🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

Asceticism by Al-Maafi bin Imran Al-Mawsili

الزهد للمعافى بن عمران الموصلي

Author: أبو مسعود المعافى بن عمران بن نفيل بن جابر الأزدي الموصلي (المتوفى: 185هـ) (d. 185)

About this work

يتناول كتاب الزهد للمعافى بن عمران الموصلي موضوعات تتعلق بالزهد والورع، متحدثاً عن فضل قلة المال والولد وكراهية التفاخر والكبرياء. يركز الكتاب على التواضع والكفاف ونبذ الترف والشهوات، معتمداً في ذلك على الأحاديث النبوية الواردة في هذا المجال.

Translation

The book Asceticism by Al-Maafi bin Imran Al-Mawsili deals with topics related to asceticism and piety, speaking about the virtue of lack of money and children and the hatred of ostentation and pride. The book focuses on humility, subsistence, and rejecting luxury and desires, relying on the Prophetic hadiths mentioned in this field.

Topics covered

Chapter on the virtue of lack of money and children
Chapter on servants
Chapter on poverty, lightness of situation, and the virtue of that
A door in honor
Chapter on boasting about one’s accounts and challenging one’s lineage
Chapter on subsistence
A chapter on enjoying pleasure and following one’s whims and desires and hating that
Chapter on barley bread
Chapter on abandoning mankhool
A chapter on meat and the economy in it
Chapter: Whoever dislikes combining two drugs

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