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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
adab:452 – 'Abdullah ar-Rumi said, "I visited Umm Talq and exclaimed, 'How low the ceiling of your room is!' 'My son,' she replied, 'the Amir al-Mu'minin, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, wrote to his workers telling them:

"Do not make your buildings tall. That will come about in the worst of your days."'"

الأدب المفرد:٤٥٢ – وَبِالسَّنَدِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ الرُّومِيِّ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أُمِّ طَلْقٍ فَقُلْتُ مَا أَقْصَرَ سَقْفَ بَيْتِكِ هَذَا؟ قَالَتْ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ كَتَبَ إِلَى عُمَّالِهِ

أَنْ لاَ تُطِيلُوا بِنَاءَكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ شَرِّ أَيَّامِكُمْ

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