50 – The judge Abū al-Qāsim informed us; Abū ʿAlī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ḥātim narrated to me; Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr narrated to me, from Ibn Jurayj, from Ṭāwūs, who said:

“When Allah grants a servant a blessing and then channels the people’s needs through him, if he shoulders that burden with patience the blessing will abide; but if he does not, he exposes that blessing to disappearance.”