110curated hadith rotate here, mostly from Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, each from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or the Sunan collections with its reference cited.

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Best of people — most useful

Saturday, March 12, 2011

خَيْرُ النَّاسِ أَنْفَعُهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ

Transliteration

Khayru-n-nasi anfa'uhum li-n-nas.

Translation

The best of people are those who are most beneficial to people.

Narrated by Jabir ibn Abdullah·Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat of at-Tabarani 5787 (hasan)

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