صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 1377
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَنْ يَأْخُذَ أَحَدُكُمْ حَبْلَهُ فَيَحْتَطِبَ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ رَجُلًا فَيَسْأَلَهُ أَعْطَاهُ أَوْ مَنَعَهُ
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami ['Abdullah bin Yusuf] telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Malik] dari [Abu Az Zanad] dari [Al A'raj] dari [Abu Hurairah radliallahu 'anhu] bahwa Rasulullah Shallallahu'alaihiwasallam bersabda: "Demi Dzat yang jiwaku berada di tanganNya, sungguh seorang dari kalian yang mengambil talinya lalu dia mencari kayu bakar dan dibawa dengan punggungnya lebih baik baginya daripada dia mendatangi seseorang lalu meminta kepadanya, baik orang itu memberi atau menolak".
About Sahih al-Bukhari
Born
194 AH / 810 CE — Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Died
256 AH / 870 CE
Imam al-Bukhari dedicated 16 years to compiling Sahih al-Bukhari, selecting approximately 7,275 hadiths from over 600,000 narrations he examined. His strict conditions for accepting a hadith — requiring narrator continuity, reliable memory, and confirmed meeting between narrators — make it the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Islamic scholarship.
Imam al-Bukhari would perform ghusl and pray two rak'ahs before recording each hadith. Sahih al-Bukhari is universally regarded as the most authentic book after the Quran.
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