The Book of Asceticism · Hadith 74 (#Ḥadīth #15)

بعض أصحابنا عن جابر بن سدير عن معاذ بن مسلم قال: دخلت على أبى عبد الله عليه السلام وعنده رجل فقال له أبو عبد الله عليه السلام: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله : الرفق يمن والخرق شوم.

15.One of our companions narrated from Jābir ibn Sadīr, from Muʿādh ibn Muslim who said, “I went to meet Abū ʿAbdillāh while there was a man with him, and [I heard that] Abū ʿAbdullāh told him, ‘The Messenger of Allah (ṣ) said, “Gentle kindness is propitious, whereas roughness is inauspicious.”’”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).