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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