Muwatta 2804

Malik transmits from Abu Ubayd, client of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, from Khalid ibn Maadan, raised to the Prophet ﷺ, that God is gentle and loves gentleness, and gives through gentleness what He does not give through violence. It contains the command to set riding animals down in their places when they dismount, travel by night because the land is folded at night, and the prohibition of stopping to rest on the road, because it is the path of animals and the shelter of snakes. The editor notes that Malik transmitted it in two ways: once from Said al-Maqburi from his father from Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him), and once from Said from Abu Hurayra directly; that most transmitters omit 'from his father'; and that both are sound. Ibn Abd al-Barr cites hadiths on this point from Abdallah ibn Mughaffal, Ibn Abbas and Anas. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Comprehensive Matters (al-Jami). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas, Abu Ubayd, client of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Khalid ibn Maadan, Said ibn Abi Said al-Maqburi, Abu Hurayra.