حياة السلف بين القول والعمل

Patience, forgiveness, pardon, and the condemnation and treatment of anger: On the authority of Ibrahim bin Abi Ablah, he said: Umar bin Abdul Aziz, may God have mercy on him, became very angry one day with a man, so he sent for him and brought him, and he stripped him and stretched him with ropes, then he called for whips until we said: He is going to strike him, then he said: Let him go, for if I were not angry I would have made him miserable. He said: And he recited this verse: “And those who restrain anger and pardon people - and God loves the doers of good.” [Al Imran: 134]. [Az-Zuhd by Imam Ahmad / 504].

Forbearance, forgiveness, pardon, condemnation of anger and its cure: Muwarriq al-Ijli, may God have mercy on him, said: I have never become angry and done something during it that I regretted once my anger subsided. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 1/374].

Forbearance, forgiveness, pardon, condemnation of anger and its cure: On the authority of Azhar, he said: A servant came to Ibn Awn, may God have mercy on him, and said: I gouged out the eye of the camel. He said: May God bless you. He said: I said: I gouged out its eye and you say: May God bless you? He said: I say you are free for the sake of God. [Al-Hilya (its abridgment) 1/443].

Forbearance, forgiveness, pardon, condemning anger and its cure: Al-Hasan, may God have mercy on him, said: There are four qualities: whoever possesses them, Allah protects him from Satan and makes him forbidden to the Fire: controlling himself in times of desire, fear, lust, and anger. [Jami’ al-‘Ulum wa al-Hikam / 193].

Forbearance, forgiveness, pardon, condemnation of anger and its cure: Al-Hasan, may God have mercy on him, said: They used to say: The best of the believers’ morals is forgiveness. [Al-Zuhd by Imam Ahmad / 484].