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Al-'Umarī and Seclusion

84 - 'Abdullāh narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī narrated to me, he said: It reached me concerning him—meaning al-'Umarī—that he used to frequent the graveyard often, and he was never without a book with him that he would look into. So he was asked about that, and he said: "Indeed, nothing is a greater admonition than a grave, nothing is safer than solitude, and nothing is a better companion than a book." (1)

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(1) Abū Nuʿaym reported it in al-Ḥilya (8/283), via the route of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā with it.
And al-Khaṭīb reported it in Taqyīd al-ʿIlm (p. 142), from another route, on the authority of al-ʿUmarī with it.
And al-ʿUmarī is: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, trustworthy, a devout worshipper, an ascetic, the scholar of the people of Medina; he died in the year 184 AH. He has a biographical entry in al-Tahdhīb (5/302, by Ibn Ḥajar).

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