Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36309
✧ The asceticism of the Successors, may Allah have mercy on them
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ قَالَ:
قُلْنَا لِطَلْقِ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ: صِفْ لَنَا التَّقْوَى، قَالَ: التَّقْوَى: عَمَلٌ بِطَاعَةِ اللهِ رَجَاءَ رَحْمَةِ اللهِ، عَلَى نُورٍ مِنَ اللهِ، وَالتَّقْوَى: تَرْكُ مَعْصِيَةِ اللهِ مَخَافَةَ اللهِ عَلَى نُورٍ مِنَ اللهِ
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machine translationYaḥyā b. Ādam narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿĀṣim, who said:
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We said to Ṭalq b. Ḥabīb: "Describe taqwā (piety) to us." He said: "Taqwā is acting in obedience to God, hoping for the mercy of God, upon a light from God; and taqwā is abandoning disobedience to God, out of fear of God, upon a light from God."
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