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

465 — Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Hushaym narrated to us, from al-ʿAwwām ibn Hawshab, from a man among them called Lahab ibn Khandaq, who said: ʿAwf ibn al-Nuʿmān said in the benighted pre-Islamic age, “I would rather die standing, parched with thirst, than be one who breaks a promise.”

٤٦٥ - حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنِ الْعَوَّامِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ يُقَالُ لَهُ لَهَبُ بْنُ خَنْدَقٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَوْفُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ الْجُهَلَاءِ: «لَأَنْ أَمُوتَ قَائِمًا عَطِشًا أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِخْلَافًا لِمَوْعِدٍ»

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