مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب الفضائل والشمائل
The Book of Virtues and Characteristics
(رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَمْ يَنْتَقِمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ)
(The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, never took revenge on anyone)
Hadith Number: 5817
5817 - وعن عائشة، قالت: ما خير رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - بين امرين. قط إلا اخذ ايسرهما ما لم يكن إثما فإن كان إثما كان ابعد الناس منه، وما انتقم رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - لنفسه في شيء قط إلا ان ينتهك حرمة الله فينتقم الله بها. متفق عليه.
`A'isha said God's messenger was never given his choice between two things without taking the lesser of them provided it involved no sin, for if it did, no one kept farther away from it than he. And God's messenger never took revenge on his own behalf for anything unless something God had forbidden had been transgressed, in which event he took revenge for it for God's sake. (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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