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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-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
nasai-kubra:10090 – Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Yaḥyá b. Ādam > Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah > Thābit > Anas

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by some young boys who were playing, and he greeted them."  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٠٠٩٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَرَّ بِغِلْمَانٍ يَلْعَبُونَ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ»  

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Collected by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
muslim:2168a – Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Hushaym > Sayyār > Thābit al-Bunānī > Anas b. Mālik

Anas b. Malik reported that when Messenger of Allah ﷺ happened to pass by young boys he would great them.  

مسلم:٢١٦٨a – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ عَنْ سَيَّارٍ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَرَّ عَلَى غِلْمَانٍ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ  

abudawud:5202 – ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > Sulaymān / Ibn al-Mughīrah > Thābit

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to some children who were playing: He saluted them.  

أبو داود:٥٢٠٢ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ قَالَ

أَنَسٌ أَتَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَلَى غِلْمَانٍ يَلْعَبُونَ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ  

nasai-kubra:10089 – ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Sayyār > Thābit > Anas

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by some children who were playing, and he greeted them."  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٠٠٨٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سَيَّارٍ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَرَّ بِصِبْيَانٍ يَلْعَبُونَ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ»  

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السيوطي:٨٥-٨٥b –

"أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ مَرَّ بِغِلْمَانٍ وَأنَا غُلاَمٌ فَسَلَّمَ عَليْنَا".  

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