8. With this chain of narrators, from Ahmad bin Muhammed, from Haitham bin Abdullah al-Nahdi, from his father, from Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, that he said:

Manliness is (separated into) two (dimensions of) manlinesses: the manliness of civility and the manliness of travel. As for the manliness of civility, it is to recite the Qur’an, attending mosques, accompanying the people of goodness and contemplation into knowledge. As for the manliness of travel, it is to spend the excess, joking with other than what angers Allah, little dispute with the one who accompanies you and abandoning the narrating of them when you depart from them.