Kitab Al Zuhd: The Book of Zuhd by Waki ibn Al Jarrah

 كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ

Kitāb al-Zuhd, The Book of Zuhd (Renunciation)

Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ

Arabic text based on the edition edited by

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Faryawāʾī

Maktabat al-Dār, Medina • first edition • 1404 AH / 1984 CE

About this edition

This document presents the complete authorial text of Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ’s Kitāb al-Zuhd: the unnumbered opening transmission chain, 75 section headings and textual dividers, and all 539 numbered reports.

The Arabic is a fully vocalized, searchable transcription checked against the first printed edition. The transliteration uses a consistent scholarly system. The English is a new modern rendering from the Arabic; complete chains of transmission are retained. The translation does not constitute a grading of the reports’ authenticity.

The reference page shown with each item is the page on which it begins in the printed edition. Editorial introductions, modern footnotes, takhrīj notes, and modern indexes are not reproduced.

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أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْإِمَامُ أَبُو نُجَيْحٍ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي رُشَيْدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ الْجَوْزَدَانِيُّ بِقِرَاءَتِي عَلَيْهِ بِأَصْبَهَانَ، قُلْتُ لَهُ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَجِيهُ بْنُ طَاهِرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الشَّحَّامِيُّ قِرَاءَةُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَنْتَ تَسْمَعُ بِنَيْسَابُورَ، قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنَا الزَّكِيُّ أَبُو نَصْرٍ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُوسَى قِرَاءَةُ عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنَا الشَّيْخُ أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا يَحْيَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَرْبٍ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَتِسْعِينَ وَثَلَثِمِائَةٍ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الشَّرْقِيِّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ هَاشِمِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ الْعَبْدِيُّ الطُّوسِيُّ سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَمَائَتَيْنِ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ،

ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu al-ʾimāmu ʾabū nujayḥin faḍlu Allāhi bnu ʾabī rushaydi bni ʾaḥmada al-jawzadāniyyu biqirāʾatī ʿalayhi biʾaṣbahāna, qultu lahu: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū bakrin wajīhu bnu ṭāhiri bni muḥammadin al-shaḥḥāmiyyu qirāʾatu ʿalayhi waʾanta tasmaʿu binaysābūra, qāla: ʾanbaʾanā al-zakiyyu ʾabū naṣrin ʿabdu al-raḥmani bnu ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadi bni al-ḥusayni bni mūsā qirāʾatu ʿalayhi, qāla: ʾanbaʾanā al-shaykhu ʾabū zakariyyā yaḥyā bnu ʾismāʿīla bni yaḥyā bni zakariyyā bni ḥarbin sanata ʾathnatayni watisʿīna wathalathimiʾatin, ʾanbaʾanā ʾabū muḥammadin ʿabdu Allāhi bnu muḥammadi bni al-ḥasani bni al-sharqiyyi, ḥaddathanā ʾabū ʿabdi al-raḥmani ʿabdu Allāhi bnu hāshimi bni ḥayyāna al-ʿabdiyyu al-ṭūsiyyu sanata ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna wamāʾatayni, ḥaddathanā wakīʿu bnu al-jarrāḥi,

The shaykh and imam Abū Nujayḥ Faḍl Allāh ibn Abī Rushayd ibn Aḥmad al-Jawzadānī informed us, as I read to him in Isfahan. I said to him: Did Abū Bakr Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Shaḥḥāmī inform you, as it was read to him while you listened in Nishapur? He said: The upright Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā informed us, as it was read to him. He said: Shaykh Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥarb informed us in the year 392 AH. Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Sharqī informed us. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim ibn Ḥayyān al-ʿAbdī al-Ṭūsī related to us in the year 254 AH. Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ related to us:

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ، قَالَ: إِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا زَهَّدَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَفَقَّهَهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَبَصَّرَهُ عُيُوبَهُ، وَمَنْ أُوتِيهِنَّ أُوتِيَ خَيْرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi, qāla: ʾidhā ʾarāda Allāhu biʿabdin khayran zahhadahu fī al-dunyā, wafaqqahahu fī al-dīni, wabaṣṣarahu ʿuyūbahu, waman ʾūtīhinna ʾūtiya khayra al-dunyā wa-l-ākhirati

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, who said: When Allah intends good for a servant, He makes him detached from this world, grants him understanding in religion, and gives him insight into his own faults. Whoever is granted these three things has been granted the good of this world and the Hereafter.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي وَاقِدٍ اللَّيْثِيِّ قَالَ: تَابَعْنَا الْأَعْمَالَ فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَلَمْ نَجِدْ شَيْئًا أَبْلَغَ فِي عَمَلِ الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الزُّهْدِ فِي الدُّنْيَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿamri bni ʿalqamata, ʿan ʾabī wāqidin al-laythiyyi qāla: tābaʿnā al-ʾaʿmāla fī al-dunyā, falam najid shayʾan ʾablagha fī ʿamali al-ākhirati mina al-zuhdi fī al-dunyā

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, from Abū Wāqid al-Laythī, who said: We considered the deeds one may pursue in this world and found nothing more effective in furthering the work of the Hereafter than detachment from this world.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ: كَتَبَ عُمَرُ إِلَى أَبِي مُوسَى: إِنَّكَ لَنْ تَنَالَ عَمَلَ الْآخِرَةِ بِشَيْءٍ أَفْضَلَ مِنَ الزُّهْدِ فِي الدُّنْيَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, qāla: kataba ʿumaru ʾilā ʾabī mūsā: ʾinnaka lan tanāla ʿamala al-ākhirati bishayʾin ʾafḍala mina al-zuhdi fī al-dunyā

Sufyān related to us. He said: ʿUmar wrote to Abū Mūsā: “You will attain no work of the Hereafter by anything better than detachment from this world.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ: كَتَبَ عُمَرُ إِلَى أَبِي مُوسَى: إِنَّ الْفِقْهَ لَيْسَ عَنْ كِبَرِ السِّنِّ، وَلَكِنَّهُ عَطَاءُ اللَّهِ وَرِزْقُهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, qāla: kataba ʿumaru ʾilā ʾabī mūsā: ʾinna al-fiqha laysa ʿan kibari al-sinni, walakinnahu ʿaṭāʾu Allāhi warizquhu

Sufyān related to us. He said: ʿUmar wrote to Abū Mūsā: “Understanding of the religion does not come simply with age; rather, it is Allah’s gift and provision.”

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قَالَ: كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ: وَإِيَّاكَ وَمِرَاقَ الْأَخْلَاقِ وَدَنَاءَتَهَا.

qāla: kataba ʾilayhi: waʾiyyāka wamirāqa al-ʾakhlāqi wadanāʾatahā.

He said: He also wrote to him: “Beware of base and degraded character.”

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قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: الزُّهْدُ فِي الدُّنْيَا: قِصَرُ الْأَمَلِ، لَيْسَ بِأَكْلِ الْغَلِيظِ، وَلَا لُبْسِ الْعَبَايَةِ

qāla sufyānu: al-zuhdu fī al-dunyā: qiṣaru al-ʾamali, laysa biʾakli al-ghalīẓi, walā lubsi al-ʿabāyati

Sufyān said: Detachment from this world means keeping one’s hopes short; it does not mean eating coarse food or wearing a rough cloak.

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بَابُ مَوْعِظَةِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الزُّهْدِ

bābu mawʿiẓati al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī al-zuhdi

Chapter: The Prophet’s exhortation, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning detachment from this world

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ الْأَوْدِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِرَجُلٍ: اغْتَنِمْ خَمْسًا قَبْلَ خَمْسٍ: حَيَاتَكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِكَ، وَصِحَّتَكَ قَبْلَ سَقَمِكَ، وَفَرَاغَكَ قَبْلَ شُغْلِكَ، وَشَبَابَكَ قَبْلَ هَرِمِكَ، وَغِنَاكَ قَبْلَ فَقْرِكَ

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan ziyādi bni al-jarrāḥi, ʿan ʿamri bni maymūnin al-ʾawdiyyi, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama lirajulin: ʾaghtanim khamsan qabla khamsin: ḥayātaka qabla mawtika, waṣiḥḥataka qabla saqamika, wafarāghaka qabla shughlika, washabābaka qabla harimika, waghināka qabla faqrika

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from Ziyād ibn al-Jarrāḥ, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to a man: “Make the most of five things before five others: your life before your death, your health before your illness, your free time before you become occupied, your youth before your old age, and your wealth before your poverty.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: نِعْمَتَانِ مَغْبُونٌ فِيهِمَا كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ: الْفَرَاغُ وَالصِّحَّةُ

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu saʿīdi bni ʾabī hinda, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: niʿmatāni maghbūnun fīhimā kathīrun mina al-nāsi: al-farāghu wa-l-ṣiḥḥatu

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind related to us, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “There are two blessings in which many people are at a loss: free time and health.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ، قَالَ كَانَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مُتَعَبِّدَةً بِالْيَمَنِ، وَكَانَتْ إِذَا أَمْسَتْ قَالَتْ: يَا نَفْسُ اللَّيْلُ لَيْلَتُكِ، لَا لَيْلَةَ لَكِ غَيْرُهَا، فَاجْتَهَدَتْ، وَإِذَا أَصْبَحَتْ قَالَتْ: يَا نَفْسُ الْيَوْمُ يَوْمُكِ لَا يَوْمَ لَكِ غَيْرَهُ، فَاجْتَهَدَتْ

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ʾibrāhīma, ʿan bakri bni ʿabdi Allāhi al-muzaniyyi, qāla kānati ʾamraʾatun mutaʿabbidatan bi-l-yamani, wakānat ʾidhā ʾamsat qālat: yā nafsu al-laylu laylatuki, lā laylata laki ghayruhā, fājtahadat, waʾidhā ʾaṣbaḥat qālat: yā nafsu al-yawmu yawmuki lā yawma laki ghayrahu, fājtahadat

Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm related to us, from Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, who said: There was a woman in Yemen devoted to worship. At nightfall she would say, “O soul! This night is your night; you will have no other night. So strive!” Then she would strive. At daybreak she would say, “O soul! This day is your day; you will have no other day. So strive!” Then she would strive.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ عَدِيِّ، عَنْ الصُّنَابِحِيِّ، عَنْ مُعَاذٍ قَالَ: لَنْ تَزُولَ قَدَمَا الْعَبْدِ حَتَّى يُسْأَلَ عَنْ أَرْبَعٍ: عَنْ عُمُرِهِ فِيمَا أَفْنَاهُ؟ وَعَنْ عَمَلِهِ مَا عَمِلَ فِيهِ؟ وَعَنْ مَالِهِ: مِنْ أَيْنَ كَسَبَهُ؟ وَفِيمَا أَنْفَقَهُ؟ وَعَنْ جَسَدِهِ فِيمَا أَبْلَاهُ؟

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan ʿadiyyi bni ʿadiyyi, ʿan al-ṣunābiḥiyyi, ʿan muʿādhin qāla: lan tazūla qadamā al-ʿabdi ḥattā yusʾala ʿan ʾarbaʿin: ʿan ʿumurihi fīmā ʾafnāhu? waʿan ʿamalihi mā ʿamila fīhi? waʿan mālihi: min ʾayna kasabahu? wafīmā ʾanfaqahu? waʿan jasadihi fīmā ʾablāhu?

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from ʿAdī ibn ʿAdī, from al-Ṣunābiḥī, from Muʿādh, who said: A servant’s feet will not move until he is asked about four things: his life and how he spent it; his deeds and what he did in them; his wealth—where he earned it and where he spent it; and his body and what he wore it out in.

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بَابُ مَنْ قَالَ: عُدَّ نَفْسَكَ فِي الْمَوْتَى

bābu man qāla: ʿudda nafsaka fī al-mawtā

Chapter: Counting oneself among the dead

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِبَعْضِ جَسَدِي، فَقَالَ: «يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ كُنْ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ أَوْ عَابِرُ سَبِيلٍ، وَاعْدُدْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الْمَوْتَى»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara qāla ʾakhadha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bibaʿḍi jasadī, faqāla: “yā ʿabda Allāhi kun fī al-dunyā kaʾannaka gharībun ʾaw ʿābiru sabīlin, wāʿdud nafsaka maʿa al-mawtā”

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took hold of part of my body and said: “O servant of Allah, be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler passing along the road, and count yourself among the dead.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي ابْنُ عُمَرَ: يَا مُجَاهِدُ إِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ فَلَا تُحَدِّثْ نَفْسَكَ بِالْمَسَاءِ، وَإِذَا أَمْسَيْتَ فَلَا تُحَدِّثْ نَفْسَكَ بِالصَّبَاحِ، وَخُذْ مِنْ صِحَّتِكَ قَبْلَ سَقَمِكَ، وَمِنْ حَيَاتِكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِكَ، فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا اسْمُكَ غَدًا؟

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun, ʿan sufyāna, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: qāla lī ʾabnu ʿumara: yā mujāhidu ʾidhā ʾaṣbaḥta falā tuḥaddith nafsaka bi-l-masāʾi, waʾidhā ʾamsayta falā tuḥaddith nafsaka bi-l-ṣabāḥi, wakhudh min ṣiḥḥatika qabla saqamika, wamin ḥayātika qabla mawtika, faʾinnaka lā tadrī mā ʾasmuka ghadan?

Wakīʿ related to us, from Sufyān, from Layth, from Mujāhid, who said: Ibn ʿUmar said to me: “O Mujāhid, when morning comes, do not tell yourself that you will live until evening; and when evening comes, do not tell yourself that you will live until morning. Take advantage of your health before illness and your life before death, for you do not know what your name will be tomorrow.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكُمْ تَرَوْنَهُ، وَعُدُّوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ فِي الْمَوْتَى، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ قَلِيلًا يُغْنِيكُمْ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ يُلْهِيكُمْ، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الْبِرَّ لَا يَبْلَى، وَأَنَّ الْإِثْمَ لَا يُنْسَى

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni murrata qāla qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: ʾaʿbudū Allāha kaʾannakum tarawnahu, waʿuddū ʾanfusakum fī al-mawtā, wāʿlamū ʾanna qalīlan yughnīkum khayrun min kathīrin yulhīkum, wāʿlamū ʾanna al-birra lā yablā, waʾanna al-ʾithma lā yunsā

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Murrah, who said: Abū al-Dardāʾ said: “Worship Allah as though you see Him. Count yourselves among the dead. Know that a little which suffices you is better than much which distracts you. Know that righteousness does not decay and that sin is not forgotten.”

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بَابُ الِاسْتِعْدَادِ لِلْمَوْتِ

bābu al-ʾastiʿdādi li-l-mawti

Chapter: Preparing for death

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حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ أَبِي كَرِيمَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مِسْوَرٍ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَلِّمْنِي مِنْ غَرَائِبِ الْعِلْمِ قَالَ: «وَمَا صَنَعْتَ فِي رَأْسِ الْعِلْمِ، حَتَّى تَسْأَلَ عَنْ غَرَائِبِهِ؟» قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا رَأْسُ الْعِلْمِ؟ قَالَ: «هَلْ عَرَفْتَ الرَّبَّ؟» قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ: «فَمَاذَا صَنَعْتَ فِي حَقِّهِ؟» قَالَ: مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ قَالَ: «هَلْ عَرَفْتَ الْمَوْتَ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: «فَمَا أَعْدَدْتَ لَهُ؟» فَقَالَ: مَا شَاءَ اللَّهِ. قَالَ: «فَانْطَلِقْ؛ فَأَحْكِمْ رَأْسَ الْعِلْمِ، ثُمَّ تَعَالَ، فَتَعَلَّمْ غَرَائِبَهُ»

ḥaddathanā khālidu bnu ʾabī karīmata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni miswarin ʾabī jaʿfarin al-madāʾiniyyi rajulun min banī hāshimin qāla: jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi ʿallimnī min gharāʾibi al-ʿilmi qāla: “wamā ṣanaʿta fī raʾsi al-ʿilmi, ḥattā tasʾala ʿan gharāʾibihi?” qāla: yā rasūla Allāhi wamā raʾsu al-ʿilmi? qāla: “hal ʿarafta al-rabba?” qāla naʿam qāla: “famādhā ṣanaʿta fī ḥaqqihi?” qāla: mā shāʾa Allāhu qāla: “hal ʿarafta al-mawta?” qāla: naʿam qāla: “famā ʾaʿdadta lahu?” faqāla: mā shāʾa Allāhi. qāla: “fānṭaliq; faʾaḥkim raʾsa al-ʿilmi, thumma taʿāla, fataʿallam gharāʾibahu”

Khālid ibn Abī Karīmah related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Miswar, Abū Jaʿfar al-Madāʾinī, a man of Banū Hāshim, who said: A man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said: “O Messenger of Allah, teach me some of the rarities of knowledge.” He asked, “What have you done about the foundation of knowledge, that you should ask about its rarities?” The man asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what is the foundation of knowledge?” He replied, “Have you known the Lord?” He said, “Yes.” He asked, “Then what have you done concerning His due?” He replied, “Whatever Allah willed.” He asked, “Have you known death?” He said, “Yes.” He asked, “Then what have you prepared for it?” He replied, “Whatever Allah willed.” He said, “Go, then, and master the foundation of knowledge; afterward come and learn its rarities.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مِسْوَرٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَرَأَ: {أَفَمَنْ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ فَهُوَ عَلَى نُورٍ مِنْ رَبِّهِ} [الزُّمَرُ: 22] فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ النُّورَ إِذَا وَقَعَ فِي الْقَلْبِ، انْفَسَحَ لَهُ، وَانْشَرَحَ»، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَهَلْ لِذَلِكَ مِنْ عَلَامَةٍ يُعْرَفُ بِهَا؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ، التَّجَافِي عَنْ دَارِ الْغُرُورِ، وَالْإِنَابَةُ إِلَى دَارِ الْخُلُودِ، وَالِاسْتِعْدَادُ لِلْمَوْتِ قَبْلَ نُزُولِ الْمَوْتِ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin ʿabdi Allāhi bni miswarin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qaraʾa: {ʾafaman sharaḥa Allāhu ṣadrahu li-l-ʾislāmi fahuwa ʿalā nūrin min rabbihi} [al-zumaru: 22] faqāla: “ʾinna al-nūra ʾidhā waqaʿa fī al-qalbi, ʾanfasaḥa lahu, wānsharaḥa”, qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi fahal lidhalika min ʿalāmatin yuʿrafu bihā? qāla: “naʿam, al-tajāfī ʿan dāri al-ghurūri, wa-l-ʾinābatu ʾilā dāri al-khulūdi, wa-l-ʾastiʿdādu li-l-mawti qabla nuzūli al-mawti”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Miswar, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, recited: {Is then one whose breast Allah has opened to Islam, so that he is upon a light from his Lord?} [al-Zumar 39:22]. He then said: “When light enters the heart, it opens and expands.” They asked, “O Messenger of Allah, is there a sign by which this may be recognized?” He replied: “Keeping aloof from the abode of delusion, turning to the abode of eternity, and preparing for death before death arrives.”

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حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ أَبِي كَرِيمَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مِسْوَرٍ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ بَارَكَ لِجَمِيعِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فِيكَ، فَخُصَّنِي مِنْكَ بِخَيْرٍ قَالَ: هَلْ أَنْتَ مُسْتَوْصٍ بِمَا أُوصِيكَ بِهِ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «إِذَا هَمَمْتَ بِأَمْرٍ، فَدَبِّرْ عَاقِبَتَهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ رَشَدًا فَامْضِهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ غَيًّا فَانْتَهِ، قُمْ»

ḥaddathanā khālidu bnu ʾabī karīmata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni miswarin ʾabī jaʿfarin qāla: jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾinna Allāha qad bāraka lijamīʿi al-muslimīna fīka, fakhuṣṣanī minka bikhayrin qāla: hal ʾanta mustawṣin bimā ʾūṣīka bihi? qāla: naʿam, qāla: “ʾidhā hamamta biʾamrin, fadabbir ʿāqibatahu, faʾin kāna rashadan fāmḍihi, waʾin kāna ghayyan fāntahi, qum”

Khālid ibn Abī Karīmah related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Miswar, Abū Jaʿfar, who said: A man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said: “O Messenger of Allah, Allah has blessed all the Muslims through you, so favor me with some good counsel of your own.” He asked, “Will you heed what I advise you?” The man replied, “Yes.” He said: “When you intend to do something, consider its outcome. If it is sound, proceed with it; but if it is misguided, refrain from it. Now rise.”

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بَابُ قِلَّةِ الضَّحِكِ

bābu qillati al-ḍaḥiki

Chapter: Laughing little

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعُمَيْسِ، عَنْ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْأَسَدِيِّ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَعْلَمُ، لَضَحِكْتُمْ قَلِيلًا وَلَبَكَيْتُمْ كَثِيرًا»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-ʿumaysi, ʿan ʾabī ṭalḥata al-ʾasadiyyi, qāla samiʿtu ʾanasa bna mālikin yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu wasallama: “law taʿlamūna mā ʾaʿlamu, laḍaḥiktum qalīlan walabakaytum kathīran”

Abū al-ʿUmays related to us, from Abū Ṭalḥah al-Asadī, who said: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَزِينٍ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ: {فَلْيَضْحَكُوا قَلِيلًا} [التَّوْبَةُ: 82] قَالَ: الدُّنْيَا {وَلْيَبْكُوا كَثِيرًا} [التَّوْبَةُ: 82] قَالَ: الْآخِرَةُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin ʿan ʾabī razīnin, ʿani al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin: {falyaḍḥakū qalīlan} [al-tawbatu: 82] qāla: al-dunyā {walyabkū kathīran} [al-tawbatu: 82] qāla: al-ākhiratu

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Abū Razīn, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, concerning {So let them laugh a little} [al-Tawbah 9:82]. He said: “That refers to this world.” Concerning {and let them weep much} [al-Tawbah 9:82], he said: “That refers to the Hereafter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَعْلَمُ, لَضَحِكْتُمْ قَلِيلًا، وَلَبَكَيْتُمْ كَثِيرًا»

ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan muḥammadi bni ziyādin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “law taʿlamūna mā ʾaʿlamu, laḍaḥiktum qalīlan, walabakaytum kathīran”

Ḥammād ibn Salamah related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ وَرْدٍ، وَنَافِعُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو السَّهْمِيِّ قَالَ: لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَعْلَمُ لَضَحِكْتُمْ قَلِيلًا، وَلَبَكَيْتُمْ كَثِيرًا وَلَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ حَقَّ الْعِلْمِ، لَصَرَخَ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى يَنْقَطِعَ صَوْتُهُ، وَلَسَجَدَ حَتَّى يَنْقَطِعَ صُلْبُهُ

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-jabbāri bnu wardin, wanāfiʿu bnu ʿumara, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī mulaykata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin al-sahmiyyi qāla: law taʿlamūna mā ʾaʿlamu laḍaḥiktum qalīlan, walabakaytum kathīran walaw taʿlamūna ḥaqqa al-ʿilmi, laṣarakha ʾaḥadukum ḥattā yanqaṭiʿa ṣawtuhu, walasajada ḥattā yanqaṭiʿa ṣulbuhu

ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Ward and Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar related to us, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Sahmī, who said: “If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much. If you possessed true knowledge, one of you would cry out until his voice failed and would prostrate until his back gave way.”

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بَابٌ فِي الْبُكَاءِ

bābun fī al-bukāʾi

Chapter: Weeping

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {أَفَمِنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلَا تَبْكُونَ} [النَّجْمُ: 60] لَيْسَ الْأَمْرُ فِي هَذَا إِلَّا مَنْ بَكَى

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qaraʾa hadhihi al-āyata: {ʾafamin hadhā al-ḥadīthi taʿjabūna wataḍḥakūna walā tabkūna} [al-najmu: 60] laysa al-ʾamru fī hadhā ʾillā man bakā

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who recited this verse: {Is it at this discourse that you marvel, and laugh, and do not weep?} [al-Najm 53:59–60]. He said: “The fitting response to this is simply to weep.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ بَكَى حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ دُمُوعَهُ فِي الْحَصَى

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan zaydi bni wahbin qāla: raʾaytu ʾabna masʿūdin bakā ḥattā raʾaytu dumūʿahu fī al-ḥaṣā

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Zayd ibn Wahb, who said: “I saw Ibn Masʿūd weep until I could see his tears upon the pebbles.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، وَالْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مَوْلَى آلِ طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: لَنْ يَلِجَ النَّارَ مَنْ بَكَى مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ، حَتَّى يَعُودَ اللَّبَنُ فِي الضَّرْعِ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, wa-l-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani mawlā āli ṭalḥata, ʿan ʿīsā bni ṭalḥata, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: lan yalija al-nāra man bakā min khashyati Allāhi, ḥattā yaʿūda al-labanu fī al-ḍarʿi

Misʿar and al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the client of the family of Ṭalḥah, from ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “No one who weeps out of fear of Allah will enter the Fire—not until milk returns to the udder.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: أَنَّ دَاوُدَ نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بَكَى مِنْ خَطِيئَتِهِ حَتَّى هَاجَ مَا حَوْلَهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan mujāhidin: ʾanna dāwuda nabiyya Allāhi ʿalayhi al-salāmu bakā min khaṭīʾatihi ḥattā hāja mā ḥawlahu

Sufyān related to us, from Mujāhid, who reported that David, the prophet of Allah, peace be upon him, wept over his sin until everything around him was stirred.

