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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī Misc
ibnmajah:243 – Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib al-Madanī > Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Ṣafwān b. Sulaym > ʿUbaydullāh b. Ṭalḥah > al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet said: "The best of charity is when a Muslim man gains knowledge, then he teaches it to his Muslim brother."  

ابن ماجة:٢٤٣ – حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ طَلْحَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ عِلْمًا ثُمَّ يُعَلِّمَهُ أَخَاهُ الْمُسْلِمَ  

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The Prophet said: "The best of charity is when a Muslim man gains knowledge, then he teaches it to his Muslim brother." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 243)   

السيوطي:٣٧٧٧a –

"أفضل الصدقة : أن يتعلَّمَ المرءُ المسلمُ علما، ثم يُعَلِّمَه أخاهُ المسلم".  

[هـ] ابن ماجة عن أبي هريرة