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ahmad-zuhd:1465ʿAbdullāh from my father > Wakīʿ > Sufyān > Hishām > al-Ḥasan

[Machine] I have known people who, if a man were to neglect his brother's family for forty years.  

الزهد لأحمد:١٤٦٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ

أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيَخْلُفُ أَخَاهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ أَرْبَعِينَ عَامًا