al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3959
✧ Urging to Enjoin Good and Forbid Evil Even if One Does Not Practice It
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ فِي الزُّهْدِ: حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، ثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ ؓ:
« إِنِّي لَآمُرُكُمْ بِمَا لَا أَفْعَلُ وَلَكِنِّي أَرْجُو أَنْ أُوجَرَ عَلَيْهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad Fī al-Zuhd
- Aswad b. ʿĀmir
- Sharīk
- ʿĀṣim
- Abū Wāʾil
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
✧ “Indeed I command you to do what I do not do, but I hope to be rewarded for it.”
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