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Sahih Muslim, 2612 e
sahih

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Hatim Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) is reported to have said:

When any one of you fights with his brother, he should avoid his face for Allah created Adam in His own image.

حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا الْمُثَنَّى، ح وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ، حَاتِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، عَنِ الْمُثَنَّى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَفِي حَدِيثِ ابْنِ حَاتِمٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏

‏ إِذَا قَاتَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ فَلْيَجْتَنِبِ الْوَجْهَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ آدَمَ عَلَى صُورَتِهِ ‏

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Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1Nasr bin 'Ali bin Nasr bin 'Ali (young)d. 250 AH or after
  2. 2'Ali bin Nasr bin 'Ali al-Jahdami Olderal-Basra · d. 187 AH
  3. 3Muhammad bin Hatm bin SulaimanKhurasan · d. 246 AH
  4. 4'Abdur Rahman bin MahdiBasra · d. 198 AH
  5. 5QatadaBasra/Medina · d. ~117 AH
  6. 6Abu Ayyub al-AnsariMedinah/Iraq/Egypt · d. 49 AH or 52 AH/670 CE
  7. 7Abu HurairahMakkah/Medina/Yemen/Bahrain · d. 59 AH/681 CE
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 45, Hadith 152
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Book 32, Hadith 6325 (deprecated numbering scheme)
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