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tabarani:6134ʿAbdān b. Aḥmad > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī > Sulaymān al-Taymī > Abū ʿUthmān > Salmān

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

الطبراني:٦١٣٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ ثنا سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī, Aḥmad's Zuhd, Suyūṭī
bukhari:6415ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Ḥāzim from his father > Sahl

I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in Paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it; and an undertaking (journey) in the forenoon or in the afternoon for Allah's Cause, is better than the whole world and whatever is in it."  

البخاري:٦٤١٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَهْلٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

tirmidhi:1648Qutaybah > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid al-Makhzūmī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it."  

[Abu 'Eisa said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abu Hurairah, Ibn 'Abbas, Abu Ayyub, and Anas. This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.
الترمذي:١٦٤٨حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَأَبِي أَيُّوبَ وَأَنَسٍ وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:13161Rawḥ And ʿAffān > Ḥammād > Thābitʿan Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] "Narrated by the Prophet ﷺ that he said: A morning spent in the cause of Allah or an afternoon spent in the cause of Allah is better than the world and everything in it. And the handle of one of you from Paradise is better than the world and everything in it."  

أحمد:١٣١٦١حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ وَعَفَّانُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا ثَابِتٌعَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15563ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad > Abū Kāmil al-Jaḥdarī Fuḍayl b. al-Ḥusayn Amlāh ʿAlay from Kitābih al-Aṣl > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٦٣قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ فُضَيْلُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ أَمْلَاهُ عَلَيَّ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ الْأَصْلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَهْلَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيَّ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15566ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥmd > Abū Bishr ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī al-Muqaddamī from my father > Abū Ḥāzim al-Madanī > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٦٦قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بن أحمد حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بِشْرٍ عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ الْمَدَنِيِّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدْوَةٌأَوْ رَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15571ʿIṣām b. Khālid And ʾAbū al-Naḍr > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٧١حَدَّثَنَا عِصَامُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ وَأَبُو النَّضْرِ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺيَقُولُ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:15572ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad > Jaʿfar b. Abū Hurayrah Amlāh from Kitābih > Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Jumaḥī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah is better that the world and what is in it. And the place (the size) of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and what is in it." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1648)   

أحمد:١٥٥٧٢قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَمْلَاهُ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْجُمَحِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَقُولُ رَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ غَدْوَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:12556Ḥasan > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Thābit al-Bunānī > Anas

[Machine] "The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: A morning spent in the path of Allah, or an evening spent in the path of Allah, is better than the world and everything in it. And a hand span of paradise, acquired by one of you, is better than the world and everything in it."  

أحمد:١٢٥٥٦حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

tabarani:5861Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī > Dāwud b. ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī > Zuhrah b. ʿAmr b. Maʿbad al-Taymī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

Leaving (for Jihad) in the way of Allah in the morning or in the evening (will merit a reward) better than the world and all that is in it. (Using translation from Muslim 1880)   

الطبراني:٥٨٦١حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ الصُّوفِيُّ ثنا دَاوُدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الضَّبِّيُّ ثنا زُهْرَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ التَّيْمِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «سَوْطٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

الْجَرَّاحُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْأَسَدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ

tabarani:5982Muḥammad b. Dāwud al-Tawzī > Abū Hammām al-Walīd b. Shujāʿ

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "The station of one of you in the cause of Allah is better than the world and everything in it."  

الطبراني:٥٩٨٢حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ التَّوْزِيُّ ثنا أَبُو هَمَّامٍ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ شُجَاعٍ ثنا الْجَرَّاحُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْأَسَدِيُّ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ كُوفِيٌّ ثنا أَبُو حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «لَمُقَامُ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

ahmad-zuhd:109ʿAbdullāh > Abū Kāmil al-Fuḍayl b. al-Ḥusayn al-Jaḥdarī > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in Paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it; and an undertaking (journey) in the forenoon or in the afternoon for Allah's Cause, is better than the whole world and whatever is in it." (Using translation from Bukhārī 6415)   

الزهد لأحمد:١٠٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَهْلَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيَّ يَقُولُ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

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السيوطي:١٤٤٣٠a

"رِباطُ يوْمٍ فِى سبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ الدُّنْيا وما فِيهَا، ولَقَابُ قَوْسِ أَحدِكُمْ فِى الجنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدنيا وما فِيهَا".  

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