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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:٥٨٨a –

"أحبُّ الأعمالِ إلى الله من أطعمَ مسكينا من جوع، أو دفَعَ عنه مَغْرَمًا، أو كشف عنه كَرْبًا".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن الحكم بن عمير

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tabarani:3187 – Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿIrq al-Ḥimṣī > Sulaymān b. Salamah al-Khabāʾirī > Baqiyyah > ʿĪsá b. Ibrāhīm > Mūsá b. Abū Ḥabīb from his uncle al-Ḥakam b. ʿUmayr

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The most beloved actions to Allah are feeding the hungry, paying off a debtor, and removing someone's hardship."  

الطبراني:٣١٨٧ – حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِرْقٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ ثنا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ الْخَبَائِرِيُّ ثنا بَقِيَّةُ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «أَحَبُّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللهِ ﷻ مَنْ أَطْعَمَ مِسْكِينًا مِنْ جُوعٍ أَوْ دَفَعَ عَنْهُ مَغْرَمًا أَوْ كَشَفَ عَنْهُ كَرْبًا»