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103 – Muḥammad ibn Nāṣiḥ narrated to me: Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd told us, from Arṭāʾah ibn al-Mundhir, who said: “A man schooled himself in silence for forty years by keeping a small pebble in his mouth, and he would not remove it except when eating, drinking, or sleeping.”
١٠٣ - حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ نَاصِحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، عَنْ أَرْطَاةَ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ قَالَ: «تَعَلَّمَ رَجُلٌ الصَّمْتَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً بِحَصَاةٍ يَضَعُهَا فِي فِيهِ لَا يَنْتَزِعُهَا إِلَّا عِنْدَ طَعَامٍ أَوْ شَرَابٍ أَوْ نَوْمٍ»