Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 430-418b
✧ Abdullah b. Mas'ud
"عَنِ ابْن مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: حَبَّذَا المَكْرُوهَاتُ المَوْتُ وَالفَقْرُ، وايمُ اللهِ مَا هُوَ إلا الغنَى والفَقْرُ، وَمَا أُبَالِى بأَيَّهِمَا ابْتُديتُ لأنَّ حَقَّ اللهِ في كُلٍ مِنْهُمَا، وأحب أن كَانَ الغِنى إِنَّ فِيهِ العَطْفَ، وَإنْ كانَ الفَقْرُ إنَّ فِيهِ الصَّبْرَ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Masʿūd
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Ibn Mas'ud who said: How excellent are the disliked things: death and poverty. By Allah, it is nothing but wealth and poverty. I do not mind with which of them I am tested, for the right of Allah is in each of them. And I love that if it is wealth, it contains compassion, and if it is poverty, it contains patience."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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