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ وَرْدٍ، وَنَافِعُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ قَالَ: مَرَّ رَجُلٌ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، وَهُوَ سَاجِدٌ فِي الْحِجْرِ وَهُوَ يَبْكِي، فَقَالَ: أَتَعْجَبُ أَنْ أَبْكِيَ مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ، وَهَذَا الْقَمَرُ يَبْكِي مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: وَنَظَرَ إِلَى الْقَمَرِ حِينَ شَفَّ أَنْ يَغِيبَ

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-jabbāri bnu wardin, wanāfiʿu bnu ʿumara, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī mulaykata qāla: marra rajulun ʿalā ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin, wahuwa sājidun fī al-ḥijri wahuwa yabkī, faqāla: ʾataʿjabu ʾan ʾabkiya min khashyati Allāhi, wahadhā al-qamaru yabkī min khashyati Allāhi? qāla: wanaẓara ʾilā al-qamari ḥīna shaffa ʾan yaghība

ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Ward and Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar related to us, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, who said: A man passed by ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr while he was prostrating in al-Ḥijr and weeping. He said: “Do you marvel that I weep out of fear of Allah when this moon weeps out of fear of Allah?” He then looked at the moon as it was on the verge of setting.

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حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ حُدَيْرٍ، أَوْ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَصْحَابُنَا عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُدَيْرٍ: رَجُلٌ مِنْ عَنْزَةَ قَالَ: لَمْ نَرَ مِثْلَنَا، لَمْ يَمْشِ الْعَصَائِبُ إِلَى الْعَصَائِبِ يَبْكُونَ، يَعْنِي قَبَائِلَ قَبَائِلَ

ḥaddathanā ʿimrānu bnu ḥudayrin, ʾaw qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾaṣḥābunā ʿan ʿimrāna bni ḥudayrin: rajulun min ʿanzata qāla: lam nara mithlanā, lam yamshi al-ʿaṣāʾibu ʾilā al-ʿaṣāʾibi yabkūna, yaʿnī qabāʾila qabāʾila

ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr related to us—or he said: Our companions related to us from ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr—that a man of ʿAnazah said: “We have seen none like ourselves: group after group went along weeping”—meaning tribe after tribe.

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ الدَّسْتُوَائِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ أَبِي بَزَّةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ سَمِعَ ابْنَ عُمَرَ، قَرَأَ: {وَيْلٌ لِلْمُطَفِّفِينَ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: 1] فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ: {يَوْمَ يَقُومُ النَّاسُ لِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: 6] بَكَى، حَتَّى خَرَّ وَامْتَنَعَ مِنْ قِرَاءَةِ مَا بَعْدَهُ

ḥaddathanā hishāmun al-dastuwāʾiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʾabī bazzata, qāla: ḥaddathanī man samiʿa ʾabna ʿumara, qaraʾa: {waylun li-l-muṭaffifīna} [al-muṭaffifīna: 1] falammā balagha: {yawma yaqūmu al-nāsu lirabbi al-ʿālamīna} [al-muṭaffifīna: 6] bakā, ḥattā kharra wāmtanaʿa min qirāʾati mā baʿdahu

Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bazzah, who said: Someone who heard Ibn ʿUmar related to me that Ibn ʿUmar recited: {Woe to those who give short measure} [al-Muṭaffifīn 83:1]. When he reached {the Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of all worlds} [al-Muṭaffifīn 83:6], he wept until he collapsed and could not continue reciting.

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمْزَةُ الزَّيَّاتُ عَنْ حُمْرَانَ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَرَأَ: {إِنَّ لَدَيْنَا أَنْكَالًا وَجَحِيمًا وَطَعَامًا ذَا غُصَّةٍ، وَعَذَابًا أَلِيمًا} [الْمُزَّمِّلُ: 13] فَصُعِقَ

ḥaddathanā ḥamzatu al-zayyātu ʿan ḥumrāna bni ʾaʿyana ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qaraʾa: {ʾinna ladaynā ʾankālan wajaḥīman waṭaʿāman dhā ghuṣṣatin, waʿadhāban ʾalīman} [al-muzzammilu: 13] faṣuʿiqa

Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt related to us, from Ḥumrān ibn Aʿyan, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, recited: {With Us are shackles and a blazing fire, food that chokes, and a painful punishment} [al-Muzzammil 73:12–13], whereupon he lost consciousness.

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي عَوْنٍ الثَّقَفِيِّ عَنْ عَرْفَجَةَ السُّلَمِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: ابْكُوا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَبْكُوا فَتَبَاكَوْا

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʾabī ʿawnin al-thaqafiyyi ʿan ʿarfajata al-sulamiyyi qāla: qāla ʾabū bakrin: ʾabkū faʾin lam tabkū fatabākawā

Misʿar related to us, from Abū ʿAwn al-Thaqafī, from ʿArfajah al-Sulamī, who said: Abū Bakr said: “Weep; and if you cannot weep, make yourselves weep.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ لِابْنِهِ: يَا بُنَيَّ ابْكِ مِنْ ذِكْرِ خَطِيئَتِكَ

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi liābnihi: yā bunayya ʾabki min dhikri khaṭīʾatika

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said to his son: “My son, weep when you remember your sin.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ: قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ: طُوبَى لِمَنْ بَكَى مِنْ ذِكْرِ خَطِيئَتِهِ، وَحَفِظَ لِسَانَهُ، وَوِسِعَهُ بَيْتُهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi qāla: qāla ʿīsā ʾabnu maryama: ṭūbā liman bakā min dhikri khaṭīʾatihi, waḥafiẓa lisānahu, wawisiʿahu baytuhu

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, who said: Jesus son of Mary said: “Blessed is the one who weeps at the memory of his sin, guards his tongue, and is content to remain in his own home.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ: أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ رَوَاحَةَ بَكَى، فَبَكَتِ امْرَأَتُهُ، فَقَالَ لَهَا: «مَا يُبْكِيكِ؟». فَقَالَتْ: رَأَيْتُكَ بَكَيْتَ، فَبَكَيْتُ. فَقَالَ: «إِنِّي أُنْبِئْتُ أَنِّي وَارِدٌ، وَلَمْ أُنَبَّأْ أَنِّي صَادِرٌ»

ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin: ʾanna ʿabda Allāhi bna rawāḥata bakā, fabakati ʾamraʾatuhu, faqāla lahā: “mā yubkīki?”. faqālat: raʾaytuka bakayta, fabakaytu. faqāla: “ʾinnī ʾunbiʾtu ʾannī wāridun, walam ʾunabbaʾ ʾannī ṣādirun”

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who reported that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah wept, and his wife wept with him. He asked her, “What makes you weep?” She replied, “I saw you weeping, so I wept.” He said: “I have been told that I shall arrive there, but I have not been told that I shall depart from it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ: «أَطَّتِ السَّمَاءُ، وَحُقَّ لَهَا أَنْ تَئِطَّ، مَا فِيهَا مَوْضِعُ شِبْرٍ إِلَّا وَفِيهِ مَلَكٌ سَاجِدٌ، وَلَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَعْلَمُ، مَا تَلَذَّذْتُمْ مَعَ نِسَائِكُمْ عَلَى الْفُرُشَاتِ، وَلَخَرَجْتُمْ إِلَى الصُّعُدَاتِ تَجْأَرُونَ وَتَبْكُونَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʾibrāhīma bni muhājirin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: qāla ʾabū dharrin: “ʾaṭṭati al-samāʾu, waḥuqqa lahā ʾan taʾiṭṭa, mā fīhā mawḍiʿu shibrin ʾillā wafīhi malakun sājidun, walaw taʿlamūna mā ʾaʿlamu, mā taladhdhadhtum maʿa nisāʾikum ʿalā al-furushāti, walakharajtum ʾilā al-ṣuʿudāti tajʾarūna watabkūna”

My father related to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir, from Mujāhid, who said: Abū Dharr said: “The heaven creaks—and it has every right to creak. There is not a handspan within it but that an angel is prostrating there. If you knew what I know, you would take no pleasure with your wives upon your beds; you would go out into the open roads, crying aloud and weeping.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عِمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: تَعَوَّدُوا الْخَيْرَ، فَإِنَّ الْخَيْرَ بِالْعَادَةِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿimārata bni ʿumayrin, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: taʿawwadū al-khayra, faʾinna al-khayra bi-l-ʿādati

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿImārah ibn ʿUmayr, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Train yourselves in goodness, for goodness comes through habit.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعُمَيْسِ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْأَقْمَرِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «تَعَوَّدُوا الْخَيْرَ، فَإِنَّمَا الْخَيْرُ بِالْعَادَةِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-ʿumaysi, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni al-ʾaqmari, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “taʿawwadū al-khayra, faʾinnamā al-khayru bi-l-ʿādati”

Abū al-ʿUmays related to us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Train yourselves in goodness, for goodness comes only through habit.”

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بَابُ الضَّحِكِ

bābu al-ḍaḥiki

Chapter: Laughter

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حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ أَبُو عَمْرٍو، عَنْ صَالِحٍ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِ قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ: {أَفَمِنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلَا تَبْكُونَ} [النَّجْمُ: 60]، فَمَا رُئِيَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ضَاحِكًا أَوْ مُتَبَسِّمًا

ḥaddathanā ziyādu bnu ʾabī muslimin ʾabū ʿamrin, ʿan ṣāliḥin ʾabī al-khalīli qāla: lammā nazalat: {ʾafamin hadhā al-ḥadīthi taʿjabūna wataḍḥakūna walā tabkūna} [al-najmu: 60], famā ruʾiya al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḍāḥikan ʾaw mutabassiman

Ziyād ibn Abī Muslim Abū ʿAmr related to us, from Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Khalīl, who said: When {Is it at this discourse that you marvel, and laugh, and do not weep?} [al-Najm 53:59–60] was revealed, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was never again seen laughing or smiling.

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا يَضْحَكُ إِلَّا تَبَسُّمًا، وَلَا يَلْتَفِتُ إِلَّا جَمِيعًا

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama lā yaḍḥaku ʾillā tabassuman, walā yaltafitu ʾillā jamīʿan

Misʿar related to us, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, never laughed beyond a smile, and when he turned, he turned with his whole body.

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بَابُ الْمَوْتِ وَصِفَتِهِ

bābu al-mawti waṣifatihi

Chapter: Death and its nature

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا نَأْتِي الْأَرْضَ نَنْقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَا} [الرَّعْدُ: 41] قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu ʿan manṣūrin ʿan mujāhidin: {ʾawalam yarawā ʾannā naʾtī al-ʾarḍa nanquṣuhā min ʾaṭrāfihā} [al-raʿdu: 41] qāla: al-mawta

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, concerning {Have they not seen that We come upon the land, diminishing it at its borders?} [al-Raʿd 13:41]. He said: “It means death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ: {أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا نَأْتِي الْأَرْضَ نَنْقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَا} [الرَّعْدُ: 41]، قَالَ: ذَهَابُ فُقَهَائِهَا، وَخِيَارِ أَهْلِهَا

ḥaddathanā ṭalḥatu bnu ʿamrin ʿan ʿaṭāʾin qāla: {ʾawalam yarawā ʾannā naʾtī al-ʾarḍa nanquṣuhā min ʾaṭrāfihā} [al-raʿdu: 41], qāla: dhahābu fuqahāʾihā, wakhiyāri ʾahlihā

Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAmr related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, who said concerning {Have they not seen that We come upon the land, diminishing it at its borders?} [al-Raʿd 13:41]: “It is the passing of its jurists and the best of its people.”

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حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ الْقَنَّادُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الشَّعْبِيَّ، يَقُولُ: لَوْ كَانَتِ الْأَرْضُ تَنْقُصُ، لَضَاقَ عَلَيْكَ حَشُّكَ، وَلَكِنَّهُ تَنْقُصُ الْأَنْفُسُ وَالثَّمَرَاتُ

ḥaddathanā ṭalḥatu al-qannādu, qāla: samiʿtu al-shaʿbiyya, yaqūlu: law kānati al-ʾarḍu tanquṣu, laḍāqa ʿalayka ḥashshuka, walakinnahu tanquṣu al-ʾanfusu wa-l-thamarātu

Ṭalḥah al-Qannād related to us. He said: I heard al-Shaʿbī say: “If the land itself were diminishing, your enclosure would grow cramped around you. Rather, it is lives and fruits that diminish.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ نُبَيْطٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ قَالَ: مَا يُغْلَبُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْعَدُوِّ

ḥaddathanā salamatu bnu nubayṭin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki qāla: mā yughlabu ʿalayhi min ʾarḍi al-ʿaduwwi

Salamah ibn Nubayṭ related to us, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, who said: “Whatever is conquered from the enemy’s territory.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ {حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ} [الْحِجْرُ: 99] قَالَ: الْمَوْتُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ṭāriqi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan sālimi bni ʿabdi Allāhi {ḥattā yaʾtiyaka al-yaqīnu} [al-ḥijru: 99] qāla: al-mawtu

Sufyān related to us, from Ṭāriq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, concerning {until certainty comes to you} [al-Ḥijr 15:99]. He said: “It means death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ {وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا} [النَّازِعَاتُ: 1] قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ {وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا} [النَّازِعَاتُ: 2] قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ، {وَالسَّابِحَاتِ سَبْحًا} [النَّازِعَاتُ: 3] قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ، {فَالسَّابِقَاتِ سَبْقًا} [النَّازِعَاتُ: 4] قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī najīḥin ʿan mujāhidin {wa-l-nāziʿāti gharqan} [al-nāziʿātu: 1] qāla: al-mawta {wa-l-nāshiṭāti nashṭan} [al-nāziʿātu: 2] qāla: al-mawta, {wa-l-sābiḥāti sabḥan} [al-nāziʿātu: 3] qāla: al-mawta, {fa-l-sābiqāti sabqan} [al-nāziʿātu: 4] qāla: al-mawta

Sufyān related to us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid. Concerning {By those who wrench out violently} [al-Nāziʿāt 79:1], he said: “Death.” Concerning {and those who draw out gently} [79:2], he said: “Death.” Concerning {and those who glide swiftly} [79:3], he said: “Death.” Concerning {then those who race ahead} [79:4], he said: “Death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنِ الطُّفَيْلِ بْنِ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: جَاءَتِ الرَّاجِفَةُ تَتْبَعُهَا الرَّادِفَةُ، جَاءَ الْمَوْتُ بِمَا فِيهِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni muḥammadi bni ʿaqīlin ʿani al-ṭufayli bni ʾubayyi bni kaʿbi, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: jāʾati al-rājifatu tatbaʿuhā al-rādifatu, jāʾa al-mawtu bimā fīhi

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, from al-Ṭufayl ibn Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The convulsion has come, followed by the succeeding one. Death has come with all that it brings.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ بَيَانٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ: {أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفَاتًا أَحْيَاءً وَأَمْوَاتًا} [الْمُرْسَلَاتُ: 26] قَالَ: ظَهْرُهَا لِأَحْيَائِكُمْ، وَبَطْنُهَا لِأَمْوَاتِكُمْ

ḥaddathanā sharīkun, ʿan bayānin, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi: {ʾalam najʿali al-ʾarḍa kifātan ʾaḥyāʾan waʾamwātan} [al-mursalātu: 26] qāla: ẓahruhā liʾaḥyāʾikum, wabaṭnuhā liʾamwātikum

Sharīk related to us, from Bayān, from al-Shaʿbī, concerning {Have We not made the earth a receptacle for the living and the dead?} [al-Mursalāt 77:25–26]. He said: “Its surface is for your living, and its interior is for your dead.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {وَمَا يُغْنِي عَنْهُ مَالُهُ إِذَا تَرَدَّى} [اللَّيْلُ: 11] إِذَا مَاتَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin: {wamā yughnī ʿanhu māluhu ʾidhā taraddā} [al-laylu: 11] ʾidhā māta

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, concerning {His wealth will be of no use to him when he falls} [al-Layl 92:11]. He said: “When he dies.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ خُصَيْفٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، وَعِكْرِمَةَ، {أَوْ خَلْقًا مِمَّا يَكْبُرُ فِي صُدُورِكُمْ} [الْإِسْرَاءُ: 51]. قَالَا: الْمَوْتُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan khuṣayfin, ʿan mujāhidin, waʿikrimata, {ʾaw khalqan mimmā yakburu fī ṣudūrikum} [al-ʾisrāʾu: 51]. qālā: al-mawtu

Sufyān related to us, from Khuṣayf, from Mujāhid and ʿIkrimah, concerning {or any created thing that seems greater within your hearts} [al-Isrāʾ 17:51]. They both said: “Death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ شَبِيبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ، {وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 27] قَالَ: هَلْ مِنْ طَبِيبٍ شَافٍ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna al-taymiyyi, ʿan shabībin, ʿan ʾabī qilābata, {waqīla man rāqin} [al-qiyāmatu: 27] qāla: hal min ṭabībin shāfin

Sufyān related to us, from Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Shabīb, from Abū Qilābah, concerning {and it is said, “Who can heal him?”} [al-Qiyāmah 75:27]. He said: “Is there a physician who can cure him?”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ, عَنْ سِمَاكٍ, عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، {وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 27] قِيلَ: هَلْ مِنْ رَاقٍ يَرْقَى

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan simākin, ʿan ʿikrimata, {waqīla man rāqin} [al-qiyāmatu: 27] qīla: hal min rāqin yarqā

Isrāʾīl related to us, from Simāk, from ʿIkrimah, concerning {and it is said, “Who can heal him?”} [al-Qiyāmah 75:27]. He said: “Is there an incantation-healer who can recite over him?”

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حَدَّثَنَا بَشِيرُ بْنُ الْمُهَاجِرِ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ: {وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 29] قَالَ: هُمَا سَاقَاكَ إِذَا الْتَفَّتَا فِي الْكَفَنِ

ḥaddathanā bashīru bnu al-muhājiri, qāla samiʿtu al-ḥasana: {wa-l-taffati al-sāqu bi-l-sāqi} [al-qiyāmatu: 29] qāla: humā sāqāka ʾidhā al-taffatā fī al-kafani

Bashīr ibn al-Muhājir related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan comment on {and one leg is wound around the other} [al-Qiyāmah 75:29]: “They are your two legs when they are wrapped together in the shroud.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 29] قَالَ: هُوَ أَوَّلُ يَوْمٍ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ وَآخِرُ يَوْمٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan mujāhidin: {wa-l-taffati al-sāqu bi-l-sāqi} [al-qiyāmatu: 29] qāla: huwa ʾawwalu yawmin mina al-ākhirati waākhiru yawmin mina al-dunyā

Sufyān related to us, from a man, from Mujāhid, concerning {and one leg is wound around the other} [al-Qiyāmah 75:29]. He said: “It is the first day of the Hereafter and the last day of this world.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ نُبَيْطٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ: {وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 29] قَالَ: الدُّنْيَا بِالْآخِرَةِ

ḥaddathanā salamatu bnu nubayṭin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki: {wa-l-taffati al-sāqu bi-l-sāqi} [al-qiyāmatu: 29] qāla: al-dunyā bi-l-ākhirati

Salamah ibn Nubayṭ related to us, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, concerning {and one leg is wound around the other} [al-Qiyāmah 75:29]. He said: “This world is joined to the Hereafter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ مُنْذِرٍ الثَّوْرِيِّ أَبِي يَعْلَى عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ: {فَأَمَّا إِنْ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ فَرَوْحٌ وَرَيْحَانٌ} [الْوَاقِعَةُ: 89]، قَالَ: هَذَا لَهُ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَيُخَبَّأُ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ الْجَنَّةُ {وَأَمَّا إِنْ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ الضَّالِّينَ فَنُزُلٌ مِنْ حَمِيمٍ} [الْوَاقِعَةُ: 92] قَالَ: هَذَا لَهُ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَيُخَبَّأُ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ النَّارُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan mundhirin al-thawriyyi ʾabī yaʿlā ʿani al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin: {faʾammā ʾin kāna mina al-muqarrabīna farawḥun warayḥānun} [al-wāqiʿatu: 89], qāla: hadhā lahu ʿinda al-mawti wayukhabbaʾu lahu fī al-ākhirati al-jannatu {waʾammā ʾin kāna mina al-mukadhdhibīna al-ḍāllīna fanuzulun min ḥamīmin} [al-wāqiʿatu: 92] qāla: hadhā lahu ʿinda al-mawti wayukhabbaʾu lahu fī al-ākhirati al-nāru

Sufyān related to us, from his father, from Mundhir al-Thawrī Abū Yaʿlā, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, concerning {If he is one of those brought near, then rest and fragrance} [al-Wāqiʿah 56:88–89]. He said: “This is for him at death, while Paradise is stored up for him in the Hereafter.” Concerning {But if he is one of the deniers, astray, then a welcome of scalding water} [56:92–93], he said: “This is for him at death, while the Fire is stored up for him in the Hereafter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عِيسَى: {وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 29] قَالَ: الْأَمْرُ بِالْأَمْرِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin ʿan ʾabī ʿīsā: {wa-l-taffati al-sāqu bi-l-sāqi} [al-qiyāmatu: 29] qāla: al-ʾamru bi-l-ʾamri

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Abū ʿĪsā, concerning {and one leg is wound around the other} [al-Qiyāmah 75:29]. He said: “One affair is joined to another.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حُصَيْنٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مَالِكٍ {وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 29] قَالَ: عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ الْتَفَّتَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥuṣaynin, ʿan ʾabī mālikin {wa-l-taffati al-sāqu bi-l-sāqi} [al-qiyāmatu: 29] qāla: ʿinda al-mawti al-taffatā

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥuṣayn, from Abū Mālik, concerning {and one leg is wound around the other} [al-Qiyāmah 75:29]. He said: “At death, the two are wound together.”

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بَابُ الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ

bābu al-ḥadīthi ʿan banī ʾisrāʾīla

Chapter: Narrating reports about the Children of Israel

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حَدَّثَنَا رَبِيعُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ مَوْلًى كَانَ لِلْجُعْفِيِّينَ عَنِ ابْنِ سَابِطٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: تَحَدَّثُوا عَنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ فِيهِمُ الْأَعَاجِيبُ ثُمَّ أَنْشَأَ يُحَدِّثُ، قَالَ: خَرَجَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَتَّى أَتَوْا مَقْبَرَةً مِنْ مَقَابِرِهِمْ، فَقَالُوا: لَوْ صَلَّيْنَا وَدَعَوْنَا اللَّهَ، فَأَخْرَجَ لَنَا رَجُلًا مِمَّنْ قَدْ مَاتَ، نُسَائِلُهُ عَنِ الْمَوْتِ، فَفَعَلُوا، فَبَيْنَا هُمْ كَذَلِكَ إِذَا اطَّلَعَ رَجُلٌ رَأْسَهُ مِنْ قَبْرٍ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْمَقَابِرِ، خِلَاسِيٌّ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ أَثَرُ السُّجُودِ، فَقَالَ: يَا هَؤُلَاءِ مَا أَرَدْتُمْ، إِنَّنِي لَقَدْ مِتُّ مُذْ مِائَةِ عَامٍ، فَمَا سَكَنَتْ عَنِّي حَرَارَةُ الْمَوْتِ حَتَّى كَانَ الْآنَ، فَادْعُوا اللَّهَ يُعِدْنِي كَمَا كُنْتُ

ḥaddathanā rabīʿu bnu saʿdin mawlanā kāna li-l-juʿfiyyīna ʿani ʾabni sābiṭin ʿan jābiri bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: taḥaddathū ʿan banī ʾisrāʾīla faʾinnahu kāna fīhimu al-ʾaʿājību thumma ʾanshaʾa yuḥaddithu, qāla: kharajat ṭāʾifatun min banī ʾisrāʾīla ḥattā ʾatawā maqbaratan min maqābirihim, faqālū: law ṣallaynā wadaʿawnā Allāha, faʾakhraja lanā rajulan mimman qad māta, nusāʾiluhu ʿani al-mawti, fafaʿalū, fabaynā hum kadhalika ʾidhā ʾaṭṭalaʿa rajulun raʾsahu min qabrin min tilka al-maqābiri, khilāsiyyun bayna ʿaynayhi ʾatharu al-sujūdi, faqāla: yā haʾulāʾi mā ʾaradtum, ʾinnanī laqad mittu mudh miʾati ʿāmin, famā sakanat ʿannī ḥarāratu al-mawti ḥattā kāna al-āna, fādʿū Allāha yuʿidnī kamā kuntu

Rabīʿ ibn Saʿd, a client of the Juʿfīs, related to us, from Ibn Sābiṭ, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Relate accounts about the Children of Israel, for wonders occurred among them.” He then began to relate: “A group of the Children of Israel set out until they came to one of their cemeteries. They said, ‘If only we were to pray and call upon Allah, and He were to bring forth for us a man from among those who have died, so that we might question him about death.’ They did so. While they were in that state, a man suddenly raised his head from one of the graves. He was of mixed complexion, and the mark of prostration was between his eyes. He said, ‘People, what do you want? I died a hundred years ago, yet the heat of death did not subside from me until just now. Pray to Allah to return me to the state in which I was.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ سَمِعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجُلًا يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي الْمَوْتِ، قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: وَفِي الْحَيَاةِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu qāla samiʿa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama rajulan yaqūlu: Allāhumma bārik lanā fī al-mawti, qāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: wafī al-ḥayāti

Sufyān related to us. He said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, heard a man say, “O Allah, bless us in death.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, added: “And in life.”

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سَمِعْتُ الْأَعْمَشَ يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {بَلَى مَنْ كَسَبَ سَيِّئَةً وَأَحَاطَتْ بِهِ خَطِيئَتُهُ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 81] قَالَ: مَاتَ بِذَنْبِهِ قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: ذَكَرَهُ الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي رَزِينٍ

samiʿtu al-ʾaʿmasha yaqūlu fī qawlihi ʿazza wajalla: {balā man kasaba sayyiʾatan waʾaḥāṭat bihi khaṭīʾatuhu} [al-baqaratu: 81] qāla: māta bidhanbihi qāla wakīʿun: qāla sufyānu: dhakarahu al-ʾaʿmashu ʿan ʾabī razīnin

I heard al-Aʿmash say concerning the words of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, {Indeed, whoever earns evil and whose sin encompasses him} [al-Baqarah 2:81]: “He dies in his sin.” Wakīʿ said: Sufyān said that al-Aʿmash related it from Abū Razīn.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ: {بَلَى مَنْ كَسَبَ سَيِّئَةً وَأَحَاطَتْ بِهِ خَطِيئَتُهُ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 81] قَالَ: الشِّرْكُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni ʾabī al-najūdi, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin: {balā man kasaba sayyiʾatan waʾaḥāṭat bihi khaṭīʾatuhu} [al-baqaratu: 81] qāla: al-shirku

Sufyān related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, from Abū Wāʾil, concerning {Indeed, whoever earns evil and whose sin encompasses him} [al-Baqarah 2:81]. He said: “It means associating partners with Allah.”

