Sa’id ibn Dawud reported: Makhlad ibn al-Husyan, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “Allah never recommends something to His servants but that Satan interferes with it in one of two ways. He does not care which of them succeeds. Either he makes them exaggerate in it, or he makes them belittle it.”
Source: Ḥilyat al-Awliyā’ 8/266
عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ مَخْلَدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ قَالَ مَا نَدَبَ اللهُ الْعِبَادَ إِلَى شَيْءٍ إِلَّا اعْتَرَضَ فِيهِ إِبْلِيسُ بِأَمْرَيْنِ مَا يُبَالِي بِأَيِّهِمَا ظَفِرَ إِمَّا غُلُوًّا فِيهِ وَإِمَّا تَقْصِيرًا عَنْهُ
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