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ahmad:25709 – Wakīʿ > Isrāʾīl Washarīk > al-Miqdām b. Shurayḥ from his father > ʿĀʾishah

[Machine] The Prophet (PBUH) said, "Gentleness enhances everything it touches and is never removed from anything without making it better."  

أحمد:٢٥٧٠٩ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ وَشَرِيكٌ عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ شُرَيْحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ مَا كَانَ الرِّفْقُ فِي شَيْءٍ قَطُّ إِلَّا زَانَهُ وَلَا عُزِلَ عَنْهُ إِلَّا شَانَهُ  

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ibnmajah:4185 – al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Khalāal > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > Thābit > Anas

“There is never any obscenity in a thing, but it mars it, and there is never any modesty in a thing, but it adorns it.”  

ابن ماجة:٤١٨٥ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْخَلاَّلُ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنْبَأَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَا كَانَ الْفُحْشُ فِي شَىْءٍ قَطُّ إِلاَّ شَانَهُ وَلاَ كَانَ الْحَيَاءُ فِي شَىْءٍ قَطُّ إِلاَّ زَانَهُ  

ذِكْرُ الْأَمْرِ بِلُزُومِ الرِّفْقِ فِي الْأَشْيَاءِ إِذْ دَوَامُهُ عَلَيْهِ زِينَتُهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ

ibnhibban:551 – Ibrāhīm b. Abū Umayyah Biṭarasūs > Nūḥ b. Ḥabīb al-Badhashī al-Qūmisī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > Qatādah > Anas

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ who said: "Gentleness does not beautify anything, except that it spoils it. And vulgarity is not present in anything, except that it tarnishes it."  

ابن حبّان:٥٥١ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ بِطَرَسُوسَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا نُوحُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ الْبَذَشِيُّ الْقُومِسِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «مَا كَانَ الرِّفْقُ فِي شَيْءٍ إِلَّا زَانَهُ وَلَا كَانَ الْفُحْشُ فِي شَيْءٍ قَطُّ إِلَّا شَانَهُ»