Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 27033 — Reports on kindness and keeping ties

Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Qarib said: I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) say in his eloquent tongue: Kinship is suspended from the Throne of Allah and supplicates in its eloquent tongue: "O Allah, be kind to the one who maintains the ties of kinship, and cut off mercy from the one who severs them."