Sunan Abi Dawud 4807

Translation

Allah is gentle, likes gentleness, and gives for gentleness what he does not give for harshness.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6256Sahih Muslim 2165aSahih Muslim 2593al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7503Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19537

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Mughafal b. ʿAbd Nahm al-Muzanī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī), who gave the pledge of allegiance under the treed. Musaddad said: 59 AH, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: 60 AH, also said: 61 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُغَفَّلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ نَهْمٍ الْمُزَنِيُّصحابي ، بايع تحت الشجرة
   عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥumayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.
   وَحُمَيْدٍثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   نا
5. 5
   Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.