'Uthmān ibn Abī al-'Āṣ and Seclusion
86 - 'Abdullāh narrated to us, he said: And it was narrated to me from Muṣ'ab ibn Salām, 'Uyayna ibn 'Abd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from his father, from 'Uthmān ibn Abī al-'Āṣ, that he said: "Were it not for the Friday prayer and congregational prayer, I would have built a room at the top of this house of mine, then entered it and never come out of it, until I come out to my grave." (1)
Notes
- (1) Its Chain of transmission is Da'if (Weak), but the report is authentic: in it is the anonymity of the one who narrated to Ibn Abī al-Dunyā. =
⦗43⦘ = Imam Aḥmad reported it in al-Zuhd (p. 151); he said: Muʿṣab ibn Sallām narrated to us with it.
And Imam Aḥmad—though he does not need corroboration—was corroborated by: Ibn Zanfīl, [who said:] Muʿṣab narrated to us with it.
Abū Dāwūd reported it in al-Zuhd (395).
And ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jawsh—the father of ʿUyayna—was corroborated by al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, who said: ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ had a room that he used to keep private, where we would visit him. He said: So he said: "O son of Adam, an hour for the world and an hour for the Hereafter; and God knows best
which of the two hours will prevail over us." Abū Dāwūd reported it in al-Zuhd (no. 396), Aḥmad in al-Zuhd (pp. 170–204), and al-Ṭabarānī in his al-Kabīr (vol. 9, no. 8331–8332).
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