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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:26252a –
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السيوطي:٢٦٢٥٢a –

"لا يَسْألُ رجلٌ وَلَهُ أوقيَّة أوْ عدلها، إلا سألَ إِلحَافًا".

ابن جرير في تهذيبه عن رجل من بنى أسيد

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

[Machine] 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

ahmad:23648 – ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Sufyān > Zayd b. Aslam > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār > a man from Banī Asad

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ who said, "A man who has enough provisions should not beg unless he begs for more than what he needs."

أحمد:٢٣٦٤٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي أَسَدٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَا يَسْأَلُ رَجُلٌ وَلَهُ أُوقِيَّةٌ أَوْ عَدْلُهَا إِلَّا سَأَلَ إِلْحَافًا