Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4663
✧ 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، نا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، نا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْفَزَارِيُّ،
قَالَ: قَالَ وَبَرَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ: أَوْصَانِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ بِكَلِمَاتٍ لَهُنَّ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ الدُّهْمِ الْمُوقَفَةِ، قَالَ لِي: " يَا وَبَرَةُ، لَا تَعَرَّضْ فِيمَا لَا يَعْنِيكَ، فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ أَفْضَلُ، وَلَا آمَنُ عَلَيْكَ الْوِزْرَ، وُدَعْ كَثِيرًا مِمَّا يَعْنِيكَ حَتَّى تَرَى لَهُ مَوْضِعًا، فَرُبَّ مُتَكَلِّفٍ بِحَقٍّ تَقِيٌّ قَدْ تَكَلَّمَ فِي الْأَمْرِ بِعَيْنِهِ فِي غَيْرِ مَوْضِعِهِ، فَعَطِبَ وَلَا تُمَارِيَنَّ حَلِيمًا، وَلَا سَفِيهًا، فَإِنَّ الْحَلِيمَ يَقْلِيكَ، وَإِنَّ السَّفِيهَ يُرْدِيكَ، وَاذْكُرْ أَخَاكَ إِذَا تَوَارَى عَنْكَ بِكُلِّ مَا تُحِبُّ أَنْ يَذْكُرَكَ بِهِ إِذَا تَوَارَيْتَ عَنْهُ، وَدَعْهُ مِنْ كُلِّ مَا تُحِبُّ أَنْ يَدَعَكَ مِنْهُ، وَاعْمَلْ عَمَلَ رَجُلٍ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ مَجْزِيٌّ بِالْحَسَنَاتِ مَأْخُوذٌ بِالسَّيِّئاتِ "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān informed us, (he said) Abū ʿAmr b. al-Sammāk informed us, (he said) Ḥanbal b. Isḥāq narrated to us, (he said) Ibrāhīm b. Naṣr narrated to us, (he said) Abū ʿAlī al-Fazārī narrated to us,
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He said: Wabarah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: Ibn ʿAbbās advised me with words that are finer to me than fine horses kept ready. He said to me: "O Wabarah, do not meddle in what does not concern you, for that is better, and I do not feel safe for you from sin. And leave much of what does concern you until you see a proper place for it. For many a God-fearing man who burdens himself with the truth has spoken about the very same matter in the wrong place, and so he was ruined. Do not argue with a forbearing man, nor with a foolish one, for the forbearing man will come to dislike you, and the foolish one will bring about your ruin. Mention your brother when he is absent from you with everything that you would love him to mention of you when you are absent from him, and leave him alone in everything that you would love him to leave you alone in. And act as a man who knows that he will be repaid for good deeds and taken to account for evil deeds."
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