Hadith 5: Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Adīb – may Allah have mercy on him – informed us: Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī informed us: Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāب narrated to us: Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us: Abān ibn Isḥāق narrated to us on the authority of al-Ṣabbāḥ ibn Muḥammad, on the authority of Murra al-Hamdānī, on the authority of ibn Masʿūd that the Prophet of Allah – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – said one day to his Companions: “Be shy before Allah, a shyness worthy [of Him].” They said: “We do feel shy, O Prophet of Allah, and praise be to Allah.” He said: “It is not that. The one who truly feels shy before Allah should guard the head and what it holds, and the belly and what it contains, and let him remember death and decay. Whoever desires the Hereafter forsakes the adornment of the world. The one who does all of that has been shy before Allah as He deserves.”