Hakim b. Hizam reported to 'Urwa b. Zubair that he said to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ):
Messenger of Allah, do you think if there is any reward (of the Lord with me on the Day of Resurrection) for the deeds of religious purification that I performed in the state of ignorance, such as charity, freeing a slave, cementing of blood-relations? Upon this he (the Messenger of Allah) said to him: You have accepted Islam with all the previous virtues that you had practised.
وَحَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ، وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، - قَالَ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَقَالَ عَبْدٌ، حَدَّثَنِي - يَعْقُوبُ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ صَالِحٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّ حَكِيمَ بْنَ حِزَامٍ، أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ، قَالَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَىْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ أُمُورًا كُنْتُ أَتَحَنَّثُ بِهَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ مِنْ صَدَقَةٍ أَوْ عَتَاقَةٍ أَوْ صِلَةِ رَحِمٍ أَفِيهَا أَجْرٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم
أَسْلَمْتَ عَلَى مَا أَسْلَفْتَ مِنْ خَيْرٍ
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Isnad
9 transmitters- 1al-Hasan bin 'Ali al-Khalal al-HalwaniMakkah · d. 242 AH
- 2'Abd bin Hameed bin Nasrd. 249 AH
- 3al-Hasan bin 'Ali al-HalwaniMakkah · d. 242 AH
- 4Ya'qub bin Ibrahim bin Sa'dMedina,Baghdad · d. 208 AH
- 5Ibrahim bin Sa'd bin IbrahimMedina,Baghdad · d. ~185 AH/800 CE
- 6Salah bin Kaysan al-MadniMedina · d. 140 AH or after
- 7al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
- 8'Urwa ibn al-ZubayrMedina · d. 93 AH/713 CE
- 9Hakim ibn HizamMakkah/Medina/Syria · d. 50-60 AH
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 1, Hadith 231
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 1, Hadith 223 (deprecated numbering scheme)