al-'Uzlah wa-l-Infirad
Volume 1 · Page 47

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From the Evils of Mixing with People

32 - Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr narrated to me, he said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, he said: Naṣr ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr said: "Whoever mixes with people flatters them, and whoever flatters them acts ostentatiously toward them." (1).

Notes

  • (1) Cited by al-Qushayrī in his Risāla (p. 51).

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