110curated hadith rotate here, mostly from Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith, each from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or the Sunan collections with its reference cited.

Hadith for · gentleness

Gentleness adorns everything

Sunday, July 29, 2012

إِنَّ الرِّفْقَ لَا يَكُونُ فِي شَيْءٍ إِلَّا زَانَهُ، وَلَا يُنْزَعُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا شَانَهُ

Transliteration

Inna-r-rifqa la yakunu fi shay'in illa zanah, wa la yunza'u min shay'in illa shanah.

Translation

Gentleness is not in anything without adorning it, and it is not removed from anything without making it ugly.

Narrated by 'A'ishah·Sahih Muslim 2594

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