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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْخُلُقَ الْحَسَنَ مِنْ أَثْقَلِ مَا يَجِدُ الْمَرْءُ فِي مِيزَانِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

ibnhibban:481 – Abū Khalīfah > Muḥammad b. Kathīr And Shuʿayb b. Muḥriz Wa-al-Ḥawḍī > Shuʿbah > al-Qāsim b. Abū Bazzah > ʿAṭāʾ al-Kaykhārānī > Um al-Dardāʾ > Abū al-Dardāʾ

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "The heaviest thing in the scale is good character."  

ابن حبّان:٤٨١ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ وَشُعَيْبُ بْنُ مُحْرِزٍ وَالْحَوْضِيُّ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ أَبِي بَزَّةَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ الْكَيْخَارَانِيِّ عَنْ أُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «أَثْقَلُ شَيْءٍ فِي الْمِيزَانِ الْخُلُقُ الْحَسَنُ»  

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Collected by Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
ahmad:27532 – Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Shuʿbah > al-Qāsim b. Abū Bazzah > ʿAṭāʾ al-Kaykhārānī > Um al-Dardāʾ > Abū al-Dardāʾ

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ: He said, "There is nothing heavier in the scale than good character."  

أحمد:٢٧٥٣٢ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ أَبِي بَزَّةَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ الْكَيْخَارَانِيِّ عَنْ أُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَثْقَلَ فِي الْمِيزَانِ مِنْ خُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ  

ahmad:27555 – Sufyān Marrah Ukhrá > ʿAmr > Ibn Abū Mulaykah > Yaʿlá b. Mamlak > Um al-Dardāʾ > Abū al-Dardāʾ

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ , he said, "The heaviest thing in the scale on the Day of Judgment is good character."  

أحمد:٢٧٥٥٥ – حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ مَمْلَكٍ عَنْ أُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ أَثْقَلُ شَيْءٍ فِي الْمِيزَانِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ خُلُقٌ حَسَنٌ