He was asked, “And why is that?”
He replied, “Because a sensible man is never free of one of two concerns: either he worries about the Hereafter or about this world. Fat cannot form when the heart is weighed down with worry.” (1)

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Muʿaddal related to us in the year 92 AH and thereafter; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī related to us; my grandfather Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan related to us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad the jurist related to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Naẓīf al-Farrāʾ in Egypt, in the year 419 AH, narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣābūnī, in the year 348 AH, narrated to us; al-Muzanī narrated to us; al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us from Mālik, from Nāfiʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh:

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade continuous fasting.
Someone asked, “Yet you practise it yourself?”
He replied, “I am not like you; I am given food and drink.” (2)

I say: When it becomes evident that a contemporary’s words spring from passion or partisanship, they deserve no attention; they should be folded away and not transmitted—just as it has been agreed that we refrain from delving into many of the disputes and battles that occurred among the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them all. Such reports still appear in registers, books, and separate treatises, but most of them are broken-chained, weak, or even fabricated. Since this is the case with what we have before us and among our scholars, those accounts ought to be suppressed and concealed—indeed eradicated—so that hearts may remain pure, fully devoted to loving the Companions and invoking Allah’s pleasure upon them. Concealing such material is obligatory for the general public and for most scholars. A limited concession is granted for a fair-minded scholar, free of bias, to study it in private, provided that he seeks forgiveness for them, as Allah—exalted be He—has taught us