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حَدَّثَنَا النَّضْرُ أَبُو لِينَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الضَّحَّاكَ: {ثُمَّ يَتُوبُونَ مِنْ قَرِيبٍ} [النِّسَاءُ: 17] قَالَ: كُلُّ شَيْءٍ دُونَ الْمَوْتِ فَهُوَ قَرِيبٌ

ḥaddathanā al-naḍru ʾabū līnata qāla samiʿtu al-ḍaḥḥāka: {thumma yatūbūna min qarībin} [al-nisāʾu: 17] qāla: kullu shayʾin dūna al-mawti fahuwa qarībun

Al-Naḍr Abū Līnah related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk comment on {then repent soon afterward} [al-Nisāʾ 4:17]: “Everything short of death is soon.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: {ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِينَ} [الْحَاقَّةُ: 46] قَالَ: «نِيَاطَ الْقَلْبِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin: {thumma laqaṭaʿnā minhu al-watīna} [al-ḥāqqatu: 46] qāla: “niyāṭa al-qalbi”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning {then We would certainly have severed his aorta} [al-Ḥāqqah 69:46]. He said: “The vessel from which the heart hangs.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُمْ يَذْكُرُونَ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {وَيَوْمَ نَحْشُرُهُمْ} [الْأَنْعَامُ: 22] قَالَ: الْحَشْرُ: «الْمَوْتُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, qāla samiʿtuhum yadhkurūna ʿan mujāhidin: {wayawma naḥshuruhum} [al-ʾanʿāmu: 22] qāla: al-ḥashru: “al-mawtu”

Al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: I heard them relate from Mujāhid concerning {and on the Day We gather them all} [al-Anʿām 6:22]. He said: “The gathering is death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ أَبُو الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَوْ أَنَّ الْبَهَائِمَ تَعْلَمُ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ مِثْلَ الَّذِي تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَكَلْتُمْ مِنْهَا سَمِينًا أَبَدًا»

ḥaddathanā khālidu bnu ṭahmāna ʾabū al-ʿalāʾi, ʿan ʿabdi al-maliki bni ʿumayrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “law ʾanna al-bahāʾima taʿlamu mina al-mawti mithla al-dhī taʿlamūna mā ʾakaltum minhā samīnan ʾabadan”

Khālid ibn Ṭahmān Abū al-ʿAlāʾ related to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “If animals knew as much about death as you do, you would never eat a fat one among them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا لِي وَلِلدُّنْيَا، إِنَّمَا مَثَلِي وَمَثَلُ الدُّنْيَا كَرَاكِبٍ قَالَ فِي أَصْلِ شَجَرَةٍ فِي يَوْمٍ صَائِفٍ، ثُمَّ رَاحَ وَتَرَكَهَا»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿalqamata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā lī walilddunyā, ʾinnamā mathalī wamathalu al-dunyā karākibin qāla fī ʾaṣli shajaratin fī yawmin ṣāʾifin, thumma rāḥa watarakahā”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “What have I to do with this world? My likeness in relation to this world is only that of a rider who rested at the foot of a tree on a summer’s day, then went on and left it behind.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْمُسْتَوْرِدِ أَخِي بَنِي فِهْرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا مِثْلُ مَا يَجْعَلُ أَحَدُكُمْ أُصْبُعَهُ هَذِهِ فِي الْيَمِّ، فَلْيَنْظُرْ بِمَ تَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿani al-mustawridi ʾakhī banī fihrin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā al-dunyā fī al-ākhirati ʾillā mithlu mā yajʿalu ʾaḥadukum ʾuṣbuʿahu hadhihi fī al-yammi, falyanẓur bima tarjiʿu ʾilayhi”

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from al-Mustawrid, a brother of Banū Fihr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “This world, in comparison with the Hereafter, is only like one of you dipping this finger of his into the sea. Let him see what it brings back.”

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بَابُ الدُّنْيَا وَمَثَلِهَا

bābu al-dunyā wamathalihā

Chapter: This world and its likeness

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ، قَالَ: «مَا يُنْتَظَرُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا كُلُّ مُحْزِنٍ أَوْ فِتْنَةٌ تُنْتَظَرُ»

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʾabī burdata, ʿan ʾabīhi ʿan jaddihi, qāla: “mā yuntaẓaru mina al-dunyā ʾillā kullu muḥzinin ʾaw fitnatun tuntaẓaru”

Shuʿbah related to us, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Burdah, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: “Nothing remains to be expected from this world except something that brings grief or an impending trial.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ وَالْفَضْلُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ: عَهِدَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ: «لِيَكُنْ بَلَاغُ أَحَدِكُمْ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا كَزَادِ الرَّاكِبِ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu wa-l-faḍlu, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan salmāna qāla: ʿahida ʾilaynā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla: “liyakun balāghu ʾaḥadikum mina al-dunyā kazādi al-rākibi”

Al-Rabīʿ and al-Faḍl related to us, from al-Ḥasan, from Salmān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, instructed us: “Let what suffices each of you from this world be like a traveler’s provisions.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي فِي الدُّنْيَا فَرْدٌ كَالرَّاكِبِ الْغَادِي الرَّائِحِ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: “wadidtu ʾannī fī al-dunyā fardun ka-l-rākibi al-ghādī al-rāʾiḥi”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from al-Qāsim, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: “I wish that I were alone in this world, like a rider journeying out in the morning and returning in the evening.”

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بَابُ هَوَانِ الدُّنْيَا

bābu hawāni al-dunyā

Chapter: The insignificance of this world

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، وَالرَّبِيعُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ, أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّ عَلَى سَخْلَةٍ مَنْبُوذَةٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الطَّرِيقِ، فَقَالَ: «أَتَرَوْنَ هَذِهِ هَيِّنَةً عَلَى أَهْلِهَا، فَوَاللَّهِ لَلدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ هَذِهِ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, wa-l-rabīʿu, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama marra ʿalā sakhlatin manbūdhatin ʿalā ẓahri al-ṭarīqi, faqāla: “ʾatarawna hadhihi hayyinatan ʿalā ʾahlihā, fawālllahi li-l-dunyā ʾahwanu ʿalā Allāhi min hadhihi ʿalā ʾahlihā”

Mubārak and al-Rabīʿ related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed a discarded young goat lying beside the road. He said: “Do you consider this of little value to its owners? By Allah, this world is of still less value to Allah than this is to its owners.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي قَيْسٍ، عَنِ الْهُذَيْلِ بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «مَنْ أَرَادَ الدُّنْيَا أَضَرَّ بِالْآخِرَةِ، وَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْآخِرَةَ أَضَرَّ الدُّنْيَا، يَا قَوْمُ فَأَضِرُّوا بِالْفَانِي لِلْبَاقِي»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī qaysin, ʿani al-hudhayli bni shuraḥbīla, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “man ʾarāda al-dunyā ʾaḍarra bi-l-ākhirati, waman ʾarāda al-ākhirata ʾaḍarra al-dunyā, yā qawmu faʾaḍirrū bi-l-fānī li-l-bāqī”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Qays, from al-Hudhayl ibn Shuraḥbīl, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Whoever seeks this world harms his Hereafter, and whoever seeks the Hereafter harms his worldly interests. People, then, accept loss in what perishes for the sake of what endures.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ مُعَاذٍ، قَالَ: كَيْفَ أَنْتُمْ عِنْدَ ثَلَاثٍ: دُنْيَا تَقْطَعُ رِقَابَكَمْ، وَزَلَّةِ عَالِمٍ، وَجِدَالِ مُنَافِقٍ بِالْقُرْآنِ؟ فَسَكَتُوا، فَقَالَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ: أَمَّا دُنْيَا تَقْطَعُ رِقَابَكُمْ، فَمَنْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ غِنَاهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ فَقَدْ هُدِيَ، وَمَنْ لَا فَلَيْسَ بِنَافِعَتِهِ دُنْيَاهُ، وَأَمَّا زَلَّةُ عَالِمٍ، فَإِنِ اهْتَدَى فَلَا تُقَلِّدُوهُ دِينَكُمْ وَإِنْ فُتِنَ فَلَا تَقْطَعُوا مِنْهُ آنَاتِكُمْ، فَإِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ يُفْتَنُ ثُمَّ يُفْتَنُ، ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ، وَأَمَّا جِدَالُ مُنَافِقٍ بِالْقُرْآنِ، فَإِنَّ لِلْقُرْآنِ مَنَارًا كَمَنَارِ الطَّرِيقِ لَا يَكَادُ يَخْفَى عَلَى أَحَدٍ، فَمَا عَرْفَتُمْ فَتَمَسَّكُوا بِهِ، وَمَا أُشْكِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فَكِلُوهُ إِلَى عَالِمِهِ

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni salamata, ʿan muʿādhin, qāla: kayfa ʾantum ʿinda thalāthin: dunyā taqṭaʿu riqābakam, wazallati ʿālimin, wajidāli munāfiqin bi-l-qurāni? fasakatū, faqāla muʿādhu bnu jabalin: ʾammā dunyā taqṭaʿu riqābakum, faman jaʿala Allāhu ghināhu fī qalbihi faqad hudiya, waman lā falaysa bināfiʿatihi dunyāhu, waʾammā zallatu ʿālimin, faʾini ʾahtadā falā tuqallidūhu dīnakum waʾin futina falā taqṭaʿū minhu ānātikum, faʾinna al-muʾmina yuftanu thumma yuftanu, thumma yatūbu, waʾammā jidālu munāfiqin bi-l-qurāni, faʾinna li-l-qurāni manāran kamanāri al-ṭarīqi lā yakādu yakhfā ʿalā ʾaḥadin, famā ʿarfatum fatamassakū bihi, wamā ʾushkila ʿalaykum fakilūhu ʾilā ʿālimihi

Shuʿbah related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salamah, from Muʿādh, who said: “How will you fare when confronted by three things: a worldly life that severs your necks, a scholar’s lapse, and a hypocrite arguing by means of the Qurʾan?” They fell silent, so Muʿādh ibn Jabal said: “As for a worldly life that severs your necks, whoever has been given richness of heart by Allah has been guided; whoever has not will gain no benefit from his worldly possessions. As for a scholar’s lapse, even when he follows guidance, do not make him the sole authority for your religion; and if he is put to trial, do not abandon your patience toward him. A believer may be tried and tried again, and then repent. As for a hypocrite arguing by means of the Qurʾan, the Qurʾan has clear landmarks like the landmarks of a road, scarcely hidden from anyone. Hold fast to what you recognize, and entrust whatever is unclear to you to one who knows it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: مَنْ أَرَادَ الدُّنْيَا أَضَرَّ بِالْآخِرَةِ، وَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْآخِرَةَ أَضَرَّ بِالدُّنْيَا

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: man ʾarāda al-dunyā ʾaḍarra bi-l-ākhirati, waman ʾarāda al-ākhirata ʾaḍarra bi-l-dunyā

Wakīʿ related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Whoever seeks this world harms his Hereafter, and whoever seeks the Hereafter harms his worldly interests.”

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بَابُ رَدِّ النَّفْسِ وَقِلَّةِ الْأَكْلِ

bābu raddi al-nafsi waqillati al-ʾakli

Chapter: Restraining the lower self and eating little

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حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دَلْهَمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ: يَا بُنَيَّ لَا تَأْكُلْ شِبَعًا فَوْقَ شِبَعٍ، فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ تَنْبُذَهُ لِلْكَلْبِ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

ḥaddathanā al-faḍlu bnu dalhamin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla luqmānu liābnihi: yā bunayya lā taʾkul shibaʿan fawqa shibaʿin, faʾinnaka ʾin tanbudhahu li-l-kalbi khayrun laka min dhalika

Al-Faḍl ibn Dalham related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: Luqmān said to his son: “My son, do not eat one full meal on top of another. Throwing the food to a dog would be better for you than doing that.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّ ابْنًا لِسَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ، أَكَلَ حَتَّى بَشِمَ، فَقَالَ سَمُرَةُ: لَوْ مِتَّ مَا صَلَّيْتُ عَلَيْكَ

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾanna ʾabnan lisamurata bni jundabin, ʾakala ḥattā bashima, faqāla samuratu: law mitta mā ṣallaytu ʿalayka

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who reported that a son of Samurah ibn Jundab ate until he became ill from overeating. Samurah said: “Had you died, I would not have prayed over you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْعُقَيْلِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ الْحِمْصِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: ثَلَاثُ أَكَلَاتٍ، أَوْ ثَلَاثُ لُقْمَاتٍ، يُقِمْنَ صُلْبَ ابْنِ آدَمَ، فَإِنْ غَلَبَتْهُ نَفْسُهُ، فَثُلُثٌ لِطَعَامٍ، وَثُلُثٌ لِشَرَابٍ، وَثُلُثٌ لِنَفَسِهِ

ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi al-ʿuqayliyyu, ʿan ʾabī salamata al-ḥimṣiyyi, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: thalāthu ʾakalātin, ʾaw thalāthu luqmātin, yuqimna ṣulba ʾabni ādama, faʾin ghalabathu nafsuhu, fathuluthun liṭaʿāmin, wathuluthun lisharābin, wathuluthun linafasihi

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿUqaylī related to us, from Abū Salamah al-Ḥimṣī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Three mouthfuls—or three bites—are enough to keep a son of Adam’s back upright. If his appetite overcomes him, then let one third be for food, one third for drink, and one third for his breath.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: لَقَدْ أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا إِنََّ الرَّجُلَ مِنْهُمْ لَيَأْتِي عَلَيْهِ سَبْعُونَ سَنَةً مَا اشْتَهَى عَلَى أَهْلِهِ شَهْوَةَ طَعَامٍ قَطُّ

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-wāḥidi bnu zaydin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: laqad ʾadraktu ʾaqwāman ʾinna al-rajula minhum layaʾtī ʿalayhi sabʿūna sanatan mā ʾashtahā ʿalā ʾahlihi shahwata ṭaʿāmin qaṭṭu

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Zayd related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “I met people among whom a man might reach seventy years of age without ever craving a particular food and imposing that desire upon his household.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، أَنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ أُتِيَ بِجَوَارِشَ، فَكَرِهَهُ، وَقَالَ: مَا شَبِعْتُ مُنْذُ كَذَا وَكَذَا

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan nāfiʿin, ʾanna ʾabna ʿumara ʾutiya bijawārisha, fakarihahu, waqāla: mā shabiʿtu mundhu kadhā wakadhā

Mālik ibn Mighwal related to us, from Nāfiʿ, who reported that Ibn ʿUmar was brought a digestive preparation. He disliked it and said: “I have not eaten my fill for such-and-such a length of time.”

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ، قَالَ: كَانَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ لَا يَكَادُ يَشْبَعُ مِنْ طَعَامٍ

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan maymūni bni mihrāna, qāla: kāna ʾabnu ʿumara lā yakādu yashbaʿu min ṭaʿāmin

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, who said: “Ibn ʿUmar hardly ever ate his fill.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ هِشَامٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: لَقَدْ أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا، إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيَخْلُفُ أَخَاهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ أَرْبَعِينَ عَامًا، وَإِنَّ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ لَيُبْتَلُونَ بِالسَّائِلِ مَا هُوَ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَلَا مِنَ الْإِنْسِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan hishāmin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: laqad ʾadraktu ʾaqwāman, ʾin kāna al-rajulu layakhlufu ʾakhāhu fī ʾahlihi ʾarbaʿīna ʿāman, waʾinna ʾahla al-bayti layubtalūna bi-l-sāʾili mā huwa mina al-jinni walā mina al-ʾinsi

Sufyān related to us, from Hishām, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “I met people among whom a man would look after his brother’s family for forty years. A household might be tried by a petitioner who was neither jinn nor human.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: لَقَدْ أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا، إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْهُمْ لَيَجْلِسَ مَعَ الْقَوْمِ فَيَرَوْنَ أَنَّهُ عَيِيٌّ، وَمَا بِهِ مِنْ عَيٍّ، إِنَّهُ لَفَقِيهٌ مُسْلِمٌ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yūnusa, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: laqad ʾadraktu ʾaqwāman, ʾin kāna al-rajulu minhum layajlisa maʿa al-qawmi fayarawna ʾannahu ʿayiyyun, wamā bihi min ʿayyin, ʾinnahu lafaqīhun muslimun

Sufyān related to us, from Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “I met people among whom a man would sit with a group and they would think him unable to speak, though he had no speech defect at all. He was, rather, a discerning Muslim.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ: الصَّمْتُ حُكْمٌ، وَقَلِيلٌ فَاعِلُهُ

ḥaddathanā ʿumaru bnu saʿdin, qāla: samiʿtu ʾanasa bna mālikin yaqūlu: al-ṣamtu ḥukmun, waqalīlun fāʿiluhu

ʿUmar ibn Saʿd related to us. He said: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say: “Silence is wisdom, yet few practice it.”

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بَابُ فَضْلِ الْمُؤْمِنِ

bābu faḍli al-muʾmini

Chapter: The merit of the believer

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: مَا مَاتَ مُسْلِمٌ إِلَّا ثُلِمَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ ثَلْمَةً لَا تُسَدُّ بَعْدَهُ أَبَدًا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: mā māta muslimun ʾillā thulima fī al-ʾislāmi thalmatan lā tusaddu baʿdahu ʾabadan

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Whenever a Muslim dies, a breach is opened in Islam that will never afterward be filled.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لَتَبْكِي عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحًا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā al-qattāti, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin qāla: ʾinna al-ʾarḍa latabkī ʿalā al-muʾmini ʾarbaʿīna ṣabāḥan

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Yaḥyā al-Qattāt, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “The earth weeps over a believer for forty mornings.”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُهَزِّمِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: الْمُؤْمِنُ أَكْرَمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ الَّذِينَ عِنْدَهُ

ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʾabī al-muhazzimi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: al-muʾminu ʾakramu ʿalā Allāhi mina al-malāʾikati al-dhīna ʿindahu

Ḥammād ibn Salamah related to us, from Abū al-Muhazzim, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “The believer is dearer to Allah than the angels who are in His presence.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ} [فُصِّلَتْ: 8] قَالَ: غَيْرُ مَحْسُوبٍ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu ʿani ʾabni jurayjin, ʿan mujāhidin: {al-dhīna āmanū waʿamilū al-ṣāliḥāti lahum ʾajrun ghayru mamnūnin} [fuṣṣilat: 8] qāla: ghayru maḥsūbin

Sufyān related to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mujāhid, concerning {Those who believe and do righteous deeds will have a reward without end} [Fuṣṣilat 41:8]. He said: “Without reckoning.”

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بَابُ رَاحَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ

bābu rāḥati al-muʾmini

Chapter: The believer’s rest

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: لَا رَاحَةَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ دُونَ لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi bni al-musayyabi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: lā rāḥata li-l-muʾmini dūna liqāʾi Allāhi

Sufyān related to us, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyib, from Ibrāhīm, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “There is no rest for the believer before meeting Allah.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْتَشِرِ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، قَالَ: مَا مِنْ بَيْتٍ خَيْرٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ مِنْ لَحْدٍ، قَدِ اسْتَرَاحَ مِنْ هُمُومِ الدُّنْيَا، وَأَمِنَ مِنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʾibrāhīma bni muḥammadi bni al-muntashiri, ʿan masrūqin, qāla: mā min baytin khayrun li-l-muʾmini min laḥdin, qadi ʾastarāḥa min humūmi al-dunyā, waʾamina min ʿadhābi Allāhi

Misʿar related to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muntashir, from Masrūq, who said: “No dwelling is better for the believer than a burial niche: he has found relief from the cares of this world and is safe from Allah’s punishment.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي يَعْلَى مُنْذِرٍ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ، قَالَ: مَا مِنْ غَائِبٍ يَنْتَظِرُهُ الْمُؤْمِنُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī yaʿlā mundhirin al-thawriyyi, ʿani al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin, qāla: mā min ghāʾibin yantaẓiruhu al-muʾminu khayrun lahu mina al-mawti

Sufyān related to us, from his father, from Abū Yaʿlā Mundhir al-Thawrī, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, who said: “No absent thing awaited by the believer is better for him than death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَا، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ هَانِئٍ الْحَارِثِيِّ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ أَحَبَّ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ، وَمَنْ كَرِهَ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ كَرِهَ اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ، وَالْمَوْتُ قَبْلَ لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ»، يَعْنِي قَدَّرَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الْمَوْتَ قَبْلَ لِقَائِهِ

ḥaddathanā zakariyā, ʿan ʿāmirin, ʿan shurayḥi bni hāniʾin al-ḥārithiyyi, ʿan ʿāʾishata, qālat: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man ʾaḥabba liqāʾa Allāhi ʾaḥabba Allāhu liqāʾahu, waman kariha liqāʾa Allāhi kariha Allāhu liqāʾahu, wa-l-mawtu qabla liqāʾi Allāhi”, yaʿnī qaddara Allāhu ʿalayhi al-mawta qabla liqāʾihi

Zakariyyā related to us, from ʿĀmir, from Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ al-Ḥārithī, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him; and whoever dislikes meeting Allah, Allah dislikes meeting him. Death comes before meeting Allah.” That is, Allah has decreed that a person die before meeting Him.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْدَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: لَوْلَا ثَلَاثٌ لَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ قَدْ لَحِقْتُ بِاللَّهِ: لَوْلَا أَنْ أَسِيرَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، أَوْ أَضَعَ جَبِينِي لِلَّهِ سَاجِدًا، أَوْ مُجَالَسَةُ قَوْمٍ يَلْتَقِطُونَ طَيِّبَ الْكَلَامِ كَمَا يُلْتَقَطُ طَيِّبُ التَّمْرِ.

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan yaḥyā bni jaʿdata, qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: lawlā thalāthun laʾaḥbabtu ʾan ʾakūna qad laḥiqtu bi-llāhi: lawlā ʾan ʾasīra fī sabīli Allāhi, ʾaw ʾaḍaʿa jabīnī li-llāhi sājidan, ʾaw mujālasatu qawmin yaltaqiṭūna ṭayyiba al-kalāmi kamā yultaqaṭu ṭayyibu al-tamri.

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿdah, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “Were it not for three things, I would wish that I had already joined Allah: traveling in Allah’s cause, placing my forehead before Allah in prostration, and sitting with people who gather choice words as choice dates are gathered.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ حَبِيبٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عُمَرَ مِثْلَهُ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ḥabībin, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿumara mithlahu

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ḥabīb, from a man, from ʿUmar, with the same report.

