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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:1498 – ʿAbdullāh > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Abān b. Ṣāliḥ b. ʿUmayr > Mubārak > Abū ʿAbdullāh Shaykh from Ahl al-Baṣrah > Mālik b. Dīnār > al-Ḥasan > Lah Mā ʿUqūbah al-ʿĀlim > Mawt al-Qalb > And Mā Mawt al-Qalb

[Machine] I said to him, "What is the punishment for a scholar?" He replied, "The death of the heart." I asked, "And what is the death of the heart?" He said, "Seeking worldly gains through deeds meant for the hereafter."  

الزهد لأحمد:١٤٩٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبَانَ بْنِ صَالِحِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ شَيْخٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لَهُ مَا عُقُوبَةُ الْعَالِمِ؟ قَالَ «مَوْتُ الْقَلْبِ» قُلْتُ وَمَا مَوْتُ الْقَلْبِ؟ قَالَ «طَلَبُ الدُّنْيَا بِعَمَلِ الْآخِرَةِ»