Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4590
✧ The virtue of silence regarding everything that does not concern one and refraining from engaging in it
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ، أنا أَبُو عَمْرِو بْنِ السَّمَّاكِ، نا حَنْبَلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ يَعْنِي أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ، نا سُفْيَانُ،
قَالَ: أَبْصرُوا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: " يَا لِسَانُ قُلْ خَيْرًا تَغْنَمْ، أَوِ اسْكُتْ عَنِ شَرٍّ تَسْلَمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْدَمَ "
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machine translationAbū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān informed us: Abū ʿAmr b. al-Sammāk narrated to us: Ḥanbal b. Isḥāq narrated to us: Abū ʿAbdillāh, meaning Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, narrated to me: Sufyān narrated to us,
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He said: They saw Ibn ʿAbbās, and he was saying: "O tongue, say good and you will gain, or be silent from evil and you will be safe, before you regret."
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