Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4362
✧ The virtue of the intellect, which is among the great favors by which Allah has honored His servants
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سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْحُسَيْنَ بْنَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُوسَى، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الصَّوْلِيَّ، يَقُولُ: أخبرنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا الرّقَاشِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيَّ،
يَقُولُ: " كَانَ يُقَالُ: الصَّمْتُ مَنَامُ الْعَقْلِ، وَالْمَنْطِقُ يَقَظَتُهُ، وَلَا مَنَامَ إِلَّا بِيَقَظَةٍ، وَلَا يَقَظَةَ إِلَّا بِمَنَامٍ "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationI heard Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī say: I heard al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā say: I heard al-Ṣūlī say: Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā informed us: al-Raqāshī narrated to us, he said: I heard Sufyān al-Thawrī,
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He said: "It used to be said: Silence is the sleep of the intellect, and speech is its wakefulness; and there is no sleep except with wakefulness, and no wakefulness except with sleep."
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