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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:1308 – ʿAbdullāh > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > Sulaymān b. Akhḍar > Ibn ʿAwn > al-Ḥasan > Takallamūā ʿInd Muʿāwiyah And al-Aḥnaf Sākit > Lah Muʿāwiyah Mā Lak Lā Tatakallam

[Machine] "I fear Allah if I lie, and I fear you if I tell the truth."  

الزهد لأحمد:١٣٠٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَخْضَرَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ أَنْبَأَنِيَ الْحَسَنُ قَالَ تَكَلَّمُوا عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَالْأَحْنَفُ سَاكِتٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ مَا لَكَ لَا تَتَكَلَّمُ؟ فَقَالَ

«أَخَافُ اللَّهَ إِنْ كَذَبْتُ وَأَخَافُكُمْ إِنْ صَدَقْتُ»