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nasai-kubra:2386 – Aḥmad b. Sulaymān > Yaḥyá b. Ādam > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Dāwud b. Shābūr > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever asks when he has forty Dirhams I being too demanding when asking."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2594)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٣٨٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ شَابُورَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ دِرْهَمًا فَهُوَ مُلْحِفٌ»  

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nasai:2594 – Aḥmad b. Sulaymān > Yaḥyá b. Ādam > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Dāwud b. Shābūr > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever asks when he has forty Dirhams I being too demanding when asking."'  

النسائي:٢٥٩٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ شَابُورَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ دِرْهَمًا فَهُوَ الْمُلْحِفُ  

bayhaqi:13211 – Abū Saʿīd al-Zāhid > Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamdūn al-Dhuhlī > Abū ʿUmar And ʾAḥmad b. Naṣr > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ > Sufyān > Dāwud > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather > al-Nabī Ṣalá

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever asks when he has forty Dirhams I being too demanding when asking."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2594)   

البيهقي:١٣٢١١ – وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الزَّاهِدُ أنبأ أَبُو الطَّيِّبِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَمْدُونَ الذُّهْلِيُّ ثنا أَبُو عُمَرَ وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ ثنا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ دَاوُدَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ دِرْهَمًا فَهُوَ مُلْحِفٌ