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بَابُ مَا يُجْزَى بِهِ الْمُؤْمِنُ

bābu mā yujzā bihi al-muʾminu

Chapter: What the believer is rewarded with

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَيَعْمَلُ السَّيِّئَةَ فَيُشَدَّدُ عَلَيْهِ بِهَا عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ لِيَكُونَ بِهَا، وَإِنَّ الْفَاجِرَ لَيَعْمَلُ الْحَسَنَةَ، فَيُخَفَّفُ بِهَا عَلَيْهِ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ لِيَكُونَ بِهَا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿalqamata, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: ʾinna al-muʾmina layaʿmalu al-sayyiʾata fayushaddadu ʿalayhi bihā ʿinda mawtihi liyakūna bihā, waʾinna al-fājira layaʿmalu al-ḥasanata, fayukhaffafu bihā ʿalayhi ʿinda mawtihi liyakūna bihā

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “A believer may commit an evil deed and then have the pangs of death made severe because of it, so that it is expiated. A wicked person may perform a good deed and then have death made easy because of it, so that he receives his recompense for it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ, عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَا مِنْ عَثْرَةِ قَدَمٍ، وَلَا اخْتِلَاجِ عِرْقٍ، وَلَا خَدْشِ عُودٍ إِلَّا بِذَنْبٍ، وَمَا يَعْفُو اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَكْثَرُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: mā min ʿathrati qadamin, walā ʾakhtilāji ʿirqin, walā khadshi ʿūdin ʾillā bidhanbin, wamā yaʿfū Allāhu ʿanhu ʾaktharu

Sufyān related to us, from a man, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No foot stumbles, no vein throbs, and no stick scratches a person except because of a sin—and what Allah pardons is far more.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ أَبِي شَبِيبٍ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ: يَا مُعَاذُ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ حَيْثُمَا كُنْتَ، وَأَتْبِعِ السَّيِّئَةَ الْحَسَنَةَ تَمْحُهَا، وَخَالِقِ النَّاسَ بِخُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan maymūni bni ʾabī shabībin, ʿan muʿādhi bni jabalin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla: yā muʿādhu ʾattaqi Allāha ḥaythumā kunta, waʾatbiʿi al-sayyiʾata al-ḥasanata tamḥuhā, wakhāliqi al-nāsa bikhuluqin ḥasanin

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Maymūn ibn Abī Shabīb, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Muʿādh, be mindful of Allah wherever you are. Follow an evil deed with a good deed, and it will erase it; and treat people with good character.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ، قَالَ: مَا تَعَلَّمَ رَجُلٌ الْقُرْآنَ ثُمَّ نَسِيَهُ إِلَّا بِذَنْبٍ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: {وَمَا أَصَابَكُمْ مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَنْ كَثِيرٍ} [الشُّورَى: 30]، قَالَ الضَّحَّاكُ: وَأَيُّ مُصِيبَةٍ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ نِسْيَانِ الْقُرْآنِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī rawwādin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin, qāla: mā taʿallama rajulun al-qurāna thumma nasiyahu ʾillā bidhanbin, thumma qaraʾa: {wamā ʾaṣābakum min muṣībatin fabimā kasabat ʾaydīkum wayaʿfū ʿan kathīrin} [al-shūrā: 30], qāla al-ḍaḥḥāku: waʾayyu muṣībatin ʾaʿẓamu min nisyāni al-qurāni

Ibn Abī Rawwād related to us, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, who said: “No one learns the Qurʾan and then forgets it except because of a sin.” He then recited: {Whatever affliction befalls you is because of what your own hands have earned, though He pardons much} [al-Shūrā 42:30]. Al-Ḍaḥḥāk said: “What affliction could be greater than forgetting the Qurʾan?”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: قُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنُؤَاخَذُ بِمَا عَمِلْنَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ؟ فَقَالَ: مَنْ أَحْسَنَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ لَمْ يُؤَاخَذْ بِمَا عَمِلَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، وَمَنْ أَسَاءَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ أُخِذَ بِالْأَوَّلِ وَالْآخِرِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla: qulnā: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾanuʾākhadhu bimā ʿamilnā fī al-jāhiliyyati? faqāla: man ʾaḥsana fī al-ʾislāmi lam yuʾākhadh bimā ʿamila fī al-jāhiliyyati, waman ʾasāʾa fī al-ʾislāmi ʾukhidha bi-l-ʾawwali wa-l-ākhiri

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: We asked, “Messenger of Allah, will we be held to account for what we did in the Age of Ignorance?” He replied: “Whoever does well after embracing Islam will not be held to account for what he did in the Age of Ignorance. Whoever does evil after embracing Islam will be taken to account for both the former and the latter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ اللَّيْثِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ يُصِيبُ الْمُؤْمِنَ مِنْ خَمْشٍ وَلَا نَصَبٍ وَلَا وَصَبٍ حَتَّى الْهَمِّ يُهِمُّهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ يُكَفِّرُ بِهِ عَنْهُ مِنْ سَيِّئَاتِهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin al-laythiyyu, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿamri bni ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni yasārin, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā min shayʾin yuṣību al-muʾmina min khamshin walā naṣabin walā waṣabin ḥattā al-hammi yuhimmuhu ʾillā Allāhu yukaffiru bihi ʿanhu min sayyiʾātihi”

Usāmah ibn Zayd al-Laythī related to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Nothing afflicts a believer—not a scratch, fatigue, illness, or even a worry that troubles him—without Allah thereby expiating some of his evil deeds.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ الْعَيْزَارِ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «عَجِبْتُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ، إِنْ أَصَابَهُ خَيْرٌ حَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَشَكَرَهُ، وَإِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ مُصِيبَةٌ احْتَسَبَ وَصَبَرَ، فَالْمُؤْمِنُ يُؤْجَرُ فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَتَّى فِي اللُّقْمَةِ يَرْفَعُهَا إِلَى فِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿani al-ʿayzāri bni ḥuraythin al-ʿabdiyyi, ʿan ʿumara bni saʿdin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʿajibtu li-l-muʾmini, ʾin ʾaṣābahu khayrun ḥamida Allāha washakarahu, waʾin ʾaṣābathu muṣībatun ʾaḥtasaba waṣabara, fa-l-muʾminu yuʾjaru fī kulli shayʾin ḥattā fī al-luqmati yarfaʿuhā ʾilā fīhi”

Isrāʾīl related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-ʿAyzār ibn Ḥurayth al-ʿAbdī, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿd, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “I marvel at the believer. If good comes to him, he praises and thanks Allah; if calamity strikes him, he seeks its reward and remains patient. The believer is rewarded for everything, even for the morsel he lifts to his mouth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ الْعَيْزَارِ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: عَجِبْتُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنَّهُ يُؤْجَرُ فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، حَتَّى فِي اللُّقْمَةِ يَرْفَعُهَا إِلَى فِيهِ

ḥaddathanā yūnusu bnu ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿani al-ʿayzāri bni ḥuraythin al-ʿabdiyyi, qāla: qāla ʾabū bakrin: ʿajibtu li-l-muʾmini ʾannahu yuʾjaru fī kulli shayʾin, ḥattā fī al-luqmati yarfaʿuhā ʾilā fīhi

Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq related to us, from al-ʿAyzār ibn Ḥurayth al-ʿAbdī, who said: Abū Bakr said: “I marvel that the believer is rewarded for everything, even for the morsel he lifts to his mouth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْعَيْزَارَ بْنَ حُرَيْثٍ، يَقُولُ: أُخْبِرْتُ أَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ يُؤْجَرُ فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، حَتَّى اللُّقْمَةِ يَرْفَعُهَا إِلَى فِيهِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, qāla: samiʿtu al-ʿayzāra bna ḥuraythin, yaqūlu: ʾukhbirtu ʾanna al-muʾmina yuʾjaru fī kulli shayʾin, ḥattā al-luqmati yarfaʿuhā ʾilā fīhi

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us. He said: I heard al-ʿAyzār ibn Ḥurayth say: “I was informed that the believer is rewarded for everything, even for the morsel he lifts to his mouth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ عَنْ جُنْدَبٍ الْعَلَقِيِّ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَثَرَ، فَدَمِيَتْ إِصْبَعُهُ، فَقَالَ: «هَلْ أَنْتِ إِلَّا إِصْبَعٌ دَمِيتِ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مَا لَقِيتِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaswadi bni qaysin al-ʿabdiyyi ʿan jundabin al-ʿalaqiyyi ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿathara, fadamiyat ʾiṣbaʿuhu, faqāla: “hal ʾanti ʾillā ʾiṣbaʿun damīti wafī sabīli Allāhi mā laqīti”

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aswad ibn Qays al-ʿAbdī, from Jundab al-ʿAlaqī, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stumbled and his finger bled. He said: “You are only a finger that has bled, and what you suffered was in Allah’s cause.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنِ الْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: تَفَقَّهُوا قَبْلَ أَنْ تَسُودُوا، يَعْنِي قَبْلَ أَنْ تَجْلِسُوا لِلنَّاسِ، فَتُسْأَلُوا

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʿawnin, ʿani ʾabni sīrīna, ʿani al-ʾaḥnafi bni qaysin, qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: tafaqqahū qabla ʾan tasūdū, yaʿnī qabla ʾan tajlisū li-l-nāsi, fatusʾalū

Ibn ʿAwn related to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, from al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “Gain understanding before you become leaders”—meaning before you sit before the people and are questioned.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّكَ مَهْمَا أَنْفَقْتَ فَإِنَّكَ تُؤْجَرُ فِيهَا، حَتَّى اللُّقْمَةَ إِلَى فِي امْرَأَتِكَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿāmiri bni saʿdin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla lahu al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinnaka mahmā ʾanfaqta faʾinnaka tuʾjaru fīhā, ḥattā al-luqmata ʾilā fī ʾamraʾatika”

Sufyān related to us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from his father, to whom the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whatever you spend, you will be rewarded for it—even the morsel you place in your wife’s mouth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ بَعْضِ آلِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ سَعْدٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ لَهُ: «إِنَّكَ مَهْمَا أَنْفَقْتَ عَلَى أَهْلِكَ مِنْ نَفَقَةٍ فَإِنَّكَ تُؤْجَرُ فِيهَا، حَتَّى اللُّقْمَةُ تَرْفَعُهَا إِلَى فِي امْرَأَتِكَ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan baʿḍi āli saʿdin, ʿan saʿdin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla lahu: “ʾinnaka mahmā ʾanfaqta ʿalā ʾahlika min nafaqatin faʾinnaka tuʾjaru fīhā, ḥattā al-luqmatu tarfaʿuhā ʾilā fī ʾamraʾatika”

Misʿar related to us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from one of Saʿd’s family, from Saʿd, to whom the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whatever maintenance you spend upon your family, you will be rewarded for it—even the morsel you lift to your wife’s mouth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ حَسَنٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَعْقِلٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «نَفَقَةُ الرَّجُلِ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ صَدَقَةٌ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ḥasanin, ʿani ʾabni maʿqilin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “nafaqatu al-rajuli ʿalā ʾahlihi ṣadaqatun”

Misʿar related to us, from ʿUbayd ibn Ḥasan, from Ibn Maʿqil, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “What a man spends upon his family is charity.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُرَاوِحِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَيُّ الْعَمَلِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «إِيمَانٌ بِاللَّهِ، وَجِهَادٌ فِي سَبِيلِهِ»، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ ضَعُفْتُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ؟ قَالَ: «تُعِينُ صَانِعًا أَوْ تَصْنَعُ لِأَخْرَقَ»، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ ضَعُفْتُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ؟ قَالَ: «تَدَعُ النَّاسَ مِنْ شَرٍّ، فَإِنَّهَا صَدَقَةٌ تَصَدَّقْ بِهَا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ»، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَيُّ الرِّقَابِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «أَغْلَاهَا ثَمَنًا، وَأَنْفَسُهَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِهَا»

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī al-murāwiḥi, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾayyu al-ʿamali ʾafḍalu? qāla: “ʾīmānun bi-llāhi, wajihādun fī sabīlihi”, qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾaraʾayta ʾin ḍaʿuftu ʿan dhalika? qāla: “tuʿīnu ṣāniʿan ʾaw taṣnaʿu liʾakhraqa”, qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾaraʾayta ʾin ḍaʿuftu ʿan dhalika? qāla: “tadaʿu al-nāsa min sharrin, faʾinnahā ṣadaqatun taṣaddaq bihā ʿalā nafsika”, qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾayyu al-riqābi ʾafḍalu? qāla: “ʾaghlāhā thamanan, waʾanfasuhā ʿinda ʾahlihā”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, from Abū al-Marāwiḥ, from Abū Dharr, who said: I asked, “Messenger of Allah, which deed is best?” He replied, “Faith in Allah and striving in His cause.” I asked, “What if I am too weak for that?” He replied, “Help a skilled worker, or do something for one who lacks skill.” I asked, “What if I am too weak for that?” He replied, “Spare people your harm; that is charity you give on your own behalf.” I asked, “Messenger of Allah, which slaves are best to free?” He replied, “Those highest in price and dearest to their owners.”

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بَابُ مَعِيشَةِ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

bābu maʿīshati āli muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama

Chapter: The livelihood of the family of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace

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حَدَّثَنَا فُضَيْلُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ الضَّبِّيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: مَا شَبِعَ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ طَعَامِ بُرٍّحَتَّى قَبْضِهِ

ḥaddathanā fuḍaylu bnu ghazwāna al-ḍabbiyyu, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: mā shabiʿa ālu muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama min ṭaʿāmi burrinḥattā qabḍihi

Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān al-Ḍabbī related to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “The family of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, never ate their fill of wheat bread before his death.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُطِيعُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ كُرْدُوسٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: مَا شَبِعَ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ طَعَامٍ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ حَتَّى مَضَى لِسَبِيلِهِ،

ḥaddathanā muṭīʿu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan kurdūsin, ʿan ʿāʾishata, qālat: mā shabiʿa ālu muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama min ṭaʿāmin thalāthata ʾayyāmin ḥattā maḍā lisabīlihi,

Muṭīʿ ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us, from Kurdūs, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “The family of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, never ate their fill for three consecutive days before he passed on.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ نَحْوَهُ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ḥammādin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿāʾishata naḥwahu

Misʿar related to us, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀʾishah, with a similar report.

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ الْوَزَّانِ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: مَا شَبِعَ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ طَعَامٍ يَوْمَيْنِ إِلَّا وَأَحَدُهُمَا تَمْرٌ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan hilāli bni ḥumaydin al-wazzāni, ʿan ʿurwata, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: mā shabiʿa ālu muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama min ṭaʿāmin yawmayni ʾillā waʾaḥaduhumā tamrun

Misʿar related to us, from Hilāl ibn Ḥumayd al-Wazzān, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “The family of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, never ate their fill on two successive days without dates being the food on one of them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَابِسٍ النَّخَعِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: إِنْ كُنَّا لَنَرْفَعُ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْكُرَاعَ فَيَأْكُلُهُ بَعْدَ شَهْرٍ

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ziyādi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ʿābisin al-nakhaʿiyyi, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: ʾin kunnā lanarfaʿu li-l-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-kurāʿa fayaʾkuluhu baʿda shahrin

Yazīd ibn Ziyād ibn Abī al-Jaʿd related to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀbis al-Nakhaʿī, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “We would put aside a sheep’s trotter for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he would eat it a month later.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: كَانَ ضِجَاعُ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ أَدَمٍ مَحْشُوٍّ لِيفًا

ḥaddathanā hishāmun, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: kāna ḍijāʿu al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama min ʾadamin maḥshuwwin līfan

Hishām related to us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “The Prophet’s bedding, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was leather stuffed with palm fiber.”

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حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ دَخَلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ عَلَى سَرِيرٍ مَرْمُولٍ بِشَرِيطٍ، وَإِذَا أُهُبٌ مَطْرُوحَةٌ فِي نَاحِيَةِ الْبَيْتِ، فَبَكَى عُمَرُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا يُبْكِيكَ يَا عُمَرُ؟» قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ذَكَرْتُ كِسْرَى، وَقَيْصَرَ وَمَا هُمَا فِيهِ مِنْ أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يَا عُمَرُ لَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ تَسِيرَ الْجِبَالُ الرَّاسِيَاتُ ذَهَبًا وَفِضَّةً لَسَارَتْ

ḥaddathanā ṭalḥatu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin, ʾanna ʿumara dakhala ʿalā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wahuwa ʿalā sarīrin marmūlin bisharīṭin, waʾidhā ʾuhubun maṭrūḥatun fī nāḥiyati al-bayti, fabakā ʿumaru, faqāla lahu al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā yubkīka yā ʿumaru?” qāla: yā rasūla Allāhi dhakartu kisrā, waqayṣara wamā humā fīhi min ʾamri al-dunyā, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: yā ʿumaru law shiʾtu ʾan tasīra al-jibālu al-rāsiyātu dhahaban wafiḍḍatan lasārat

Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAmr related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, who reported that ʿUmar entered upon the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was lying on a bed woven with straps; some hides lay in a corner of the room. ʿUmar wept. The Prophet asked, “What makes you weep, ʿUmar?” He replied, “Messenger of Allah, I thought of Khosrow and Caesar and the worldly luxury they enjoy.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “ʿUmar, if I wished the firmly rooted mountains to move as gold and silver, they would move.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَلِيٌّ: مَا كَانَ لَنَا إِلَّا إِهَابُ كَبْشٍ، نَنَامُ عَلَى نَاحِيَتِهِ، وَتَعْجِنُ فَاطِمَةُ عَلَى نَاحِيَتِهِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi, qāla: qāla ʿaliyyun: mā kāna lanā ʾillā ʾihābu kabshin, nanāmu ʿalā nāḥiyatihi, wataʿjinu fāṭimatu ʿalā nāḥiyatihi

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from al-Shaʿbī, who said: ʿAlī said: “We had nothing but a ram’s hide: we slept on one side of it, and Fāṭimah kneaded dough on the other.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «خَيْرُ الرِّزْقِ الْكَفَافُ، اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ رِزْقَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَفَافًا»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “khayru al-rizqi al-kafāfu, Allāhumma ʾajʿal rizqa āli muḥammadin kafāfan”

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The best provision is what suffices. O Allah, make the provision of Muḥammad’s family no more than enough.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ: جَرَّبْنَا الْعَيْشَ لَيِّنَهُ وَشَدِيدَهُ، فَوَجَدْنَا يَكْفِي مِنْهُ أَدْنَاهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan khaythamata qāla: qāla sulaymānu bnu dāwuda: jarrabnā al-ʿaysha layyinahu washadīdahu, fawajadnā yakfī minhu ʾadnāhu

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Khaythamah, who said: Solomon son of David said: “We have experienced both ease and hardship in life and found that its barest amount is enough.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ نُفَيْعٍ أَبِي دَاوُدَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: مَا مِنْ غَنِيٍّ وَلَا فَقِيرٍ إِلَّا يَوَدُّ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أُوتِيَ فِي الدُّنْيَا قُوتًا

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan nufayʿin ʾabī dāwuda, ʿan ʾanasin qāla: mā min ghaniyyin walā faqīrin ʾillā yawaddu ʾannahu kāna ʾūtiya fī al-dunyā qūtan

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Nufayʿ Abū Dāwūd, from Anas, who said: “There is no rich person or poor person who will not wish that he had been given only bare sustenance in this world.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَبِيبَةَ، عَنْ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: خَيْرُ الرِّزْقِ مَا يَكْفِي، وَخَيْرُ الذِّكْرِ الْخَفِيُّ

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ʾabī labībata, ʿan saʿdin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: khayru al-rizqi mā yakfī, wakhayru al-dhikri al-khafiyyu

Usāmah ibn Zayd related to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Labībah, from Saʿd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The best provision is what suffices, and the best remembrance is that which is kept private.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ الضَّبِّيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَرِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ رِزْقَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ قُوتًا»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿumārata bni al-qaʿqāʿi al-ḍabbiyyi, ʿan ʾabī zurʿata bni ʿamri bni jarīrin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “Allāhumma ʾajʿal rizqa āli muḥammadin qūtan”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿUmārah ibn al-Qaʿqāʿ al-Ḍabbī, from Abū Zurʿah ibn ʿAmr ibn Jarīr, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “O Allah, make the provision of Muḥammad’s family no more than their daily sustenance.”

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بَابُ ذِكْرِ مَعِيشَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

bābu dhikri maʿīshati rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama

Chapter: The livelihood of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace

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حَدَّثَنَا قُرَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ السَّدُوسِيُّ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ الْعَدَوِيِّ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ، قَالَ: خَطَبَنَا عُتْبَةُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ يَقُولُ: لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَابِعَ سَبْعَةٍ، مَا لَنَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا وَرَقُ الْحُبْلَةِ حَتَّى قَرِحَتْ أَشْدَاقُنَا

ḥaddathanā qurratu bnu khālidin al-sadūsiyyu, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin al-ʿadawiyyi, ʿan khālidi bni ʿumayrin, rajulin minhum, qāla: khaṭabanā ʿutbatu bnu ghazwāna yaqūlu: laqad raʾaytunī maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama sābiʿa sabʿatin, mā lanā ṭaʿāmun ʾillā waraqu al-ḥublati ḥattā qariḥat ʾashdāqunā

Qurrah ibn Khālid al-Sadūsī related to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl al-ʿAdawī, from Khālid ibn ʿUmayr, a man of his people, who said: ʿUtbah ibn Ghazwān addressed us and said: “I remember being the seventh of seven with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. We had no food but the leaves of the ḥabalah tree, until the corners of our mouths became ulcerated.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ: لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي وَأَنَا أُصْرَعُ بَيْنَ الْقَبْرِ وَالْمِنْبَرِ، حَتَّى يَقُولَ النَّاسُ: مَجْنُونٌ، وَمَا بِي مِنْ جُنُونٍ، إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ʾibrāhīma, ʿani ʾabni sīrīna, qāla: qāla ʾabū hurayrata: laqad raʾaytunī waʾanā ʾuṣraʿu bayna al-qabri wa-l-minbari, ḥattā yaqūla al-nāsu: majnūnun, wamā bī min junūnin, ʾin huwa ʾillā al-jūʿu

Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm related to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, who said: Abū Hurayrah said: “I remember falling unconscious between the grave and the pulpit until people would say, ‘He is mad.’ I was not mad; it was nothing but hunger.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَصْحَابَهُ مَرُّوا بِثَمَرِ الْأَرَاكِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «عَلَيْكُمْ بِمَا اسْوَدَّ مِنْهُ، فَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي أَجْتَنِيهِ، وَأَنَا أَرْعَى الْغَنَمَ». قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ: أَوَ رَعَيْتَ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ وَمَا مِنْ نَبِيٍّ إِلَّا وَقَدْ رَعَى»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama waʾaṣḥābahu marrū bithamari al-ʾarāki faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʿalaykum bimā ʾaswadda minhu, falaqad raʾaytunī ʾajtanīhi, waʾanā ʾarʿā al-ghanama”. qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi: ʾawa raʿayta? qāla: “naʿam wamā min nabiyyin ʾillā waqad raʿā”

Misʿar related to us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Companions passed some fruit of the arak tree. The Messenger of Allah said: “Choose the fruit that has turned black. I remember gathering it while I was herding sheep.” They asked, “Messenger of Allah, did you herd sheep?” He replied: “Yes. There has been no prophet who did not herd them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ: إِنِّي لَأَوَّلُ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَمَا لَنَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا السَّمُرُ، وَوَرَقُ الْحُبْلَةِ، حَتَّى إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُنَا لَيَضَعُ كَمَا تَضَعُ الْعَنْزُ، مَا لَهُ خِلْطٌ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, qāla: samiʿtu saʿda bna mālikin yaqūlu: ʾinnī laʾawwalu rajulin mina al-ʿarabi ramā bisahmin fī sabīli Allāhi, walaqad raʾaytunā maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wamā lanā ṭaʿāmun ʾillā al-samuru, wawaraqu al-ḥublati, ḥattā ʾin kāna ʾaḥadunā layaḍaʿu kamā taḍaʿu al-ʿanzu, mā lahu khilṭun

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: I heard Saʿd ibn Mālik say: “I was the first Arab man to shoot an arrow in Allah’s cause. I remember us with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when we had no food but the samur and ḥabalah leaves, until one of us would defecate as a goat does, with nothing mixed into it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ أَيْمَنَ الْمَكِّي، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: لَمَّا حَفَرَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَصْحَابُهُ الْخَنْدَقَ، أَصَابَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَالْمُسْلِمِينَ جَهْدٌ شَدِيدٌ، فَمَكَثُوا ثَلَاثَةً لَا يَجِدُونَ طَعَامًا، حَتَّى رَبَطَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى بَطْنِهِ حَجَرًا مِنَ الْجُوعِ

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-wāḥidi bnu ʾaymana al-makkī, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan jābiri bni ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla: lammā ḥafara al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu wasallama waʾaṣḥābuhu al-khandaqa, ʾaṣāba al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wa-l-muslimīna jahdun shadīdun, famakathū thalāthatan lā yajidūna ṭaʿāman, ḥattā rabaṭa al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā baṭnihi ḥajaran mina al-jūʿi

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ayman al-Makkī related to us, from his father, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “When the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Companions dug the Trench, severe hardship afflicted the Prophet and the Muslims. They remained for three days without finding food, until the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, tied a stone against his stomach from hunger.”

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بَابُ التَّوَاضُعِ وَلُبْسِ الصُّوفِ

bābu al-tawāḍuʿi walubsi al-ṣūfi

Chapter: Humility and wearing wool

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ يَلْبَسُ الشَّعْرَ، وَيَأْكُلُ الشَّجَرَ، وَلَا يُخَبِئُ الْيَوْمَ لِغَدٍ، وَيَبِيتُ حَيْثُ آوَاهُ اللَّيْلُ، لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ وَلَدٌ، فَيَمُوتُ، وَلَا بَيْتٌ فَيَخْرُبُ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla: kāna ʿīsā ʾabnu maryama yalbasu al-shaʿra, wayaʾkulu al-shajara, walā yukhabiʾu al-yawma lighadin, wayabītu ḥaythu āwāhu al-laylu, lam yakun lahu waladun, fayamūtu, walā baytun fayakhrubu

Misʿar related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Mujāhid, who said: “Jesus son of Mary wore haircloth, ate the plants of the earth, and stored nothing from one day for the next. He spent the night wherever night overtook him. He had no child who might die and no house that might fall into ruin.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ: أَنَّ سَلْمَانَ جَاءَ إِلَى أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ، فَلَمْ يَجِدْهُ، وَوَجَدَ أُمَّ الدَّرْدَاءِ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهَا، وَقَالَ: أَيْنَ أَخِي؟ قَالَتْ: فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، قَالَتْ: فَأَلْقَيْتُ لَهُ خَلْقَ وِسَادَةٍ، فَأَبَى أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَيْهَا، وَأَخَذَ عَبَاءَةً قَطَوَانِيَّةً، فَلَفَّهَا ثُمَّ أَلْقَاهَا، فَجَلَسَ عَلَيْهَا، قَالَ: فَجَاءَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ مُعَلِّقًا لَحْمًا بِدِرْهَمٍ، قَالَ: فَإِذَا هُوَ صَائِمٌ، قَالَ: فَأَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَفْطَرَ يَعْنِي أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ الصَّائِمَ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan shimri bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin: ʾanna salmāna jāʾa ʾilā ʾabī al-dardāʾi, falam yajidhu, wawajada ʾumma al-dardāʾi fasallama ʿalayhā, waqāla: ʾayna ʾakhī? qālat: fī al-masjidi, qālat: faʾalqaytu lahu khalqa wisādatin, faʾabā ʾan yajlisa ʿalayhā, waʾakhadha ʿabāʾatan qaṭawāniyyatan, falaffahā thumma ʾalqāhā, fajalasa ʿalayhā, qāla: fajāʾa ʾabū al-dardāʾi muʿalliqan laḥman bidirhamin, qāla: faʾidhā huwa ṣāʾimun, qāla: faʾaqsama ʿalayhi, faʾafṭara yaʿnī ʾabā al-dardāʾi al-ṣāʾima

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyyah, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, who reported that Salmān came to Abū al-Dardāʾ but did not find him at home. He found Umm al-Dardāʾ, greeted her, and asked, “Where is my brother?” She replied, “At the mosque.” She said: “I placed a worn cushion before him, but he refused to sit on it. He took a Qaṭawānī cloak, rolled it up, laid it down, and sat upon it. Abū al-Dardāʾ then arrived carrying meat worth a dirham. He was fasting, so Salmān adjured him until he broke his fast”—meaning that Abū al-Dardāʾ was the one fasting.

