Kitāb al-Zuhd

Hadith 23
modestychastity
علي بن النعمان عن عمرو بن شمر عن جابر عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: ان الله يحب الحيي الحليم الغنى المتعفف الا وان الله يبغض الفاحشة البذي السائل الملحف.
20.ʿAlī ibn al-Nuʿmān narrated from ʿAmr ibn Shimr, from Jābir, from Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) who said, “The Messenger of Allah (ṣ) said, ‘Verily Allah loves the modest, clement, independent, chaste individual. And indeed Allah hates the shameless, obscene, scrounging, importune individual.’”
Source: Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī

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