Sahih Muslim 2594b — Kindness Even in Difficulty

Summary of Sahih Muslim Hadith 2594b

This narration gives a practical scene for the hadith about kindness. A'isha mounted a camel that was hard to control, and she began making it go round and round. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told her to show kindness, then mentioned the teaching that kindness beautifies whatever it enters and its absence makes things defective. The lesson stays close to the text: even when something is difficult, the first response should not be roughness. This hadith on gentleness in Islam shows that rifq applies in real moments of pressure. It is easy to speak about kindness when everything is calm, but this report connects kindness with frustration, movement, and a hard-to-handle animal.