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Sahih Muslim 1033

As the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) was sitting on the pulpit and talking about Sadaqa and abstention from begging, he said: The upper hand is better than the lower one, the upper…

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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، فِيمَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ

اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ وَهُوَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَهُوَ يَذْكُرُ الصَّدَقَةَ وَالتَّعَفُّفَ عَنِ الْمَسْأَلَةِ «الْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى وَالْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا الْمُنْفِقَةُ وَالسُّفْلَى السَّائِلَةُ»

As the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) was sitting on the pulpit and talking about Sadaqa and abstention from begging, he said: The upper hand is better than the lower one, the upper being the one which bestows and the lower one which begs.

ইয়াহইয়া ইবনু ইয়াহইয়া (রহঃ) ..... উম্মুল ফাযল বিনতু হারিস (রাযিঃ) এর সূত্রে বর্ণিত। তিনি আবদুল্লাহ ইবনু আব্বাস (রাযিঃ)-কে "ওয়াল মুরসালা-তি উরফান" (সূরাহ মুরসালাত) পাঠ করতে শুনলেন। তিনি (উম্মু ফাযল) বললেন, হে বৎস! তুমি এ সূরাহ পাঠ করে আমাকে স্মরণ করিয়ে দিলে যে, আমি রাসূলুল্লাহ সাল্লাল্লাহু আলাইহি ওয়া সাল্লাম এর কাছে সর্বশেষ যে সূরাটি শুনেছি তা ছিল এ সূরাহ (সূরাহ মুরসালাত)। তিনি এটা মাগরিবের সালাতে পড়েছিলেন।

۔ مالک نے ابن شہاب ( زہری ) سے ، انہوں نے عبید اللہ بن عبد اللہ سے اور انہوں نے حضرت ابن عباس ‌رضی ‌اللہ ‌عنہ ‌ ‌ سے روایت کی ، انہوں نے کہا : ام فضل بنت حارث رضی اللہ عنہا نے مجھے ﴿والمرسلات عرفا﴾ پڑھتے ہوئے سنا تو کہنے لگیں : بیٹا! تم نے یہ سورت پڑھ کر مجھے یاد کرا دیا کہ بے شک یہ آخری سورت ہے جو میں نے رسول اللہﷺ کو مغرب کی نماز میں تلاوت کرتے ہوئے سنی ۔

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Yahya bin Yahya] dia berkata, "Saya membaca di hadapan [Malik], dari [Ibnu Syihab] dari [Ubaidullah bin Abdullah] dari [Ibnu Abbas] dia berkata, "Sesungguhnya [Ummu al-Fadhal binti al-Harits] mendengar Ibnu Abbas sedang membaca surat al-Mursalat secara baik.

Maka dia berkata, 'Wahai anakku, sungguh kamu telah mengingatkanku dengan bacaanmu terhadap surat ini, ia adalah akhir surat yang aku dengar Rasulullah membacanya di Maghrib'." Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Bakar bin Abi Syaibah] dan [Amru an-Naqid] keduanya berkata, telah menceritakan kepada kami [Sufyan] dia berkata, --Lewat jalur periwayatan lain-- dan telah menceritakan kepadaku [Harmalah bin Yahya] telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Ibnu Wahb] telah mengabarkan kepadaku [Yunus] dia berkata, --Lewat jalur periwayatan lain-- dan telah menceritakan kepada kami [Ishaq bin Ibrahim] dan ['Abd bin Humaid] keduanya berkata,

telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Abdurrazzaq] telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Ma'mar] dia berkata, --Lewat jalur periwayatan lain-- dan telah menceritakan kepada kami [Amru an-Naqid] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Ya'qub bin Ibrahim bin Sa'd] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Bapakku] dari [Shalih] semuanya meriwayatkan dari [az-Zuhri] dengan isnad ini dan dia menambahkan, "Kemudian beliau tidak shalat setelah itu hingga Allah mewafatkannya

Bize Yahya b. Yahya rivayet etti. Dediki: Mâlik'e, İbni Şihâb'dan duyduğum, onun da Ubeydullah b. Abdillâh'dan, onun da Abdullah b. Abbâs'dan naklen rivayet ettiği şu hadîsi okudum: İbni Abbâs şöyle demiş: «Annem Ümmü Fadl binti Haris, bir defa beni «Mürselât» suresini okurken işitti de: — Yavrucuğum! Vallahi bu sureyi okumanla bana hatırlattın! Bu sure Resulullah (Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem)'in son defa akşam namazında okuduğunu işittiğim suredir, dedi.»

Sahih Muslim 1033, Book 12, The Book of Zakat, Hadith 122. 1 min read

What it means

The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), while delivering a sermon from the pulpit, mentioned charity and refraining from begging; then he said: The upper hand—the one that gives and spends—is better and more beloved to Allah than the lower hand—the one that asks.

What it teaches

  • It highlights the virtue of giving and spending in good causes and the dispraise of begging.
  • It encourages refraining from asking others and being self-sufficient and urges the pursuit of noble matters while avoiding lowly ones, for Allah loves lofty aspirations.
  • There are four types of hands in terms of virtue, ranked as follows: the highest is the giving hand, followed by the one that refrains from taking, then the one that receives without asking, and the lowest of them is the begging hand.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Muslim back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam MuslimCompiler, died 261 AH
  2. 2Qutaybah ibn SaidTold us, Fourth generation, died 240 AH
  3. 3Malik ibn AnasFrom, Third generation, died 178 AH
  4. 4Nafi, the client of Ibn UmarFrom, Successor, died 116 AH
  5. 5AbdFrom, Companion

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