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tirmidhi:1664Abū Bakr b. Abū al-Naḍr > Abū al-Naḍr al-Baghdādī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "(Ribat) Guarding the frontier for a day in the cause of Allah is better than the world and what is in it. And an afternoon the worshipper spends in the cause of Allah - or a morning - is better than the world and what is on it. And the space occupied by the whip of one of you in Paradise is better than the world and what is on it." This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.  

الترمذي:١٦٦٤حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي النَّضْرِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَلَرَوْحَةٌ يَرُوحُهَا الْعَبْدُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ لَغَدْوَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Aḥmad, Ṭabarānī, Bayhaqī, Aḥmad's Zuhd, Suyūṭī
bukhari:2892ʿAbdullāh b. Munīr > Abū al-Naḍr > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "To guard Muslims from infidels in Allah's Cause for one day is better than the world and whatever is on its surface, and a place in Paradise as small as that occupied by the whip of one of you is better than the world and whatever is on its surface; and a morning's or an evening's journey which a slave (person) travels in Allah's Cause is better than the world and whatever is on its surface."  

البخاري:٢٨٩٢حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُنِيرٍ سَمِعَ أَبَا النَّضْرِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا وَالرَّوْحَةُ يَرُوحُهَا الْعَبْدُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوِ الْغَدْوَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا  

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:15569Yūnus b. Muḥammad > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > 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:١٥٥٦٩حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَهْلَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌمِنَ 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: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  

ahmad:22857Yūnus > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > 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:٢٢٨٥٧حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ 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:22868ʿIṣām b. Khālid And ʾAbū al-Naḍr > al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, Abu An-Nadr said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: A morning spent in the path of Allah is better than the world and everything in it, and a journey in the path of Allah is better than the world and everything in it, and the space of a whip in Paradise is better than the world and everything in it. Abu An-Nadr said: From Paradise is better than the world and everything in it.  

أحمد:٢٢٨٦٨حَدَّثَنَا عِصَامُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ وَأَبُو النَّضْرِ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا الْعَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ أَبُو النَّضْرِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ غَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَرَوْحَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ قَالَ أَبُو النَّضْرِ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا  

ahmad:22872Hāshim b. al-Qāsim > ʿAbd al-Raḥman / Ibn ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "To guard Muslims from infidels in Allah's Cause for one day is better than the world and whatever is on its surface, and a place in Paradise as small as that occupied by the whip of one of you is better than the world and whatever is on its surface; and a morning's or an evening's journey which a slave (person) travels in Allah's Cause is better than the world and whatever is on its surface." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2892)  

أحمد:٢٢٨٧٢حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمُ بنُ الْقَاسِمِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا وَالرَّوْحَةُ يَرُوحُهَا الْعَبْدُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوِ الْغَدْوَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا وَمَوْضِعُسَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا  

tabarani:5835Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná > Musaddad > ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid al-Makhzūmī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ say, "A morning spent in the cause of Allah is better than the world and all that is in it, and a moment spent in the cause of Allah is better than the world and all that is in it, and a place in Paradise the size of a whip is better than the world and all that is in it."  

الطبراني:٥٨٣٥حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ثنا عَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ «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»  

tabarani:5959ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Salm > Sahl b. ʿUthmān > ʿUmar b. ʿAlī > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, "A morning spent in the way of Allah, or an evening spent in the way of Allah, is better than the world and everything in it. And a spot where the whip of one of you is placed in Paradise is better than the world and everything in it."  

الطبراني:٥٩٥٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَلْمٍ ثنا سَهْلُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ ثنا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا حَازِمٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ «لَغَدْوَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ رَوْحَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»  

bayhaqi:17887Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Qaṭīʿī > ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from my father > Hishām b. al-Qāsim > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Abū Ḥāzim > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "To guard Muslims from infidels in Allah's Cause for one day is better than the world and whatever is on its surface, and a place in Paradise as small as that occupied by the whip of one of you is better than the world and whatever is on its surface; and a morning's or an evening's journey which a slave (person) travels in Allah's Cause is better than the world and whatever is on its surface." (Using translation from Bukhārī 2892)   

البيهقي:١٧٨٨٧أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقَطِيعِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا هِشَامُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا وَالرَّوْحَةُ يَرُوحُهَا الْعَبْدُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوِ الْغَدْوَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا وَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا عَلَيْهَا  

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُنِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ هَاشِمٍ
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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"رباطُ يوْمٍ في سبيل اللَّه خَيْرٌ منَ الدُّنْيا، وما علَيْهَا، وموْضعُ سوْط أَحدكُمْ منَ الجنَّة خَيْرٌ من الدنْيا وما علَيْها، والرَّوْحة يرُوحُها العبدُ في سبيلِ اللَّه، والغَدْوةُ خَيْرٌ منَ الدُّنْيا وما عليها".  

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