Yahyâ bin Yahyâ Al-NaysâbûrÎ reports: I was once with Sufyân bin ‘Uyainah – Allah have mercy on him, when a man came to him and said, “O Abû Muhammad, I complain to you of so-and-so”, meaning his wife, “I am the lowest and most despicable thing to her.”
[Sufyân] lowered his head for a few moments, then said, “Perhaps you wanted her in order to better your status.”
The man said, “Indeed, O Abû Muhammad.” Sufyân said,
“Whoever goes for glory will be tried with ignominy, whoever goes for wealth will be tried with poverty, but whoever goes for religiousness, Allah will bring together for him glory and wealth with the religion!”
