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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 Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:12064a –
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السيوطي:١٢٠٦٤a –

"النَّفَقَةُ كُلُّهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ إِلَّا الْبِنَاءَ فَلَا خَيرَ فِيهِ".

[ت] الترمذي حسن غريب عن أَنس

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tirmidhi:2482 – Muḥammad b. Ḥumayd al-Rāzī > Zāfir b. Sulaymān > Isrāʾīl > Shabīb b. Bashīr > Anas b. Mālik

"All expenditures are in Allah's Cause, except for buildings, for there is no good in it."

الترمذي:٢٤٨٢ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ الرَّازِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا زَافِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ شَبِيبِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ النَّفَقَةُ كُلُّهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ إِلاَّ الْبِنَاءَ فَلاَ خَيْرَ فِيهِ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ هَكَذَا قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ شَبِيبُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ وَإِنَّمَا هُوَ شَبِيبُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