Excellence in Moral Behaviors — report 16

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

16ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ الْخَثْعَمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) أَفَاضِلُكُمْ أَحْسَنُكُمْ أَخْلاقاً الْمُوَطَّئُونَ أَكْنَافاً الَّذِينَ يَأْلَفُونَ وَيُؤْلَفُونَ وَتُوَطَّأُ رِحَالُهُمْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

16. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Habib al- Khath’ami from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘The meritorious ones among you are those who possess excellent moral behavior, who are easy to associate with, associate others with ease and comfort others.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 49, report 16

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · حسن كالصحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/174)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/49/16. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.