أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ ، عَنْ عَوْنٍ ، قَالَ : قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ لِأَصْحَابِهِ حِينَ قَدِمُوا عَلَيْهِ : هَلْ تَجَالَسُونَ؟، قَالُوا : لَيْسَ نُتْرَكُ ذَاكَ، قَالَ : فَهَلْ تَزَاوَرُونَ؟، قَالُوا : نَعَمْ، يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ مِنَّا لَيَفْقِدُ أَخَاهُ، فَيَمْشِي فِي طَلَبِهِ إِلَى أَقْصَى الْكُوفَةِ حَتَّى يَلْقَاهُ، قَالَ :" فَإِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَزَالُوا بِخَيْرٍ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ "

Abu Nu`aym told us, Al-Masoudi told us, on the authority of Aoun, he said: Abdullah, may God be pleased with him, said to his companions when they came to him: Did Do you sit together? They said: We will not leave that one. He said: Do you visit each other? They said: Yes, O Abu Abd al-Rahman. Indeed, a man among us loses his brother. So he walked in search of him to the farthest end of Kufa until he met him. He said: “You will never cease to be well as long as you have done this.”