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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:21674a –
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السيوطي:٢١٦٧٤أ –

"مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ فَقَدْ أَلْحفَ".

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [حل] أبى نعيم في الحلية عن أَبي ذر (1)

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nasai:2594 – Aḥmad b. Sulaymān > Yaḥyá b. Ādam > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Dāwud b. Shābūr > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever asks when he has forty Dirhams I being too demanding when asking."'

النسائي:٢٥٩٤ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ شَابُورَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ دِرْهَمًا فَهُوَ الْمُلْحِفُ

ahmad:11044 – Abū Saʿīd > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Rijāl > ʿUmārah b. Ghaziyyah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Saʿīd from his father

[AI] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever asks and has the equivalent of one date pit, then he has insisted."

أحمد:١١٠٤٤ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الرِّجَالِ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَارَةُ بْنُ غَزِيَّةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ قِيمَةُ أُوقِيَّةٍ فَقَدْ أَلْحَفَ

ahmad:16411 – Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Zayd b. Aslam > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār > a man from Banī Asad

[AI] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever asks for help when he already has the means or capability, he is asking for something excessive."

أحمد:١٦٤١١ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي أَسَدٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أُوقِيَّةٌ أَوْ عَدْلُهَا فَقَدْ سَأَلَ إِلْحَافًا

nasai-kubra:2386 – Aḥmad b. Sulaymān > Yaḥyá b. Ādam > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Dāwud b. Shābūr > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever asks when he has forty Dirhams I being too demanding when asking."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2594)

الكبرى للنسائي:٢٣٨٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ شَابُورَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ دِرْهَمًا فَهُوَ مُلْحِفٌ»

bayhaqi:13211 – Abū Saʿīd al-Zāhid > Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamdūn al-Dhuhlī > Abū ʿUmar And ʾAḥmad b. Naṣr > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ > Sufyān > Dāwud > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather > al-Nabī Ṣalá

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever asks when he has forty Dirhams I being too demanding when asking."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2594)

البيهقي:١٣٢١١ – وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الزَّاهِدُ أنبأ أَبُو الطَّيِّبِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَمْدُونَ الذُّهْلِيُّ ثنا أَبُو عُمَرَ وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ ثنا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ دَاوُدَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ دِرْهَمًا فَهُوَ مُلْحِفٌ