Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 251-65b
✧ Hudhayfa b. al-Yaman
"قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ الله! هَلْ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ مِنْ شَرٍّ؟ قَالَ: شَرٌّ وَفِتْنَةٌ، قُلْتُ: فَهَلْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ الشَّرِ مِنْ خَيرٍ؟ قَالَ: هُدْنَةٌ عَلَى دَخَنٍ، وَجَمَاعَةٌ عَلَى أَمْذَاءٍ، فِيهَا دُعَاةُ النَّارِ، يَا حُذَيْفَة: لأَنْ تَمُوتَ وَأَنْتَ عَاضٌّ عَلَى جِذْلٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ تَسْتَجِيبَ لأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ".
Translation
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"I said: O Messenger of God! Is there any evil after this good? He said: Evil and trial (fitnah). I said: Is there any good after that evil? He said: A truce upon smoke (dakhan), and a community upon impurities (amdhāʾ), among them callers to the Fire. O Ḥudhayfah: that you die while biting upon the trunk of a tree is better than that you respond to any one of them."
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Notes
العسكرى في الأمثال
machine translationAl-ʿAskarī, in al-Amthāl.
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