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3935. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "The people of Yemen have come to you. They are weaker in heart and softer in understanding, faith is Yemeni and wisdom is Yemeni." (Hasan)
There are narrations on this topic are from Ibn 'Abbās and Abū Mas'ūd, and this Hadīth is Hasan Sahih.
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Yemeni people are soft hearted and intelligent. The people with soft hearts are more prone to understand and comprehend things quickly. Here the word weakness and softness has been used against the hardness and impurity of the heart. This is the reason that the people of Yemen understood the beauty and truth of Islam and embraced without any conflict.