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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:864 – Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Mughīrah > ʿUthmān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman And ʾAbū ʿAbdullāh al-Aghar > Abū Hurayrah Ḥaddathahumā

"The likeness of one who comes early to prayer is that of one who sacrificed a camel, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed a cow, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed a ram, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed a chicken, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed an egg."  

النسائي:٨٦٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَغَرُّ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ حَدَّثَهُمَا

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْمُهَجِّرِ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يُهْدِي الْبَدَنَةَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إِثْرِهِ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الْبَقَرَةَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إِثْرِهِ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الْكَبْشَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إِثْرِهِ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الدَّجَاجَةَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إِثْرِهِ كَالَّذِي يُهْدِي الْبَيْضَةَ  

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nasai-kubra:938 – Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Mughīrah > ʿUthmān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman And ʾAbū ʿAbdullāh al-Aghar > Abū Hurayrah Ḥaddathahumā

"The likeness of one who comes early to prayer is that of one who sacrificed a camel, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed a cow, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed a ram, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed a chicken, then the one who comes after him is like one who sacrificed an egg." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 864)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٩٣٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَغَرُّ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ حَدَّثَهُمَا

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْمُهَجِّرِ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يَهْدِي الْبَدَنَةَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إثَرِهِ كَالَّذِي يَهْدِي الْبَقَرَةَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إثَرِهِ كَالَّذِي يَهْدِي الْكَبْشَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إثَرِهِ كَالَّذِي يَهْدِي الدَّجَاجَةَ ثُمَّ الَّذِي عَلَى إثَرِهِ كَالَّذِي يَهْدِي الْبَيْضَةَ»  

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السيوطي:٧٦٤٤a –

"إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْمَهَجِّرِ إِلى الصَّلَاة كمثلِ الَّذِى يُهْدِى الْبَدَنَةَ، ثم الذى على أَثَرِه كالذى يُهْدِى البقرةَ، ثم الذى على أَثَرِهِ كالَّذِى يُهْدى الْكَبْشَ ثم الَّذِى على أَثره كالذى يهدى الدَّجَاجَةَ، ثم الذى على أَثره كالذى يُهْدِى الْبَيْضَةَ ".  

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