Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Khataab Bin Muhammad, from Al-Haris Bin Al-Mugheira, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah -asws met me in a road of Al-Medina, so he -asws said: ‘Who is that? Is it Haaris?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He -asws said: ‘But I -asws shall dump the sins of your foolish ones upon your knowledgeable ones’. Then he -asws passed by. So I came up to him -asws and sought permission to see him -asws .
I said, ‘You -asws met me and you -asws said, ‘I -asws shall dump the sins of your foolish ones upon your knowledgeable ones’, and that was a great matter upon me’. So he -asws said: ‘Yes.
What prevented you when it reached you from the man among you what you dislike, as it enters hurtful feelings to us -asws , (you should) go to him and reproach him, and correct it (his wrong doings), and speak to him in eloquent words?’ I said to him -asws , ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws , if he does not obey us and does not accept from us?’ So he -asws said: ‘Flee from him, and avoid their gatherings’ (stop accompanying him).
[5] Advice of Luqman -as to his son regarding sitting in a gathering: عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ يَا بُنَيَّ اخْتَرِ الْمَجَالِسَ عَلَى عَيْنِكَ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ قَوْماً يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ فَاجْلِسْ مَعَهُمْ فَإِنْ تَكُنْ عَالِماً نَفَعَكَ عِلْمُكَ وَ إِنْ تَكُنْ جَاهِلًا عَلَّمُوكَ وَ لَعَلَّ اللَّهَ أَنْ يُظِلَّهُمْ بِرَحْمَتِهِ فَيَعُمَّكَ مَعَهُمْ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, raising it, said, ‘Luqman -as said to his -as son: ‘O my -as son!