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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

Chain of narrators
  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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