7 - Chapter: The Virtue of One Who Strives in the Path of Allah with His Soul and His Wealth

3105 - Kathir ibn 'Ubayd informed us, saying: Baqiyyah narrated to us, from al-Zubaydi, from al-Zuhri, from 'Ata' ibn Yazid, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, that a man came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: "O Messenger of Allah, which people are best?" He said: "One who strives with his soul and his wealth in the path of Allah."

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And Ibn Jurayj: he is 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, and he explicitly stated that he heard it directly. And Mu'awiyah ibn Jahimah — al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said: his father and grandfather had companionship [with the Prophet], and it is said that he himself had companionship. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (4297).

Ibn Majah also narrated it (2781/m) from Harun ibn 'Abdullah al-Hammal, from Hajjaj ibn Muhammad, with this chain of transmission, but he did not cite its wording, and he said: This is Jahimah ibn al-'Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami, who reproached the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, on the day of Hunayn.

Ahmad also narrated it (15538) from Rawh ibn 'Ubadah, from Ibn Jurayj, with it.

And Muhammad ibn Ishaq disagreed with Ibn Jurayj, narrating it from Muhammad ibn Talhah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, from Mu'awiyah ibn Jahimah al-Sulami, who said: I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him... making it a hadith of Mu'awiyah, and attributing Talhah to his grandfather 'Abd al-Rahman. Ibn Majah narrated it (2781) via the path of Ibn Ishaq. Al-Daraqutni said in "al-'Ilal" 3/280: The statement of Ibn Jurayj is more likely correct.

And al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said in "Tahdhib al-Tahdhib" 4/105: Ibn Ishaq's statement in his narration from Mu'awiyah — "I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him" — is an error on his part, because Ibn Jurayj is more retentive and more precise than Ibn Ishaq. Although Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Umawi narrated from Ibn Jurayj like the narration of Ibn Ishaq, and he erred. Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi pointed out his mistake in that in "Mu'jam al-Sahabah." And Allah Almighty knows best.

Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar has presented the differing versions of the hadith in "al-Isabah" 2/141 (the entry on Jahimah), so let it be consulted there.

And refer to the hadith preceding this one.

Al-Sindi said: "For Paradise" — that is, your share of it will not reach you except through her satisfaction, such that it is as if it belongs to her and she is seated upon it, so it reaches you only from her direction... And Allah Almighty knows best.

(1) In (R), (M), (H), and the margin of (K): strives.