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64 – Ahmad ibn ‘Abdah al-Ḍabbi narrated to me, from Hammad ibn Zayd, who said: I heard my father—and he supplied the isnad—declare: “Many a glance is so ruinous that it would be better for you to come face-to-face with a lion and be devoured than to cast it. And did David, the son of …, meet what he met with for any reason other than that very glance?”
٦٤ - حَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَ الضَّبِّيُّ قَالَ: عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي وَأَسْنَدَهُ قَالَ: «لَرُبَّ نَظْرَةٍ لَأَنْ تَلْقَى الْأَسَدَ، فَيَأْكُلَكَ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْهَا، وَهَلْ لَقِيَ دَاوُدُ بْنُ. . . مَا لَقِيَ إِلَّا مِنْ تِلْكَ النَّظْرَةِ»