Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2482
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ الرَّازِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا زَافِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، عَنْ شَبِيبِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " النَّفَقَةُ كُلُّهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ إِلاَّ الْبِنَاءَ فَلاَ خَيْرَ فِيهِ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ . هَكَذَا قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ شَبِيبُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ وَإِنَّمَا هُوَ شَبِيبُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Anas ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah said, ‘All spending is in the cause of Allah, except building, in which there is no good.’ Abu Isa described this report as gharīb. He also noted that Muhammad ibn Humayd gave the narrator’s name as Shabib ibn Bashir, but that it is Shabib ibn Bishr.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report's wording about building is broad and terse; the translation preserves it without adding a legal qualification. Al-Tirmidhi notes a variant in the spelling of the narrator's name.