رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 194
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- 194
Chapter 22
Chapter context: Enjoining Good and forbidding Evil
- باب الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر
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Original Arabic
الحادي عشر: عن أبي سعيد الخدري رضي الله عنه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال:
أفضل الجهاد كلمة عدل عند سلطان جائر
((رواه أبو داود، والترمذي وقال: حديث حسن)).
Translation
English translation
Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah bepleased with him) reported:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The best type of Jihad (striving in the way of Allah) is speaking a true word in the presence of a tyrant ruler." [Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi, who categorized it as Hadith Hasan].
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This is Hadith 194 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, as in-book entry 194 under the chapter “Enjoining Good and forbidding Evil.”
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