Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2799
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ إِلْيَاسَ، وَيُقَالُ ابْنُ إِيَاسٍ، عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي حَسَّانَ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ، يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ طَيِّبٌ يُحِبُّ الطَّيِّبَ نَظِيفٌ يُحِبُّ النَّظَافَةَ كَرِيمٌ يُحِبُّ الْكَرَمَ جَوَادٌ يُحِبُّ الْجُودَ فَنَظِّفُوا أُرَاهُ قَالَ أَفْنِيَتَكُمْ وَلاَ تَشَبَّهُوا بِالْيَهُودِ . قَالَ فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِمُهَاجِرِ بْنِ مِسْمَارٍ فَقَالَ حَدَّثَنِيهِ عَامِرُ بْنُ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِثْلَهُ إِلاَّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ نَظِّفُوا أَفْنِيَتَكُمْ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ . وَخَالِدُ بْنُ إِلْيَاسَ يُضَعَّفُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Salih ibn Abi Hasan said: I heard Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyab say: ‘Allah is good and loves goodness; He is clean and loves cleanliness; He is noble and loves nobility; He is generous and loves generosity. So clean—I think he said—your courtyards, and do not imitate the Jews.’ I mentioned this to Muhajir ibn Mismar, who said: ‘‘Amir ibn Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas narrated to me from his father, from the Prophet, a similar report, except that he said, “Clean your courtyards.”’
Abu ‘Isa said: This is a gharib hadith. Khalid ibn Ilyas is considered weak.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic presents the ‘clean your courtyards’ phrase in the alternate report as an explicit wording, not an omission as in the English witness. The source also grades the report gharib and notes Khalid ibn Ilyas’s weakness.