Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4712
✧ The virtue of silence regarding everything that does not concern one and refraining from engaging in it
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ السُّنِّيُّ الْأَدِيبُ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ، نا الْإِمَامُ أَبُو سَهْلٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، نا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الدَّسْتُوَائِيُّ، أنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، حَدَّثَنِي يُوسُفُ بْنُ تَمِيمٍ، حَدَّثَنِي الصَّلْتُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ الْحِجَازِيُّ، نا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَوِيَّةَ، نا سُلَيْمَانُ أَبُو صَالِحٍ، عَنِ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ
قَالَ: " اجْتَمَعَتْ أَرْبَعَةُ مُلُوكٍ: مَلِكُ الرُّومِ، وَمَلِكُ فَارِسَ، وَمَلِكُ الصِّينِ، وَمَلِكُ الْهِنْدِ، فَتَكَلَّمُوا بِأَرْبَعِ كَلِمَاتٍ، كَأَنَّهُمْ رَمَوْهَا عَنْ قَوْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ، قَالَ مَلِكُ الرُّومِ: إِذَا قُلْتُ الْكَلِمَةَ مَلَكَتْنِي، وَإِذَا لَمْ أَقُلْهَا مَلَكْتُهَا، وَقَالَ مَلِكُ فَارِسَ: أَنَا عَلَى مَا لَمْ أَقُلْ أَقْدَرُ مِنِّي عَلَى مَا قُلْتُ، وَقَالَ الثَّالِثُ: أَنَا لَمْ أَنْدَمْ عَلَى مَا لَمْ أَقُلْ، وَقَدْ نَدِمْتُ عَلَى مَا قُلْتُ كَثِيرًا، وَقَالَ الرَّابِعُ: عَجِبْتُ لِمَنْ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ إِنْ وَقَفَتْ عَلَيْهِ ضَرَّتْهُ، وَإِنْ تَجَاوَزَتْهُ لَمْ تَنْفَعْهُ "
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Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Manṣūr al-Sunnī al-Adīb al-Bayhaqī narrated to us, he said: the Imam Abū Sahl Muḥammad b. Sulaymān narrated to us, he said: Abū Muḥammad al-Dastuwāʾī narrated to us, he said: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yazīd informed us, he said: Yūsuf b. Tamīm narrated to me, he said: al-Ṣalt b. Masʿūd al-Ḥijāzī narrated to me, he said: Aḥmad b. Sawiyyah narrated to us, he said: Sulaymān Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, from al-Mubārak, from Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh.
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He said: "Four kings gathered: the king of Rome, the king of Persia, the king of China, and the king of India. They spoke four words, as if they had shot them from one bow. The king of Rome said: 'When I say the word, it rules me, and when I do not say it, I rule it.' The king of Persia said: 'I have more power over what I have not said than over what I have said.' The third said: 'I have never regretted what I did not say, but I have often regretted what I said.' The fourth said: 'I am amazed at the one who speaks a word that, if it stays with him, harms him, and if it passes beyond him, does not benefit him.'"
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