Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 243

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ طَلْحَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ ‏ "‏ أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ عِلْمًا ثُمَّ يُعَلِّمَهُ أَخَاهُ الْمُسْلِمَ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib al-Madanī narrated to us: Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, from Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ṭalḥah, from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The best charity is for a Muslim to learn some knowledge and then teach it to his Muslim brother.”