Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 5322
✧ Second section on condemning excessive eating
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سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ نَصْرَ بْنَ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الْعَطَّارَ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَحْمَدَ بْنَ سُلَيْمَانَ
قَالَ: وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِي عَنْ حَاتِمٍ الْأَصَمِّ: أَنَّهُ قَالَ: " مَنْ دَخَلَ فِي مَذْهَبِنَا هَذَا، فَلْيَجْعَلْ فِي نَفْسِهِ، أَرْبَعَ خِصَالٍ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ: مَوْتٌ أَبْيَضُ، وَمَوْتٌ أَسْوَدُ، وَمَوْتٌ أَحْمَرُ، وَمَوْتٌ أَخْضَرُ، فَالْمَوْتُ الْأَبْيَضُ: الْجُوعُ، وَالْمَوْتُ الْأَسْوَدُ: احْتِمَالُ أَذَى النَّاسِ، وَالْمَوْتُ الْأَحْمَرُ: مُخَالَفَةُ النَّفْسِ، وَالْمَوْتُ الْأَخْضَرُ: طَرْحُ الرِّقَاعِ بَعْضَهَا عَلَى بَعْضٍ "
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machine translationI heard Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī say: I heard Naṣr b. Abī Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār say: I heard Aḥmad b. Sulaymān
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He said: I found in my book from Ḥātim al-Aṣamm that he said: "Whoever enters this path of ours, let him set in himself four kinds of death: a white death, a black death, a red death, and a green death. The white death is hunger; the black death is bearing the harm of people; the red death is opposing the self; and the green death is patching garments, one patch upon another."
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