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[Machine] The people of knowledge protected their knowledge and placed it with their own people, in order to benefit the people of their time. However, the people of this world came and belittled them. I heard your Prophet ﷺ say, "Whoever made his worries one single concern, Allah will suffice him in all his worries. And whoever became preoccupied with worries unrelated to the affairs of this world, Allah will not care in which valleys he perishes."  

الزهد لأحمد:١١٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ الْبَصْرِيُّ عَنْ نَهْشَلٍ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ لَوْ

أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْعِلْمِ صَانُوا عِلْمَهُمْ وَوَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ لَسَادُوا بِهِ أَهْلَ زَمَانِهِمْ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ أَتَوْا بِهِ أَهْلَ الدُّنْيَا؛ فَاسْتَخَفُّوا بِهِمْ سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكُمْ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَنْ جَعَلَ هُمُومَهُ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ ﷻ سَائِرَ هُمُومِهِ وَمَنْ تَشَعَّبَتْ بِهِ الْهُمُومُ دُونَ أَحْوَالِ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُبَالِ اللَّهُ ﷻ فِي أَيِّ أَوْدِيَتِهِ هَلَكَ»  


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ibnmajah:4106ʿAlī b. Muḥammad And al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr > Muʿāwiyah al-Naṣrī > Nahshal > al-Ḍaḥḥāk > al-Aswad b. Yazīd > ʿAbdullāh > Nabiyyakum ﷺ

“I heard your Prophet ﷺ say: ‘Whoever focuses all his concerns on one thing, the Hereafter, Allah will relieve him of worldly concerns, but whoever has disparate concerns scattered among a number of worldly issues, Allah will not care in which of its valleys he died.’”  

ابن ماجة:٤١٠٦حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ النَّصْرِيِّ عَنْ نَهْشَلٍ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ

سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكُمْ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَنْ جَعَلَ الْهُمُومَ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا هَمَّ الْمَعَادِ كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ هَمَّ دُنْيَاهُ وَمَنْ تَشَعَّبَتْ بِهِ الْهُمُومُ فِي أَحْوَالِ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُبَالِ اللَّهُ فِي أَىِّ أَوْدِيَتِهِ هَلَكَ  

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السيوطي:٤٣٠-٤٢٥b

"عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ العِلْمِ صَانوا العِلْمَ وَوَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ لَسَادُوا أَهْلَ زَمَانِهِمْ وَلكِنَّهُمْ وَضَعُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا لِيَنَالُوا مِنْ دُنْيَاهُمْ فَهَانُوا عَلَيْهِمْ، سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكُمْ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ جَعَلَ الهُمُومَ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا - هَمَّ المَعَادِ كَفَاهُ اللهُ سَائِرَ هُمُومِهِ، وَمَنْ تَشَعَّبَتْ بِهِ الهُمُومُ مِنْ أَحْوالِ الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُبَالِ اللهُ فِى أَيَّ أوْدِيتهَا هَلَكَ".  

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