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Regarding Gentleness

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Darussalam · Volume 5

40. THE BOOK OFETIQUETTE (AL-ADAB)

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الحديث: 4808 ¦ الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 255

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4808. It was narrated from Al-Miqdām bin Shuraiḥ that his father said: “I asked ‘Āishah about living in the desert and she said: ‘The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ used to go to the desert, to these streams. On one occasion he wanted to go to the desert, and he sent me a Muḥarramah camel from among the Ṣadaqah (Zakāt) camels. He said to me: “O ‘Āishah, be gentle, for indeed gentleness is not found in anything at all, except that it will beautify it, and it is not removed from anything at all, except that it mars it.”” In his narration, Ibn Aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (one of the narrators) said: “Muḥarramah means it has not been ridden.” (Sahīh)

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4808 - حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ، ابْنَا أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الْبَزَّازُ، قَالُوا: حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ شُرَيْحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ عَائِشَةَ عَنِ الْبَدَاوَةِ، فَقَالَتْ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَبْدُو إِلَى هَذِهِ التِّلَاعِ، وَإِنَّهُ أَرَادَ الْبَدَاوَةَ مَرَّةً فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ نَاقَةً مُحَرَّمَةً مِنْ إِبِلِ الصَّدَقَةِ، فَقَالَ لِي: «يَا عَائِشَةُ، ارْفُقِي فَإِنَّ الرِّفْقَ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي شَيْءٍ قَطُّ إِلَّا زَانَهُ، وَلَا نُزِعَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ قَطُّ إِلَّا شَانَهُ» قَالَ ابْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ فِي حَدِيثِهِ: مُحَرَّمَةٌ يَعْنِي لَمْ تُرْكَبْ

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“Living in the desert” meaning, abandoning civilization for the Bedouin life. See number 2478 where this narration preceded.