Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4535
Show the chain
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيَّ، يَقُولُ: نا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ، نا أَبُو يَعْلَى زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى السَّاجِيُّ، نا الْأَصمَعِيُّ،
قَالَ: " قِيلَ لِأَعْرَابِيٍّ: مَا أَحْسَنُ ثَنَاءِ النَّاسِ عَلَيْكَ؟ قَالَ: بَلَاءُ اللهِ عِنْدِي أَحْسَنُ مِنْ مَدْحِ الْمَادِحِينَ، وَإِنْ أَحْسَنُوا وَذُنُوبِي أَكْثَرُ مِنْ ذَمِّ الذَّامِّينَ، وَإِنْ أَكْثَرُوا فَيَا أَسَفِي فِيمَا فَرَّطْتُ، وَيَا سَوْأَتِي فِيمَا قَدَّمْتُ "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us, he said: I heard Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī say: Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Muqaddamī narrated to us, Abū Yaʿlā Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī narrated to us, al-Aṣmaʿī narrated to us,
Machine translation, not reviewed
He said: "A Bedouin was asked: How good is the people's praise of you? He said: God's trial of me is better than the praise of those who praise, even if they do well, and my sins are more than the blame of those who blame, even if they say much. So alas for what I neglected, and woe for my disgrace in what I have put forward."
No source translates this, so this English was written by a computer model. It can be wrong; rely on the Arabic. Report a problem below.
Grades by grader
No grade is recorded for this wording. Ask what scholars say about its grade