Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 9228
✧ Concealing one's own faults
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، سَمِعْتُ الْأُسْتَاذَ أَبُو وَلِيدٍ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَمْرٍو أَحْمَدَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحِيرِيَّ، سَمِعْتُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنَ هَانِئٍ،
يَقُولُ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلَ، وَعِنْدَهُ الشَّقِيقِيُّ، وَهُوَ يُذَاكِرُهُ آدَابَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ، فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ الْمُبَارَكِ، يَقُولُ: " مَنْ تَهَاوَنَ بِالسِّتْرِ أُطْلِقَ لِسَانُهُ فِي عُيُوبِ نَفْسِهِ فَكُفِيَ النَّاسُ شَرَّهُ "، قَالَ: فَنَفَرَ أَحْمَدُ مِنْ مَكَانِهِ، قَالَ: " سُبْحَانَ اللهِ، وَنَتَهَاوَنُ بِالسَّتْرِ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us: I heard the Ustādh Abū Walīd say: I heard Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥīrī say: I heard Ibrāhīm b. Hāniʾ,
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He said: I was with Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, and with him was al-Shaqīqī, who was discussing with him the manners of ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak. He said: I heard ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak say: "Whoever is careless about concealment, his tongue is released to speak of the faults of his own self, and so people are spared his evil." He said: Aḥmad recoiled from his place and said: "Glory be to God! Are we to be careless about concealment?"
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