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Anas ibn Malik رضي الله عنه
Umm Sulaym Brings Her Son
Anas was a boy of about ten when the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah. His mother, Umm Sulaym, was among the first women of the Ansar to accept Islam, and she was determined that her son should be near the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
She took him by the hand to the Prophet ﷺ and said that every man and woman of the Ansar had brought him a gift, and she had nothing to give except her son, so he should accept him as a servant. The Prophet ﷺ accepted him and he stayed in his service for ten years (Sahih Muslim 2309; Sahih al-Bukhari 6038).
In giving up her son's company, Umm Sulaym had given him the best education a mother could imagine.
The best gift a parent can give a child is nearness to goodness and to good people.
Who are the people closest to your children or younger relatives, and what are they taking from them?
- Sahih Muslim 2309Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sahih al-Bukhari 6038 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-KubraHistorical report
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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