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suyuti:4-1475b – ʿAl b. Abiá Rabīʿah al-Asdi > Jāʾ Rajl > ʿAli b. Abiá Ṭālib Biāb. Lh Badal Mn Baʿth > ʿL
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" عَنْ عَلىِّ بْن أَبِى رَبِيعَةَ الأَسدِىِّ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجلٌ إِلَى عَلِىِّ بْن أَبِى طَالِبٍ بِابْنٍ لهُ بَدَلًا منْ بَعثٍ (*)، فَقَالَ علىٌّ: لَرَأىُ شيْخٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَىَّ مِنْ مَشْهَدِ شَابٍّ ".  

عباس الربعى في جزئه، [ق] البيهقى في السنن

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bayhaqi:20334 – Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān > Abūʿamriw b. al-Sammāk > Ḥanbal b. Isḥāq > Qabīṣah > Sufyān > Saʿīd b. ʿUbayd > ʿAlī b. Rabīʿah > a man Atá ʿAlī Biāb. Lah Badīl > ʿAlī

[Machine] A man came to Ali with his changed son and Ali said, "The advice of an elder is dearer to me than witnessing the beauty of a young person."  

البيهقي:٢٠٣٣٤ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ أنبأ أَبُوعَمْرِو بْنُ السَّمَّاكِ ثنا حَنْبَلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا قَبِيصَةُ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ

أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى عَلِيًّا ؓ بِابْنٍ لَهُ بَدِيلًا فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ رَأْيُ الشَّيْخِ أَحَبُّ إِلِيَّ مِنْ مَشْهَدِ الشَّابِّ