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bayhaqi:19333[Chain 1] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū ʿAbdullāh b. Yaʿqūb > Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Musaddad [Chain 2] Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdullāh > al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Shaybān b. Farrūkh And Jaʿfar b. Mihrān > ʿAbd al-Wārith > Abū al-Tayyāḥ > Anas ؓ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was the best of people in character. I had a brother called Abu Umayr, who I considered to be young. He was a good-natured person. Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would come, he would ask, "Abu Umayr, what happened to the little bird?" And he would play with him.  

البيهقي:١٩٣٣٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أنبأ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ح قَالَ وَأَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ أنبأ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ثنا شَيْبَانُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَ وَجَعْفَرُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ قَالَا ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ عَنْ أَبِي التَّيَّاحِ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ خُلُقًا كَانَ لِي أَخٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ أَبُو عُمَيْرٍ أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ كَانَ فَطِيمًا قَالَ فَكَانَ إِذَا جَاءَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَرَآهُ قَالَ أَبَا عُمَيْرٍ مَا فَعَلَ النُّغَيْرُ قَالَ وَكَانَ يَلْعَبُ بِهِ  

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ مُسَدَّدٍ وَرَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ عَنْ شَيْبَانَ بْنِ فَرُّوخَ وَعَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ

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muslim:2150[Chain 1] Abū al-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. Dāwud al-ʿAtakī > ʿAbd al-Wārith > Abū al-Tayyāḥ > Anas b. Mālik [Chain 2] Shaybān b. Farrūkh > ʿAbd al-Wārith > Abū al-Tayyāḥ > Anas b. Mālik

Abu 'Umair, what has the sparrow done? He (Anas) said that he had been playing with that.  

مسلم:٢١٥٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْعَتَكِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو التَّيَّاحِ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ عَنْ أَبِي التَّيَّاحِ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ خُلُقًا وَكَانَ لِي أَخٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ أَبُو عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ كَانَ فَطِيمًا قَالَ فَكَانَ إِذَا جَاءَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَرَآهُ قَالَ أَبَا عُمَيْرٍ مَا فَعَلَ النُّغَيْرُ قَالَ فَكَانَ يَلْعَبُ بِهِ  

bayhaqi:9992Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-Naḍr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Faqīh Bi-al-Ṭṭābarān > ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Dārimī > Musaddad > ʿAbd al-Wārith > Abū al-Tayyāḥ > Anas b. Mālik

The Prophet ﷺ was the best of all the people in character. I had a brother called Abu ʿUmar, who, I think, had been newly weaned. Whenever he (that child) was brought to the Prophet ﷺ the Prophet ﷺ used to say, "O Abu ʿUmar! What did Al-Nughair (nightingale) (do)?" It was a nightingale with which he used to play. Sometimes the time of the Prayer became due while he (the Prophet) was in our house. He would order that the carpet underneath him be swept and sprayed with water, and then he would stand up (for the prayer) and we would line up behind him, and he would lead us in prayer. (Using translation from Bukhārī 6203)   

البيهقي:٩٩٩٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو النَّضْرِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الْفَقِيهُ بِالطَّابَرَانِ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّ ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ عَنْ أَبِي التَّيَّاحِ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ خُلُقًا وَكَانَ لِي أَخٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ أَبُو عُمَيْرٍ أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ فَطِيمٌ فَكَانَ إِذَا جَاءَ قَالَ أَبَا عُمَيْرٍ مَا فَعَلَ النُّغَيْرُ؟ كَانَ يَلْعَبُ بِهِ وَرُبَّمَا حَضَرَتِ الصَّلَاةُ وَهُوَ فِي بَيْتِنَا فَيَأْمُرُ بِالْبِسَاطِ الَّذِي تَحْتَهُ فَيُكْنَسُ وَيُنْضَحُ ثُمَّ يَقُومُ وَنَقُومُ خَلْفَهُ فَيُصَلِّي بِنَا  

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ مُسَدَّدٍ وَأَخْرَجَهُ مُسْلِمٌ عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ وَغَيْرِهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْوَارِثِ