رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 472
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Chapter 54
Chapter context: Excellence of Leading an Ascetic Life, and Virtues of Simple Life
- باب فضل الزهد في الدنيا و الحث على التقلل منها و فضل الفقر
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Original Arabic
وعن النعمان بن بشير، رضي الله عنهما، قال: ذكر عمر ابن الخطاب، رضي الله عنه، ما أصاب الناس من الدنيا، فقال: لقد رأيت رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، يظل اليوم يتلوى ما يجد من الدقل ما يملأ به بطنه. ((رواه مسلم)). الدقل بفتح الدال المهملة والقاف: ردئ التمر.
Translation
English translation
An-Nu'man bin Bashir (May Allah be pleased with them) reported:
'Umar bin Al-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him) spoke at length regarding the worldly prosperity that people had achieved and said: "I saw that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would pass his days in hunger and could not get even degraded dates to fill his stomach". [Muslim].
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This is Hadith 472 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, as in-book entry 472 under the chapter “Excellence of Leading an Ascetic Life, and Virtues of Simple Life.”
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