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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:٢٣٨٨٥a –

"نِعْمَ الشَّئُ الْهَدِيَّةُ أَمَامَ الْحَاجَةِ".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن السيد الحسين

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Collected by Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī

طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ؓ

tabarani:2903 – Aḥmad

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "A gift is a good thing before a need."  

الطبراني:٢٩٠٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الصُّوفِيُّ ثنا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ خَارِجَةَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْعَطَّارُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «نِعْمَ الشَّيْءُ الْهَدِيَّةُ أَمَامَ الْحَاجَةِ»