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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
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السيوطي:١٣٨٩٨a –

"خَيْرُ السُّودَانِ ثَلَاثَةٌ: لُقْمَانُ، وَبِلَالٌ، وَمِهْجَعٌ".  

[ك] الحاكم في المستدرك عن الأوزاعى عن أَبى عمار عن واثلة

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hakim:5242 – Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Shaʿrānī from my father > al-Ḥākim > al-Hiql b. Ziyād > al-Awzāʿī > Abū ʿAmmār > Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The best of the Sudaan are three: Luqman, Bilal, and Mihja, the slave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They possess a sound chain of narration and have never fabricated anything.  

الحاكم:٥٢٤٢ – أَخْبَرَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الشَّعْرَانِيُّ ثنا جَدِّي ثنا الْحَاكِمُ عَنِ الْهِقْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَمَّارٍ عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ خَيْرُ السُّودَانِ ثَلَاثَةٌ لُقْمَانُ وَبِلَالٌ وَمِهْجَعٌ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ «صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ»