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ahmad:15567ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad > Sūwayd b. Saʿīd And ʾAbū Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Ḥāzim from his father > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "An area equal to the whip's length in Paradise is better than the entire world and all that is in it. And a morning spent by a person in the cause of Allah is better than the entire world and all that is in it."  

أحمد:١٥٥٦٧قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنِي سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَأَبُو إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّرْجُمَانِيُّ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَغَدْوَةٌ يَغْدُوهَا الْعَبْدُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī, Aḥmad's Zuhd, Suyūṭī
bukhari:6415ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Ḥāzim from his father > Sahl

I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in Paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it; and an undertaking (journey) in the forenoon or in the afternoon for Allah's Cause, is better than the whole world and whatever is in it."  

البخاري:٦٤١٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَهْلٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

muslim:1881aYaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Ḥāzim from his father > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

The journey undertaken by a person in the morning (for Jihad) in the way of Allah (will merit a reward) better than the world and all that is in it.  

مسلم:١٨٨١aحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ وَالْغَدْوَةَ يَغْدُوهَا الْعَبْدُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

tirmidhi:1648Qutaybah > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid al-Makhzūmī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it."  

[Abu 'Eisa said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abu Hurairah, Ibn 'Abbas, Abu Ayyub, and Anas. This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.
الترمذي:١٦٤٨حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَأَبِي أَيُّوبَ وَأَنَسٍ وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:13161Rawḥ And ʿAffān > Ḥammād > Thābitʿan Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] "Narrated by the Prophet ﷺ that he said: A morning spent in the cause of Allah or an afternoon spent in the cause of Allah is better than the world and everything in it. And the handle of one of you from Paradise is better than the world and everything in it."  

أحمد:١٣١٦١حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ وَعَفَّانُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا ثَابِتٌعَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:12556Ḥasan > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Thābit al-Bunānī > Anas

[Machine] "The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: A morning spent in the path of Allah, or an evening spent in the path of Allah, is better than the world and everything in it. And a hand span of paradise, acquired by one of you, is better than the world and everything in it."  

أحمد:١٢٥٥٦حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:22857Yūnus > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:٢٢٨٥٧حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15563ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad > Abū Kāmil al-Jaḥdarī Fuḍayl b. al-Ḥusayn Amlāh ʿAlay from Kitābih al-Aṣl > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٦٣قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ فُضَيْلُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ أَمْلَاهُ عَلَيَّ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ الْأَصْلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَهْلَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيَّ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15566ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥmd > Abū Bishr ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī al-Muqaddamī from my father > Abū Ḥāzim al-Madanī > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٦٦قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بن أحمد حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بِشْرٍ عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ الْمَدَنِيِّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدْوَةٌأَوْ رَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15569Yūnus b. Muḥammad > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٦٩حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَهْلَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌمِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15571ʿIṣām b. Khālid And ʾAbū al-Naḍr > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٧١حَدَّثَنَا عِصَامُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ وَأَبُو النَّضْرِ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺيَقُولُ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15572ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad > Jaʿfar b. Abū Hurayrah Amlāh from Kitābih > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Jumaḥī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٧٢قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَمْلَاهُ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْجُمَحِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَقُولُ رَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ غَدْوَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

tabarani:5753al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Hārūn b. Mūsá al-Farwī from my father > Hishām b. Saʿd > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A place in Paradise equal to the size of a lash is better than the whole world and whatever is in it." (Using translation from Bukhārī 3250)  

الطبراني:٥٧٥٣حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا هَارُونُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْفَرْوِيُّ ثنا أَبِي عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

tabarani:5835Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná > Musaddad > ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid al-Makhzūmī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ say, "A morning spent in the cause of Allah is better than the world and all that is in it, and a moment spent in the cause of Allah is better than the world and all that is in it, and a place in Paradise the size of a whip is better than the world and all that is in it."  

الطبراني:٥٨٣٥حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ثنا عَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ «غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

tabarani:5959ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Salm > Sahl b. ʿUthmān > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "A morning spent in the way of Allah, or an evening spent in the way of Allah, is better than the world and everything in it. And a spot where the whip of one of you is placed in Paradise is better than the world and everything in it."  

الطبراني:٥٩٥٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَلْمٍ ثنا سَهْلُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ ثنا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا حَازِمٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ «لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

ahmad-zuhd:109ʿAbdullāh > Abū Kāmil al-Fuḍayl b. al-Ḥusayn al-Jaḥdarī > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in Paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it; and an undertaking (journey) in the forenoon or in the afternoon for Allah's Cause, is better than the whole world and whatever is in it." (Using translation from Bukhārī 6415)   

الزهد لأحمد:١٠٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَهْلَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيَّ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

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"رِباطُ يوْمٍ فِى سبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ الدُّنْيا وما فِيهَا، ولَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحدِكُمْ فِى الجنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدنيا وما فِيهَا".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن سلمان