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

88 — ʿAlī ibn Abī Maryam narrated to me, from ʿUthmān ibn Zufar al-Taymī: Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Taymī narrated to us and said: Al-Hayy reported that Ibrāhīm said, “When a believer intends to speak, he first considers: if his words will count in his favor, he speaks; but if they will count against him, he refrains. As for the wicked man, his tongue simply runs on and on.”

٨٨ - حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ زُفَرَ التَّيْمِيِّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ التَّيْمِيُّ، قَالَ: ذَكَرَ الْحَيُّ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: «الْمُؤْمِنُ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَكَلَّمَ نَظَرَ، فَإِنْ كَانَ كَلَامُهُ لَهُ تَكَلَّمَ، وَإِنْ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ أَمْسَكَ عَنْهُ، وَالْفَاجِرُ إِنَّمَا لِسَانُهُ رَسَلًا رَسَلًا»

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