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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:16845a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٦٨٤٥a –

"كُلُّ شَيْءٍ سَوَى الْحَدِيدَةِ خَطَأٌ، وَلِكلِّ خَطَإ أرْشٌ".

[عب] عبد الرازق وابن جرير، [ق] البيهقى في السنن عن النعمان بن بشير

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ahmad:18395 – Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Jābir > Abū ʿĀzib > al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Everything has a fault except the sword, and every mistake has a whip."

أحمد:١٨٣٩٥ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَازِبٍ عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَطَأٌ إِلَّا السَّيْفَ وَلِكُلِّ خَطَإٍ أَرْشٌ

bayhaqi:15982 – Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār > Tamtām > Abū Ḥudhayfah > Sufyān > Jābir > a man > al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr

[Machine] "That the Prophet ﷺ said: Indeed, everything has a flaw except for the sword, meaning the iron, and for every flaw there is remedy."

البيهقي:١٥٩٨٢ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا تَمْتَامُ ثنا أَبُو حُذَيْفَةَ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَطَأً إِلَّا السَّيْفَ يَعْنِي الْحَدِيدَةَ وَلِكُلِّ خَطَأٍ أَرْشٌ