بَابُ تَرْكِ ٱلرَّجُلِ مَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ

One of the finest manners of the aspirant, by which his journey along the path of seeking is made complete, is his leaving aside what does not concern him.

Hadith 9: Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad informed us: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān al-Zāhid narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutayba informed me: Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir al-Khurāsānī narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn al-ʿAyzār narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī narrated to us on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of al-Ajlaḥ, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Burayda, on the authority of Abī ʾl-Aswad al-Duʾalī, on the authority of Abī Dharr who said: The Messenger of Allah – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – said: “From the beauty of a man’s Islam is his leaving aside what does not concern him.”

Hadith 10: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Laṭīf al-Miṣrī informed us in Mecca: Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Miṣrī narrated to us in Egypt: Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn Sahl ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Jawnī al-ʿAbdī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ghiyāث narrated to us: Qazaʿa ibn Suwayd al-Sadūsī narrated to us: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to us on the authority of al-Zuhrī, on the authority of ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, on the authority of his father who said: The Messenger of Allah – may Allah bless him and grant him peace – said: “From the beauty of a man’s Islam is his leaving aside what does not concern him.”