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السيوطي:١٨٧٠٤a –

"مَا أنْتَ مُحَدِّثُ قَوْمًا حَدِيثا لَا تَبْلُغُه عُقُولُهُمْ، إلَّا كَانَ عَلَى بَعْضِهِمْ فِتْنَةً".

[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه عن ابن عباس، وهو ضعيف

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Narrating only what people can grasp in order to avoid fitnah

muslim:i008 – Abū al-Ṭāhir And Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyá > Ibn Wahb > Yūnus > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

‘It is the case that you do not relate to the people a narration which their minds cannot grasp except that it becomes a Fitnah for some of them’.

مسلم:i٠٠٨ – وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ وَحَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

مَا أَنْتَ بِمُحَدِّثٍ قَوْمًا حَدِيثًا لاَ تَبْلُغُهُ عُقُولُهُمْ إِلاَّ كَانَ لِبَعْضِهِمْ فِتْنَةً