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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:11486a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١١٤٨٦a –

"الْغِلُّ والْحَسَدُ يَأكُلان الْحَسَنَاتِ كَمَا تَأَكُلُ النَّارُ الْحطَبَ ".

ابن صصرى في أَماليه عن الحسن بن علي

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abudawud:4903 – ʿUthmān b. Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī > Abū ʿĀmir / ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAmr > Sulaymān b. Bilāl > Ibrāhīm b. Abū Asīd from his father > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said: Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel or (he said) "grass."

أبو داود:٤٩٠٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ يَعْنِي عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ بِلاَلٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ أَبِي أَسِيدٍ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْحَسَدَ فَإِنَّ الْحَسَدَ يَأْكُلُ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَمَا تَأْكُلُ النَّارُ الْحَطَبَ أَوْ قَالَ الْعُشْبَ

suyuti:9350a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٩٣٥٠a –

"إِيَّاكُمْ وَالحَسَدَ فَإِنَّ الحَسَد يَأكُلُ الحَسَنَاتِ كَمَا تَأكُلُ النَّارُ الحَطَبَ ".

[د] أبو داود عن أبى هريرة