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Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
Sunni Hadith
“My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.”
Variant: And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.
Source: City of Lost Souls
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.”
No. 166.
The Guardian (1713)
“Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
“A king does not kill messengers.”
As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
Context: Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.