Masʿūd, similarly to it. (1)

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3073 - Abū Hishām al-Rifāʿī narrated to us, saying: Ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, who said:
ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah were asked: "Which deed was most beloved to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?" They both said: "That which is persisted in, even if it is little." (2)

This is a ḥasan, ṣaḥīḥ, gharīb ḥadīth from this chain.

It has also been narrated from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: "The most beloved deed to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was that which is persisted in."

3074 - Hārūn ibn Isḥāq al-Hamadānī narrated to us, saying: ʿAbdah narrated to us, from

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(1) Its chain is sound, and see what precedes it.
(2) A sound ḥadīth, and it is in the "Musnad" of Aḥmad (24043) from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah together.
It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (1132), Muslim (782) and (783) and (2818), Abū Dāwūd (1368), al-Nasāʾī 2/68 and 3/208 and 221-222 and 8/123 from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah alone, and likewise in the "Musnad" (24628) and "Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān" (323).
It was also recorded by Ibn Mājah (1225) and (4237), and al-Nasāʾī 3/222 from the ḥadīth of Umm Salamah alone, and likewise in the "Musnad" (26599) and "Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān" (2507).
Their saying: "that which is persisted in" — al-Sindī said in his gloss on the "Musnad": meaning: that which its practitioner habitually does and does not abandon, and even if it is little, it is better than much that its practitioner does not persist in.