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bukhari:6007ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person is like a warrior fighting for Allah's Cause." (The narrator Al-Qa'nabi is not sure whether he also said "Like the one who prays all the night without slackness and fasts continuously and never breaks his fast.")  

البخاري:٦٠٠٧حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ السَّاعِي عَلَى الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَأَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ يَشُكُّ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ كَالْقَائِمِ لاَ يَفْتُرُ وَكَالصَّائِمِ لاَ يُفْطِرُ  


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bukhari:5353Yaḥyá b. Qazaʿah > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "The one who looks after a widow or a poor person is like a Mujahid (warrior) who fights for Allah's Cause, or like him who performs prayers all the night and fasts all the day."  

البخاري:٥٣٥٣حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ قَزَعَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ السَّاعِي عَلَى الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوِ الْقَائِمِ اللَّيْلَ الصَّائِمِ النَّهَارَ  

muslim:2982ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah b. Qaʿnab > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

that Messenger of Allah ( ﷺ) said: One who makes efforts (for earning to be spent) on a widow and the destitute is like a striver in the cause of Allah, and I think he also said: He is like one who constantly stands for prayer and observes fast without breaking it.  

مسلم:٢٩٨٢حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ: «السَّاعِي عَلَى الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ۔» وَأَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ: «وَكَالْقَائِمِ لاَ يَفْتُرُ وَكَالصَّائِمِ لاَ يُفْطِرُ۔»  

nasai:2577ʿAmr b. Manṣūr > ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd al-Dīlī > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

"The Messenger of Allah said: "The one who strives to sponsor a widow or a poor person is like the one who strives in Jihad in the cause of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime."'  

النسائي:٢٥٧٧أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الدِّيلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ السَّاعِي عَلَى الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ﷻ  

ibnmajah:2140Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī > Thawr b. Zayd al-Dīlī > Abū al-Ghayth a freed slave of Ibn Muṭīʿ > Abū Hurayrah

'The one who strives to support the widow and the poor is like a Mujahid who fights in the cause of Allah, and like one who stands in the night (in voluntary prayer) and fasts by day."  

ابن ماجة:٢١٤٠حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ الدَّرَاوَرْدِيُّ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الدِّيلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ مَوْلَى ابْنِ مُطِيعٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ السَّاعِي عَلَى الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَكَالَّذِي يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ وَيَصُومُ النَّهَارَ  

ahmad:8732Abū Salamah > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad > Thawr b. Zayd > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

'The one who strives to support the widow and the poor is like a Mujahid who fights in the cause of Allah, and like one who stands in the night (in voluntary prayer) and fasts by day." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2140)   

أحمد:٨٧٣٢حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ السَّاعِي عَلَى الْأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ كَالَّذِي يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ وَيَصُومُ النَّهَارَ  

ذِكْرُ إِعْطَاءِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَا السَّاعِيَ عَلَى الْأَرَامِلِ وَالْمَسَاكِينَ مَا يُعْطِي الْمُجَاهِدَ فِي سَبِيلِهِ

ibnhibban:4245Abū Khalīfah > al-Qaʿnabī > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The one who cares for the widow and the poor is like a fighter in the cause of Allah." And I consider him to have said, "Like the one who fasts and does not break his fast, and like the one who stands in prayer and does not sleep."  

ابن حبّان:٤٢٤٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ

حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «السَّاعِي عَلَى الْأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ» وَأَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ «كَالصَّائِمِ لَا يُفْطِرُ وَكَالْقَائِمِ لَا يَنَامُ»  

nasai-kubra:2369ʿAmr b. Manṣūr > ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd al-Dīlī > Abū al-Ghayth > Abū Hurayrah

"The Messenger of Allah said: "The one who strives to sponsor a widow or a poor person is like the one who strives in Jihad in the cause of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2577)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٣٦٩أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الدِّيلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «السَّاعِي عَلَى الْأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ»  

bayhaqi:12666Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār > Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq al-Qāḍī > ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > Mālik > Thawr b. Zayd al-Dīlī > Abū al-Ghayth a freed slave of Ibn Muṭīʿ > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person is like a warrior fighting for Allah's Cause." (The narrator Al-Qa'nabi is not sure whether he also said "Like the one who prays all the night without slackness and fasts continuously and never breaks his fast.") (Using translation from Bukhārī 6007)   

البيهقي:١٢٦٦٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْقَاضِي ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الدِّيلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْغَيْثِ مَوْلَى ابْنِ مُطِيعٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ السَّاعِي عَلَى الْأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ قَالَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ وَأَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ كَالْقَائِمِ لَا يَفْتُرُ وَالصَّائِمِ لَا يُفْطِرُ  

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السيوطي:١١٠٠٠a

" السَّاعِى على الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ كَالمُجَاهِدِ في سَبِيل اللهِ، أَو القائِم اللَّيلَ، الصَّائِم النَّهَارَ".  

[حم] أحمد [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم [ت] الترمذي [ن] النسائي [هـ] ابن ماجة [حب] ابن حبّان عن أبي هريرة