Sahih Muslim Hadith 256

Sahih Muslim 2. The Book of Faith hadith 162 within the section
Arabic Text
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ أَفْضَلُ الأَعْمَالِ أَوِ الْعَمَلِ الصَّلاَةُ لِوَقْتِهَا وَبِرُّ الْوَالِدَيْنِ
isnad (chain of narrators)   text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
It is reported on the authority of 'Abdullah that the Messenger of Allah observed:The best of' the deeds or deed is the (observance of) prayer at its proper time and kindness to the parents
Chain of Narrators
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)

The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom Muslim who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.

  1. 1ibn Mas'ud (365 hadiths) Source of the saying an
  2. 2Sa'd bin Iyas, Abu 'Amr Shaybani (16 hadiths) an
  3. 3al-Hasan bin 'Ubaidullah (16 hadiths) an
  4. 4Cerîr b. Abdülhamîd (237 hadiths) haddesenâ
  5. 5Osman b. Ebû Şeybe (164 hadiths) haddesenâ
  6. 6Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 5 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.