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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
suyuti:4036a –
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السيوطي:٤٠٣٦a –

("أكثرها ثمنًا، وأنفسُها عند أهلها ".  

[خ] البخاري [م] مسلم عن أبي ذر قال: سُئِل رسولُ الله ﷺ عن أفضَلِ الرقاب فقال وذكرها)

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suyuti:3762a –

“I said: 'O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, which slave is best?' He said: ‘The one who is most precious to his master and most valuable in price.' ” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2523)   

السيوطي:٣٧٦٢a –

"أفْضَلُ الرِّقابِ: أغْلاهَا ثمنًا، وأنْفَسُها عندَ أهْلِها" .  

[هـ] ابن ماجة [حب] ابن حبّان عن أبي ذر، [حم] أحمد [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن أبي أمامة