7 – … Abū ʿAlī ibn Ṣafwān informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā informed us; ⦗26⦘ Yūsuf ibn Mūsā informed us; Jarīr reported from Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt, who said: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib said:

Do not disclose your secret save to yourself—
for every confidant has a confidant.

I have seen the misleaders among men:
they leave no sound hide unscathed.