100 - Anger is a bad characteristic

عن أبي هريرة : أنَّ رَجُلًا قالَ للنبيِّ ﷺ: أوْصِنِي، قَالَ: «لَا تَغْضَبْ»، فَرَدَّدَ مِرَارًا، قَالَ: «لَا تَغْضَبْ».

Abu Hurayrah narrated that: 

1. A man asked the Prophet (peace be upon him) to counsel him.  

2. The Prophet said to him: ‘Do not give way to anger’.  

3. The man repeated his request several times, and the Prophet [always] said to him: ‘Do not give way to anger’.

Related Quranic Verses

Hasten, all of you, to the achievement of your Lord’s forgiveness, and a paradise as vast as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the God-fearing, (133) who spend [in His way] in time of plenty and in time of hardship, and restrain their anger, and forgive their fellow men. God loves the benevolent.

(3: 133-134)

Whatever you are given is but for the enjoyment of life in this world, but that which is with God is much better and more enduring. [It shall be given] to those who believe and place their trust in their Lord; (36) who shun grave sins and gross indecencies; and who, when angered, will forgive.

(42: 36-37)

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