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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:9432a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٩٤٣٢a –

"أيُّمَا شَجَرَة أَظَلَّتْ عَلَى قَوْم فَصَاحِبه بالخِيَارِ مِنْ قَطع مَا أظَلَّ مِنْها وَأكلِ ثَمِرهَا".

ابن عساكر عن مكحول

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ahmad:16067 – Haytham > ʿAbd Rabbih b. Maymūn al-Ashʿarī > al-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Ḥārith > Makḥūl Rafaʿah

[Machine] Whichever tree provides shade for a people, its companion should give them the best of its shade or eat its fruits.

أحمد:١٦٠٦٧ – حَدَّثَنَا هَيْثَمٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ رَبِّهِ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ

أَيُّمَا شَجَرَةٍ أَظَلَّتْ عَلَى قَوْمٍ فَصَاحِبُهُ بِالْخِيَارِ مِنْ قَطْعِ مَا أَظَلَّ أَوْ أَكْلِ ثَمَرِهَا