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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:1113a –
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السيوطي:١١١٣a –

"إذا أراد الله بعبد خيرًا جعل له واعظًا من نفْسه يأمرُه وينهاهُ" .

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Our heart as an advisor

ahmad-zuhd:1768 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > al-Aswad b. ʿĀmir > Ḥammād > Ḥabīb > Ibn Sīrīn

If Allah intends good for His servant, He will provide him with an advisor from his own heart who commands him and prohibits him."

الزهد لأحمد:١٧٦٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ

«إِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا جَعَلَ لَهُ وَاعِظًا مِنْ قَلْبِهِ يَأْمُرُهُ وَيَنْهَاهُ»