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ زَمْعَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ وَهْرَامٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا حَجَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، مَرَّ بِوَادِي عُسْفَانَ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَيُّ وَادٍ هَذَا؟ فَقَالَ: وَادِي عُسْفَانَ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَقَدْ مَرَّ بِهِ هُودٌ وَصَالِحٌ، وَنُوحٌ عَلَى بَكَرَاتٍ حُمْرٍ، خُطُمُهَا اللِّيفُ، أُزُرُهُمُ الْعَبَاءُ، وَأَرْدِيَتُهُمُ النِّمَارُ، يُلَبُّونَ، وَيَحُجُّونَ الْبَيْتَ الْعَتِيقَ»

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun, ʿan zamʿata bni ṣāliḥin, ʿan salamata bni wahrāmin, ʿan ʿikrimata, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin qāla: lammā ḥajja rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, marra biwādī ʿusfāna, faqāla: yā ʾabā bakrin ʾayyu wādin hadhā? faqāla: wādī ʿusfāna, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “laqad marra bihi hūdun waṣāliḥun, wanūḥun ʿalā bakarātin ḥumrin, khuṭumuhā al-līfu, ʾuzuruhumu al-ʿabāʾu, waʾardiyatuhumu al-nimāru, yulabbūna, wayaḥujjūna al-bayta al-ʿatīqa”

Wakīʿ related to us, from Zamʿah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Salamah ibn Wahrām, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, performed the pilgrimage, he passed through the valley of ʿUsfān and asked, “Abū Bakr, which valley is this?” He replied, “The valley of ʿUsfān.” The Prophet said: “Hūd, Ṣāliḥ, and Noah passed through it upon red young camels whose halters were made of palm fiber. Their waist-wrappers were cloaks and their upper garments were striped cloths. They raised the pilgrimage call and made pilgrimage to the Ancient House.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ شَيْخٍ لَمْ يُسَمِّهِ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ بِالرَّبَذَةِ فِي مَظَلَّةٍ لَهُ، يَعْنِي خِبَاءً، عِنْدَهُ امْرَأَةٌ لَهُ سَحْمَاءُ، فَقَالَ: لَأَنْ أَنْكِحَ امْرَأَةً تَضَعُنِي أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَنْكِحَ امْرَأَةً تَرْفَعُنِي

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan shaykhin lam yusammihi, qāla: raʾaytu ʾabā dharrin bi-l-rabadhati fī maẓallatin lahu, yaʿnī khibāʾan, ʿindahu ʾamraʾatun lahu saḥmāʾu, faqāla: laʾan ʾankiḥa ʾamraʾatan taḍaʿunī ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾankiḥa ʾamraʾatan tarfaʿunī

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us, from an unnamed shaykh, who said: “I saw Abū Dharr at al-Rabadhah beneath a shelter of his—that is, a tent—with his dark-complexioned wife beside him. He said, ‘Marrying a woman who lowers my worldly standing is dearer to me than marrying one who raises it.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، وَأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، قَالَ: كَانَتِ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ قَبْلَكُمْ لَا يَسْتَحُونَ مِنْ أَنْ يَلْبَسُوا الصُّوفَ، وَيَرْكَبُوا الْحُمُرَ، وَيَحْلِبُوا الْغَنَمَ

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, waʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin, qāla: kānati al-ʾanbiyāʾu qablakum lā yastaḥūna min ʾan yalbasū al-ṣūfa, wayarkabū al-ḥumura, wayaḥlibū al-ghanama

Isrāʾīl related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah and Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: “The prophets before you were not ashamed to wear wool, ride donkeys, and milk sheep.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ، وَالْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شِبْلٍ، عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ رَافِعِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ الطَّائِيِّ، قَالَ: رَافَقْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فِي غَزْوَةِ ذَاتِ السَّلَاسِلِ، وَعَلَيْهِ كِسَاءٌ لَهُ، فَدَكِيٌّ، يَخُلُّهُ عَلَيْهِ إِذَا رَكِبَ, وَنَلْبَسُهُ أَنَا وَهُوَ إِذَا نَزَلْنَا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan sulaymāna bni maysarata, wa-l-mughīrati bni shiblin, ʿan ṭāriqi bni shihābin, ʿan rāfiʿi bni ʾabī rāfiʿin al-ṭāʾiyyi, qāla: rāfaqtu ʾabā bakrin fī ghazwati dhāti al-salāsili, waʿalayhi kisāʾun lahu, fadakiyyun, yakhulluhu ʿalayhi ʾidhā rakiba, wanalbasuhu ʾanā wahuwa ʾidhā nazalnā

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Sulaymān ibn Maysarah and al-Mughīrah ibn Shibl, from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, from Rāfiʿ ibn Abī Rāfiʿ al-Ṭāʾī, who said: “I accompanied Abū Bakr on the expedition of Dhāt al-Salāsil. He had a cloak from Fadak that he fastened around himself with a pin while riding; when we dismounted, he and I shared it.”

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بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْفَقْرِ

bābu dhikri al-faqri

Chapter: Poverty

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَنْعُمَ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَلْفَقْرُ أَزْيَنُ لِلْعَبْدِ الْمُؤْمِنِ مِنَ الْعِذَارِ الْجَيِّدِ فِي خَدِّ الْفَرَسِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ziyādi bni ʾanʿuma, ʿan saʿdi bni masʿūdin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “li-l-faqru ʾazyanu li-l-ʿabdi al-muʾmini mina al-ʿidhāri al-jayyidi fī khaddi al-farasi”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿum, from Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Poverty adorns a believing servant more beautifully than a fine cheek-strap adorns a horse’s face.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بَذِيمَةَ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ حَبْتَرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: أَلَا حَبَّذَا الْمَكْرُوهَانِ: الْمَوْتُ وَالْفَقْرُ. وَايْمُ اللَّهِ، مَا هُوَ إِلَّا الْغِنَى وَالْفَقْرُ، وَمَا أُبَالِي بِأَيِّهِمَا ابْتُدِئْتُ، إِنْ كَانَ الْغِنَى، إِنَّ فِيهِ لَلْعَطْفَ، وَإِنْ كَانَ الْفَقْرُ إِنَّ فِيهِ لَلصَّبْرَ، وَذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ حَقَّ اللَّهِ فِي كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَاجِبٌ

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni badhīmata, ʿan qaysi bni ḥabtarin, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: ʾalā ḥabbadhā al-makrūhāni: al-mawtu wa-l-faqru. wāymu Allāhi, mā huwa ʾillā al-ghinā wa-l-faqru, wamā ʾubālī biʾayyihimā ʾabtudiʾtu, ʾin kāna al-ghinā, ʾinna fīhi li-l-ʿaṭfa, waʾin kāna al-faqru ʾinna fīhi li-l-ṣabra, wadhalika biʾanna ḥaqqa Allāhi fī kulli wāḥidin minhumā wājibun

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from ʿAlī ibn Badhīmah, from Qays ibn Ḥabtar, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “How welcome are the two things people dislike: death and poverty! By Allah, there are only wealth and poverty, and I do not care with which of them I am first tested. If it is wealth, it contains the opportunity for compassion; if it is poverty, it contains the opportunity for patience. Allah’s due is obligatory in either case.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُهَلَّبِ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِنَّ أَغْبَطَ أَوْلِيَائِي عِنْدِي: مُؤْمِنٌ خَفِيفُ الْحَاذِ ذُو حَظٍّ مِنْ صَلَاةٍ، أَحْسَنَ عِبَادَةَ رَبِّهِ، وَكَانَ غَامِضًا فِي النَّاسِ، لَا يُشَارُ إِلَيْهِ بِالْأَصَابِعِ، تَعَجَّلَتْ مَنِيَّتُهُ، وَقَلَّ تُرَاثُهُ، وَقَلَّتْ بَوَاكِيهِ

ḥaddathanā ʿaliyyu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʾabī al-muhallabi, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni yazīda, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾabī ʾumāmata, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ʾinna ʾaghbaṭa ʾawliyāʾī ʿindī: muʾminun khafīfu al-ḥādhi dhū ḥaẓẓin min ṣalātin, ʾaḥsana ʿibādata rabbihi, wakāna ghāmiḍan fī al-nāsi, lā yushāru ʾilayhi bi-l-ʾaṣābiʿi, taʿajjalat maniyyatuhu, waqalla turāthuhu, waqallat bawākīhi

ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us, from Abū al-Muhallab, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Umāmah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Among those closest to me, the one whose state is most to be envied is a believer of few possessions who has a share of prayer, worships his Lord well, and remains unnoticed among people, so that no fingers point him out. His death comes swiftly, his estate is small, and few mourn him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُحِبُّ الْفَقِيرَ الْمُتَعَفِّفَ أَبَا الْعِيَالِ»

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿani al-qāsimi bni mihrāna, ʿan ʿimrāna bni ḥuṣaynin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha ʿazza wajalla yuḥibbu al-faqīra al-mutaʿaffifa ʾabā al-ʿiyāli”

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn Mihrān, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, loves the poor person who remains self-restrained despite having dependents.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْحَيِيَّ الْحَلِيمَ الْمُتَعَفِّفَ، وَيُبْغِضُ الْبَذِيءَ السَّائِلَ الْمُلْحِفَ».

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ṣubayḥin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha yuḥibbu al-ḥayiyya al-ḥalīma al-mutaʿaffifa, wayubghiḍu al-badhīʾa al-sāʾila al-mulḥifa”.

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah loves the modest, forbearing, self-restrained person, and He hates the foul-mouthed, importunate beggar.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِثْلَهُ، وَزَادَ فِيهِ: «الَّذِي إِنْ أُعْطِيَ أَفْرَطَ فِي الْمِدْحَةِ، وَإِنْ مُنِعَ أَفْرَطَ فِي الذَّمِّ»، وَرَفَعَ بِهَا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ صَوْتَهُ

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʿabdi al-maliki bni ʿumayrin ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mithlahu, wazāda fīhi: “al-dhī ʾin ʾuʿṭiya ʾafraṭa fī al-midḥati, waʾin muniʿa ʾafraṭa fī al-dhammi”, warafaʿa bihā al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ṣawtahu

My father related to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with a similar report, adding: “The one who, when given something, goes to excess in praise and, when refused, goes to excess in blame.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, raised his voice as he said it.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ الدُّهْنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي شُعْبَةَ، قَالَ: مَرَّ قَوْمٌ بِأَبِي ذَرٍّ فِي الرَّبَذَةِ، فَعَرَضُوا عَلَيْهِ النَّفَقَةَ, فَقَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ: عِنْدَنَا أَعْنُزٌ نَحْلِبُهَا وَأَحْمِرَةٌ نَنْتَقِلُ عَلَيْهَا، وَمُحَرَّرَةٌ تَخْدِمُنَا وَفَضْلُ عَبَاءَةٍ إِنِّي لَأَخَافُ الْحِسَابَ فِيهَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿammāri bni muʿāwiyata al-duhniyyi, ʿan ʾabī shuʿbata, qāla: marra qawmun biʾabī dharrin fī al-rabadhati, faʿaraḍū ʿalayhi al-nafaqata, faqāla ʾabū dharrin: ʿindanā ʾaʿnuzun naḥlibuhā waʾaḥmiratun nantaqilu ʿalayhā, wamuḥarraratun takhdimunā wafaḍlu ʿabāʾatin ʾinnī laʾakhāfu al-ḥisāba fīhā

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAmmār ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Duhnī, from Abū Shuʿbah, who said: A group passed Abū Dharr at al-Rabadhah and offered him maintenance. Abū Dharr said: “We have goats that we milk, donkeys on which we travel, a freed woman who serves us, and one spare cloak. I fear being called to account even for that.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ، يَقُولُ: بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ فُقَرَاءَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ قَبْلَ أَغْنِيَائِهِمْ بِأَرْبَعِينَ عَامًا، وَالْآخَرُونَ جُثَاءٌ عَلَى رُكَبِهِمْ، فَيَأْتِيهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ، فَيَقُولُ: أَنْتُمْ كُنْتُمْ حُكَّامَ النَّاسِ، وَوُلَاةَ أُمُورِهِمْ، فَعِنْدَكُمْ حَاجَتِي وَطَلِبَتِي، قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: فَثَمَّ حِسَابٌ شَدِيدٌ إِلَّا مَا يَسَّرَ اللَّهُ

ḥaddathanā ʿaliyyu bnu ʿaliyyi bni rifāʿata, qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana, yaqūlu: balaghanā ʾanna fuqarāʾa al-muslimīna yadkhulūna al-jannata qabla ʾaghniyāʾihim biʾarbaʿīna ʿāman, wa-l-ākharūna juthāʾun ʿalā rukabihim, fayaʾtīhim rabbuhum, fayaqūlu: ʾantum kuntum ḥukkāma al-nāsi, wawulāta ʾumūrihim, faʿindakum ḥājatī waṭalibatī, qāla al-ḥasanu: fathamma ḥisābun shadīdun ʾillā mā yassara Allāhu

ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Rifāʿah related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say: “We have been told that the poor Muslims will enter Paradise forty years before the rich, while the others remain crouched upon their knees. Their Lord will come to them and say, ‘You were the judges of the people and the governors of their affairs; it is with you that My claim and My demand lie.’” Al-Ḥasan said: “There will be a severe reckoning there, except for those for whom Allah makes it easy.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْمَكِّيُّ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ رِزْقًا عَنْ غَيْرِ مَسْأَلَةٍ، وَلَا إِشْرَافِ نَفْسٍ، فَلْيَقْبَلْهُ، فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ رِزْقٌ سَاقَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾibrāhīmu bnu yazīda al-makkiyyu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni ʾabī rabāḥin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man razaqahu Allāhu rizqan ʿan ghayri masʾalatin, walā ʾishrāfi nafsin, falyaqbalhu, faʾinnamā huwa rizqun sāqahu Allāhu ʾilayhi”

Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd al-Makkī related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever receives provision from Allah without asking and without coveting it should accept it. It is only provision that Allah has conveyed to him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْمَدِينِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ يَتَقَبَّلُ لِي بِوَاحِدَةٍ وَأَتَقَبَّلُ لَهُ بِالْجَنَّةِ؟» قَالَ ثَوْبَانُ: قُلْتُ: أَنَا، قَالَ: «لَا تَسْأَلِ النَّاسَ شَيْئًا»، قَالَ: فَكَانَ ثَوْبَانُ يَقَعُ سَوْطُهُ وَهُوَ رَاكِبٌ فَلَا يَقُولُ لِأَحَدٍ: نَاوِلْنِيهِ، حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ فَيَأْخُذَهُ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī dhiʾbin, ʿan muḥammadi bni qaysin al-madīniyyi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni yazīda, ʿan thawbāna, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man yataqabbalu lī biwāḥidatin waʾataqabbalu lahu bi-l-jannati?” qāla thawbānu: qultu: ʾanā, qāla: “lā tasʾali al-nāsa shayʾan”, qāla: fakāna thawbānu yaqaʿu sawṭuhu wahuwa rākibun falā yaqūlu liʾaḥadin: nāwilnīhi, ḥattā yanzila fayaʾkhudhahu

Ibn Abī Dhiʾb related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Qays al-Madanī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from Thawbān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked: “Who will pledge one thing to me, for which I will guarantee him Paradise?” Thawbān said: “I will.” He said: “Do not ask people for anything.” Thereafter, when Thawbān’s whip fell while he was mounted, he would not ask anyone to hand it to him; he would dismount and retrieve it himself.

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَأَنْ يَأْخُذَ أَحَدُكُمْ حَبْلَهُ فَيَأْتِيَ الْجَبَلَ، فَيَأْتِيَ بِحِزْمَةٍ مِنْ حَطَبٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ، فَيَبِيعَهَا، فَيَسْتَغْنِيَ بِثَمَنِهَا، خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَسْأَلَ النَّاسَ، أَعْطَوْهُ أَوْ مَنَعُوهُ»

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan jaddihi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “laʾan yaʾkhudha ʾaḥadukum ḥablahu fayaʾtiya al-jabala, fayaʾtiya biḥizmatin min ḥaṭabin ʿalā ẓahrihi, fayabīʿahā, fayastaghniya bithamanihā, khayrun lahu min ʾan yasʾala al-nāsa, ʾaʿṭawhu ʾaw manaʿūhu”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “For one of you to take his rope, go to the mountain, bring back a bundle of firewood on his back, sell it, and make himself independent with its price is better for him than asking people, whether they give him something or refuse him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لِيَسْتَعِفَّ أَحَدُكُمْ، وَلَوْ عَنْ قَضْمَةِ سِوَاكٍ» قَضْمَةِ: يَعْنِي قِطْعَةً

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “liyastaʿiffa ʾaḥadukum, walaw ʿan qaḍmati siwākin” qaḍmati: yaʿnī qiṭʿatan

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Let each of you refrain from asking, even for a piece of tooth-stick.” “A piece” means a fragment.

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بَابُ ذِكْرِ مَنْزِلَةِ الْفَقْرِ

bābu dhikri manzilati al-faqri

Chapter: The rank of poverty

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ حَكِيمِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ: يَجِيءُ فُقَرَاءُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، تَقْطُرُ رِمَاحُهُمْ وَسُيُوفُهُمْ دَمًا، قَالَ: فَيَسْأَلُونَ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ، قَالَ: فَيُقَالُ لَهُمُ: انْتَظِرُوا حَتَّى تُحَاسَبُوا، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُونَ: وَهَلْ أَعْطَيْتُمُونَا شَيْئًا تُحَاسِبُونَا عَلَيْهِ، فَيُنْظَرُ فِي ذَلِكَ، فَلَا يُوجَدُ لَهُمْ إِلَّا أَكْوَارُهُمُ الَّتِي هَاجَرُوا عَلَيْهَا، فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ: أَنَا أَحَقُّ مَنْ أَوْفَى بِعَهْدِهِ، قَالَ: فَيَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ قَبْلَ النَّاسِ بِخَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ḥakīmi bni jubayrin ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin, qāla: yajīʾu fuqarāʾu al-muhājirīna yawma al-qiyāmati, taqṭuru rimāḥuhum wasuyūfuhum daman, qāla: fayasʾalūna ʾan yadkhulū al-jannata, qāla: fayuqālu lahumu: ʾantaẓirū ḥattā tuḥāsabū, qāla: fayaqūlūna: wahal ʾaʿṭaytumūnā shayʾan tuḥāsibūnā ʿalayhi, fayunẓaru fī dhalika, falā yūjadu lahum ʾillā ʾakwāruhumu al-tī hājarū ʿalayhā, fayaqūlu Allāhu: ʾanā ʾaḥaqqu man ʾawfā biʿahdihi, qāla: fayadkhulūna al-jannata qabla al-nāsi bikhamsimiʾati ʿāmin

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ḥakīm ibn Jubayr, from Mujāhid, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said: “On the Day of Resurrection the poor Emigrants will come, their spears and swords dripping with blood. They will ask to enter Paradise and will be told, ‘Wait until you are called to account.’ They will reply, ‘Did You give us anything for which You could call us to account?’ Their case will be examined, but nothing will be found for them except the camel-saddles upon which they emigrated. Allah will say, ‘I am the One most entitled to fulfill His covenant.’ They will enter Paradise five hundred years before the other people.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مِسْهَرٍ، عَنْ خَرَشَةَ بْنِ الْحُرِّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ انْظُرْ أَرْفَعَ رَجُلٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ»، قَالَ: فَنَظَرْتُ، فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: هَذَا؟ قَالَ: «انْظُرْ أَوْضَعَ رَجُلٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ»، قَالَ: فَنَظَرْتُ، فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ أَخْلَاقٌ، فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا؟ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَهَذَا خَيْرٌ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ مِلْءِ الْأَرْضِ مِنْ هَذَا»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan sulaymāna bni misharin, ʿan kharashata bni al-ḥurri, ʿan ʾabī dharrin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “yā ʾabā dharrin ʾanẓur ʾarfaʿa rajulin fī al-masjidi”, qāla: fanaẓartu, faʾidhā rajulun ʿalayhi ḥullatun, qāla: qultu: hadhā? qāla: “ʾanẓur ʾawḍaʿa rajulin fī al-masjidi”, qāla: fanaẓartu, faʾidhā rajulun ʿalayhi ʾakhlāqun, faqultu: hadhā? faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “lahadhā khayrun ʿinda Allāhi yawma al-qiyāmati min milʾi al-ʾarḍi min hadhā”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Sulaymān ibn Mishar, from Kharashah ibn al-Ḥurr, from Abū Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Abū Dharr, look for the most eminent man in the mosque.” I looked and saw a man wearing a fine suit. I asked, “This one?” He said: “Now look for the lowliest man in the mosque.” I looked and saw a man in worn clothes. I asked, “This one?” The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “On the Day of Resurrection this man will be better in Allah’s sight than an earthful of men like that one.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «انْظُرُوا إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَسْفَلُ مِنْكُمْ، وَلَا تَنْظُرُوا إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ فَوْقَكُمْ، فَإِنَّهُ أَجْدَرُ أَنْ لَا تَزْدَرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾanẓurū ʾilā man huwa ʾasfalu minkum, walā tanẓurū ʾilā man huwa fawqakum, faʾinnahu ʾajdaru ʾan lā tazdarū niʿmata Allāhi”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Look at those below you and do not look at those above you. That is more likely to keep you from belittling Allah’s blessing.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ: نَافِعَ بْنَ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «رُبَّ أَشْعَثَ الرَّأْسِ، أَغْبَرَ الْقَدَمَيْنِ، ذِي طِمْرَيْنِ لَا يُؤْبَهُ لَهُ، لَا تَرُدُّهُ اللُّقْمَةُ وَاللُّقْمَتَانِ، لَوْ يُقْسِمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لَأَبَرَّهُ»

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata qāla: samiʿtu: nāfiʿa bna jubayri bni muṭʿimin yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “rubba ʾashʿatha al-raʾsi, ʾaghbara al-qadamayni, dhī ṭimrayni lā yuʾbahu lahu, lā tarudduhu al-luqmatu wa-l-luqmatāni, law yuqsimu ʿalā Allāhi laʾabarrahu”

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us. He said: I heard Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim say: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “How many a person there is with disheveled hair, dust-covered feet, and two worn garments, to whom no attention is paid and whom a morsel or two will not turn away—yet if he were to swear by Allah, Allah would fulfill his oath.”

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بَابُ شِدَّةِ الِاجْتِهَادِ فِي الْعَمَلِ

bābu shiddati al-ʾajtihādi fī al-ʿamali

Chapter: Striving intensely in one’s deeds

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يُصَلِّي، حَتَّى تَرِمَ قَدَمَاهُ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: تَفْعَلُ هَذَا، وَقَدْ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَكَ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ؟ قَالَ: «أَفَلَا أَكُونُ عَبْدًا شَكُورًا؟»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan baʿḍi ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yuṣallī, ḥattā tarima qadamāhu, faqīla lahu: tafʿalu hadhā, waqad ghafara Allāhu laka mā taqaddama min dhanbika wamā taʾakhkhara? qāla: “ʾafalā ʾakūnu ʿabdan shakūran?”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from one of the Prophet’s Companions, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would pray until his feet became swollen. He was asked, “Do you do this when Allah has forgiven your past and future sins?” He replied: “Should I not be a grateful servant?”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ عِلَاقَةَ، عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يُصَلِّي حَتَّى تَرِمَ قَدَمَاهُ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: «أَفَلَا أَكُونُ عَبْدًا شَكُورًا»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, wasufyānu, ʿan ziyādi bni ʿilāqata, ʿani al-mughīrati bni shuʿbata ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yuṣallī ḥattā tarima qadamāhu, faqīla lahu, faqāla: “ʾafalā ʾakūnu ʿabdan shakūran”

Misʿar and Sufyān related to us, from Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah, from al-Mughīrah ibn Shu˻ah, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would pray until his feet became swollen. When he was questioned about it, he replied: “Should I not be a grateful servant?”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنِ امْرَأَةِ مَسْرُوقٍ، أَنَّ مَسْرَوقًا كَانَ يُصَلِّي حَتَّى تَرِمَ قَدَمَاهُ، وَتَجْلِسُ امْرَأَتُهُ خَلْفَهُ، فَتَبْكِي مِمَّا يَصْنَعُ بِنَفْسِهِ

ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu zaydin, ʿan ʾanasi bni sīrīna, ʿani ʾamraʾati masrūqin, ʾanna masrawqan kāna yuṣallī ḥattā tarima qadamāhu, watajlisu ʾamraʾatuhu khalfahu, fatabkī mimmā yaṣnaʿu binafsihi

Ḥammād ibn Zayd related to us, from Anas ibn Sīrīn, from Masrūq’s wife, who reported that Masrūq would pray until his feet became swollen. His wife would sit behind him and weep over what he was doing to himself.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حُصَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، أَنَّ تَمِيمًا الدَّارِيَّ رَدَّدَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ: {أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ اجْتَرَحُوا السَّيِّئَاتِ أَنْ نَجْعَلَهُمْ كَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ سَوَاءً مَحْيَاهُمْ وَمَمَاتُهُمْ، سَاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ} [الْجَاثِيَةُ: 21]

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥuṣayni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā, ʿan masrūqin, ʾanna tamīman al-dāriyya raddada hadhihi al-āyata ḥattā ʾaṣbaḥa: {ʾam ḥasiba al-dhīna ʾajtaraḥū al-sayyiʾāti ʾan najʿalahum ka-l-dhīna āmanū waʿamilū al-ṣāliḥāti sawāʾan maḥyāhum wamamātuhum, sāʾa mā yaḥkumūna} [al-jāthiyatu: 21]

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq, who reported that Tamīm al-Dārī repeated this verse until morning: {Or do those who commit evil deeds suppose that We shall make them like those who believe and do righteous deeds—equal in their life and their death? Evil indeed is their judgment} [al-Jāthiyah 45:21].

