Hārūn ibn Hishām al-Kalbī al-Bukhārī

Hārūn ibn Hishām al-Kalbī al-Bukhārī related to us. He said: Abū Ḥafṣ Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ related to us, from Naṣr ibn Sulaymān Abū al-Muhannā, from Bukayr ibn Maʿrūf. He said: Abū Ḥanīfa related to me, from Jawwāb al-Taymī, from al-Ḥārith ibn Suwayd, that he said: A man came to Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, God be pleased with him, and said: “I fear that I may be a hypocrite.” Abū Mūsā asked him: “Have you ever prayed a prayer to God where no one could see you?” He replied: “Yes.” Abū Mūsā told him: “No hypocrite has ever prayed a prayer to God where no one could see him.”

Hārūn ibn Hishām related to us. He said: Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ related to us, from Abū al-Muhannā, from Bukayr, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from Jawwāb al-Taymī, from al-Ḥārith ibn Suwayd, who said: A man came to ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, God be pleased with him, and said: “I fear that I may be a hypocrite.” ʿUmar, God be pleased with him, replied: “No hypocrite has ever feared hypocrisy.”