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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:1512 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > ʿAbdullāh b. Thawr > Abū Bakr b. al-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Muʾtaman > ʿUqbah b. Khālid al-ʿAbdī

[Machine] Al-Hasan said, "Indeed, hearts die and come to life. And when they die, carry them with obligations. And when they come to life, discipline them with voluntary acts of worship."  

الزهد لأحمد:١٥١٢ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ ثَوْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ بْنِ الْمُؤْتَمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ قَالَ

قَالَ الْحَسَنُ «إِنِّ الْقُلُوبَ تَمُوتُ وَتَحْيَا فَإِذَا هِيَ مَاتَتْ فَاحْمِلُوهَا عَلَى الْفَرَائِضِ فَإِذَا هِيَ أُحْيِيَتْ فَأَدِّبُوهَا بِالتَّطَوُّعِ»  

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ahmad-zuhd:1659 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > ʿAbd al-Quddūs b. Thawr > Abū Bakr b. al-Fuḍayl b. al-Muʾtaman > ʿUqbah b. Khālid al-ʿAbdī

[Machine] Al-Hasan said, "Indeed, hearts die and come alive. So when it dies, carry it upon obligations, and when it comes alive, discipline it in voluntary acts of worship."  

الزهد لأحمد:١٦٥٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْقُدُّوسِ بْنُ ثَوْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ الْمُؤْتَمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ قَالَ

قَالَ الْحَسَنُ «إِنَّ الْقُلُوبَ تَمُوتُ وَتَحْيَا فَإِذَا هِيَ مَاتَتْ فَاحْمِلُوهَا عَلَى الْفَرَائِضِ فَإِذَا حَيِيَتْ فَأَدِّبُوهَا فِي التَّطَوُّعِ»