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حُصَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، أَنَّ تَمِيمًا الدَّارِيَّ رَدَّدَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ {إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ} [الْمَائِدَةُ: 118]

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥuṣayni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā, ʿan masrūqin, ʾanna tamīman al-dāriyya raddada hadhihi al-āyata ḥattā ʾaṣbaḥa {ʾin tuʿadhdhibhum faʾinnahum ʿibāduka waʾin taghfir lahum faʾinnaka ʾanta al-ʿazīzu al-ḥakīmu} [al-māʾidatu: 118]

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq, who reported that Tamīm al-Dārī repeated this verse until morning: {If You punish them, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them, You alone are the Almighty, the All-Wise} [al-Māʾidah 5:118].

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْأَقْمَرِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، قَالَ: إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيَطْرُقُ الْفُسْطَاطَ طُرُوقًا، فَيَسْمَعُ لِأَهْلِهِ دَوِيًّا كَدَوِيِّ النَّحْلِ، فَمَا بَالُ هَؤُلَاءِ يَأْمَنُونَ مَا كَانَ أُولَئِكَ يَخَافُونَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni al-ʾaqmari, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, qāla: ʾin kāna al-rajulu layaṭruqu al-fusṭāṭa ṭurūqan, fayasmaʿu liʾahlihi dawiyyan kadawiyyi al-naḥli, famā bālu haʾulāʾi yaʾmanūna mā kāna ʾūlaʾika yakhāfūna

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: “A man would come to the encampment at night and hear its people humming like bees. What is wrong with these people today, that they feel safe from what those people feared?”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْأَشْهَبِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ، يَقُولُ: {وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْتُونَ مَا آتَوْا وَقُلُوبُهُمْ وَجِلَةٌ} [الْمُؤْمِنُونَ: 60]، قَالَ: كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ مَا عَمِلُوا مِنْ أَنْوَاعِ الْبِرِّ وَهُمْ مُشْفِقُونَ أَنْ لَا يُنْجِيَهُمْ ذَلِكَ مِنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-ʾashhabi, qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana, yaqūlu: {wa-l-dhīna yuʾtūna mā ātawā waqulūbuhum wajilatun} [al-muʾminūna: 60], qāla: kānū yaʿmalūna mā ʿamilū min ʾanwāʿi al-birri wahum mushfiqūna ʾan lā yunjiyahum dhalika min ʿadhābi Allāhi

Abū al-Ashhab related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say concerning {Those who give what they give while their hearts tremble} [al-Muʾminūn 23:60]: “They performed the many kinds of righteous deeds they performed, yet feared that those deeds might not save them from Allah’s punishment.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ قَائِمًا يُصَلِّي، فَلَوْ رَأَيْتَهُ رَأَيْتَهُ مُقْلَوْلِيًا، وَرَأَيْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ لَفَتَ الْمِسْكَ فِي الدُّهْنِ يَدَّهِنُ بِهِ

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni wāqidin, qāla: raʾaytu ʾabna ʿumara qāʾiman yuṣallī, falaw raʾaytahu raʾaytahu muqlawliyan, waraʾaytu ʾabna ʿumara lafata al-miska fī al-duhni yaddahinu bihi

Usāmah ibn Zayd related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid, who said: “I saw Ibn ʿUmar standing in prayer. Had you seen him, you would have seen him drawn up and keeping himself clear of the ground. I also saw Ibn ʿUmar mix musk into oil and anoint himself with it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ مَعْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، عَنْ أَخِيهِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: كَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ إِذَا هَدَأَتِ الْعُيُونُ قَامَ، فَسَمِعْتُ لَهُ دَوِيًّا كَدَوِيِّ النَّحْلِ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan maʿni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿutbata, ʿan ʾakhīhi ʿubaydi Allāhi qāla: kāna ʿabdu Allāhi ʾidhā hadaʾati al-ʿuyūnu qāma, fasamiʿtu lahu dawiyyan kadawiyyi al-naḥli

Misʿar related to us, from Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from his brother ʿUbayd Allāh, who said: “When all eyes had grown still, ʿAbd Allāh would rise, and I would hear from him a humming like the hum of bees.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الطَّائِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ، يُرَدِّدُ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ، وَهُوَ يَؤُمُّهُمْ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ {فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ إِذِ الْأَغْلَالُ فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ} [غَافِرٌ: 71] قَرَأَ الْآيَةَ

ḥaddathanā saʿīdu bnu ʿubaydin al-ṭāʾiyyu, qāla: samiʿtu saʿīda bna jubayrin, yuraddidu hadhihi al-āyata, wahuwa yaʾummuhum fī shahri ramaḍāna {fasawfa yaʿlamūna ʾidhi al-ʾaghlālu fī ʾaʿnāqihim} [ghāfirun: 71] qaraʾa al-āyata

Saʿīd ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭāʾī related to us. He said: I heard Saʿīd ibn Jubayr repeat this verse while leading them in prayer during Ramadan: {They will soon know, when shackles are around their necks} [Ghāfir 40:70–71]. He recited the verse.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {يَا مَرْيَمُ اقْنُتِي لِرَبِّكِ} [آلُ عِمْرَانَ: 43] قَالَ: كَانَتْ تَقُومُ حَتَّى تَرِمَ قَدَمَاهَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin: {yā maryamu ʾaqnutī lirabbiki} [ālu ʿimrāna: 43] qāla: kānat taqūmu ḥattā tarima qadamāhā

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, concerning {Mary, be devoutly obedient to your Lord} [Āl ʿImrān 3:43]. He said: “She would stand in prayer until her feet became swollen.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، قَالَ: كَانَ يَحْيَى بْنُ وَثَّابٍ إِذَا كَانَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ كَأَنَّهُ يُخَاطِبُ رَجُلًا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, qāla: kāna yaḥyā bnu waththābin ʾidhā kāna fī al-ṣalāti kaʾannahu yukhāṭibu rajulan

Al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: “When Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb was at prayer, it was as though he were addressing someone directly.”

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بَابُ مَنْ قَالَ: يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُخْلَقْ

bābu man qāla: yā laytanī lam ʾukhlaq

Chapter: Those who said, If only I had not been created

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ شَجَرَةً أُعْضَدُ، وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي لَمْ أُخْلَقْ

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʾibrāhīma bni muhājirin, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: wadidtu ʾannī kuntu shajaratan ʾuʿḍadu, wadidtu ʾannī lam ʾukhlaq

My father related to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir, from Mujāhid, from Abū Dharr, who said: “I wish I had been a tree that was cut down. I wish I had never been created.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ نَسْيًا مَنْسِيًّا

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata ʿan ʾabīhi ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: wadidtu ʾannī kuntu nasyan mansiyyan

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “I wish I had been a thing forgotten and out of mind.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ مَوْلَى زَائِدَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ شَجَرَةً أُعْضَدُ، وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي لَمْ أُخْلَقْ

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin, ʿan ʾisḥāqa mawlā zāʾidata ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: wadidtu ʾannī kuntu shajaratan ʾuʿḍadu, wadidtu ʾannī lam ʾukhlaq

Usāmah ibn Zayd related to us, from Isḥāq, the client of Zāʾidah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “I wish I had been a tree that was cut down. I wish I had never been created.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صُفْرَةَ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ طَيْرًا فِي مَنْكِبَيَّ رِيشٌ

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan ʾabī ṣufrata, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: wadidtu ʾannī kuntu ṭayran fī mankibayya rīshun

Mālik ibn Mighwal related to us, from Abū Ṣufrah, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “I wish I had been a bird with feathers upon my wings.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ عِنْدَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ: لَيْتَنِي مِنْ أَصْحَابِ الْيَمِينِ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: لَيْتَنِي إِذَا مِتُّ لَمْ أُبْعَثْ

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, qāla: qāla rajulun ʿinda ʿabdi Allāhi: laytanī min ʾaṣḥābi al-yamīni qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: laytanī ʾidhā mittu lam ʾubʿath

Mālik ibn Mighwal related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: A man in ʿAbd Allāh’s presence said, “If only I were among the people of the right hand.” ʿAbd Allāh said: “If only, after I die, I were not raised again.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ هَانِئِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ الْمُرَادِيِّ قَالَ: خَرَجَ عَلِيٌّ إِلَى الظُّهْرِ، فَرَأَى حُمَّرَةً، فَقَالَ: [بَحْرُ الرَّجَزِ] يَا لَكِ مِنْ حُمَّرَةٍ بِمَعْمَرِي... خَلَا لَكِ الْجَوُّ فَبِيضِي وَاصْفِرِي قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: وَزَادَ فِيهِ غَيْرُ عَلِيٍّ: وَنَقِّرِي مَا شِئْتِ أَنْ تُنَقِّرِي

ḥaddathanā ʿaliyyu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿan yaḥyā bni hāniʾi bni ʿurwata al-murādiyyi qāla: kharaja ʿaliyyun ʾilā al-ẓuhri, faraʾā ḥummaratan, faqāla: [baḥru al-rajazi] yā laki min ḥummaratin bimaʿmarī... khalā laki al-jawwu fabīḍī wāṣfirī qāla wakīʿun: wazāda fīhi ghayru ʿaliyyin: wanaqqirī mā shiʾti ʾan tunaqqirī

ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Hāniʾ ibn ʿUrwah al-Murādī, who said: ʿAlī went out into the open country and saw a little red bird. He said in rajaz meter: “How fortunate you are, little red bird, by my life! The sky is clear for you, so lay your eggs and whistle.” Wakīʿ said: Someone other than ʿAlī added: “And peck wherever you wish to peck.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ رَأَى طَائِرًا وَقَعَ عَلَى شَجَرَةٍ، فَقَالَ: لَيْتَنِي مَكَانَ هَذَا الطَّيْرِ

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan yaʿqūba bni zaydin ʾanna ʾabā bakrin raʾā ṭāʾiran waqaʿa ʿalā shajaratin, faqāla: laytanī makāna hadhā al-ṭayri

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us, from Yaʿqūb ibn Zayd, who reported that Abū Bakr saw a bird alight upon a tree and said: “I wish I were in this bird’s place.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْأَكْثَرِينَ هُمُ الْأَقَلُّونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، إِلَّا مَنْ قَالَ بِالْمَالِ هَكَذَا وَهَكَذَا، وَقَلِيلٌ مَا هُمْ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu ʿani al-maʿrūri bni suwaydin ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna al-ʾaktharīna humu al-ʾaqallūna yawma al-qiyāmati, ʾillā man qāla bi-l-māli hakadhā wahakadhā, waqalīlun mā hum”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Maʿrūr ibn Suwayd, from Abū Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Those who have the most will have the least on the Day of Resurrection, except one who directs his wealth this way and that”—giving it away on every side—“and how few they are.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ حَكِيمِ بْنِ الدَّيْلَمِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الضَّحَّاكَ بْنَ مُزَاحِمٍ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ الْأَكْثَرِينَ هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْعَشْرَةِ آلَافٍ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu ʿan ḥakīmi bni al-daylami, qāla: samiʿtu al-ḍaḥḥāka bna muzāḥimin yaqūlu: ʾinna al-ʾaktharīna hum ʾaṣḥābu al-ʿashrati ālāfin

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥakīm ibn al-Daylam, who said: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim say: “Those who have the most are the people who possess ten thousand.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الشَّامِيُّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ رُوَيْمٍ اللَّخْمِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «شِرَارُ أُمَّتِي الَّذِينَ وُلِدُوا فِي النَّعِيمِ وَغُذُّوا بِهِ، إِنَّمَا هِمَّتُهُمْ أَلْوَانُ الطَّعَامِ وَالثِّيَابِ، وَيَتَشَدَّقُونَ فِي الْكَلَامِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu ʿabdu al-raḥmani bnu ʿamrin al-shāmiyyu, ʿan ʿurwata bni ruwaymin al-lakhmiyyi, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “shirāru ʾummatī al-dhīna wulidū fī al-naʿīmi waghudhdhū bihi, ʾinnamā himmatuhum ʾalwānu al-ṭaʿāmi wa-l-thiyābi, wayatashaddaqūna fī al-kalāmi”

Al-Awzāʿī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Shāmī related to us, from ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym al-Lakhmī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The worst members of my community are those born into luxury and reared in it, whose sole concern is varieties of food and clothing and who speak with affected grandiloquence.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ يَحْيَى الْقُرَشِيِّ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ: لَعَنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الَّذِينَ يُشَقِّقُونَ الْكَلَامَ تَشْقِيقَ الشِّعْرِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan jābirin, ʿan ʿamri bni yaḥyā al-qurashiyyi, ʿan muʿāwiyata, qāla: laʿan rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-dhīna yushaqqiqūna al-kalāma tashqīqa al-shiʿri

Sufyān related to us, from Jābir, from ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā al-Qurashī, from Muʿāwiyah, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, cursed those who elaborate their speech as poetry is elaborated.”

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حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «هَلَكَ الْمُتَنَطِّعُونَ، هَلَكَ الْمُتَعَمِّقُونَ»

ḥaddathanā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin, ʿan muḥammadi bni sīrīna, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “halaka al-mutanaṭṭiʿūna, halaka al-mutaʿammiqūna”

Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The affected pedants are ruined; those who pursue matters to excess are ruined.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ: مَا كَثُرَ مَالُ عَبْدٍ إِلَّا اشْتَدَّ حِسَابُهُ، وَلَا كَثُرَ أَتْبَاعُهُ إِلَّا كَثُرَ شَيَاطِينُهُ، وَلَا ازْدَادَ مِنَ السُّلْطَانِ قُرْبًا إِلَّا ازْدَادَ مِنَ اللَّهِ بُعْدًا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin, qāla: mā kathura mālu ʿabdin ʾillā ʾashtadda ḥisābuhu, walā kathura ʾatbāʿuhu ʾillā kathura shayāṭīnuhu, walā ʾazdāda mina al-sulṭāni qurban ʾillā ʾazdāda mina Allāhi buʿdan

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from a man, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said: “Whenever a servant’s wealth increases, his reckoning becomes more severe. Whenever his followers increase, his devils increase. Whenever he draws nearer to political authority, he grows farther from Allah.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: إِذَا كَثُرَ الْخَدَمُ، كَثُرَ الشَّيَاطِينُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla: kāna yuqālu: ʾidhā kathura al-khadamu, kathura al-shayāṭīnu

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said: “It used to be said: When servants become numerous, devils become numerous.”

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قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: وَقَالَ ضِرَارُ بْنُ مُرَّةَ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ، قَالَ: مَا بَاتَ رَقْمٌ فِي بَيْتٍ، لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ أَسْنَانٌ إِلَّا بَاتَ عَلَيْهِ شَيْطَانٌ

qāla sufyānu: waqāla ḍirāru bnu murrata, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin, qāla: mā bāta raqmun fī baytin, laysa ʿalayhi ʾasnānun ʾillā bāta ʿalayhi shayṭānun

Sufyān said: Ḍirār ibn Murrah related from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, who said: “No patterned image without teeth spends the night in a house without a devil spending the night upon it.”

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بَابُ مَنْ كَرِهَ الْمَالَ وَالْوَلَدَ

bābu man kariha al-māla wa-l-walada

Chapter: Those who disliked wealth and children

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ، وَصَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَسْلِيمًا

bismi Allāhi al-raḥmani al-raḥīmi wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi waḥdahu, waṣallā Allāhu ʿalā muḥammadin waālihi wasallama taslīman

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. Praise belongs to Allah alone. May Allah bless Muḥammad and his family and grant them abundant peace.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ, عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ: اللَّهُمَّ ارْزُقْنِي الْإِيمَانَ وَالْعَمَلَ، وَامْنَعْنِي الْمَالَ وَالْوَلَدَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ṭāwusin, ʾannahu kāna yaqūlu fī duʿāʾihi: Allāhumma ʾarzuqnī al-ʾīmāna wa-l-ʿamala, wāmnaʿnī al-māla wa-l-walada

Sufyān related to us, from a man, from Ṭāwūs, who used to say in his supplication: “O Allah, provide me with faith and righteous action, and withhold wealth and children from me.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ وَشَى بِعَمَّارٍ إِلَى عُمَرَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عَمَّارٌ: إِنْ كُنْتَ كَاذِبًا، فَأَكْثَرَ اللَّهُ مَالَكَ وَوَلَدَكَ، وَجَعَلَكَ مُوطَّأَ الْعَقِبَيْنِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʿani al-ḥārithi bni suwaydin, ʾanna rajulan min ʾahli al-kūfati washā biʿammārin ʾilā ʿumara, faqāla lahu ʿammārun: ʾin kunta kādhiban, faʾakthara Allāhu mālaka wawaladaka, wajaʿalaka mūṭṭaʾa al-ʿaqibayni

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from al-Ḥārith ibn Suwayd, who reported that a man of Kufa denounced ʿAmmār to ʿUmar. ʿAmmār said to him: “If you are lying, may Allah increase your wealth and children and make people crowd at your heels.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتُ بْنُ عِمَارَةَ، عَنْ غُنَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، قَالَ: مَا أُحِبُّ أَنَّ كُلَّ مُسْلِمٍ يُولَدُ لَهُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ غُلَامٌ، وَأَنَّ لَهُ مِثْلَ مَالِهِ

ḥaddathanā thābitu bnu ʿimārata, ʿan ghunaymi bni qaysin, qāla: mā ʾuḥibbu ʾanna kulla muslimin yūladu lahu kulla yawmin ghulāmun, waʾanna lahu mithla mālihi

Thābit ibn ʿImārah related to us, from Ghunaym ibn Qays, who said: “I would not like every Muslim to have a boy born to him every day, nor to receive another amount equal to all his wealth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ بَيَانِ بْنِ بِشْرٍ، عَنْ حَكِيمِ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فَشَكَى إِلَيْهِ جَارًا، فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: اصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ سَيَجْزِيكَ مِنْهُ، فَمَكَثَ مَا شَاءَ، ثُمَّ رَآهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ شَكَوْتُ إِلَيْكَ جَارِي، فَقُلْتَ: اصْبِرْ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ سَيَجْزِيكَ مِنْهُ، وَأَنَّهُ خَرَجَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَأَصَابَ مِنَ الْمَالِ كَذَا، وَأَعْطَاهُ كَذَا. قَالَ: فَقَدْ جُزِيتَ مِنْهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan bayāni bni bishrin, ʿan ḥakīmi bni jābirin, qāla: jāʾa rajulun ʾilā ʾabī al-dardāʾi fashakā ʾilayhi jāran, faqāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: ʾaṣbir faʾinna Allāha sayajzīka minhu, famakatha mā shāʾa, thumma raāhu, faqāla: yā ʾabā al-dardāʾi shakawtu ʾilayka jārī, faqulta: ʾaṣbir, faʾinna Allāha sayajzīka minhu, waʾannahu kharaja ʾilā muʿāwiyata, faʾaṣāba mina al-māli kadhā, waʾaʿṭāhu kadhā. qāla: faqad juzīta minhu

Sufyān related to us, from Bayān ibn Bishr, from Ḥakīm ibn Jābir, who said: A man came to Abū al-Dardāʾ and complained about a neighbor. Abū al-Dardāʾ said: “Be patient; Allah will recompense you for him.” Some time later he saw the man again. The man said: “Abū al-Dardāʾ, I complained to you about my neighbor and you told me to be patient, for Allah would recompense me for him. He has now gone to Muʿāwiyah, acquired such-and-such wealth, and been given such-and-such.” Abū al-Dardāʾ replied: “Then you have indeed been recompensed for him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو جُنَابٍ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِلْأَشْعَثِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ: «هَلْ لَكَ مِنَ ابْنَةِ جَمْدٍ مِنْ وَلَدٍ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، مِنْهَا لِي غُلَامٌ، وَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ لِي بِهِ جَفْنَةً مِنْ طَعَامٍ، أُطْعِمُهَا مَنْ مَعِيَ مِنْ بَنِي جَبَلَةَ قَالَ: فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَئِنْ قُلْتَ ذَلِكَ، إِنَّهُمْ لَثَمَرَةُ الْقُلُوبِ، وَقُرَّةُ الْأَعْيُنِ، وَإِنَّهُمْ مَعَ ذَلِكَ لَمَجْبَنَةٌ، مَبْخَلَةٌ، مَحْزَنَةٌ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū junābin, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama li-l-ʾashʿathi bni qaysin: “hal laka mina ʾabnati jamdin min waladin?” qāla: naʿam, minhā lī ghulāmun, wawadidtu ʾanna lī bihi jafnatan min ṭaʿāmin, ʾuṭʿimuhā man maʿiya min banī jabalata qāla: faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “laʾin qulta dhalika, ʾinnahum lathamaratu al-qulūbi, waqurratu al-ʾaʿyuni, waʾinnahum maʿa dhalika lamajbanatun, mabkhalatun, maḥzanatun”

Abū Junāb related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked al-Ashʿath ibn Qays: “Do you have a child by the daughter of Jamd?” He replied: “Yes, I have a boy by her, though I would rather have had in his place a large bowl of food with which to feed the people of Banū Jabalah who are with me.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Even if you say that, children are the fruit of hearts and the delight of eyes; yet they are also a cause of cowardice, miserliness, and sorrow.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَبِيبَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَوْ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْوَلَدُ مِنْ رَيْحَانِ الْجَنَّةِ»

ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ʾabī labībata, ʿan ʾabīhi ʾaw ʿan jaddihi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-waladu min rayḥāni al-jannati”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Labībah related to us, from his father or his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A child is one of the fragrant plants of Paradise.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هِلَالٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: سَيِّدُ رَيْحَانِ الْجَنَّةِ الْحِنَّاءُ

ḥaddathanā ʾabū hilālin muḥammadu bnu sulaymin, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin, qāla: sayyidu rayḥāni al-jannati al-ḥinnāʾu

Abū Hilāl Muḥammad ibn Sulaym related to us, from Qatādah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: “The chief fragrant plant of Paradise is henna.”

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بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْغِنَى

bābu dhikri al-ghinā

Chapter: Wealth

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ, عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَصَمِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: «لَيْسَ الْغِنَى عَنْ كَثْرَةِ الْعَرَضِ، إِنَّمَا الْغِنَى غِنَى النَّفْسِ»

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan yazīda bni al-ʾaṣammi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: “laysa al-ghinā ʿan kathrati al-ʿaraḍi, ʾinnamā al-ghinā ghinā al-nafsi”

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “Wealth does not lie in an abundance of possessions; true wealth is richness of soul.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ: أَتَعْلَمُنَّ أَنَّ الطَّمَعَ فَقْرٌ، وَأَنَّ الْإِيَاسَ غِنًى، وَأَنَّ الْمَرْءَ إِذَا أَيِسَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ اسْتَغْنَى عَنْهُ

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi fī khuṭbatihi: ʾataʿlamunna ʾanna al-ṭamaʿa faqrun, waʾanna al-ʾiyāsa ghinanā, waʾanna al-marʾa ʾidhā ʾayisa min shayʾin ʾastaghnā ʿanhu

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said in a sermon: “You must know that greed is poverty and freedom from expectation is wealth. Once a person gives up hope of receiving a thing, he becomes independent of it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، وَحَنْظَلَةُ الْقَاصُّ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: كَانَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ يَقُولُ: «اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ غِنًى يُطْغِي أَوْ فَقْرٍ يُنْسِي أَوْ هَوًى يُرْدِي، أَوْ عَمَلٍ يُخْزِي»، قَالَ حَنْظَلَةُ: وَكَانَ عَوْنٌ يَزِيدُ فِيهِ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ: أَوْ جَارٍ يُؤْذِي أَوْ صَاحِبٍ يُغْوِي

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, waḥanẓalatu al-qāṣṣu, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: kāna ʾabnu masʿūdin yaqūlu: “Allāhumma ʾinnī ʾaʿūdhu bika min ghinanā yuṭghī ʾaw faqrin yunsī ʾaw hawanā yurdī, ʾaw ʿamalin yukhzī”, qāla ḥanẓalatu: wakāna ʿawnun yazīdu fīhi min qibalihi: ʾaw jārin yuʾdhī ʾaw ṣāḥibin yughwī

Al-Masʿūdī and Ḥanẓalah the storyteller related to us, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: Ibn Masʿūd used to say: “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from wealth that makes one transgress, poverty that makes one forget, desire that brings ruin, and a deed that brings disgrace.” Ḥanẓalah said: ʿAwn would add on his own account: “And from a neighbor who causes harm and a companion who leads one astray.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ غِنَانَا فِي أَنْفُسِنَا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: “Allāhumma ʾajʿal ghinānā fī ʾanfusinā”

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “O Allah, place our wealth within our souls.”

