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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
nasai-kubra:11850 – Sūwayd b. Naṣr > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak > Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān > ʿAwn b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

[Machine] I asked Umm al-Darda, "Which form of worship did Abu Darda engage in the most?" She replied, "Reflection and contemplation."

الكبرى للنسائي:١١٨٥٠ – عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ نَصْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لِأُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ أَيُّ عِبَادَةِ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ كَانَتْ أَكْثَرَ؟ قَالَتْ «التَّفَكُّرُ وَالِاعْتِبَارُ»

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ahmad-zuhd:720 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Wakīʿ > Mālik b. Mighwal Wa-al-Masʿūdī > ʿAwn

[Machine] Um Al-Darda was asked, "What was the best deed of Abu Al-Darda?" She said, "Reflection and contemplation."

الزهد لأحمد:٧٢٠ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنِي وَكِيعٌ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ مِغْوَلٍ وَالْمَسْعُودِيِّ عَنْ عَوْنٍ قَالَ

سُئِلَتْ أُمُّ الدَّرْدَاءِ مَا كَانَ أَفْضَلُ عَمَلِ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ؟ قَالَتِ التَّفَكُّرُ وَالِاعْتِبَارُ