203 – Muhammad ibn al-Husayn reported: Zayd ibn al-Hubab narrated to us; he said: Yahya ibn al-ʿAlaʾ al-Razi narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muslim al-Lakhmi related to me ⦗130⦘ from his father, who said that ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab—may Allah be pleased with him—declared:

“Beware … of vying for excess, and of the constant refrain: ‘Bring! Bring! Bring something sweet, bring something sour, bring something hot, bring something cold.’ Such indulgence is a heaviness in life and a burden in death.”