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Fear of influence, and among them that when he passed by the circumambulation of his two genealogies and informed them of the reward, they said to him in the hereafter, "What is your forgiveness?" He said to them, "Each one in her night will answer in my house, for each one will answer with her whip and sleep on it." He said, "O Umm Barsha, my skin has been touched, you have preferred her over others." He said, "Each one will answer with her whip in her night with her and her sleep on the night she was beaten." (I say) This is not obligatory, but rather a matter of piety. He said the next, at Khalil's saying in the chapter of division, "(And peace at the door)" (1) He said, and the Quran was heard that Mu'adh ibn Jabal, may God be pleased with him, was told by two women, and he did not drink water from anyone's house, and I do not know what its ruling is. It is narrated that they both died together in the blame, so they were buried in a courtyard, and the مقدمة (introduction) was kind to them in terms of destiny, and this is a preference for justice and not an obligation. Similar to this story is what Al-Sha'rani mentioned in the Book of Ethics, that Ibrahim ibn Adham and his companions rent out their souls for their daily sustenance. When they receive it, they say to themselves, "We are intentional." But if they fear that they have been negligent in service or have fallen short, they leave it, wandering and lost. (I say) All of this is a matter of piety. Among his actions is the establishment of legal punishments for his household and others. And that Al-Nafi', his son, married over his old wife and preferred the young one over her for two or three days, so he chastised him, guided him, and tied him to a sun-dried stick for days, saying, "The torment of this world is easier than the torment of the hereafter." He did the same to Muhammad, son of Kashi, as he did to his son. For the son of Kashi praised him with a great qafiya, and a complaining woman came to him and said, "So-and-so said to me, 'O fornicator'," so he ordered her to be beaten. (They flogged her eighty lashes). And his elderly wife desired his voice with the Quran, so he ordered a young boy and said to him, "Go, hit her," so he hit her as a reprimand and a deterrent. Among his actions is his struggle with his soul above all else. The jurist Muḍawwi bin Abd al-Ghaffar said, "I traveled with him to the Mediterranean Sea, and he remained silent for fifteen days with ablution. He neither ate, nor drank, nor slept, nor performed ablution until he returned." And the jurist Abd al-Dafi' said that his sheikh, the jurist Shukr Allah, when he intended to seek knowledge, said to me, "Did you read this story, or did you read knowledge?" I said, "I did not reach it." He said, "Then what is the intention?" I wanted to read. The jurist Hamad said, "And I was the one leading the donkey, and we came to him after the night prayer and found him praying two rak'ahs and saying the taslim, and the jurist Shukr Allah was sitting, waiting for the prayer until dawn broke." He said to him, "O jurist Shukr Allah, tonight we have forgotten." Shukr Allah said to him, "My master, and I thank him, from the year 1095, my choice was not completed, nor did I sit, nor did I read a verse. The time in which I would cross the bridge or spread the mat. What is there in it of glorifications?" The jurist Shukr Allah said to him.