عبد الله بن المغيرة عن إسماعيل أبى زيادة يرفع الحديث إلى أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام قال: قيل له: ما الزهد في الدنيا؟ قال: حرامها فتكتبه.
10.ʿAbdullāh ibn Mughīrah narrated from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Zayd who attributed the statement to Amīr al-Muʾminīn عليه السلام that when he was asked, “What is detachment (al-zuhd) from the world?” He said, “[It pertains to] what is forbidden thereof – so restrain yourself from it and shun it.”[1]
[1]This report is found in many other sources with slight variance in wording. It is aimed at dismissing the idea that zuhd entails keeping away from the things that Allah has permitted of this world, such as marriage, trade, etc. which some believers sought to abandon under the guise of asceticism.
