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was more virtuous than they. He did not tyrannize anyone and accepted the
excuse of him who begged his pardon.
He jested but only spoke the truth. He laughed without bursting out into laughter.
He witnessed the permitted games and did not disapprove of them. He raced
sportingly with his family. Voices were raised against him, but he was patient.
His milch camels and sheep nourished him and his family with their milk. He did
not eat better food nor wear better clothes than his male and female slave. A
moment did not pass without his doing an action for Allah or (doing) that, which
was indispensable for the soundness of his soul. He went to the garden of his
Companions. He did not despise a poor man for his poverty and misfortune, nor
did he fear a king because of his power, rather he urged them equally to Allah.
Allah combined in him virtuous conduct and perfect rule of people, though he
was untaught, unable to read or write, grew up poor amongst the shepherds in
the land of ignorance and desert, and was an orphan without father and mother.
Allah taught him all the fine qualities of character, the praiseworthy paths, the
reports of the first and the last affairs, and those matters through, which there is
excuse of him who begged his pardon.
He jested but only spoke the truth. He laughed without bursting out into laughter.
He witnessed the permitted games and did not disapprove of them. He raced
sportingly with his family. Voices were raised against him, but he was patient.
His milch camels and sheep nourished him and his family with their milk. He did
not eat better food nor wear better clothes than his male and female slave. A
moment did not pass without his doing an action for Allah or (doing) that, which
was indispensable for the soundness of his soul. He went to the garden of his
Companions. He did not despise a poor man for his poverty and misfortune, nor
did he fear a king because of his power, rather he urged them equally to Allah.
Allah combined in him virtuous conduct and perfect rule of people, though he
was untaught, unable to read or write, grew up poor amongst the shepherds in
the land of ignorance and desert, and was an orphan without father and mother.
Allah taught him all the fine qualities of character, the praiseworthy paths, the
reports of the first and the last affairs, and those matters through, which there is