“I used to sit often with ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn), and I never saw anyone more knowledgeable than him, yet he spoke very little.”
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It is reported that Imām Al-Zuhrī – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
“I used to sit often with ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn), and I never saw anyone more knowledgeable than him, yet he spoke very little.”
Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (20/386)
It is reported that Yūnus b. ʿUbayd – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
There is no one who is mindful of what he says except that you will see the good of it in the rest of his actions.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-Ṣamt wa Ādāb Al-Lisān article 60.
It is reported that Bilāl b. Saʿd – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
If you see a man being obstinate, argumentative and impressed with his own opinion, then his loss is complete.
Abū Nuʿaym, ʿHilyatu Al-Awliyāʾ 5:228
It is reported that ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās – Allāh be pleased with them – said:
Wear what you wish and eat what you wish, as long as you avoid two practices: extravagance and haughtiness.
Ibn Abī Shaybah, Al-Muṣannaf ḥadīth 26601.
Ibn Al-Sunnī records that when ʿĀʾishah – Allāh be pleased with her – wanted to go to sleep she would say:
O Allāh, verily I ask you for good dreams: dreams that are true and not false, beneficial and not harmful. اللهم إني أسألك رؤيا صالحةً صادقةً غيرَ كاذبةٍ نافعةً غيرَ ضارةٍ And when she said this, [those who heard her] knew that she would not speak any more until she woke up from the night.
Al-Nawawī, Al-Adhkār ḥadīth 271. Ibn Ḥajr graded it ṣaḥīḥ in Natāʾij Al-Afkār 3:89.
There were two men who used to visit Al-Aʿmash, one who was concerned with ḥadīth and one who was not. One day Al-Aʿmash became angry with the man who studied ḥadīth, so the other said to him, “If he ever got angry with me like he got angry with you I would never go back to him.” To this Al-Aʿmash said, “In that case he would be a fool like you, leaving what benefits him because of my bad character (behaviour).”
Al-Khaṭīb, Al-Jāmiʿ li Akhlāq Al-Rāwī 1:338.
It is reported that ʿUmar b. Al-Khaṭṭāb – Allāh be pleased with him – said to a young man while exhorting him:
A man might have ten qualities, nine of them good and one bad, but the nine good ones can be spoiled by the one bad quality. Beware of the slips and faults of youth.
ʿAbd Al-Razzāq Al-Ṣanʿānī, Al-Muṣannaf 8240.
Yūnus reports: Maymūn b. Mihrān once wrote to me saying:
Beware of dispute and argumentation about the religion, and do not argue with a scholar nor an ignoramus. As for the scholar, he will withhold his knowledge from you, and will not be concerned with what you do. As for the ignorant person, he will only cause roughness in your heart and he will not obey you [anyway].
Al-Dārimī, Al-Sunan no. 302.
It is reported that Ayyūb Al-Sakhtiyānī – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
A man does not become noble until he has two qualities: he is undesirous of what other people possess, and he pardons and overlooks them.
Ibn Ḥibbān, Rawḍatu Al-ʿUqalāʾ p167
ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd – Allāh be pleased with him – said:
The victim of theft might continue to suspect and conjecture [about who stole from him] until he becomes worse [in sin] than the thief.
Al-Bukhārī, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad no. 1289. Its chain of transmission was graded ṣaḥīḥ by Al-Albānī in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Adab Al-Mufrad no.974.