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The best of people

bukhari:6494Abū al-Yamān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd > Abū Saʿīd; Muḥammad b. Yūsuf > al-Awzāʿī > al-Zuhrī > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī > Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

[AI] It was said: “O Messenger of Allah.”

A Bedouin came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “O Messenger of Allah, which person is best?” He said: “A man who strives with his own self and his wealth, and a man in one of the mountain passes who worships his Lord and leaves people safe from his evil.”

[AI] Al-Zubaydi, Sulayman ibn Kathir, and al-Numan corroborated him from al-Zuhri. Mamar said: from al-Zuhri, from Ata or Ubaydullah, from Abu Said, from the Prophet ﷺ. Yunus, Ibn Musafir, and Yahya ibn Said said: from Ibn Shihab, from Ata, from one of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, from the Prophet ﷺ.

البخاري:٦٤٩٤حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَطَاءُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ أَنَّ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ وَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الزُّهْرِيُّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ

قِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ.

جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَىُّ النَّاسِ خَيْرٌ؟ قَالَ: «رَجُلٌ جَاهَدَ بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ، وَرَجُلٌ فِي شِعْبٍ مِنَ الشِّعَابِ يَعْبُدُ رَبَّهُ وَيَدَعُ النَّاسَ مِنْ شَرِّهِ».

تَابَعَهُ الزُّبَيْدِيُّ وَسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ وَالنُّعْمَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ وَقَالَ مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ أَوْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَقَالَ يُونُسُ وَابْنُ مُسَافِرٍ وَيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

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