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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 Bazzār Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:19819a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٩٨١٩a –

"مَثَلُ هَذَا الْقلَبِ مَثلُ ريشَةٍ بفَلاةٍ مِنَ الأرْض، تُقَلَبهَا الرِّياحُ ظَهْرًا لِبَطْنٍ".

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [هب] البيهقى في شعب الإيمان عن أَبي موسى

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Collected by Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad's Zuhd, Suyūṭī
ibnmajah:88 – Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr > Asbāṭ b. Muḥammad > al-Aʿmash > Yazīd al-Raqāshī > Ghunaym b. Qays > Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'The likeness of the heart is that of a feather blown about by the wind in the desert.'"

ابن ماجة:٨٨ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ عَنْ يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّ عَنْ غُنَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَثَلُ الْقَلْبِ مَثَلُ الرِّيشَةِ تُقَلِّبُهَا الرِّيَاحُ بِفَلاَةٍ

ahmad-zuhd:1104 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Ismāʿīl > Saʿīd al-Jurayrī > Ghunaym b. Qays

[Machine] Abu Musa said, "The example of this hypocrite is like a feather in the wind, turning it back and forth from its back to its stomach."

الزهد لأحمد:١١٠٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْجُرَيْرِيِّ عَنْ غُنَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ أَبُو مُوسَى مَثَلُ هَذَا الْقَلِيبِ مَثَلُ رِيشَةٍ بِفَلَاةٍ تُقَلِّبُهَا الرِّيَاحُ ظَهْرَهَا لِبَطْنِهَا