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بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْحِرْصِ عَلَى الْمَالِ

bābu dhikri al-ḥirṣi ʿalā al-māli

Chapter: Eagerness for wealth

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَمْرِو بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ النَّحْوِيُّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَوْ كَانَ لَابْنِ آدَمَ وَادِيَانِ مِنْ مَالٍ لَابْتَغَى إِلَيْهِمَا وَادِيًا ثَالِثًا، وَلَا يَمْلَأُ جَوْفَ ابْنِ آدَمَ إِلَّا التُّرَابُ، وَيَتُوبُ اللَّهُ عَلَى مَنْ تَابَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū ʿamri bnu al-ʿalāʾi al-naḥwiyyu, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “law kāna lābni ādama wādiyāni min mālin lābtaghā ʾilayhimā wādiyan thālithan, walā yamlaʾu jawfa ʾabni ādama ʾillā al-turābu, wayatūbu Allāhu ʿalā man tāba”

Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ the grammarian related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “If the son of Adam possessed two valleys of wealth, he would seek a third valley to add to them. Nothing fills the son of Adam’s belly but dust, and Allah turns in mercy toward whoever repents.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ سَعْدٌ: «لَوْ كَانَ لِأَحَدِكُمْ وَادِيَانِ مِنْ مَالٍ، ثُمَّ مَرَّ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ أَسْهُمٍ مَطْبُوعَةٍ يَعْنِي مَعْمُولَةً، كَلَّفَتْهُ نَفْسُهُ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ فَيَأْخُذَهَا»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, qāla: qāla saʿdun: “law kāna liʾaḥadikum wādiyāni min mālin, thumma marra ʿalā sabʿati ʾashumin maṭbūʿatin yaʿnī maʿmūlatan, kallafathu nafsuhu ʾan yanzila fayaʾkhudhahā”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: Saʿd said: “If one of you possessed two valleys of wealth and then passed seven finished arrows, his soul would still compel him to dismount and pick them up.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يَهْرَمُ ابْنُ آدَمَ، وَيَبْقَى مِنْهُ اثْنَتَانِ: الْحِرْصُ وَالْأَمَلُ

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: yahramu ʾabnu ādama, wayabqā minhu ʾathnatāni: al-ḥirṣu wa-l-ʾamalu

Shuʿbah related to us, from Qatādah, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The son of Adam grows old, but two things in him remain: greed and hope.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: قَلْبُ الشَّيْخِ شَابَ عَلَى حُبِّ اثْنَتَيْنِ: عَلَى جَمْعِ الْمَالِ وَطُولِ الْحَيَاةِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī al-zinādi, ʿani al-ʾaʿraji, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: qalbu al-shaykhi shāba ʿalā ḥubbi ʾathnatayni: ʿalā jamʿi al-māli waṭūli al-ḥayāti

Sufyān related to us, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “An old man’s heart remains young in its love of two things: amassing wealth and living long.”

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بَابُ الْأَمَلِ وَالْأَجَلِ

bābu al-ʾamali wa-l-ʾajali

Chapter: Hope and the appointed term

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُتَوَكِّلِ النَّاجِي وَعَبْدِ رَبِّهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَاشِدٍ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ قَالَ: أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَعْوَادٍ، فَغَرَسَ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ وَاحِدًا، ثُمَّ مَشَى قَلِيلًا فَغَرَسَ آخَرَ، ثُمَّ مَشَى قَلِيلًا فَغَرَسَ آخَرَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا هَذَا؟ هَذَا مَثَلُ ابْنِ آدَمَ، وَأَجَلِهِ وَأَمَلِهِ، فَنَفْسُهُ تَتُوقُ إِلَى أَمَلِهِ، وَيَخْتَرِمُهُ أَجَلُهُ دُونَ أَمَلِهِ»,

ḥaddathanā ʿaliyyu bnu ʿaliyyi bni rifāʿata, ʿan ʾabī al-mutawakkili al-nājī waʿabdi rabbihi bni ʾabī rāshidin, ʿan jābiri bni zaydin qāla: ʾakhadha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama thalāthata ʾaʿwādin, fagharasa ʾilā janbihi wāḥidan, thumma mashā qalīlan fagharasa ākhara, thumma mashā qalīlan fagharasa ākhara, thumma qāla: “hal tadrūna mā hadhā? hadhā mathalu ʾabni ādama, waʾajalihi waʾamalihi, fanafsuhu tatūqu ʾilā ʾamalihi, wayakhtarimuhu ʾajaluhu dūna ʾamalihi”,

ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Rifāʿah related to us, from Abū al-Mutawakkil al-Nājī and ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Abī Rāshid, from Jābir ibn Zayd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took three sticks. He planted one beside himself, walked a short distance and planted another, then walked a little farther and planted the last. He asked: “Do you know what this is? This is the likeness of the son of Adam, his appointed term, and his hope. His soul yearns toward his hope, but his appointed term cuts him off before he reaches it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا فِطْرٌ، عَنْ مُنْذِرٍ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ نَحْوَهُ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ: خَطَّ بِخُطُوطٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ

ḥaddathanā fiṭrun, ʿan mundhirin al-thawriyyi, ʿani al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin naḥwahu, ʾillā ʾannahu qāla: khaṭṭa bikhuṭūṭin thalāthatin

Fiṭr related to us, from Mundhir al-Thawrī, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, with a similar report, except that he said: “He drew three lines.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ الْيَامِيِّ وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي زِيَادٍ، عَنْ مُهَاجِرٍ الْعَامِرِيِّ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَيْكُمِ اثَنَانِ: طُولُ الْأَمَلِ وَاتِّبَاعُ الْهَوَى. فَأَمَّا طُولُ الْأَمَلِ فَيُنْسِي الْآخِرَةَ، وَأَمَّا اتِّبَاعُ الْهَوَى فَيَصُدُّ عَنِ الْحَقِ، أَلَا أَنَّ الدُّنْيَا قَدْ وَلَّتْ مُدْبِرَةً، وَالْآخِرَةُ مُقْبِلَةٌ، وَلِكُلِّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا بَنُونَ، فَكُونُوا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ وَلَا تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِنَّ الْيَوْمَ عَمَلٌ وَلَا حِسَابٌ، وَغَدًا حِسَابٌ وَلَا عَمَلٌ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan zubaydin al-yāmiyyi wayazīdu bnu ʾabī ziyādin, ʿan muhājirin al-ʿāmiriyyi, ʿan ʿaliyyin qāla: ʾinna ʾakhwafa mā ʾatakhawwafu ʿalaykumi ʾathanāni: ṭūlu al-ʾamali wāttibāʿu al-hawā. faʾammā ṭūlu al-ʾamali fayunsī al-ākhirata, waʾammā ʾattibāʿu al-hawā fayaṣuddu ʿani al-ḥaqi, ʾalā ʾanna al-dunyā qad wallat mudbiratan, wa-l-ākhiratu muqbilatun, walikulli wāḥidatin minhumā banūna, fakūnū min ʾabnāʾi al-ākhirati walā takūnū min ʾabnāʾi al-dunyā, faʾinna al-yawma ʿamalun walā ḥisābun, waghadan ḥisābun walā ʿamalun

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Zubayd al-Yāmī and Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, from Muhājir al-ʿĀmirī, from ʿAlī, who said: “The two things I fear most for you are prolonged hope and following caprice. Prolonged hope makes one forget the Hereafter; following caprice turns one away from the truth. This world has indeed turned its back and is departing, while the Hereafter has turned toward us and is approaching. Each has its children, so be children of the Hereafter, not children of this world. Today there is action without reckoning; tomorrow there will be reckoning without action.”

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بَابُ الْأَثَرِ الْحَسَنِ

bābu al-ʾathari al-ḥasani

Chapter: Leaving a good legacy

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ أَبِي شَبِيبٍ قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَرَى أَثَرَ نِعْمَتِهِ عَلَى عَبْدِهِ حَسَنًا وَيَكْرَهُ الْبُؤْسَ وَالتَّبَاؤُسَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan maymūni bni ʾabī shabībin qāla: kāna yuqālu: ʾinna Allāha ʿazza wajalla yuḥibbu ʾan yarā ʾathara niʿmatihi ʿalā ʿabdihi ḥasanan wayakrahu al-buʾsa wa-l-tabāʾusa

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Maymūn ibn Abī Shabīb, who said: “It used to be said that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, loves to see the fair effect of His blessing upon His servant, and He dislikes both misery and making a display of misery.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، وَإِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «هَلْ لَكَ مِنْ مَالٍ؟» قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ مِنْ كُلِّ الْمَالِ، قَدْ آتَانِي اللَّهُ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ وَالْخَيْلِ وَالرَّقِيقِ وَالْغَنَمِ. قَالَ: «فَإِذَا آتَاكَ اللَّهُ خَيْرًا فَلْيُرَ عَلَيْكَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, waʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʾabīhi ʿawfi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “hal laka min mālin?” qultu: naʿam min kulli al-māli, qad ātānī Allāhu mina al-ʾibili wa-l-khayli wa-l-raqīqi wa-l-ghanami. qāla: “faʾidhā ātāka Allāhu khayran falyura ʿalayka”

My father and Isrāʾīl related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from his father ʿAwf ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked me: “Do you possess wealth?” I replied: “Yes. Allah has given me every kind of property: camels, horses, slaves, and sheep.” He said: “When Allah gives you something good, let its effect be seen upon you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، حَدَّثَنَا الْأَغَرُّ الْمِنْقَرِيُّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَدْ سَمَّاهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَرَى أَثَرَ نِعْمَتِهِ عَلَى عَبْدِهِ حَسَنًا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ḥaddathanā al-ʾagharru al-minqariyyu, ʿan rajulin qad sammāhu qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha yuḥibbu ʾan yarā ʾathara niʿmatihi ʿalā ʿabdihi ḥasanan”

Sufyān related to us; al-Agharr al-Minqari related to us, from a man whom he named, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah loves to see the fair effect of His blessing upon His servant.”

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حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ: «إِنِّي لَأُحِبُّ أَنْ أَرَى الشَّابَّ النَّاسِكَ النَّظِيفَ الثِّيَابِ»

ḥaddathanā ṭalḥatu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi qāla: qāla ʿumaru: “ʾinnī laʾuḥibbu ʾan ʾarā al-shābba al-nāsika al-naẓīfa al-thiyābi”

Ṭalḥah related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, who said: ʿUmar said: “I like to see a devout young man in clean clothing.”

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بَابُ فَضْلِ الصَّبْرِ

bābu faḍli al-ṣabri

Chapter: The merit of patience

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: إِنَّمَا الصَّبْرُ عِنْدَ الصَّدْمَةِ الْأُولَى

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla: kāna yuqālu: ʾinnamā al-ṣabru ʿinda al-ṣadmati al-ʾūlā

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said: “It used to be said: True patience is shown at the first shock.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «وَاللَّهِ لَتَصْبِرُنَّ أَوْ لَتُهْلَكُنَّ»

ḥaddathanā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “wa-llāhi lataṣbirunna ʾaw latuhlakunna”

Mubārak ibn Faḍālah related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “By Allah, you will either remain patient or be destroyed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: «وَجَدْنَا خَيْرَ عَيْشِنَا بِالصَّبْرِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: “wajadnā khayra ʿayshinā bi-l-ṣabri”

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “We found the best part of our life through patience.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيُّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ عُمَرُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ عَلِيٌّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: «الصَّبْرُ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الرَّأْسِ مِنَ الْجَسَدِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū jaʿfarin al-rāziyyu, ʿan rajulin yuqālu lahu ʿumaru, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿaliyyin qāla: qāla ʿaliyyun raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu: “al-ṣabru mina al-ʾīmāni bimanzilati al-raʾsi mina al-jasadi”

Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī related to us, from a man called ʿUmar, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, who said: ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, said: “Patience stands in relation to faith as the head stands in relation to the body.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْعُقَيْلِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ الْحِمْصِيِّ قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: «الصَّبْرُ عِنْدَ الصَّدْمَةِ الْأُولَى، وَعِنْدَ كُلِّ بَلَاءٍ، وَعِنْدَ كُلِّ لِقَاءٍ، مَنْ رَضِيَ فَلُهُ الرِّضَا، وَمَنْ سَخِطَ فَلُهُ السُّخْطُ»

ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi al-ʿuqayliyyu, ʿan ʾabī salamata al-ḥimṣiyyi qāla: kāna yuqālu: “al-ṣabru ʿinda al-ṣadmati al-ʾūlā, waʿinda kulli balāʾin, waʿinda kulli liqāʾin, man raḍiya faluhu al-riḍā, waman sakhiṭa faluhu al-sukhṭu”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿUqaylī related to us, from Abū Salamah al-Ḥimṣī, who said: “It used to be said: Patience is shown at the first shock, at every affliction, and at every encounter. Whoever is content will have good pleasure; whoever is resentful will have displeasure.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ أَبِي هِلَالٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ قَالَ: لَأَنْ أُعَافَى فَأَشْكُرَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أُبْتَلَى فَأَصْبِرَ

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun, ʿan ʾabī hilālin, ʿan qatādata, ʿan muṭarrifi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-shikhkhīri qāla: laʾan ʾuʿāfā faʾashkura ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾubtalā faʾaṣbira

Wakīʿ related to us, from Abū Hilāl, from Qatādah, from Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr, who said: “To be spared affliction and give thanks is dearer to me than to be afflicted and show patience.”

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وَعَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّ عَلَى امْرَأَةٍ تَبْكِي، فَكَلَّمَهَا، فَلَمْ تَلْتَفِتْ إِلَيْهِ، فَأُخْبِرَتْ بَعْدُ أَنَّهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَأَتَتْهُ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّمَا الصَّبْرُ عِنْدَ الصَّدْمَةِ الْأُولَى»

waʿan mūsā bni ʿubaydata, ʿan yaʿqūba bni zaydin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama marra ʿalā ʾamraʾatin tabkī, fakallamahā, falam taltafit ʾilayhi, faʾukhbirat baʿdu ʾannahu al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faʾatathu, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinnamā al-ṣabru ʿinda al-ṣadmati al-ʾūlā”

And from Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah, from Yaʿqūb ibn Zayd, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed a woman who was weeping and spoke to her, but she paid no attention to him. Afterward she was told that it had been the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, so she came to him. The Prophet said: “True patience is shown at the first shock.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي ظَبْيَانَ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «الصَّبْرُ نِصْفُ الْإِيمَانِ، وَالْيَقِينُ الْإِيمَانُ كُلُّهُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ẓabyāna, ʿan ʿalqamata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “al-ṣabru niṣfu al-ʾīmāni, wa-l-yaqīnu al-ʾīmānu kulluhu”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Ẓabyān, from ʿAlqamah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Patience is half of faith, and certainty is all of faith.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّمَا الصَّبْرُ عِنْدَ الصَّدْمَةِ الْأُولَى»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ḥamzata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinnamā al-ṣabru ʿinda al-ṣadmati al-ʾūlā”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Ḥamzah, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “True patience is shown at the first shock.”

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بَابُ الْحَزَنِ وَفَضْلِهِ

bābu al-ḥazani wafaḍlihi

Chapter: Sorrow and its merit

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ لَمْ يُسَمِّهِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «مَا عُبِدَ اللَّهُ بِمِثْلِ الْحَزَنِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin lam yusammihi ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “mā ʿubida Allāhu bimithli al-ḥazani”

Sufyān related to us, from an unnamed man, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “Allah has not been worshiped by anything like sorrow.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا كَانَ فِي جِنَازَةٍ أَكْثَرَ السُّكَاتَ وَحَدَّثَ نَفْسَهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani ʾabni jurayjin, qāla: kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾidhā kāna fī jināzatin ʾakthara al-sukāta waḥaddatha nafsahu

Sufyān related to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: “When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, attended a funeral, he would remain mostly silent and speak within himself.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُوقَةَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: «كَانَ تَكُونُ فِيهِمُ الْجِنَازَةُ فَيَظَلُّونَ الْأَيَّامَ مَحْزُونِينَ، يُعْرَفُ ذَلِكَ فِيهِمْ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan muḥammadi bni sūqata, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: “kāna takūnu fīhimu al-jināzatu fayaẓallūna al-ʾayyāma maḥzūnīna, yuʿrafu dhalika fīhim”

Sufyān related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sūqah, from Ibrāhīm, who said: “When a death occurred among them, they would remain visibly sorrowful for days.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ قَالَ: «إِنْ كُنَّا لَنَشْهَدُ الْجِنَازَةَ فَمَا نَدْرِي أَيَّهُمْ يُعَزَّى مِنْ حُزْنِ الْقَوْمِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ḥasanu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi qāla: “ʾin kunnā lanashhadu al-jināzata famā nadrī ʾayyahum yuʿazzā min ḥuzni al-qawmi”

Al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us, from al-Aʿmash, who said: “We would attend a funeral and, because of the grief of everyone present, could not tell which of them should receive condolences.”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ السِّخْتِيَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ قَاصًّا رَافِعًا صَوْتَهُ فِي جِنَازَةٍ، فَقَالَ: «إِنْ كَانُوا لَيُعِظِّمُونَ الْمَوْتَ بِالسَّكِينَةِ»

ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu zaydin ʿan ʾayyūba al-sikhtiyāniyyi, ʿan ʾabī qilābata ʾannahu samiʿa qāṣṣan rāfiʿan ṣawtahu fī jināzatin, faqāla: “ʾin kānū layuʿiẓẓimūna al-mawta bi-l-sakīnati”

Ḥammād ibn Zayd related to us, from Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, from Abū Qilābah, who heard a storyteller raising his voice at a funeral and said: “They used to honor death with tranquility.”

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حَدَّثَنَا بَعْضُ أَشْيَاخِنَا، عَنْ أَبِي بَحْرٍ الْعَبْسِيِّ، أَنَّ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ رَأَى رَجُلًا يَضْحَكُ فِي جِنَازَةٍ، فَقَالَ: «تَضْحَكُ فِي جِنَازَةٍ، لَا أُكَلِّمُكَ بِكَلِمَةٍ أَبَدًا»

ḥaddathanā baʿḍu ʾashyākhinā, ʿan ʾabī baḥrin al-ʿabsiyyi, ʾanna ʾabna masʿūdin raʾā rajulan yaḍḥaku fī jināzatin, faqāla: “taḍḥaku fī jināzatin, lā ʾukallimuka bikalimatin ʾabadan”

One of our shaykhs related to us, from Abū Baḥr al-ʿAbsī, who reported that Ibn Masʿūd saw a man laughing at a funeral and said: “You laugh at a funeral? I will never again speak a word to you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ صَاحِبُ الدَّسْتُوَائِيِّ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ عَبَّادٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَكْرَهُونَ رَفْعَ الصَّوْتِ عِنْدَ الْجَنَائِزِ، وَعِنْدَ الْقِتَالِ، وَعِنْدَ الذِّكْرِ

ḥaddathanā hishāmun ṣāḥibu al-dastuwāʾiyyi, ʿan qatādata, ʿani al-ḥasani ʿan qaysi bni ʿabbādin, qāla: kāna ʾaṣḥābu rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yakrahūna rafʿa al-ṣawti ʿinda al-janāʾizi, waʿinda al-qitāli, waʿinda al-dhikri

Hishām, the companion of al-Dastuwāʾī, related to us, from Qatādah, from al-Ḥasan, from Qays ibn ʿUbād, who said: “The Companions of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, disliked raised voices at funerals, in battle, and during remembrance.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُعَلَّى، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ أَنَّهُ كَرِهَ رَفْعَ الصَّوْتِ عِنْدَ الْجِنَازَةِ، وَعِنْدَ قِرَاءَةِ الْقُرْآنِ، وَعِنْدَ الْقِتَالِ

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʾabī al-muʿallā, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin ʾannahu kariha rafʿa al-ṣawti ʿinda al-jināzati, waʿinda qirāʾati al-qurāni, waʿinda al-qitāli

Shuʿbah related to us, from Abū al-Muʿallā, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who disliked raising the voice at a funeral, during recitation of the Qurʾan, or in battle.

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بَابُ التَّوَاضُعِ

bābu al-tawāḍuʿi

Chapter: Humility

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: تُغْفِلُونَ أَفْضَلَ الْعِبَادَةِ: التَّوَاضُعَ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʾabī burdata, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani al-ʾaswadi bni yazīda, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: tughfilūna ʾafḍala al-ʿibādati: al-tawāḍuʿa

Misʿar related to us, from Saʿd ibn Abī Burdah, from his father, from al-Aswad ibn Yazīd, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “You neglect the finest form of worship: humility.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ «إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَوْحَى إِلَيَّ أَنْ تَوَاضَعُوا حَتَّى لَا يَبْغِيَ أَحَدٌ عَلَى أَحَدٍ، وَلَا يَفْخَرَ أَحَدٌ عَلَى أَحَدٍ»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama “ʾinna Allāha ʾawḥā ʾilayya ʾan tawāḍaʿū ḥattā lā yabghiya ʾaḥadun ʿalā ʾaḥadin, walā yafkhara ʾaḥadun ʿalā ʾaḥadin”

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah has revealed to me that you must be humble, so that no one wrongs another and no one boasts over another.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي ظَبْيَانَ، ثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: قَالَ لِي سَلْمَانُ: «يَا جَرِيرُ تَوَاضَعْ لِلَّهِ، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ تَوَاضَعَ لِلَّهِ فِي الدُّنْيَا رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ẓabyāna, thanā jarīru bnu ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla: qāla lī salmānu: “yā jarīru tawāḍaʿ li-llāhi, faʾinnahu man tawāḍaʿa li-llāhi fī al-dunyā rafaʿahu Allāhu yawma al-qiyāmati”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Ẓabyān; Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us, saying: Salmān told me: “Jarīr, humble yourself before Allah. Whoever humbles himself before Allah in this world will be raised by Allah on the Day of Resurrection.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «مَنْ تَوَاضَعَ لِلَّهِ تَخَشُّعًا، رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَمَنْ تَطَاوَلَ تَعَظُّمًا، وَضَعَهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni ʾabī al-najūdi, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “man tawāḍaʿa li-llāhi takhashshuʿan, rafaʿahu Allāhu yawma al-qiyāmati, waman taṭāwala taʿaẓẓuman, waḍaʿahu Allāhu yawma al-qiyāmati”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, from Abū Wāʾil, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Whoever humbles himself before Allah in reverence will be raised by Allah on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever stretches himself high in self-importance will be brought low by Allah on the Day of Resurrection.”

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: «وَيْلٌ لِلَّذِي لَا يَعْلَمُ مَرَّةً، وَوَيْلٌ لِلَّذِي يَعْلَمُ وَلَا يَعْمَلُ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ»

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan maymūni bni mihrāna qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: “waylun li-l-dhī lā yaʿlamu marratan, wawaylun li-l-dhī yaʿlamu walā yaʿmalu sabʿa marrātin”

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, who said: Abū al-Dardāʾ said: “Woe once to the one who does not know, and woe seven times to the one who knows but does not act.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ قَيْسٍ الصَّغِيرُ، عَنْ عُمَيْرِ بْنِ تَمِيمٍ النِّمْرَانِيِّ أَبِي وَبْرَةَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ مَسْأَلَةٍ؟ فَقَالَ: «لَا تَسْأَلْ فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ تَأْتِ الشَّيْءَ وَأَنْتَ لَا تَعْلَمُهُ أَهْوَنُ مِنْ أَنْ تَأْتِيَهُ وَأَنْتَ تَعْلَمُهُ»

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu qaysin al-ṣaghīru, ʿan ʿumayri bni tamīmin al-nimrāniyyi ʾabī wabrata al-hamdāniyyi qāla saʾaltu ʾabna ʿabbāsin ʿan masʾalatin? faqāla: “lā tasʾal faʾinnaka ʾin taʾti al-shayʾa waʾanta lā taʿlamuhu ʾahwanu min ʾan taʾtiyahu waʾanta taʿlamuhu”

Mūsā ibn Qays al-Ṣaghīr related to us, from ʿUmayr ibn Tamīm al-Nimrānī Abū Wabrah al-Hamdānī, who said: I asked Ibn ʿAbbās about a matter. He replied: “Do not ask. Committing a thing while unaware of its ruling is less serious than committing it while knowing.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ شَبِيبِ بْنِ غَرْقَدَةَ، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ شَيْءٍ بِالْحِيَلِ، فَقَالَ: «لَا تَسْأَلْ، فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ تَأْتِ الشَّيْءَ وَأَنْتَ لَا تَعْلَمُهُ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ تَأْتِيَهُ وَأَنْتَ تَعْلَمُهُ»

ḥaddathanā sharīkun, ʿan shabībi bni gharqadata, qāla: saʾaltu saʿīda bna jubayrin, ʿan shayʾin bi-l-ḥiyali, faqāla: “lā tasʾal, faʾinnaka ʾin taʾti al-shayʾa waʾanta lā taʿlamuhu ʾahwanu ʿalayka ʾan taʾtiyahu waʾanta taʿlamuhu”

Sharīk related to us, from Shabīb ibn Gharqadah, who said: I questioned Saʿīd ibn Jubayr about something involving legal stratagems. He replied: “Do not ask. Committing a thing while unaware of its ruling is less serious for you than committing it while knowing.”

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ فُرَاتِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ، قَالَ: إِنَّكَ لَنْ تَكُونَ عَالِمًا حَتَّى تَكُونَ مُتَعَلِّمًا، وَلَنْ تَكُونَ عَالِمًا حَتَّى تَكُونَ بِمَا عَلِمْتَ عَامِلًا

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan furāti bni sulaymāna, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi, qāla: ʾinnaka lan takūna ʿāliman ḥattā takūna mutaʿalliman, walan takūna ʿāliman ḥattā takūna bimā ʿalimta ʿāmilan

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from Furāt ibn Sulaymān, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: “You will not become learned until you are a learner, and you will not truly become learned until you act upon what you know.”

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بَابُ الِاجْتِهَادِ وَالْوَرَعِ

bābu al-ʾajtihādi wa-l-waraʿi

Chapter: Striving and scrupulousness

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: «الْمُجْتَهِدُ فِيكُمُ الْيَوْمَ كَاللَّاعِبِ فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: “al-mujtahidu fīkumu al-yawma ka-l-lāʿibi fīman kāna qablakum”

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, who said: “The most diligent person among you today is like one at play when compared with those who came before you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْمُلَائِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَضْلُ الْعِلْمِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ فَضْلِ الْعِبَادَةِ، وَمِلَاكُ دِينِكُمُ الْوَرَعُ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿamri bni qaysin al-mulāʾiyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “faḍlu al-ʿilmi khayrun min faḍli al-ʿibādati, wamilāku dīnikumu al-waraʿu”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Qays al-Mulāʾī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The excellence of knowledge is better than the excellence of worship, and the foundation of your religion is scrupulousness.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي السَّوْدَاءِ النَّهْدِيِّ عَمْرِو بْنِ عِمْرَانَ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ قَالَ: «لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا، وَمَا نَتَعَلَّمُ إِلَّا الْوَرَعَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī al-sawdāʾi al-nahdiyyi ʿamri bni ʿimrāna, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin qāla: “laqad raʾaytunā, wamā nataʿallamu ʾillā al-waraʿa”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū al-Sawdāʾ al-Nahdī ʿAmr ibn ʿImrān, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, who said: “I remember when we learned nothing but scrupulousness.”

