نَزَلْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ فَأَتَيْنَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَنَا أَيْنَ نَزَلْتُمْ فَقُلْنَا عَلَى فُلَانٍ صَاحِبِ الْقِيَانِ فَقَالَ كُونُوا كِرَاماً فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا عَلِمْنَا مَا أَرَادَ بِهِ وَ ظَنَنَّا أَنَّهُ يَقُولُ تَفَضَّلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَعُدْنَا إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْنَا إِنَّا لَا نَدْرِي مَا أَرَدْتَ بِقَوْلِكَ كُونُوا كِرَاماً فَقَالَ أَ مَا سَمِعْتُمْ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي كِتَابِهِ وَ إِذا مَرُّوا بِاللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا كِراماً .
Translation
Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Saeed Bin Janaah, from Hammad, from Abu Ayoub Al Khazzaz who said, ‘We lodged at Al-Medina, so we went over to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> said to us: ‘Where are you lodged at?’ So we said, ‘At so and so, the owner of the singing slave-girls’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Be honourable’. So, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, we did not know what he<sup>asws</sup> intended by it, and we thought that he<sup>asws</sup> was saying that we should be graceful to him. So we returned to him<sup>asws</sup>, so we said, ‘We do not know what you<sup>asws</sup> intended by your<sup>asws</sup> words: ‘Be honourable’’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Have you all not hear the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic in His<sup>azwj</sup> Book <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:25#h72"><a href="/books/quran:25#h72">[25:72]</a></a> and when they pass by what is vain, they pass by nobly</span>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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