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4796. It was narrated that Abū Qatādah said: We were with 'Imrān bin Ḥuṣain, and Bushair bin Ka'b was there. 'Imrān bin Ḥuṣain said: The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Modesty is all good," or he said: "All modesty is good." Bushair bin Ka'b said: "We find in some books that some of it is tranquility and dignity and some of it is weakness." 'Imrān repeated the Hadīth, and Bushair repeated what he had said. 'Imrān got so angry, that his eyes turned red, and he said: "I narrated to you a Hadīth from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, and you quoted to me from your books." We said: "O Abū Nujaid, that's enough." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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He was either exhorting him to be modest, or censuring him for being too modest, and perhaps the second is more obvious. And they say that all of modesty is good, because it makes one hesitate from doing evil, so even if one is not modest for religious reasons, their natural modesty still helps prevent them from evil.
