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[215] ʿAbd Allāh reported to us; my father reported to us; Wakiʿ reported; Sufyān reported, from al-Aʿmash, from Khaythamah, who said:
Solomon son of David—peace be upon him—said, “We have tested life in both its gentleness and its hardship, and we have found that the merest portion of it is enough.”
٢١٥ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا أبِي، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ ⦗٣٦⦘ قَالَ: قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ (عليه السلام): «جَرَّبْنَا الْعَيْشَ؛ لَيِّنَهُ وَشَدِيدَهُ، فَوَجَدْنَاهُ يَكْفِي مِنْهُ أَدْنَاهُ»