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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:536 – ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Wakīʿ > Abū al-Ashhab > Muḥammad b. Wāsiʿ

[Machine] Luqman said to his son, "O my son, do not show people that you fear Allah while your heart is corrupt."

الزهد لأحمد:٥٣٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أبِي حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْأَشْهَبِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ وَاسِعٍ قَالَ

قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ يَا بُنَيَّ لَا تُرِي النَّاسَ أَنَّكَ تَخْشَى اللَّهَ وَقَلْبُكَ فَاجِرٌ

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ahmad-zuhd:270 – ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Abū al-Ashhab > Muḥammad b. Wāsiʿ

[Machine] Luqman, ﷺ , used to say to his son, "O my son, fear Allah and do not show people that you fear Allah, so that they may honor you for it, while your heart is sinful."

الزهد لأحمد:٢٧٠ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أبِي حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو الْأَشْهَبِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ وَاسِعٍ قَالَ

كَانَ لُقْمَانُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَقُولُ لِابْنِهِ «يَا بُنَيَّ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَلَا تُرِ النَّاسَ أَنَّكَ تَخْشَى اللَّهَ ﷻ؛ لِيُكْرِمُوكَ بِذَلِكَ وَقَلْبُكَ فَاجِرٌ»