On the authority of ʿĀʾishah, she said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Verily, the best of what a man eats is from his own earning, and his child is from his earning." (1)

4452 – Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naysābūrī informed us, saying: My father narrated to me, saying: Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān narrated to me, on the authority of ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd, on the authority of al-Aʿmash, on the authority of Ibrāhīm, on the authority of al-Aswad, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, she said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Verily, the best of what a man eats is from his own earning, and verily his child is from his earning." (2) (3)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ). Al-Aʿmash: he is Sulaymān ibn Mihrān, and Ibrāhīm: he is Ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī, and al-Aswad: he is Ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim asked his father and Abū Zurʿah in al-ʿIlal (1396) about this chain of transmission, and about the other chain: on the authority of Ibrāhīm, on the authority of ʿUmārah, on the authority of his paternal aunt, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, on the authority of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Abū Ḥātim said: "The one on the authority of ʿUmārah is more likely, and I hope that both are sound." Abū Zurʿah said: "And this is the correct one" — meaning this chain of transmission — "and the ḥadīth of Ibrāhīm, on the authority of ʿUmārah, on the authority of his paternal aunt, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, on the authority of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him." It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (6002).

It was also narrated by Aḥmad (24148) on the authority of Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, and Aḥmad (24148), Ibn Mājah (2137), and Ibn Ḥibbān (4261) via the path of Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr, and Aḥmad (25845) and Ibn Ḥibbān (4260) via the path of Sharīk al-Nakhaʿī — all three of them on the authority of al-Aʿmash, with this chain of transmission.

It will also come in the following narration on the authority of ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd, on the authority of al-Aʿmash, with it.

And it preceded in the earlier narration via the path of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, on the authority of al-Aʿmash, on the authority of Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, on the authority of ʿUmārah ibn ʿUmayr, on the authority of his paternal aunt, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, with it.

(2) Added after it in (R) and (M) the following text: Sulaymān said: And ʿUmārah ibn ʿUmayr informed me, on the authority of his paternal aunt, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, on the authority of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, similar to that. It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (6004).

(3) A sound ḥadīth (ṣaḥīḥ). Ḥafṣ, the father of Aḥmad: he is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rāshid al-Sulamī, and he is truthful (ṣadūq), but he was followed (in transmission). It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (6003).

And the three ḥadīths before it are to be considered.