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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 Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:851a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٨٥١a –

"أخوفُ ما أخافُ على أمتى: شحٌ مطاعٌ، وهوى متَّبع، وإعجاب كل ذى رأى برأيه".

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Collected by Aḥmad's Zuhd, Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:729 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Ibn Mahdī > Muʿāwiyah > Abū al-Zāhiriyyah > Jubayr b. Nufayr > Abū al-Dardāʾ

[Machine] If it were not for three things, people would have been righteous: an inclination to be greedy, followed by their desires, and the admiration of everyone for their own opinion.

الزهد لأحمد:٧٢٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الزَّاهِرِيَّةِ عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ

لَوْلَا ثَلَاثٌ صَلُحَ النَّاسُ شُحٌّ مُطَاعٌ وَهَوًى مُتَّبَعٌ وَإِعْجَابُ كُلِّ ذِي رَأْيٍ بِرَأْيِهِ

suyuti:2-1592b – ʿUmar
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٢-١٥٩٢b –

"عَنْ عُمَرَ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَيْكُم: شُحٌّ مُطَاعٌ، وَهَوًى مُتَّبَعٌ، وَإِعْجَابُ المَرْءِ بِرَأيِهِ، وَهِى أَشَدُّهُنَّ".

[ش] ابن أبى شيبة