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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 Bazzār Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
nasai:3665 – Abū ʿAmmār al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth > Wakīʿ > Hishām > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > Saʿd b. ʿUbādah

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what kind of charity is best?' He said: 'Providing drinking water.'"

النسائي:٣٦٦٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ عَنْ وَكِيعٍ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ سَقْىُ الْمَاءِ

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ibnmajah:3684 – ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > Wakīʿ > Hishām Ṣāḥib al-Dastawāʾī > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > Saʿd b. ʿUbādah

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what charity is best?' He said: 'Giving water to drink.'"

ابن ماجة:٣٦٨٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ هِشَامٍ صَاحِبِ الدَّسْتَوَائِيِّ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ سَقْىُ الْمَاءِ

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ مِنْ أَفْضَلِ الصَّدَقَةِ لِلْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ سَقْيَ الْمَاءِ

ibnhibban:3348 – Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah > al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth > Wakīʿ > Hishām > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Saʿd b. ʿUbādah

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what charity is best?' He said: 'Giving water to drink.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3684)

ابن حبّان:٣٣٤٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ ﷺ «سَقْيُ الْمَاءِ»

tabarani:5384 – Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī > Asad b. Mūsá > Mubārak b. Faḍālah > al-Ḥasan > Saʿd b. ʿUbādah

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what charity is best?' He said: 'Giving water to drink.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3684)

الطبراني:٥٣٨٤ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ ثنا أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ دُلَّنِي عَلَى صَدَقَةٍ قَالَ «اسْقِ الْمَاءَ»

nasai-kubra:6459 – al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth > Wakīʿ > Hishām > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Saʿd b. ʿUbādah

"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what charity is best?' He said: 'Giving water to drink.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3684)

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٤٥٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ عَنْ وَكِيعٍ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ «سَقْيُ الْمَاءِ»