Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36317
✧ The asceticism of the Successors, may Allah have mercy on them
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حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بُرْقَانَ قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ ابْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ:
أَعْوَنُ الْأَخْلَاقِ عَلَى الدِّينِ الزَّهَادَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَأَوْشَكُهَا رَدًى اتِّبَاعُ الْهَوَى، وَمِنِ اتِّبَاعِ الْهَوَى الرَّغْبَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَمِنَ الرَّغْبَةِ فِي الدُّنْيَا حُبُّ الْمَالِ وَالشَّرَفِ، وَمِنْ حُبِّ الْمَالِ وَالشَّرَفِ اسْتِحْلَالُ الْمَحَارِمِ، وَمِنِ اسْتِحْلَالِ الْمَحَارِمِ يَغْضَبُ اللهُ، وَغَضَبُ اللهِ الدَّاءُ الَّذِي لَا دَوَاءَ لَهُ إِلَّا رِضْوَانَ اللهِ، وَرِضْوَانُ اللهِ دَوَاءٌ لَا يَضُرُّ مَعَهُ دَاءٌ، وَمَنْ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُرْضِيَ رَبَّهُ يُسْخِطُ نَفْسَهُ، وَمَنْ لَا يُسْخِطُ نَفْسَهُ لَا يُرْضِي رَبَّهُ، إِنْ كَانَ كُلَّمَا ثَقُلَ عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ مِنْ دِينِهِ تَرَكَهُ أَوْشَكَ أَنْ لَا يَبْقَى مَعَهُ شَيْءٌ
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machine translationḤusayn b. ʿAlī narrated to us, from Jaʿfar b. Burqān, who said: It reached me that Ibn Munabbih used to say:
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The most helpful of character traits for religion is detachment from this world; the swiftest of them to bring ruin is following desire. Part of following desire is craving this world, and part of craving this world is love of wealth and status, and part of love of wealth and status is treating the forbidden things as lawful, and because of treating the forbidden things as lawful, Allah becomes angry. And the anger of Allah is a disease for which there is no cure except the pleasure of Allah, and the pleasure of Allah is a cure with which no disease can harm. Whoever wants to please his Lord must displease his own self, and whoever does not displease his own self cannot please his Lord. If every time something of his religion becomes heavy for a person he abandons it, it will soon be that nothing remains with him.
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