Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4695
✧ The virtue of silence regarding everything that does not concern one and refraining from engaging in it
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سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَعِيدِ بْنَ رُمَيْحٍ الْحَاطِبَ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ زَكَرِيَّا السَّاجِيَّ يَقُولُ: نا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ، نا الْمِنْهَالُ بْنُ عِيسَى، أنا غَالِبٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ
قَالَ: " فَضْلُ الْكَلَامِ عَلَى الْفِعَالِ عَابٌ، وَفَضْلُ الْفِعَالِ عَلَى الْكَلَامِ مَكْرُمَةٌ "
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machine translationI heard Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī say: I heard Abū Saʿīd b. Rumayḥ al-Ḥāṭib say: I heard Zakariyyā al-Sājī say: Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd b. Ḥassān narrated to us, al-Minhāl b. ʿĪsā narrated to us, Ghālib informed us, from al-Ḥasan.
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He said: "Excess of speech over deeds is a disgrace, and excess of deeds over speech is a noble virtue."
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