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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:١٦٤٣١a –

"قَلِيلُ الْفِقْه خَيرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرِ الْعِبَادَةِ".  

[خ] البخاري في تاريخة عن ابن عمر، وأَبو موسى المديني في المعرفة: عن رجاء غير منسوب

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tabarani:286 – ʿAlī b. Saʿīd al-Rāzī > Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿd al-Dashtakī from my father from his father > Khārijah b. Muṣʿab > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār > Muḥammad b. Zayd > Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Having a little knowledge of jurisprudence is better than excessive worship, and the easiest of your actions are the best."  

الطبراني:٢٨٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الرَّازِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الدَّشْتَكِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ خَارِجَةَ بْنِ مُصْعَبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «يَسِيرُ الْفِقْهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرِ الْعِبَادَةِ وَخَيْرُ أَعْمَالِكُمْ أَيْسَرُهَا»