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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:18836a –
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السيوطي:١٨٨٣٦a –

"مَا تَصَدَّقَ الناسُ بصَدَقَة أَفْضَلَ مِنْ قَوْلٍ".

ابن النجار عن سمرة

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Collected by Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī

أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

tabarani:6964 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAqīl al-Muqriʾ > Ibrāhīm b. Salm al-Hujaymī > ʿAwn b. ʿUmārah > Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī > al-Ḥasan > Samurah b. Jundub

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The people do not give charity equivalent to spreading knowledge."

الطبراني:٦٩٦٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ الْمُقْرِئُ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَلْمٍ الْهُجَيْمِيُّ ثنا عَوْنُ بْنُ عُمَارَةَ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَا تَصَدَّقَ النَّاسُ بِصَدَقَةٍ مِثْلَ عِلْمٍ يُنْشَرُ»