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1898. Ibn Mas'ūd said: "I asked the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ: 'O Messenger of Allāh! Which is the most virtuous of deeds?' He said: 'Salāt during its appropriate time.' I said: 'Then what, O Messenger of Allāh?' He said: 'Being dutiful to one's parents.' I said: 'Then what, O Messenger of Allāh?' He said: 'Jihād in the cause of Allāh.' Then the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was silent, and if I had asked him more, he would have told me more."(Sahīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ĥādīth is Hasan Sahīh.
Ash-Shaibānī, Shu'bah and more than one other narrator reported from Al-Wālid bin Al-'Aizār. This Ĥādīth has been reported through more than one route from Abū 'Amr Ash-Shaibānī, from Ibn Mas'ūd. Abū 'Amr Ash-Shaibānī's name is Sa'd bin Iyās.
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The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ is known to have given different answers at different times to questions about what constituted the most virtuous of deeds. It was because, at each occasion, the problem was different, and he answered everybody keeping in view his particular needs and inclinations. His answers even represented appropriate remedies if he noticed certain shortcomings or failures in the person of the questioner.
