al-Zuhd wa Sifat al-Zahidin 37
Abu Said ibn al-Arabi
«قَالَ: قَالَ لِي بَعْضُ الْحُكَمَاءِ: «الزُّهْدُ تَرْكُ مَا يَشْغَلُكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ» وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمُ: «الزُّهْدُ تَرْكُ الشَّهَوَاتِ»»
Its text does not say these are the Prophet’s words ﷺ, so they are not framed in gold.
The text as printed
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي الدُّنْيَا قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرَّازِيُّ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي بَعْضُ الْحُكَمَاءِ: «الزُّهْدُ تَرْكُ مَا يَشْغَلُكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ» وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمُ: «الزُّهْدُ تَرْكُ الشَّهَوَاتِ»
Rulings on it
The early critics’ verdicts on this hadith have not been extracted from their books yet: they are in their texts, and their extraction is coming.
In its editions
- تحقيق مجدي فتحي السيد No. 37 Page