Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4561
✧ Reports and stories on the virtue of truthfulness and the blame of lying, apart from what has passed
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ صَالِحِ بْنِ هَانِئٍ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ نُعَيْمٍ الْمَدِينِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هَمَّامٍ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْأَشْجَعِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ،
يَقُولُ: " إِنِّي لَأَظُنُّ لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا هَمَّ بِالْكَذِبِ يُعْرَفُ ذَلِكَ فِي وَجْهِهِ ". قَالَ الْأَشْجَعِيُّ: " وَكَانَ سُفْيَانُ لَا يَخْفَى عَلَى حَالٍ عَلَيْهِ حَالُ مَنْ يُذَاكِرُهُ الْحَدِيثَ "
Translation
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us, he said: I heard Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ b. Hāniʾ say: I heard Muḥammad b. Nuʿaym al-Madīnī say: I heard Abū Hammām say: I heard al-Ashjaʿī say: I heard Sufyān say:
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He would say: "I think that if a man intended to lie, that would be known in his face." Al-Ashjaʿī said: "And Sufyān was never unclear about the state of the one who discussed hadith with him."
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