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- ʿAbd Allah narrated to us—he said: My father informed me—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, from Sufyān, from al-Aʿmash, from Khaythama, who said that Abū al-Dardāʾ declared: “In the days before Islam I was a merchant. When Islam arrived, I tried to combine commerce with worship, but the two would not come together for me; so I turned wholly to worship and left off trading.”
٧٤٣ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: كُنْتُ تَاجِرًا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَلَمَّا جَاءَ الْإِسْلَامُ أَخَذْتُ التِّجَارَةَ وَالْعِبَادَةَ فَلَمْ يَجْتَمِعَا لِي فَأَقْبَلْتُ عَلَى الْعِبَادَةِ وَتَرَكْتُ التِّجَارَةَ "