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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:3849c –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٣٨٤٩c –

"أفضلُ الجهادِ أن يجاهدَ الرجلُ نفسَه وهَوَاهُ".

ابن النجار عن أبي ذَرِّ "ض".

قال المناوى: أخرجه الحافظ أبو نعيم، والديلمى مِن حديث أبي ذرٍ بلفظ. "أفضل الجهادِ أن تُجَاهدَ نفسَك وهواك في ذاتِ الله"

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suyuti:622-61b – Abiá Dhar
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٦٢٢-٦١b –

"عَنْ أَبِى ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ الله أَىُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ يُجَاهِدَ الرَّجُلُ نَفْسَه وَهَوَاهُ".

ابن النجار