He taught me piety, and he said to him, "Go to Kufa, for there is a man there who has a cow that has not been milked. It has trampled on the crops of his neighbor." So he went to him and said, "Return, my brother, for the cow has entered my neighbor's house. If you were to trample on the mud of his land, seek someone else and learn from him." And from it, he is staying above his farm and working on it. One of his wives is staying on the bank of the palace of Saeed, and the other is in Abu Jila. So one of them is closer to him than the other. He said, "If we stay in the farm, we will affect the distant one." His companions said, "The tree is halfway between the two watering places." On the night of the woman from Sayda, Saeed's house is the tree, and on the night of the lower one, it is the house below the tree. It is said that a man came to him with a need and promised to fulfill it. The next day, he said, "You came to us. We are in Saeed's tree. Tonight is Aisha bint Saeed's night. Now it is the night of Masra's daughter. Go and come back on the night of Saeed's daughter, and I will fulfill it for you." And from it, he often moves from place to place. If he sees people gathering in a place, he moves away. If he wants to build houses, he orders the cutting of beams and planks and lead, making them equal in length and thickness. If he sees one that is too long or too thick, he orders another to be cut, fearing the effect. The houses are two cubits long and wide, each to the north of the other, like the houses of the Mothers of the Believers. If he goes out at night, one of them goes east or west, he inspects the house and has dinner, so as not to face the house of her harm, fearing the effect. And from it, when he was unable to visit his wives, he gathered them and informed them of his inability, and they said to him, "We forgive you." He said to them, "Whoever has a right over me, let her take it from me, for I have no need of your forgiveness in the hereafter." He said to them, "Each of you should answer me in her home." He said, "Each of you should bring a mat to sleep on." He said, "Whoever's mat is direct, one of them will bring her mat with her and take it on the night of her harm." I said, "This is not my body, so we have left it. All the ... comes at the word of Khalil, and the greeting is at the door." He said, "And I heard the two Qarins." He said, "On the night of ... Mu'adh ibn Jabal, may God be pleased with him, had two wives, and he would not drink water from the house of one of them on a given day, but from the house of the other. And I do not know his wisdom. And it is narrated that they both died together in Sham and were buried in one grave, and their names were between them. This is a matter of justice, not obligation. And an example of this story is what Al-Sha'rani mentioned in his book Al-Akhlaq, that Ibrahim ibn Adham and his companions rented themselves out for their daily sustenance. When they received it, the intercessor was his son. Chapter on Piety. And among his actions is the establishment of legal punishments for his household and others. This blinds him. He married a woman over his old wife, and the new one affected the old one by two or three days. He separated her and returned her. - 9 -