Ubayd ibn Umayr al-Laythi

Ubayd ibn Umayr al-Laythi was one of the Successors; Ahmad ibn Hanbal gives him a chapter titled "The renunciation of Ubayd ibn Umayr" in Kitab al-Zuhd, gathering his admonitions, transmitted from him by Mujahid, Abu Sufyan, Habib ibn Abi Thabit and others. ¹

• Prefer shame before God to shame before people. ¹
• When God wills good for someone, He gives him understanding of religion and inspires him with right guidance. ¹
• As Mujahid reports him: the most diligent today are like the idle of the past. ¹
• God continues to have care for the servant as long as the servant has need of Him. ¹
• When winter came he would say: People of the Qur'an, the night has grown long for your prayer and the day short for your fasting; if the night is too much for you to endure, if you fear to fight the enemy and are too miserly to spend, then remember God much; in one version, glorifying God is "weightier with God than two mountains of gold and silver". ¹
• It is reported from him that God detests the Qur'an reciter who is forever dressing up, riding about, coming in and going out. ²

• The scan once gives his name as "Ubayd Allah ibn Umayr"; the chapter title and the other reports read "Ubayd ibn Umayr".