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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 Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:18816a –
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السيوطي:١٨٨١٦a –

"مَا تَجَرَّعَ عَبْدٌ جَرْعَةً أَفْضَلَ عِنْدَ اللهِ مِنْ جَرْعَةِ غَيظٍ كَظَمَها ابتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ اللهِ".

[حم] أحمد وابن أَبي الدنيا في ذم الغضب، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [هب] البيهقى في شعب الإيمان عن ابن عمر

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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:4189 – Zayd b. Akhzam > Bishr b. ʿUmar > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Yūnus b. ʿUbayd > al-Ḥasan > Ibn ʿUmar

“There is no gulp that brings greater reward with Allah than a gulp of anger that a man swallows (suppresses), seeking thereby the Face of Allah.”

ابن ماجة:٤١٨٩ – حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ أَخْزَمَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا مِنْ جُرْعَةٍ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مِنْ جُرْعَةِ غَيْظٍ كَظَمَهَا عَبْدٌ ابْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ اللَّهِ

ahmad:6114 – ʿAlī b. ʿĀṣim > Yūnus b. ʿUbayd > al-Ḥasan > Ibn ʿUmar

“There is no gulp that brings greater reward with Allah than a gulp of anger that a man swallows (suppresses), seeking thereby the Face of Allah.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 4189)

أحمد:٦١١٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَا تَجَرَّعَ عَبْدٌ جَرْعَةً أَفْضَلَ عِنْدَ اللهِ ﷻ مِنْ جَرْعَةِ غَيْظٍ يَكْظِمُهَا ابْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ اللهِ تَعَالَى