al-'Uzlah wa-l-Infirad — Flee from People as You Would Flee from a Lion

Volume 1 · Page 55Flee from People as You Would Flee from a Lion

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Fleeing from People as You Flee from a Lion

40 - Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, he said: Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-ʿAdanī narrated to me, from Bakr ibn Muḥammad, he said: Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī said to me: "Flee from people as you flee from a lion." (1)

Notes

(1) Extracted by al-Khaṭṭābī in Al-ʿUzla (pp. 29–30), Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Ḥilya (7/342), and al-Khaṭīb in Tārīkh Baghdād (8/350–351).

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Arabic (Source)

فِرَّ مِنَ النَّاسِ فِرَارَكَ مِنَ الأَسَدِ٤٠ - حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ الْعَدَنِيُّ، عَنْ⦗٣٠⦘ بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ لِي دَاوُدُ الطَّائِيُّ: " فِرَّ مِنَ النَّاسِ كَمَا تَفِرُّ مِنَ الأَسَدِ " (١) .

Notes

(١) أخرجه الخطابي في " العزلة " (ص ٢٩ ـ ٣٠) ، وأبو نعيم في " الحلية " (٧/٣٤٢) ، والخطيب في " تاريخ بغداد " (٨/٣٥٠ ـ ٣٥١) .