Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4554
✧ Reports and stories on the virtue of truthfulness and the blame of lying, apart from what has passed
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعْدٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمَالِينِيُّ، نا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ الْحَافِظُ، نا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ، نا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، نا أَبُو ضَمْرَةَ، أَخْبَرَنِي صَالِحُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ،
أَنَّهُ قَالَ: " لَا يَكْذِبُ الْكَاذِبُ إِلَّا مِنْ مَهَانَةِ نَفْسِهِ عَلَيْهِ "
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machine translationAbū Saʿd Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Mālīnī informed us: Abū Aḥmad b. ʿAdī al-Ḥāfiẓ narrated to us: ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Muslim narrated to us: Aḥmad b. Ḥarb narrated to us: Abū Ḍamrah narrated to us: Ṣāliḥ b. Ḥassān informed me, from Muḥammad b. Kaʿb al-Quraẓī,
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He said: "The liar lies only because of the lowliness of his own self in his eyes."
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