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WHAT A PERSON SHOULD SAY WHEN PRAISED

*AL-IMAAM AL-BUKHAAREE reported in al-Adabul-Mufrad: Chapter (326): What a man should say if he is praised (no. 761): Makhlad ibn Maalik narrated to us, saying: Hajjaaj ibn Muhammad narrated to us, saying: Ibn alMubaarak related to us: from Bakr ibn `Abdillaah al-Muzanee: from `Adiyy ibn Artaah who said: When a man from the Companions was praised he would say:

O Allaah! Do not bring me to account for what they say, and forgive me what they do not know. Shaikh al-Albaanee said: Its chain of narration is Saheeh . al-Bayhaqee added in ash-Shu`ab (4/228), through another chain:

...and make me better than what they think. *AL-IMAAM AL-BAYHAQEE reported in Shu`abul-Eemaan: Chapter (34): Regarding guarding the tongue: (no. 4875): Aboo `Abdillaah al-Haafiz and Aboo Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Qaadee related to us: Abul-`Abbaas Muhammad ibn Ya`qoob related to us: al-`Abbaas ibn al-Waleed ibn Mazeed narrated to us: My father related to us, saying: I heard al-Awzaa`ee say: If a man praises a man to his face then let him say:

O Allaah! You know better about me than myself, and I know better about myself than the people. O Allaah! Do not bring me to account for what they say, and forgive me what they do not know.
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*And he reported (no. 4876): And Aboo `Abdillaah al-Haafiz and Aboo Bakr ibn al-Hasan related to us: Abul-`Abbaas related to us: Aboo `Utbah related to us: Baqiyyah related to us: Muhammad ibn Ziyaad related to us from one of the Salaf that he used to say about a man who had been praised to his face: Repentance from it is that he says:

O Allaah! Do not bring me to account for what they say, and forgive me what they do not know, and make me better than they think..

* al-Haafiz Ibn Hajr said in Fathul-Baaree (10/478) in his explanation of hadeeth no. 6061: ...One of the Salaf said: Whoever is praised to his face, then let him say: O Allaah! Do not bring me to account for what they say, and forgive me what they do not know, and make me better than they think, and al-Bayhaqee reported it in ash-Shu`ab.>>
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[Translated by Aboo Talhah Daawood ibn Ronald Burbank]