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Al-Kafi · Hadith 8

The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran · Reading the Holy Quran with Elocution and Attractive Tone of Voice · Volume 2, book 3, chapter 9, Hadith 8

Original Arabic text

8ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) إِنَّ مِنْ أَجْمَلِ الْجَمَالِ الشَّعْرَ الْحَسَنَ وَنَغْمَةَ الصَّوْتِ الْحَسَنِ.

Published English translation

8. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ali ibn Ma’bad from Yunus from ‘Abd Allah ibn Muskan from abu Basir from abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) who has said the following: “The Holy Prophet has said, ‘The most beautiful thing in beauty is beautiful hair and the attractive tone of voice.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/502)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

Source records non-inclusion in this scholar's selection; this is not itself a weak or authentic grade.

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Muhammad Sarwar
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