Those who disliked indirect speech, and those who liked it

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "It would not please me to have, for the indirect speech that I know, the like of it in wealth and family; it would not please me. And people do not suppose that I wish to have the like of my family and dependants. And I wish to have the like of my family and wealth, and then the like of my family and wealth again."

Abu Uthman said that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Indirect speech (tawriyah) protects a man from lying," or he said: "It restrains him from lying."

Mutarrif bin al-Shikhkhir said that Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Through indirect speech (tawriyah), one can avoid lying."

Mansur said that Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "I would not like to have such and such an amount of wealth in exchange for indirect speech (tawriyah)."

Mansur said that Ibrahim said: "They used to speak in such a way that, through that speech, they warded off from themselves the fear of lying."

Humayd bin Abd al-Rahman said: "I do not wish to have, in exchange for my share of indirect speech, the like of my wealth and my family. Perhaps you think that I would not like to have the like of my family and my wealth; yet I do wish to have the like of my family and my wealth."