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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ نَفَقَةَ الْمَرْءِ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ وَأَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَفْضَلِ النَّفَقَةِ

ibnhibban:4646Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah > ʿImrān b. Mūsá al-Qazzāz > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

“The best Dinar that a man can spend is a Dinar that he spends on his family, a Dinar that he spends on a horse in the cause of Allah, and a Dinar that a man spends on his companions in the cause of Allah.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2760)  

ابن حبّان:٤٦٤٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْقَزَّازُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى فَرَسِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ»  


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Collected by Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
tirmidhi:1966Qutaybah > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah." Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: " He began with the dependants." Then he said: "And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him."  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:١٩٦٦حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ أَفْضَلُ الدِّينَارِ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَبُو قِلاَبَةَ بَدَأَ بِالْعِيَالِ ثُمَّ قَالَ فَأَىُّ رَجُلٍ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يُنْفِقُ عَلَى عِيَالٍ لَهُ صِغَارٍ يُعِفُّهُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ وَيُغْنِيهِمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ibnmajah:2760ʿImrān b. Mūsá al-Laythī > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

“The best Dinar that a man can spend is a Dinar that he spends on his family, a Dinar that he spends on a horse in the cause of Allah, and a Dinar that a man spends on his companions in the cause of Allah.”  

ابن ماجة:٢٧٦٠حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى اللَّيْثِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ  

ahmad:22380Ismāʿīl > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah ʿAmman > Thawbān

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Verily, the best dinar is a dinar that a person spends on his family, or on his riding animal in the way of Allah, or on his companions in the way of Allah."  

أحمد:٢٢٣٨٠حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَمَّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّ أَفْضَلَ دِينَارٍ دِينَارٌأَنْفَقَهُ رَجُلٌ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ أَوْ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ  

ahmad:22406ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Ḥammād / Ibn Zayd > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The best dinar [coin] that a man spends is on his family, then on himself, then in the way of Allah, and then on his companions in the way of Allah." Abu Qilabah said, "He begins with his family." Sulaiman bin Harb said, "And it is not raised by a dinar spent by a man on his riding animal in the way of Allah."  

أحمد:٢٢٤٠٦حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ [دِينَارٌ] يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ ثُمَّ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ ثُمَّ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ ثُمَّ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ قَالَ أَبُو قِلَابَةَ فَيَبْدَأُ بِالْعِيَالِ وقَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَلَمْ يَرْفَعْهُ دِينَارٌ أَنْفَقَهُ رَجُلٌ عَلَىدَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ  

ahmad:22453ʿAffān > Ḥammād b. Zayd Amlāh ʿAlaynā > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah." Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: " He began with the dependants." Then he said: "And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1966)   

أحمد:٢٢٤٥٣حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ أَمْلَاهُ عَلَيْنَا حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو قِلَابَةَ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ بَدَأَ بِالْعِيَالِ قَالَ وَأَيُّ رَجُلٍ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يُنْفِقُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ صِغَارًا يُعِفُّهُمُ اللهُ بِهِ  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ نَفَقَةَ الْمَرْءِ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ النَّفَقَةِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ

ibnhibban:4242Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Junayd > Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah." Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: " He began with the dependants." Then he said: "And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1966)  

ابن حبّان:٤٢٤٢أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْجُنَيْدِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ» قَالَ أَبُو قِلَابَةَ بَدَأَ بِالْعِيَالِ ثُمَّ قَالَ «وَأَيُّ رَجُلٍ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يُنْفِقُ عَلَى عِيَالٍ لَهُ صِغَارٍ يُعِفُّهُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ وَيُغْنِيهِمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ»  

nasai-kubra:9138Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Ḥammād > Ayyūb > Abū Qilābah > Abū Asmāʾ > Thawbān

“The best Dinar that a man can spend is a Dinar that he spends on his family, a Dinar that he spends on a horse in the cause of Allah, and a Dinar that a man spends on his companions in the cause of Allah.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2760)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٩١٣٨أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ» قَالَ أَبُو قِلَابَةَ «بَدَأَ بِالْعِيَالِ»  

suyuti:3753a

“The best Dinar that a man can spend is a Dinar that he spends on his family, a Dinar that he spends on a horse in the cause of Allah, and a Dinar that a man spends on his companions in the cause of Allah.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2760)   

السيوطي:٣٧٥٣a

"أفضل الدَّنانيرِ: دينارٌ يُنفقُهُ الرجلُ عليَّ، ودينارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ على دابَّته في سبيلِ الله، ودينارٌ ينفِقُهُ الرجلُ على أصحابِه في سبيل الله".  

[ط] الطيالسي [حم] أحمد [م] مسلم [ت] الترمذي [ن] النسائي [هـ] ابن ماجة [حب] ابن حبّان عن ثوبان
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السيوطي:٣٧٥٤a

"أفْضَلُ دينارٍ: دينارٌ يُنْفِقُه الرَّجلُ على عِيالِه، ثم على نَفِسه، ثم على دابته في سبيل الله، ثم على أصحابِه في سبيل".  

[حم] أحمد [م] مسلم عن ثَوْبَان