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97 — Hamza ibn al-Abbās related to me: Abdān ibn Uthmān informed us: Abd Allāh informed us: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd informed us: al-Hajjāj ibn Shaddād related to us that he heard Ubayd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar—who was one of the sages—say on one occasion: “When a man is speaking in a gathering and becomes pleased with his own words, let him fall silent; and when he is silent and becomes pleased with his silence, let him speak.”
٩٧ - حَدَّثَنِي حَمْزَةُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، - وَكَانَ أَحَدَ الْحُكَمَاءِ - يَقُولُ فِي بَعْضِ قَوْلِهِ: «إِذَا كَانَ الْمَرْءُ يُحَدِّثُ فِي مَجْلِسٍ فَأَعْجَبَهُ الْحَدِيثُ، فَلْيَسْكُتْ، وَإِنْ كَانَ سَاكِتًا فَأَعْجَبَهُ السُّكُوتُ فَلْيَتَحَدَّثْ»