Al-Samt wa-Adab al-LisanIbn Abi al-Dunya

406—Abd Allah ibn Abī Badr narrated to me: Zayd ibn al-Hubāb informed us, from Mūsā ibn Alī, from his father, who said: Amr ibn al-Ās—may Allah be pleased with him—said:

“Whenever I entrusted my secret to someone and he divulged it to my detriment, I did not blame him. I was the one less able to contain it, since I had entrusted it to him.”

٤٠٦ - حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَدْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ ﵁: «مَا وَضَعْتُ سِرِّي عِنْدَ أَحَدٍ أَفْشَاهُ عَلَيَّ فَلُمْتُهُ، أَنَا كُنْتُ أَضْيَقُ بِهِ حَيْثُ اسْتَوْدَعْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ»

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