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ahmad:9685Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar > Usāmah > Saʿīd > Abū Hurayrah

“There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1690)   

أحمد:٩٦٨٥حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَالِدٍ الْأَحْمَرُ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ كَمْ مِنْ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَكَمْ مِنْ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ  


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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Dārimī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Aḥmad's Zuhd, Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:1690ʿAmr b. Rāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak > Usāmah b. Zayd > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

“There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.”  

ابن ماجة:١٦٩٠حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ رَافِعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ رُبَّ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ إِلاَّ الْجُوعُ وَرُبَّ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلاَّ السَّهَرُ  

darimi:2762Isḥāq b. ʿĪsá > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Zinād > ʿAmr b. Abū ʿAmr > Saʿīd al-Maqburī ʿ n Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] On the authority of Sa'id Al-Maqburi, from Abu Huraira, from the Prophet ﷺ who said, "How many are the people who fast, but gain nothing from their fast except hunger and thirst, and how many are the people who stand in prayer, but gain nothing from their standing except sleeplessness."  

الدارمي:٢٧٦٢أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عِيسَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو

عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَ نْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «كَمْ مِنْ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ إِلَّا الظَّمَأُ وَكَمْ مِنْ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ»  

nasai-kubra:3319Muḥammad b. Ḥātim > Sūwayd > ʿAbdullāh > Usāmah b. Zayd > Saʿīd al-Maqburī > Abū Hurayrah

“There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1690)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٣٣١٩أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

«رُبَّ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنٍ صِيَامِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَرُبَّ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ»  

ahmad-zuhd:241ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Sulaymān b. Ḥayyān > Usāmah > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd from his father > Abū Hurayrah

“There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1690)   

الزهد لأحمد:٢٤١حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أبِي حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «كَمْ مِنْ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَكَمْ مِنْ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ»