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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3198

✧ Censure of Arrogance and Praise of Humility

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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ فِي الزُّهْدِ: حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ، قَالَ:

« مَا مِنْ آدَمِيٍّ إِلَّا وَفِي رَأْسِهِ حِكْمَةٌ، وَهِيَ بِيَدِ مَلَكٍ، فَإِنْ تَوَاضَعَ رَفَعَهُ، وَإِنْ تَكَبَّرَ وَضَعَهُ

Translation

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  1. Aḥmad Fī al-Zuhd
  2. Aswad b. ʿĀmir
  3. Ḥammād
  4. Thābit
  5. Muṭarrif
  6. Kaʿb

✧ There is no human being but has wisdom in his head, and it is in the hand of an angel; if he humbles himself, the angel raises him, and if he is arrogant, the angel lowers him.

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  1. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 34 AH, also said: 32 AH, and al-Wāqidī stated it definitively, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, and more than one
    كَعْب الأَحْبَارثقة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AH
    مُطَرِّفٍثقة عابد فاضل
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
    ثَابِتٍثقة عابد
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
    حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AH
    أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقة
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
    أَحْمَدُثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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