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suyuti:158a

‘Weep, and if you cannot weep then pretend to weep.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 4196)   

السيوطي:١٥٨a

("ابكُوا، وإن لَمْ تبكُوا فَتَبَاكَوْا".  

[هـ] ابن ماجة عن سعد بن أبي وقاص

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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad's Zuhd
ibnmajah:4196ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Bashīr b. Dhakwān al-Dimashqī > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Abū Rāfiʿ > Ibn Abū Mulaykah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Sāʾib > Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

‘Weep, and if you cannot weep then pretend to weep.”  

ابن ماجة:٤١٩٦حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ بَشِيرِ بْنِ ذَكْوَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو رَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ابْكُوا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَبْكُوا فَتَبَاكَوْا  

ahmad-zuhd:559ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Wakīʿ > Misʿar from my father

‘Weep, and if you cannot weep then pretend to weep.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 4196)   

الزهد لأحمد:٥٥٩حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أبِي حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ عَنْ أَبِي عَوْنٍ الثَّقَفِيِّ عَنْ عَرْفَجَةَ السُّلَمِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ «ابْكُوا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَبْكُوا فَتَبَاكَوْا»