Arabic (Original)
مَضْرُوبٌ عَلَيْهِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْد اللَّهِ قَالَ وَجَدْتُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ فِي كِتَابِ أَبِي بِخَطِّ يَدِهِ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ وَأَظُنُّنِي قَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْهُ فِي الْمُذَاكَرَةِ فَلَمْ أَكْتُبْهُ وَكَانَ بَكْرٌ يَنْزِلُ الْمَدِينَةَ أَظُنُّهُ كَانَ فِي الْمِحْنَةِ كَانَ قَدْ ضُرِبَ عَلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فِي كِتَابِهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْكِلَابِيِّ أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنَّ الْعَيْنَيْنِ وِكَاءُ السَّهِ فَإِذَا نَامَتْ الْعَيْنَانِ اسْتُطْلِقَ الْوِكَاءُ.
English Translation
Struck through. 'Abdullah narrated to us, saying: I found this hadith in my father's book, in his own handwriting: Bakr ibn Yazid narrated to us - and I think I heard it from him in a study session but did not write it down; Bakr used to reside in Medina, and I think this was during the Inquisition (mihna) - this hadith had a line struck through it in his book. He said: Bakr ibn Yazid narrated to us: Abu Bakr, that is ibn Abi Maryam, informed us from 'Atiyya ibn Qays al-Kilabi: that Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'The two eyes are the fastening-cord of the anus; when the eyes sleep, the cord is loosened.'