحَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُخْتَارُ بْنُ فُلْفُلٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا خَيْرَ الْبَرِيَّةِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ذَاكَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ  

abudawud:4672 – Ziyād b. Ayyūb > ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs > Mukhtār b. Fulful > Anas

A man said to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him): O best of all creatures! The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : That was Abraham (peace be upon him).  

أبو داود:٤٦٧٢ – حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ يَذْكُرُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ

رَجُلٌ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَا خَيْرَ الْبَرِيَّةِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ذَاكَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ  

Abraham was the best of all creation

tirmidhi:3352 – Muḥammad b. Bashhār > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Sufyān > al-Mukhtār b. Fulful > Anas b. Mālik

A man said to the Prophet ﷺ: O best of creation! So he said, “˹Not me,˺ that is Ibrāhīm.”  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:٣٣٥٢ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ: يَا خَيْرَ الْبَرِيَّةِ! قَالَ «ذَلِكَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ۔»  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:12907 – ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > al-Mukhtār b. Fulful > Anas b. Mālik > a man Lilnnabī ﷺ Yā Khayr al-Bariyyah

A man said to the Prophet: “O best of creatures!” So he said: “That is Ibrahim.” (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3352)  

أحمد:١٢٩٠٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ

رَجُلٌ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَا خَيْرَ الْبَرِيَّةِ قَالَ ذَاكَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ  

ahmad:12908 – Abū Nuʿaym > Sufyān > al-Mukhtār b. Fulful > Anas > a man Lilnnabī ﷺ Yā Khayr al-Bariyyah

A man said to the Prophet: “O best of creatures!” So he said: “That is Ibrahim.” (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3352)  

أحمد:١٢٩٠٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ

رَجُلٌ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَا خَيْرَ الْبَرِيَّةِ قَالَ ذَاكَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ أَبِي