Umayr ibn Habib ibn Humasha al-Khatmi

Umayr ibn Habib ibn Humasha was a Companion to whom Ahmad ibn Hanbal gives a chapter titled "The renunciation of Umayr ibn Habib ibn Humasha" in Kitab al-Zuhd; Hammad ibn Salama relates from Abu Ja'far al-Khatmi that his grandfather Umayr, "who was a Companion", counselled his sons. ¹

The report says he forbade them to sit with fools, because their company is a disease; whoever is forbearing with a fool is glad of his forbearance, whoever will not bear a fool's small offences will have to bear large ones, and whoever is patient with what he dislikes attains what he loves. ¹ He counselled anyone who wished to enjoin good and forbid wrong to prepare himself to bear harm patiently and to be certain of God's reward, for one who trusts in the reward does not feel the harm. ¹

In this edition the chapter is followed by other reports, among them Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas's words on glorifying God and his instruction to be shrouded in the woollen cloak in which he met the polytheists at Badr. ¹

• Some words of the counsel are garbled in the machine reading, so it is given by its sense.