Ahmad ibn Salamah informed us; from Abu al-Makarim al-Labbān; Abu ʿAli al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abu Nuʿaym related to us; Sulaymān ibn Ahmad related to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Kaysān related to us; Abu Ḥudhayfah related to us; Sufyān—from Abu Mūsā al-Yamānī (1), from Wahb ibn Munabbih, from Ibn ʿAbbās—who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever settles in the wilderness becomes coarse; whoever occupies himself with hunting grows heedless; and whoever frequents the rulers is put to trial.” (2)
Abu Mūsā is unknown (3).
Mubārak ibn Saʿīd al-Thawrī, on the authority of Sufyān, from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, reported that Wahb said:
“Glad tidings to the one whose own fault keeps him from minding his brother’s fault; glad tidings to the one who humbles himself before Allah without abjectness; glad tidings to the one who gives charity from wealth gathered without sin; glad tidings to the poor and the destitute; glad tidings to the one who sits with people of knowledge and forbearance; glad tidings to the one who follows the example of those possessed of knowledge, forbearance, and reverent fear; glad tidings to the one for whom the sunnah is sufficient and who never exceeds it.” (4)
Wahb also said: “When the fool speaks, his foolishness exposes him; when he is silent, his incapacity exposes him; when he acts, he ruins; when he refrains, he wastes. His own knowledge does not aid him, nor does the knowledge of others benefit him. His mother wishes she had lost him; his wife wishes she were rid of him; his neighbor longs to be away from him; and his companion finds his company oppressive.”