al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3089
✧ Good Character
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبَانَ، حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ صَالِحٍ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ، قَالَ:
أَتَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: أَيُّ الْإِيمَانِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: « الْخُلُقُ الْحَسَنُ »، فَأَعَادَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: « الْخُلُقُ الْحَسَنُ » فَأَعَادَ عَلَيْهِ الثَّالِثَةَ أَوِ الرَّابِعَةَ، فَإِمَّا أَقَامَهُ وَإِمَّا أَقْعَدَهُ، قَالَ ﷺ: « أَنْ تَلْقَى أَخَاكَ وَأَنْتَ طَلِيقٌ »، قَالَ: ثُمَّ مَا زَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُحَسِّنُ الْخُلُقَ الْحَسَنَ، وَيَقُولُ: « هُوَ مِنَ اللهِ »، وَيُقَبِّحُ الْخُلُقَ السُّوءَ « وَيَقُولُ: هُوَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: « أَلَا تَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى حُمْرَةِ عَيْنَيْهِ وَانْتِفَاخِ أَوْدَاجِهِ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abān
- Mālik b. Mighwal
- Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
- Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khalīl
- Muṭarrif b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Shikhhīr
✧ A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: Which part of faith is most excellent? He said: "Good character." He repeated it to him, and he said: "Good character." He repeated it to him a third or fourth time, then either he made him stand or sit. He ﷺ said: "That you meet your brother with a cheerful face." He said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept commending good character, saying: "It is from Allah," and condemning bad character, saying: "It is from Satan." Then he said: "Do you not look at the redness of his eyes and the swelling of his jugular veins?"
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Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AHمُطَرِّف بْن عَبْد الله بْن الشِّخِّير الْحَرَشِيّثقة عابد فاضلعن
- Ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr made a strange claim, saying: he is not to be used as evidence.d. between 91 and 100 AHصَالِحٍ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِوثقه ابن معين والنسائي ، وأغرب ابن عبد البر فقال : لا يحتج بهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AHحَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليسعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 157 AH, or 158 AH, or 159 AHمَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 207 AHعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبَانَمتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالحارث بن محمد بن أبي أسامة
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