Fortress of the Muslim

Hisn al-Muslim 226

Arabic hadith text

وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا: أنَّ رَجُلاً سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أيُّ الْإِسْلاَمِ خَيْرٌ قَالَ: (تُطْعِمُ الطَّعَامَ، وَتَقْرأُ السَّلاَمَ عَلَى مَنْ عَرَفْتَ وَمَنْ لَمْ تَعْرِفْ)

Translation

And from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr — may Allah be pleased with them both —: a man asked the Prophet — may Allah bless him and grant him peace —, “Which practice of Islam is best?” He replied, “You give food and offer the greeting of peace to those you know and those you do not know.”

Translation notes
  • وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا: أنَّ رَجُلاً سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أيُّ الْإِسْلاَمِ خَيْرٌ قَالَ: (تُطْعِمُ الطَّعَامَ،

    The historical imported English witness names Umar. The current candidate follows Amr in the Arabic source explicitly corrected by the user against the archived author-site witness. This is a retained witness discrepancy, not an unresolved narrator reading in the current source.

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