وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ رضى الله عنه
قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ -«اَلصَّمْتُ حِكْمَةٌ، وَقَلِيلٌ فَاعِلُهُ»
“Keeping silent is considered as (an act of) wisdom, but very few practice it.” Related by Al-Baihaqi in his book Shuab al-Iman with a weak chain of narrators a he deemed the sound view is that it is traced back to one of the companions who quoted it from Luqman Al-Hakim.