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tabarani:8645[Chain 1] Abū Khalīfah > Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī And Muḥammad b. Bishr > Shuʿbah [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Ḥayyān al-Māzinī > ʿAmr b. Marzūq > Shuʿbah > Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ

[Machine] Abdullah used to say, "The smallest of houses is the one that does not have the book of Allah in it, and indeed the house that does not have the book of Allah is in ruins, just like a house that has no inhabitant."  

الطبراني:٨٦٤٥حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ ثنا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ قَالَا ثنا شُعْبَةُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ الْمَازِنِيُّ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ مَرْزُوقٍ أَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ

كَانَ عَبْدُ اللهِ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ أَصْغَرَ الْبُيُوتِ الَّذِي لَيْسَ فِيهِ كِتَابُ اللهِ وَإِنَّ الْبَيْتَ الَّذِي لَيْسَ فِيهِ كِتَابُ اللهِ لَخَرَابٌ كَخَرَابِ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي لَا عَامِرَ لَهُ»