Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2671
حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، أَنْبَأَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيَّ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيِّ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَسْتَحْمِلُهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ قَدْ أُبْدِعَ بِي . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " ائْتِ فُلاَنًا " . فَأَتَاهُ فَحَمَلَهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " مَنْ دَلَّ عَلَى خَيْرٍ فَلَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِ فَاعِلِهِ أَوْ قَالَ عَامِلِهِ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَأَبُو عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيُّ اسْمُهُ سَعْدُ بْنُ إِيَاسٍ وَأَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيُّ اسْمُهُ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو . حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْخَلاَّلُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم نَحْوَهُ وَقَالَ " مِثْلُ أَجْرِ فَاعِلِهِ " . وَلَمْ يَشُكَّ فِيهِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Mas‘ud al-Badri reported: ‘A man came to the Prophet seeking a mount and said, “My mount has become exhausted.” The Messenger of Allah said, “Go to so-and-so.” The man went to him, and he provided a mount. The Messenger of Allah then said, “Whoever guides to good will have a reward like that of the one who does it”—or he said, “the one who acts on it.”’ Abu ‘Isa said: ‘This hadith is hasan sahih.’ Abu ‘Amr al-Shaybani’s name was Sa‘d ibn Iyas, and Abu Mas‘ud al-Badri’s name was ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amr.
Al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali al-Khallal narrated a similar report through ‘Abdullah ibn Numayr, from al-A‘mash, from Abu ‘Amr al-Shaybani, from Abu Mas‘ud, from the Prophet. That wording says ‘a reward like that of the one who does it’ without the narrator’s uncertainty.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The first wording preserves the narrator’s uncertainty between ‘the one who does it’ and ‘the one who acts on it.’ The second route removes that uncertainty and gives the shorter wording.