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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:13822a –
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السيوطي:١٣٨٢٢a –

"خِيارُ أُمَّتِى الذين يعِفُّونَ، إِذا أَتاهم اللَّه من البلاءِ شيئًا -قالوا: وأَىُّ بلاء؟ قال: هو العِشْقُ".  

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suyuti:420-279b – Ibn ʿAbbās
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السيوطي:٤٢٠-٢٧٩b –

"عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ خِيَارُ أُمَّتِى الَّذِينَ يَعِفُّونَ إِذا آتَاهُمُ الله مِنَ الْبَلاءِ شَيْئًا، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ! وَأَىُّ بَلاءٍ هُوَ؟ قَالَ: الْعِشْقُ".  

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