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bayhaqi:16289Abū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam > Baḥr b. Naṣr > ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb > al-Layth > Ayyūb b. Mūsá al-Qurashī > Makḥūl

[Machine] That Umar ibn Abdul Aziz wrote to the armies in every region, stating that for every piece of straw cut from a finger's width, a third of the finger's intellect is lost.  

البيهقي:١٦٢٨٩أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ ثنا بَحْرُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ مُوسَى الْقُرَشِيِّ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ

أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ كَتَبَ إِلَى الْأَجْنَادِ فِي كُلِّ قَصَبَةٍ قُطِعَتْ مِنْ قَصَبِ الْأَصَابِعِ ثُلُثُ عَقْلِ الْإِصْبَعِ