Ibn Mas’ud on Silence: Nothing deserves jail like the tongue

‘Anbas ibn ‘Uqbah reported: Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “By Allah, besides whom there is no God, nothing on earth is in greater need of a lengthy prison sentence than the tongue.”

Source: al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr lil-Ṭabarānī 8745

Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Mundhiri

عَنْ عَنْبَسِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ وَاللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ غَيْرُهُ مَا عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْأَرْضِ شَيْءٌ أَحْوَجُ إِلَى طُولِ سِجْنٍ مِنْ لِسَانٍ

8745 المعجم الكبير للطبراني

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Abu Amina Elias
Abu Amina Elias (Justin Parrott) is an academic librarian, researcher, and translator specializing in the Quran, Hadith, and their commentaries. He is a former instructor of Islamic Creed for Mishkah University.
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