Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4625
✧ 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 الْفَضْلِ، أنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، نا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ، نا ابْنُ عُثْمَانَ، نا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، أنا عَبْدُ رَبِّ بْنِ هِلَالِ بْنِ أَبِي هِلَالٍ، قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنِي مَيْمُونُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ
قَالَ: إِنِّي لَعِنْدَ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ إِذْ فُتِحَ لَهُ مَنْطِقٌ حَسَنٌ، حَتَّى رَقَّ لَهُ أَصْحَابُهُ، قَالَ: فَفَطِنَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ وَهُوَ يَحْذِفُ دَمْعَتَهُ، قَالَ: فَقَطَعَ مَنْطِقَهُ، قَالَ مَيْمُونٌ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: امْضِ فِي مَنْطِقِكَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، فَإِنِّي أَرْجُو أَنْ يَمُنَّ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهِ عَلَى مَنْ سَمِعَهُ، وَانْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ بِيَدِهِ: " إِلَيْكَ عَنِّي، فَإِنَّ الْقَوْلَ فِتْنَةٌ، وَالْفِعَالَ أَوْلَى بِالْمَرْءِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ "
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machine translationAbū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl informed us: ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar informed us: Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān narrated to us: Ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us: ʿUmar b. ʿAlī narrated to us: ʿAbd Rabb b. Hilāl b. Abī Hilāl informed us, he said: Maymūn b. Mihrān informed me
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He said: I was with ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz when a fine speech was opened up to him, so that his companions were moved to tenderness by it. He said: Then he noticed one of them wiping away his tears, so he cut off his speech. Maymūn said: I said to him: Continue with your speech, O Commander of the Believers, for I hope that God, Mighty and Majestic, will bestow favor through it on whoever hears it and it reaches. So he said with his hand: "Keep away from me, for speech is a trial, and action is more fitting for a man than speech."
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