Riyad as-Salihin 138

Abdullahnarrated it

Sahihgraded sahih

3names in the chain

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الثاني والعشرون: عن أبي محمد عبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص رضي الله عنهما

قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «أربعون خصلة أعلاها منيحة العنز، ما من عامل يعمل بخصلة منها رجاء ثوابها وتصديق موعودها إلا أدخله الله بها الجنة»

Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “There are forty kinds of virtue; the uppermost of them is to lend a (milch) she-goat (to someone in order to benefit from it and then return it). He who practices any of these virtues expecting its reward and relying on the truthfulness of the promise made for it, shall enter Jannah.”.

Riyad as-Salihin 138, Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, Hadith 138. 1 min read

What it means

The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) encourages his Ummah to do goodness that involves, as he mentioned, forty good qualities. He mentioned only one quality, which is the best of them, and kept the rest unknown. This quality is the case when a sheep owner lends a poor person a milch goat to benefit from its milk and return it after meeting his/her need to its owner.

This Hadīth indicates that righteous deeds are easy and numerous, and thus people should compete in doing them.

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

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam an-Nawawi back to the one who was there.

1Imam an-NawawiCompiler, died 676 AH
2الثاني والعشرونNarrated
3Abdullah ibn Abd ar-RahmanFrom, Fourth generation, died 254 AH

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