If you want your body to be healthy

Uthmān bin Zā'idah said:

وَعَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ زَائِدَةَ قَالَ:

Sufyān ath-Thawrī wrote to me [saying]:

كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ:

“If you want your body to be healthy,

إِنْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يَصِحَّ جِسْمُكَ،

And your sleep to be less,

وَيَقِلَّ نَوْمُكَ،

Then have little food.”

فَأَقِلَّ مِنَ الْأَكْلِ.

[Ibn Rajab, Jāmi’ Al-‘Ulūm Wal-Hikam 2/472]

[Abu Nuaym al-Isfahani, Hilyatu Al-Awliyâ 7/7]

[Ibn Abi Dunyā, Al-Jû’ #150 1/100]

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