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ahmad:16904Yaʿqūb

[Machine] In it, beware of flattery, as it is like slaughter.  

أحمد:١٦٩٠٤حَدَّثَنَاهُ يَعْقُوبُ قَالَ

فِيهِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالتَّمَادُحَ فَإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ  


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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:3743Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Ghundar > Shuʿbah > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf > Maʿbad al-Juhanī > Muʿāwiyah

"I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Beware of praising one another, for it is slaughtering (one another).'"  

ابن ماجة:٣٧٤٣حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ عَنْ مَعْبَدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِيَّاكُمْ وَالتَّمَادُحَ فَإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ  

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السيوطي:٩٣٠٤a

"إِيَّاكُمْ وَالتمَادُحَ؛ فإِنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ ".  

[حم] أحمد [هـ] ابن ماجة وابن جرير في تهذيبه، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [هب] البيهقى في شعب الإيمان عن معاوية