Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak

ʿAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak’s Kitab az-Zuhd wa’r-Raqaʾiq, the earliest extant book on self-discipline in Islam, is a collection of Qur’ānic exegesis, prophetic traditions and anecdotes from the early generations that encourages rejection of this temporal world in favour of the eternal life of the Next World.