Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4367
✧ The virtue of the intellect, which is among the great favors by which Allah has honored His servants
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْوَلِيدِ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ سُفْيَانَ، يَقُولُ: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ،
قَالَ: " مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ عَقْلُهُ بِفِنَائِهِ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ عَقْلُهُ مَعَهُ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ لَا عَقْلَ لَهُ. فَأَمَّا الْعَاقِلُ الَّذِي عَقْلُهُ مَعَهُ فَالَّذِي يُبْصِرُ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَكَلَّمَ، وَأَمَّا الَّذِي عَقْلُهُ بِفِنَائِهِ فَالَّذِي يُبْصِرُ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ بَعْدَمَا يَتَكَلَّمُ ". قَالَ: فَحَدَّثْتُ بِهِ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ، فَقَالَ: " هَذِهِ صِفَتُنَا - يَعْنِي الَّذِي عَقْلُهُ بِفِنَائِهِ - وَاسْتَحْسَنَ الْكَلَامَ ". فَقَالَ: " لَيْسَ هَذَا مِنْ كَلَامِ شُعْبَةَ، أنَّهُ سَمِعَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِهِ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us, he said: I heard Abū al-Walīd say: I heard al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān say: Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī narrated to us, he said: Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd narrated to us, from Shuʿbah,
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He said: "Among people are those whose intellect is in their courtyard, and among them are those whose intellect is with them, and among them are those who have no intellect. As for the intelligent one whose intellect is with him, he is the one who sees what will come out of him before he speaks; and as for the one whose intellect is in his courtyard, he is the one who sees what came out of him after he has spoken." He said: So I related it to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī, and he said: "This is our description - meaning the one whose intellect is in his courtyard - and he found the saying excellent." Then he said: "This is not from the words of Shuʿbah; he heard it from someone else."
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