al-'Uzlah wa-l-Infirad — From the Sayings of Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī Regarding Seclusion

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From the Words of Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī Concerning Seclusion

21 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Aswad narrated to me, he said: Ḥasan ibn Mālik narrated to me, from Bakr al-ʿĀbid, who said: I heard Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī say: "Shun people just as you shun predatory beasts." (1)

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(1) Transmitted by Ibn Ḥibbān in Rawḍat al-ʿUqalāʾ (p. 82), and Abū Nuʿaym in Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ (7/343), via al-Ḥasan ibn Mālik, with it.

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Arabic (Source)

مِنْ كَلامِ دَاوُدَ الطَّائِيِّ فِي الْعُزْلَةِ٢١ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي حَسَنُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ بَكْرٍ الْعَابِدِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ دَاوُدَ الطَّائِيَّ يَقُولُ: " تَوَحَّشْ مِنَ النَّاسِ كَمَا تَتَوَحَّشُ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ " (١) .

Notes

(١) أخرجه ابن حبان في: روضة العقلاء " (ص ٨٢) ، وأبو نعيم في " حلية الأزلياء " (٧/٣٤٣) ، من طريق الحسن بن مالك، به.