Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-1356b
"عنْ عَلِيٍّ: أَنَّهُ مَرَّ عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَلعَبُونَ الشَّطرَنْجَ فَقَالَ: مَا هَذه التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِى أَنْتُمْ لَهَا عَاكفُونَ؛ لأنْ يَمَسَّ أَحَدُكُمْ جَمْرًا حَتَّى يُطفَى خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمَسَّهَا".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī
- Mar
- Qawm Yalʿabūn al-Shaṭranj
- Mā Hadhh al-Tamāthīl al--Atiá Antum Lahā ʿĀkfūn Lʾn Yamas Aḥadukum Jamr Ḥattá Yuṭfá Khayr Lah Min
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From 'Ali: that he passed by a people playing chess and said: What are these statues to which you are devoted? For one of you to touch a live coal until it extinguishes is better for him than to touch them."
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Notes
[ش] ابن أبى شيبة وعبد بن حميد، وابن أبى الدنيا في ذم الملاهى وابن المنذر، وابن أبى حاتم، [ق] البيهقى في السنن
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