صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 2217
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَلَمَةُ بْنُ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُأَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَتَقَاضَاهُ بَعِيرًا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَعْطُوهُ فَقَالُوا مَا نَجِدُ إِلَّا سِنًّا أَفْضَلَ مِنْ سِنِّهِ فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ أَوْفَيْتَنِي أَوْفَاكَ اللَّهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَعْطُوهُ فَإِنَّ مِنْ خِيَارِ النَّاسِ أَحْسَنَهُمْ قَضَاءً
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Musaddad] dari [Yahya] dari [Sufyan] berkata, telah menceritakan kepadaku [Salamah bin Kuhail] dari [Abu Salamah] dari [Abu Hurairah radliallahu 'anhu] bahwa ada seorang laki-laki datang menemui Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam untuk menagih unta yang dijanjikan kepadanya. Maka Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Berikanlah". Mereka berkata: "Kami tidak mendapatkannya kecuali yang umurnya lebih tua". Orang itu berkata: "Berikanlah kepadaku nanti Allah akan membalasnya". Maka Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Berikanlah kepadanya, karena yang terbaik diantara manusia adalah mereka yang paling baik menunaikan janji".
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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