Hadith Thirty-Three

44 – My grandfather informed us; al-Ṣalāḥ ibn Abī ʿUmar informed us; al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhārī informed us; Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn informed us; Abū’l-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Ibn Khayrūn informed us; my maternal uncle Abū ʿAlī informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAllāf informed us; Judge Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ashnānī informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated from [al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl al-Jarīrī] (1), who said: “Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Abū Ḥanīfah narrated to us; Ayyūb ibn ʿĀʾidh narrated from Mujāhid, who said that the Prophet ﷺ said:

‘If people were to contemplate the trait of gentleness, they would find no creature finer than it; and if they were to contemplate the trait of harshness, they would find among all that Allah has created no creature more repulsive than it.’”