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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:2221 – al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān > Ibn Wahb > Jarīr b. Ḥāzim > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḍabbī > Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah > Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī

"Abu Umamah Al-Bahili narrated to me: 'I said: O Messenger of Allah, tell me of something by which Allah will benefic me. He said: Take to fasting, for there is nothing like it."'  

النسائي:٢٢٢١ – أَخْبَرَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ الضَّبِّيَّ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مُرْنِي بِأَمْرٍ يَنْفَعُنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ قَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالصِّيَامِ فَإِنَّهُ لاَ مِثْلَ لَهُ  

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Collected by Nasāʾī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai:2220 – ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Mahdī b. Maymūn > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Yaʿqūb > Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah > Abū Umāmah

"Raja bin Haiwah narrated that Abu Umamah said: 'I came to the Messenger of Allah and said: Tel l me of something that I may take (learn) from you. He said: "Take to fasting, for there is nothing like it."' '  

النسائي:٢٢٢٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي رَجَاءُ بْنُ حَيْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ قَالَ

أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ مُرْنِي بِأَمْرٍ آخُذُهُ عَنْكَ قَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّوْمِ فَإِنَّهُ لاَ مِثْلَ لَهُ  

nasai-kubra:2541 – ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Mahdī b. Maymūn > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Yaʿqūb > Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah > Abū Umāmah

"Raja bin Haiwah narrated that Abu Umamah said: 'I came to the Messenger of Allah and said: Tel l me of something that I may take (learn) from you. He said: "Take to fasting, for there is nothing like it."' ' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2220)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٥٤١ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي رَجَاءُ بْنُ حَيْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ قَالَ

أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ مُرْنِي بِأَمْرٍ آخُذُهُ عَنْكَ قَالَ «عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّوْمِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا مِثْلَ لَهُ»  

nasai-kubra:2542 – al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān > Ibn Wahb > Jarīr b. Ḥāzim > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḍabbī > Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywah > Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī

"Abu Umamah Al-Bahili narrated to me: 'I said: O Messenger of Allah, tell me of something by which Allah will benefic me. He said: Take to fasting, for there is nothing like it."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2221)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٥٤٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ الضَّبِّيَّ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مُرْنِي بِأَمْرٍ يَنْفَعُنِي اللهُ بِهِ قَالَ «عَلَيْكَ بِالصِّيَامِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا مِثْلَ لَهُ»