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Modesty and shyness bring about nothing except goodness

tabarani:15657Mūsá b. Hārūn > Aḥmad b. Ḥafṣ from my father > Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān > al-Ḥajjāj b. al-Ḥajjāj > Qatādah > Abū al-Sawwār > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Modesty brings about nothing except goodness."  

الطبراني:١٥٦٥٧حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ هَارُونَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِي السَّوَّارِ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِنَّ الْحَيَاءَ لَا يَأْتِي إِلَّا بِخَيْرٍ»  


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Collected by Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Suyūṭī
ahmad:13614ʿAffān > Bishr b. al-Mufaḍḍal > Ḥumayd > Anas > Mā Samiʿtuh > Ḥadīth

[Machine] "Except that the Prophet ﷺ said, or as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said."  

أحمد:١٣٦١٤حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدٌ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ مَا سَمِعْتُهُ يُحَدِّثُ حَدِيثًا

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ إِلَّا قَالَ أَوْ كَمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ  

ahmad:17968Wakīʿ > Ibn Abū Laylá > ʿAṭāʾ > Yaʿlá b. Umayyah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Indeed, Allah loves modesty and concealment."  

أحمد:١٧٩٦٨حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّ اللهَ يُحِبُّ الْحَيَاءَ وَالسَّتْرَ  

ahmad:20008And Hb b. Jarīr from my father > Ḥumayd b. Hilāl > Abū Qatādah > ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Modesty is entirely good."  

أحمد:٢٠٠٠٨حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ سَمِعْتُ حُمَيْدَ بْنَ هِلَالٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْحَيَاءُخَيْرٌ كُلُّهُ  

ahmad:20242ʿAbd al-Ṣamad And ʿAffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > al-Ashʿath b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Jarmī from his father > Samurah b. Jundub > a man

This tradition has also been transmitted by Sa'd (b. Abi Waqqas) from the Prophet ﷺ in a similar manner through a different chain of narrators. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1470)   

أحمد:٢٠٢٤٢حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ وَعَفَّانُ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَشْعَثُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْجَرْمِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ هَذَا الْعَدَدَ الْمَذْكُورَ بِاسْتِغْفَارِ الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِعَدَدٍ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَزِيدُ عَلَيْهِ

ibnhibban:924al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Huraym b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān from my father > Qatādah > Anas

his grandfather said: "The Messenger of Allah (saas) said: 'I seek the forgivenenss of Allah and repent to Him seventy times each day.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3816)   

ابن حبّان:٩٢٤أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هُرَيْمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِنِّي لَأَتُوبُ فِي الْيَوْمِ سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً»  

Modesty and shyness bring about nothing except goodness

suyuti:10669aʿImrān b. Huṣayn

"Modesty brings about nothing except goodness."  

Aḥmad; Bukhārī; Muslim; from ʿImrān b. Huṣayn
السيوطي:١٠٦٦٩aعن عمران بن حصين

«الحياءُ لا يأتِي إِلَّا بخيرٍ۔»  

[حم] أحمد [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم عن عمران بن حصين