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21 – ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Salih al-Azdi narrated to me; Abu Ruh narrated to me; he said: Ibn ʿUyaynah remarked, “Whatever a servant dislikes is better for him than what he loves, for what he dislikes spurs him on to supplication, whereas what he loves preoccupies him and turns him away from it.”
٢١ - حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو رَوْحٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ: مَا يَكْرَهُ الْعَبْدُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِمَّا يُحِبُّ؛ لِأَنَّ مَا يَكْرَهُهُ يَهِيجُهُ عَلَى الدُّعَاءِ، وَمَا يُحِبُّ يُلْهِيهِ عَنْهُ