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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:16350a –
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السيوطي:١٦٣٥٠a –

"قدِمْتُمْ خيرَ مَقْدَمٍ مِن الْجِهادِ الأصغرِ إِلى الجهادِ الأَكبَرِ، مُجَاهدةِ العبدِ هَواهُ".  

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suyuti:165-163b – Jābir
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السيوطي:١٦٥-١٦٣b –

"عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَدِمَ عَلَى النَّبِىِّ ﷺ قَوْمٌ غُزَاةٌ، فَقَالَ: قَدِمْتُمْ خَيْرَ مَقْدَمٍ وَقَدِمْتُمْ مِن الجِهَادِ الأَصْغَرِ إِلَى الجِهَادِ الأكْبَرِ مُجَاهَدَةِ العَبْدِ هَوَاهُ".  

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