Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1961
حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَرَفَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْوَرَّاقُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " السَّخِيُّ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ النَّارِ وَالْبَخِيلُ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ النَّارِ وَلَجَاهِلٌ سَخِيٌّ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ عَابِدٍ بَخِيلٍ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ . وَقَدْ خُولِفَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي رِوَايَةِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ إِنَّمَا يُرْوَى عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ شَيْءٌ مُرْسَلٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Hasan ibn ‘Arafah narrated to us: Sa‘id ibn Muhammad al-Warraq narrated to us, from Yahya ibn Sa‘id, from al-A‘raj, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “The generous person is close to Allah, close to Paradise, close to people, and far from the Fire. The miser is far from Allah, far from Paradise, far from people, and close to the Fire. A generous person who lacks knowledge is more beloved to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, than a worshipper who is miserly.”
Abu ‘Isa said: This hadith is gharib. We know it as a report of Yahya ibn Sa‘id, from al-A‘raj, from Abu Hurayrah only through Sa‘id ibn Muhammad. Sa‘id ibn Muhammad’s transmission of this hadith from Yahya ibn Sa‘id has been contradicted; rather, what is transmitted from Yahya ibn Sa‘id is a mursal report from ‘A’ishah.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source expresses the report’s chain as an unusual route through Sa‘id ibn Muhammad and says that other transmission from Yahya ibn Sa‘id is mursal from ‘A’ishah. The contrast ‘generous person who lacks knowledge’ versus ‘miserly worshipper’ is preserved.
وَقَدْ خُولِفَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي رِوَايَةِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ إِنَّمَا يُرْوَى عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ شَيْءٌ مُرْسَلٌ .
The compiler says Sa‘id ibn Muhammad was contradicted and that the known route from Yahya ibn Sa‘id is instead a mursal report from ‘A’ishah.
Should this source-critical qualification be displayed directly with the saying?
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " السَّخِيُّ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ النَّارِ وَالْبَخِيلُ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ النَّارِ وَلَجَاهِلٌ سَخِيٌّ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ عَابِدٍ بَخِيلٍ " .
The hadith contrasts a generous person lacking knowledge with a miserly worshipper; the broad description jāhil is rendered as ‘lacks knowledge’.
Should jāhil be rendered as ‘ignorant’ or ‘lacking knowledge’ in this context?
حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَرَفَةَ،
The English witness omits the isnad and the compiler’s report criticism.
Should the chain and route qualification be retained?