Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26945 — Reports on gentleness

Shurayh said: I asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) about staying in the desert. She said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to go out to these hillocks. Once he intended to go out to the desert, and he sent me an unruly she-camel from the camels of charity, and he said to me: "O Aishah, be gentle, for gentleness is not found in anything except that it beautifies it, and it is not taken away from anything except that it disfigures it."