How disgusting it is for a person to fear for what is in his hand, thieves, so he hides it and empowers his enemy from himself by revealing what is in his heart of his own secret or the secret of his brother. Jawar came with me in Mecca, I think, in the year five hundred and ninety-nine, a man from the people of Tunis called Abd. Al-Salam bin Al-Sariyyah, and he had a slave girl whom he bought in Egypt during the hardship that occurred in Egypt in the year five hundred and ninety-seven. He said to her, “O slave woman, I advise you to do two things: keeping the secret and being honest.” The slave girl said, “What do you need? I know that if a person is honest, he shares with people their money, and if he is a secret keeper, he shares with them their minds, so this is desirable.” The answer was from her, so he asked about her and found her free, sold at the cost of Egypt, so he freed her and released her, so she returned to her mother and sisters. Muawiyah, may God be pleased

Abu al-Qasim al-Baja’i told me in Marrakesh on the authority of Abu Abdullah al-Ghazal al-Arif, who was in al-Marriah among the peers of Abu Madin, Abu Abdullah al-Hawari in Tannis, Abu Ya’za, Abu Shuaib al-Sariyah, Abu al-Fadl al-Yashkari, Abu al-Naja, and that class. Abu Abdullah al-Ghazal said he was Our sheikh, Abu Abbas bin Al-Arif Al-Sanhaji, attends the gathering of a man who does not speak, does not ask, and does not accompany anyone from the group. When the sheikh finishes speaking, he leaves, and we never see him except in the gathering in particular. Something struck me about him, and I fell in awe of him, so I wanted to get to know him and find out where he is, so I followed him on the evening of the evening. One day after we separated from the Sheikh’s council, where he did not feel me, when he was in some of the city’s streets, a person pounced on him from the air with a loaf in his hand. He handed it to him and left. I pulled him from behind h

It is forbidden to take away a blessing. Ziyad bin Umayyah passed by in confusion and looked at a monastery and said to his servant, “Who is this?” He said, “Deir Harqa bint Al-Nu’man bin Al-Mundhir,” and he said, “Tend us to him, so we can hear her words.” She came and stood behind the door, and the servant spoke to her. He said to her, “Speak to the prince.” She said, “Be brief or be long.” He said, “Rather, be brief.” She said, “We were the people of a household. The sun rose over us, and there is no one on earth dearer than us.” Then when that sun set, our enemy had mercy on us. He said, “So he ordered her to give her sacks of barley, and she said, ‘I fed you. The hand of Shabaa’ was hungry. ’”