The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "No servant has ever swallowed anything more excellent in the sight of Allah than a swallow of anger that he restrains seeking the face of Allah Almighty."
حدثنا علي بن عاصم عن يونس بن عبيد أخبرنا الحسن
قال رسول الله ﷺ ما تجرع عبد جرعة أفضل عند الله عز وجل من جرعة غيظ يكظمها ابتغاء وجه الله تعالى
Its isnad is sahih. Hasan is Hasan Basri. Ibn Majah related this hadith, 2:284, through the route of Hammad bin Salama, from Yunus bin Ubayd, with similar wording. Its commentator Sindi quoted from the Zawaid of Busiri, who said, "Its isnad is sahih, its narrators are trustworthy." Ibn Kathir also quoted it in his tafsir, 2:244, from the report of Ibn Mardawayh, through the route of Yahya bin Abu Talib, "Ali bin Asim informed us, Yunus bin Ubayd told me," with this same isnad and similar wording. Ibn Kathir then said, "This is how Ibn Majah related it, from Bishr bin Umar, from Hammad bin Salama, from Yunus bin Ubayd." Munziri mentioned it in Targhib wal-Tarhib, 3:279, and said, "Ibn Majah related it, and its narrators are relied upon in the Sahih." Suyuti mentioned it in Jami Saghir, 8018, and attributed it to Ibn Majah alone, and referred to it in Durr Manthur, 2:73, attributing it to Bayhaqi alone. It will come again with another isnad, 6116. Something similar in meaning has already passed in another long hadith of Ibn Abbas, 3017.As for jurah, it may be pronounced with the jeem vowelled with damma, in which case it is the noun from tajarru, meaning drinking, or it may be pronounced with fatha, in which case it means a single instance of that act. Jurah, with damma also, means a mouthful that one swallows, and tajarru al-jurah means drinking it and swallowing it. Lisan says, "Jaraa al-ghayz means he suppressed it, by analogy with that." And in Nihaya, "Kazm al-ghayz means suppressing it, bearing its cause, and being patient with it."