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ahmad-zuhd:738ʿAbdullāh from my father > Yazīd > Abū Saʿīd al-Kindī ʿAmman > Abū al-Dardāʾ

[Machine] He said, "Oh, how I prefer the sleep of the ignorant and the way they neglect the night prayer and fasting, even though an atom’s weight of the piety and certainty of a companion is greater, better, and more virtuous than mountains being worshipped by the deluded."  

الزهد لأحمد:٧٣٨حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْكِنْدِيُّ عَمَّنْ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا حَبَّذَا نَوْمُ الْأَكْيَاسِ وَإِفْطَارُهُمْ كَيْفَ يَغْبِنُونَ سَهَرَ الْحَمْقَى وَصِيَامَهُمْ وَلَمِثْقَالُ ذَرَّةٍ مِنْ صَاحِبِ تَقْوًى وَيَقِينٍ أَعْظَمُ وَأَفْضَلُ وَأَرْجَحُ مِنْ أَمْثَالِ الْجِبَالِ عِبَادَةً مِنَ الْمُغْتَرِّينَ