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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:622-61b – Abiá Dhar
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السيوطي:٦٢٢-٦١b –

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

ابن النجار

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suyuti:3849c –
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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"