Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4679
✧ The virtue of silence regarding everything that does not concern one and refraining from engaging in it
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْإِمَامُ، إِمْلَاءً أنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْفَحَّامُ، نا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، نا حَمَّادُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَشْهَبِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ
قَالَ: " كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ: لِسَانُ الْحَكِيمِ مِنْ وَرَاءِ قَلْبِهِ، فَإِنْ كَانَ لَهُ تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ أَمْسَكَ، وَإِنَّ قَلْبَ الْجَاهِلِ عَلَى طَرَفِ لِسَانِهِ لَا يَرْجِعُ إِلَى قَلْبِهِ مَا جَاءَ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ "
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machine translationAbū Ṭāhir the Imām narrated to us, by dictation: Abū Bakr al-Faḥḥām informed us: Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā narrated to us: Ḥammād b. Masʿadah narrated to us, from Abū al-Ashhab, from al-Ḥasan.
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He said: "They used to say: The tongue of the wise person is behind his heart; if something is in his favor he speaks it, and if it is against him he holds back. And the heart of the ignorant person is on the tip of his tongue; whatever comes to his tongue he speaks it, without referring it back to his heart."
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