حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ أَخَوَانِ عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَكَانَ أَحَدُهُمَا يَأْتِي النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَالْآخَرُ يَحْتَرِفُ، فَشَكَا المُحْتَرِفُ أَخَاهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: لَعَلَّكَ تُرْزَقُ بِهِ 

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ

Book [36]: Chapters on zuhd [Asceticism]
Chapter [33]: About reliance upon Allāh

Ḥadīth [2345]: It is narrated on the authority of Anas bin Mālik (may Allāh be pleased with him) that he said: ‘There were two brothers during the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him). One of them used to come to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him), and the other had some business. The businessman among them complained to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) about his brother, so he (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Perhaps you are provided because of him.”’

Abū ‘Īsā said: This ḥadīth is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.

This ḥadīth confirms the fact that, if two brothers live together and share their hearth, and if one of them devotes his time learning the tenets of religion and preaching them among the people, while the other engages in earning the bread, the latter should believe that perhaps he owes prosperity in his business to the blessing granted by Allāh for the efforts of his religion-loving brother, and hence any objection to his brother’s activities is unjustified.

• Reference: [2345 (4/373-374), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Dārussalām (Eng)]

A labourer complained that he (i.e., his brother) doesn’t cooperate in earning whilst eating with me (from my earned income). Upon this, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) explained the complainant that he stays with me in the pursuit of religious knowledge. Therefore, understand that the blessings in your earnings include his share, so, do not let arrogance overtake you. It must be evident that the other brother didn’t spend his time in vain or was an idler. On the contrary, he was occupied with acquiring religious knowledge. Hence, this ḥadīth doesn’t yield evidence of uselessness or idleness. It rather points out that those who are invested in Allāh’s path are to be supported and assisted by other family members.

• Reference: [2345  (3/327), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Maktabah Bayt-us-Salām (Ur)]

Translated by Umm Rumayṣā’

• Musnad al-Bazzār (6988 (13/353))
• Al-Madkhal lis-Sunnah al-Kubrā (335 (1/245))
• Al-Mustadrak ‘alā aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥayn (324 (1/387))
• Ḥilyatul Awliyā’ (8/302)
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (9294 (4/20))
• Al-Musnad al-Jāmi’ (1568 (3/12-13))
• Tuḥfatul Ashrāf (379 (1/279))
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (5308)
• Silsilah Aḥādīth aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah (2769 (6/636-637))
• Talkhīṣ al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (1121 (1/351))
• Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi (301 (1/253))

Grade:

• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2345 (1/529)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar ad-Da’wah, New Delhi (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2345 (3/326-327)))
• Ṣaḥīḥ by Shaykh Dr. Ḍiyā’-ur-Raḥmān al-‘Aẓamī (Talkhīṣ al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil)
• Isnād ṣaḥiḥ by Shaykh Abū al-Ashbāl az-Zuhayrī (Jāmi’ Bayān al-‘Ilm wa-Faḍlihi, published by Dar ibn al-Jawzi)
• Isnād ṣaḥiḥ by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī (2345 (1/705-706)))
• Isnād ṣaḥiḥ by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Jāmi’ at-Kabīr (2499 (4/371)))
• Ḥasan ṣaḥiḥ by Imām at-Tirmidhī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī)
• Isnād ḥasan by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (5308 (3/207)))
• Isnād jayyid by Shaykh al-Albānī (Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (5308 (3/1460)))

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