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بَابُ التَّفَكُّرِ

bābu al-tafakkuri

Chapter: Reflection

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، وَالْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَمَّ الدَّرْدَاءِ: مَا كَانَ أَفْضَلَ عِبَادَةِ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ؟ قَالَتْ: «التَّفَكُّرُ وَالِاعْتِبَارُ»

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu mighwalin, wa-l-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿutbata, qāla: saʾaltu ʾamma al-dardāʾi: mā kāna ʾafḍala ʿibādati ʾabī al-dardāʾi? qālat: “al-tafakkuru wa-l-ʾaʿtibāru”

Mālik ibn Mighwal and al-Masʿūdī related to us, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, who said: I asked Umm al-Dardāʾ, “What was Abū al-Dardāʾ’s finest worship?” She replied: “Reflection and taking heed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ إِذَا قَامَ اللَّيْلَ قَرَأَ هَاتَيْنِ الْآيَتَيْنِ: {إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 164] إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: {فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ} [آلُ عِمْرَانَ: 191]

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin muḥammadi bni ʿaliyyin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna ʾidhā qāma al-layla qaraʾa hātayni al-āyatayni: {ʾinna fī khalqi al-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wākhtilāfi al-layli wa-l-nahāri} [al-baqaratu: 164] ʾilā qawlihi: {faqinā ʿadhāba al-nāri} [ālu ʿimrāna: 191]

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, who reported that when the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, rose at night, he would recite these two verses, from {Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day} to {so protect us from the punishment of the Fire} [Āl ʿImrān 3:190–191].

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَأْتِي أَحَدَكُمْ فَيَقُولُ: مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاءَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: اللَّهُ، فَيَقُولُ: وَمَنْ خَلَقَ الْأَرْضَ؟ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ، فَيَقُولُ: مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهَ؟ فَإِذَا أَحَسَّ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ بِشَيْءٍ، فَلْيَقُلْ: آمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ وَبِرَسُولِهِ

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ʾinna al-shayṭāna yaʾtī ʾaḥadakum fayaqūlu: man khalaqa al-samāʾa? fayaqūlu: Allāhu, fayaqūlu: waman khalaqa al-ʾarḍa? fayaqūlu Allāhu, fayaqūlu: man khalaqa Allāha? faʾidhā ʾaḥassa ʾaḥadukum min dhalika bishayʾin, falyaqul: āmantu bi-llāhi wabirasūlihi

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Satan comes to one of you and asks, ‘Who created the heaven?’ He answers, ‘Allah.’ Satan asks, ‘Who created the earth?’ He answers, ‘Allah.’ Satan then asks, ‘Who created Allah?’ If any of you senses something of this, let him say: ‘I believe in Allah and His Messenger.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَوْهَبٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيَّ يَقُولُ: إِنِّي لَأَنْ أَقْرَأَ: الْقَارِعَةَ، وَإِذَا زُلْزِلَتْ فِي لَيْلَةٍ، أُرَدِّدُهَا وَأَتَفَكَّرُ فِيهِمَا أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَبِيتَ أَهُذُّ الْقُرْآنَ

ḥaddathanā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni mawhabin, qāla: samiʿtu muḥammada bna kaʿbin al-quraẓiyya yaqūlu: ʾinnī laʾan ʾaqraʾa: al-qāriʿata, waʾidhā zulzilat fī laylatin, ʾuraddiduhā waʾatafakkaru fīhimā ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾabīta ʾahudhdhu al-qurāna

ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mawhab related to us. He said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī say: “To spend a night reciting Sūrat al-Qāriʿah and Sūrat al-Zalzalah, repeating them and reflecting upon them, is dearer to me than spending the night racing through the Qurʾan.”

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بَابُ فَضْلِ الْفِقْهِ

bābu faḍli al-fiqhi

Chapter: The merit of understanding

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حَدَّثَنَا يَاسِينُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الزَّيَاتُ أَبُو خَلَفٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْقَوِيِّ الشَّامِيِّ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَا عُبِدَ اللَّهُ بِمِثْلِ الْفِقْهِ

ḥaddathanā yāsīnu bnu muʿādhin al-zayātu ʾabū khalafin, ʿan ʿabdi al-qawiyyi al-shāmiyyi, ʿan makḥūlin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: mā ʿubida Allāhu bimithli al-fiqhi

Yāsīn ibn Muʿādh al-Zayyāt Abū Khalaf related to us, from ʿAbd al-Qawī al-Shāmī, from Makḥūl, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah has not been worshiped by anything like understanding of the religion.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: مَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ، وَيُلْهِمْهُ رُشْدَهُ فِيهِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī sufyāna, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin qāla: man yuridi Allāhu bihi khayran yufaqqihhu fī al-dīni, wayulhimhu rushdahu fīhi

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Sufyān, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said: “When Allah intends good for someone, He grants him understanding of the religion and inspires him to right guidance within it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ: «اللَّهُمَّ لَا مَانِعَ لِمَا أَعْطَيْتَ، وَلَا مُعْطِيَ لِمَا مَنَعْتَ، وَلَا يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ الْجَدُّ، مَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّينِ» سَمِعْتُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْكَلِمَاتِ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى هَذَا الْمِنْبَرِ

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi qāla: qāla muʿāwiyatu ʿalā al-minbari: “Allāhumma lā māniʿa limā ʾaʿṭayta, walā muʿṭiya limā manaʿta, walā yanfaʿu dhā al-jaddi minka al-jaddu, man yuridi Allāhu bihi khayran yufaqqihhu fī al-dīni” samiʿtu haʾulāʾi al-kalimāti min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā hadhā al-minbari

Usāmah ibn Zayd related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, who said: Muʿāwiyah said from the pulpit: “O Allah, none can withhold what You give, none can give what You withhold, and no possessor of fortune can be helped by his fortune against You. When Allah intends good for someone, He grants him understanding of the religion.” He then said: “I heard these words from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, upon this very pulpit.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُعْتَمِرِ يَزِيدُ بْنُ طَهْمَانَ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ: «كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ لَا يُتَّهَمُ فِي الْحَدِيثِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-muʿtamiri yazīdu bnu ṭahmāna, ʿani ʾabni sīrīna qāla: “kāna muʿāwiyatu lā yuttahamu fī al-ḥadīthi ʿalā rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama”

Abū al-Muʿtamir Yazīd ibn Ṭahmān related to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, who said: “Muʿāwiyah was not suspected of misreporting from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”

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بَابُ الِاقْتِصَادِ فِي الْعَمَلِ

bābu al-ʾaqtiṣādi fī al-ʿamali

Chapter: Moderation in one’s deeds

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْدَةَ، قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: اعْمَلْ وَأَنْتَ مُشْفِقٌ، وَدَعِ الْعَمَلَ وَأَنْتَ تُحِبُّهُ، عَمَلٌ قَلِيلٌ مَا يُدَاوَمُ عَلَيْهِ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, wasufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan yaḥyā bni jaʿdata, qāla: kāna yuqālu: ʾaʿmal waʾanta mushfiqun, wadaʿi al-ʿamala waʾanta tuḥibbuhu, ʿamalun qalīlun mā yudāwamu ʿalayhi

Misʿar and Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿdah, who said: “It used to be said: Act while remaining apprehensive, and leave off an act while you still love it. A little work maintained consistently is best.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ: كَانُوا يَسْتَحِبُّونَ الزِّيَادَةَ فِي الْعَمَلِ، وَيَكْرَهُونَ النُّقْصَانَ، وَيَقُولُونَ: شَيْءٌ دِيمَةٌ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin qāla: kānū yastaḥibbūna al-ziyādata fī al-ʿamali, wayakrahūna al-nuqṣāna, wayaqūlūna: shayʾun dīmatun

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, who said: “They preferred an increase in one’s deeds and disliked a decrease. They would say: ‘Let it be something steady.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا شَيْخٌ مِنْ بَنِي جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ الْمُنْكَدِرِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ هَذَا الدِّينَ مَتِينٌ، فَأَوْغِلُوا فِيهِ بِرِفْقٍ، وَلَا تُبَغِّضُوا إِلَيْكُمْ عِبَادَةَ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّ الْمُنْبَتَّ لَا أَرْضًا قَطَعَ وَلَا ظَهْرًا أَبْقَى»

ḥaddathanā shaykhun min banī jaʿfarin qāla: samiʿtu muḥammada bna al-munkadiri qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna hadhā al-dīna matīnun, faʾawghilū fīhi birifqin, walā tubaghghiḍū ʾilaykum ʿibādata Allāhi, faʾinna al-munbatta lā ʾarḍan qaṭaʿa walā ẓahran ʾabqā”

A shaykh of Banū Jaʿfar related to us. He said: I heard Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir say: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “This religion is firm, so enter deeply into it with gentleness. Do not make the worship of Allah hateful to yourselves, for the rider who exhausts his mount neither crosses the land nor leaves the animal’s back sound.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ بُرَيْدَةَ الْأَسْلَمِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: عَلَيْكُمْ هَدْيًا قَاصِدًا، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يُشَادَّ هَذَا الدِّينَ يَغْلِبْهُ

ḥaddathanā ʿuyaynatu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan buraydata al-ʾaslamiyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ʿalaykum hadyan qāṣidan, faʾinnahu man yushādda hadhā al-dīna yaghlibhu

ʿUyaynah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, from his father, from Buraydah al-Aslamī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Follow a moderate course, for whoever tries to contend with this religion will be overcome by it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ثَوْرٌ الشَّامِيُّ عَنْ، خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ رَفِيقٌ يُحِبُّ الرِّفْقَ، وَيُعْطِي عَلَيْهِ مَا لَا يُعْطِي عَلَى الْعُنْفِ»

ḥaddathanā thawrun al-shāmiyyu ʿan, khālidi bni maʿdāna, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha rafīqun yuḥibbu al-rifqa, wayuʿṭī ʿalayhi mā lā yuʿṭī ʿalā al-ʿunfi”

Thawr al-Shāmī related to us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah is gentle and loves gentleness, and He grants for it what He does not grant for harshness.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، أَوْ غَيْرُهُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لِيَأْخُذْ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ مَا يُطِيقُ، فَإِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ لَا يَدْرِي مَا قَدْرُ أَجَلِهِ»

ḥaddathanā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʾaw ghayruhu, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “liyaʾkhudh ʾaḥadukum mina al-ʿamali mā yuṭīqu, faʾinna ʾaḥadakum lā yadrī mā qadru ʾajalihi”

Mubārak ibn Faḍālah—or someone else—related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Let each of you undertake only as much work as he can bear, for none of you knows the measure of his appointed term.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ: «كَانَ أَحَبُّ الْعَمَلِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الدَّائِمَ وَإِنْ قَلَّ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾammi salamata qālat: “kāna ʾaḥabbu al-ʿamali ʾilā rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-dāʾima waʾin qalla”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Umm Salamah, who said: “The deed dearest to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was the one performed consistently, even if small.”

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بَابُ مُحَاسَبَةِ الرَّجُلِ نَفْسَهُ وَالْإِنْصَافِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ

bābu muḥāsabati al-rajuli nafsahu wa-l-ʾinṣāfi min nafsihi

Chapter: Holding oneself to account and dealing justly with oneself

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: «لَا يَكُونُ الرَّجُلُ تَقِيًّا حَتَّى يُحَاسِبَ نَفْسَهُ مُحَاسَبَةَ شَرِيكِهِ، وَحَتَّى يَعْلَمَ مِنْ أَيْنَ مَلْبَسُهُ وَمَطْعَمُهُ وَمَشْرَبُهُ»

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan maymūni bni mihrāna qāla: “lā yakūnu al-rajulu taqiyyan ḥattā yuḥāsiba nafsahu muḥāsabata sharīkihi, waḥattā yaʿlama min ʾayna malbasuhu wamaṭʿamuhu wamashrabuhu”

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, who said: “A man does not become truly mindful of Allah until he calls himself to account as strictly as he would a business partner, and until he knows where his clothing, food, and drink come from.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ الْأَنْمَارِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَثَلُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مَثَلُ أَرْبَعَةِ نَفَرٍ: رَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا وَعِلْمًا، فَهُوَ يَعْمَلُ بِعِلْمِهِ فِي مَالِهِ، يُنْفِقُهُ فِي حَقِّهِ، وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ عِلْمًا، وَلَمْ يُؤْتِهِ مَالًا، فَهُوَ يَقُولُ: لَوْ كَانَ لِي مِثْلُ مَالِ هَذَا عَمِلْتُ فِيهِ مِثْلَ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَهُمَا فِي الْأَجْرِ سَوَاءٌ» وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا، وَلَمْ يُؤْتِهِ عِلْمًا، فَهُوَ يَخْبِطُ فِي مَالِهِ، يُنْفِقُهُ فِي غَيْرِ حَقِّهِ، وَرَجُلٌ لَمْ يُؤْتِهِ مَالًا وَلَا عِلْمًا، فَهُوَ يَقُولُ: لَوْ كَانَ لِي مِثْلُ مَالِ هَذَا عَمِلْتُ فِيهِ مِثْلَ الَّذِي يَعْمَلُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَهُمَا فِي الْوِزْرِ سَوَاءٌ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿan ʾabī kabshata al-ʾanmāriyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: mathalu hadhihi al-ʾummati mathalu ʾarbaʿati nafarin: rajulun ātāhu Allāhu mālan waʿilman, fahuwa yaʿmalu biʿilmihi fī mālihi, yunfiquhu fī ḥaqqihi, warajulun ātāhu Allāhu ʿilman, walam yuʾtihi mālan, fahuwa yaqūlu: law kāna lī mithlu māli hadhā ʿamiltu fīhi mithla al-dhī yaʿmalu faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “fahumā fī al-ʾajri sawāʾun” warajulun ātāhu Allāhu mālan, walam yuʾtihi ʿilman, fahuwa yakhbiṭu fī mālihi, yunfiquhu fī ghayri ḥaqqihi, warajulun lam yuʾtihi mālan walā ʿilman, fahuwa yaqūlu: law kāna lī mithlu māli hadhā ʿamiltu fīhi mithla al-dhī yaʿmalu qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “fahumā fī al-wizri sawāʾun”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Abū Kabshah al-Anmārī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The likeness of this community is that of four men. One is given wealth and knowledge by Allah, and he acts upon his knowledge in managing his wealth, spending it where it is due. Another is given knowledge but not wealth, and he says, ‘If I possessed wealth like this man’s, I would do with it as he does.’” The Messenger of Allah said: “The two are equal in reward. A third is given wealth but not knowledge, and he blunders about with his wealth, spending it where it is not due. The fourth is given neither wealth nor knowledge, and he says, ‘If I possessed wealth like this man’s, I would do with it as he does.’” The Messenger of Allah said: “The two are equal in sin.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ صِلَةَ بْنِ زُفَرَ الْعَبْسِيِّ، عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ قَالَ: ثَلَاثٌ مَنْ جَمَعَهُنَّ جَمَعَ الْإِيمَانَ: الْإِنْصَافُ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ، وَالْإِنْفَاقُ مِنَ الْإِقْتَارِ، وَبَذْلُ السَّلَامِ لِلْعَالِمِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ṣilata bni zufara al-ʿabsiyyi, ʿan ʿammāri bni yāsirin qāla: thalāthun man jamaʿahunna jamaʿa al-ʾīmāna: al-ʾinṣāfu min nafsihi, wa-l-ʾinfāqu mina al-ʾiqtāri, wabadhlu al-salāmi li-l-ʿālimi

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Ṣilah ibn Zufar al-ʿAbsī, from ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, who said: “Whoever combines three qualities has combined the whole of faith: dealing justly even against oneself, spending despite straitened means, and offering greetings of peace to everyone.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ رَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يُزَحْزَحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَيَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ، فَلْتُدْرِكْهُ مَنِيَّتُهُ، وَهُوَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ، وَيَأْتِي إِلَى النَّاسِ مَا يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُؤْتَى إِلَيْهِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan zaydi bni wahbin al-juhaniyyi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ʿabdi rabbi al-kaʿbati, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: man ʾaḥabba ʾan yuzaḥzaḥa ʿani al-nāri wayadkhula al-jannata, faltudrikhu maniyyatuhu, wahuwa yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ākhiri, wayaʾtī ʾilā al-nāsi mā yuḥibbu ʾan yuʾtā ʾilayhi

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Zayd ibn Wahb al-Juhanī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Rabb al-Kaʿbah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever wishes to be drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise should let death find him believing in Allah and the Last Day, and should treat people as he would love to be treated.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جَوْشَنِ الْغَطَفَانِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا مِنْ ذَنْبٍ أَجْدَرُ أَنْ يُعَجِّلَ اللَّهُ لِصَاحِبِهِ الْعُقُوبَةَ فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعَ مَا يُدَّخَرُ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْبَغْيِ وَقَطِيعَةِ الرَّحِمِ»

ḥaddathanā ʿuyaynatu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni jawshani al-ghaṭafāniyyu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī bakrata, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā min dhanbin ʾajdaru ʾan yuʿajjila Allāhu liṣāḥibihi al-ʿuqūbata fī al-dunyā maʿa mā yuddakharu lahu fī al-ākhirati mina al-baghyi waqaṭīʿati al-raḥimi”

ʿUyaynah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jawshan al-Ghaṭafānī related to us, from his father, from Abū Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No sin is more deserving that Allah should hasten punishment for its perpetrator in this world, in addition to what He stores for him in the Hereafter, than oppression and severing ties of kinship.”

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بَابُ فَضْلِ عَمَلِ السِّرِّ

bābu faḍli ʿamali al-sirri

Chapter: The merit of deeds done in secret

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ ابْنِ أَخِي أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَعْمَلُ الْعَمَلَ لِلَّهِ يُحِبُّهُ النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِ؟ قَالَ: «تِلْكَ عَاجِلُ بُشْرَى الْمُؤْمِنِ»

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʾabī ʿimrāna al-jawniyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-ṣāmiti ʾabni ʾakhī ʾabī dharrin, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾaraʾayta al-rajula yaʿmalu al-ʿamala li-llāhi yuḥibbuhu al-nāsu ʿalayhi? qāla: “tilka ʿājilu bushrā al-muʾmini”

Shuʿbah related to us, from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāmit, the son of Abū Dharr’s brother, from Abū Dharr, who asked: “Messenger of Allah, what do you say of a man who performs a deed for Allah and is loved by people because of it?” He replied: “That is the believer’s glad tidings brought forward into this life.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ ذَكْوَانَ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي أَعْمَلُ الْعَمَلَ، فَأَسْتُرُهُ، فَيُطَّلَعُ عَلَيْهِ، فَيُعْجِبُنِي؟ قَالَ: لَكَ أَجْرَانِ: أَجْرُ السِّرِّ، وَأَجْرُ الْعَلَانِيَةِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan dhakwāna ʾabī ṣāliḥin, qāla: jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾinnī ʾaʿmalu al-ʿamala, faʾasturuhu, fayuṭṭalaʿu ʿalayhi, fayuʿjibunī? qāla: laka ʾajrāni: ʾajru al-sirri, waʾajru al-ʿalāniyati

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Dhakwān Abū Ṣāliḥ, who said: A man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said: “Messenger of Allah, I perform a deed and conceal it; then it is discovered and that pleases me.” He replied: “You have two rewards: the reward of secrecy and the reward of openness.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَمَّنْ سَمِعَ مُجَاهِدًا يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَرَأَيْتَ الرَّجُلَ يَتَصَدَّقُ بِالصَّدَقَةِ، يَلْتَمِسُ بِهَا وَجْهَ اللَّهِ، وَيُحِبُّ أَنْ يُقَالَ لَهُ خَيْرًا، قَالَ: فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ: {فَمَنْ كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ، فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا، وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدًا} [الْكَهْفُ: 110]

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿamman samiʿa mujāhidan yaqūlu: qāla rajulun: yā rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾaraʾayta al-rajula yataṣaddaqu bi-l-ṣadaqati, yaltamisu bihā wajha Allāhi, wayuḥibbu ʾan yuqāla lahu khayran, qāla: fanazalat hadhihi al-āyatu: {faman kāna yarjū liqāʾa rabbihi, falyaʿmal ʿamalan ṣāliḥan, walā yushrik biʿibādati rabbihi ʾaḥadan} [al-kahfu: 110]

Sufyān related to us, from someone who heard Mujāhid say: A man asked, “Messenger of Allah, what do you say about a man who gives charity seeking Allah’s countenance but also likes people to speak well of him?” Then this verse was revealed: {Whoever hopes to meet his Lord, let him do righteous work and associate no one in the worship of his Lord} [al-Kahf 18:110].

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ رُفَيْعٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ: ثُمَامَةَ أَوْ أَبَا ثُمَامَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ لِعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ: مَا الْخَالِصُ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ؟ قَالَ: مَا لَا تُحِبُّ أَنْ يَحَمْدَكَ النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِ. قَالُوا: فَمَا النُّصْحُ لِلَّهِ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ تَبْدَأَ بِحَقِّ اللَّهِ قَبْلَ حَقِّ النَّاسِ، وَإِذَا عَرَضَ لَكَ أَمْرَانِ: أَحَدُهُمَا لِلَّهِ، وَالْآخِرُ لِلدُّنْيَا، بَدَأْتَ حَقَّ اللَّهِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi bni rufayʿin, ʿan rajulin yuqālu lahu: thumāmata ʾaw ʾabā thumāmata, qāla: qāla al-ḥawāriyyūna liʿīsā ʾabni maryama: mā al-khāliṣu mina al-ʿamali? qāla: mā lā tuḥibbu ʾan yaḥamdaka al-nāsu ʿalayhi. qālū: famā al-nuṣḥu li-llāhi? qāla: ʾan tabdaʾa biḥaqqi Allāhi qabla ḥaqqi al-nāsi, waʾidhā ʿaraḍa laka ʾamrāni: ʾaḥaduhumā li-llāhi, wa-l-ākhiru li-l-dunyā, badaʾta ḥaqqa Allāhi

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, from a man called Thumāmah—or Abū Thumāmah—who said: The disciples asked Jesus son of Mary, “What is a deed performed with complete sincerity?” He replied: “One for which you do not wish people to praise you.” They asked: “What does sincerity toward Allah mean?” He replied: “That you put Allah’s due before people’s due. If two matters present themselves to you, one for Allah and the other for this world, you begin with Allah’s due.”

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حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْعَالِيَةِ يَقُولُ: «إِذَا تَصَدَّقْتَ بِيَمِينِكَ، فَأَخْفِهِ مِنْ شِمَالِكَ»

ḥaddathanā khālidu bnu dīnārin qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā al-ʿāliyati yaqūlu: “ʾidhā taṣaddaqta biyamīnika, faʾakhfihi min shimālika”

Khālid ibn Dīnār related to us. He said: I heard Abū al-ʿĀliyah say: “When you give charity with your right hand, conceal it from your left.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ أَبِي رَاشِدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ: {مَنْ كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ} قَالَ: ثَوَابَ رَبِّهِ

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ʾabī rāshidin, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin: {man kāna yarjū liqāʾa rabbihi} qāla: thawāba rabbihi

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Abī Rāshid related to us, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, concerning {Whoever hopes to meet his Lord} [al-Kahf 18:110]. He said: “For the reward of his Lord.”

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بَابُ مَنْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ الْخُلْوَةَ

bābu man kāna yuḥibbu al-khulwata

Chapter: Those who loved seclusion

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: «إِنَّ فِي الْعُزْلَةِ رَاحَةً مِنْ خِلَاطِ السُّوءِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾismāʿīla bni ʾumayyata qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: “ʾinna fī al-ʿuzlati rāḥatan min khilāṭi al-sūʾi”

Sufyān related to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “Seclusion brings relief from mixing with bad company.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: «نِعْمَ صَوْمَعَةُ الرَّجُلِ بَيْتُهُ يَكُفُّ فِيهَا بَصَرَهُ وَلِسَانَهُ، وَإِيِّاكُمْ وَالسُّوقَ فَإِنَّهَا تُلْغِي وَتُلْهِي»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan thawri bni yazīda, ʿan sulaymi bni ʿāmirin, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla: “niʿma ṣawmaʿatu al-rajuli baytuhu yakuffu fīhā baṣarahu walisānahu, waʾiyyiākum wa-l-sūqa faʾinnahā tulghī watulhī”

Sufyān related to us, from Thawr ibn Yazīd, from Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: “A man’s home is a fine hermitage, in which he can restrain his gaze and his tongue. Beware of the marketplace, for it draws one into idle talk and distracts.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ: «مَنِ اسْتَطَاعَ مِنْكُمْ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُ خَبِئٌ مِنْ عَمَلٍ صَالِحٍ فَلْيَفْعَلْ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: qāla al-zubayru bnu al-ʿawwāmi: “mani ʾastaṭāʿa minkum ʾan yakūna lahu khabiʾun min ʿamalin ṣāliḥin falyafʿal”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: Al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām said: “Whoever among you is able to keep a righteous deed hidden in reserve should do so.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ: «خُذُوا حَظَّكُمْ مِنَ الْعُزْلَةِ»

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan khubaybi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ḥafṣi bni ʿāṣimin qāla: qāla ʿumaru: “khudhū ḥaẓẓakum mina al-ʿuzlati”

Shuʿbah related to us, from Khubayb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim, who said: ʿUmar said: “Take your share of seclusion.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عُبْيَدِ اللَّهِ: «أَقَلٌّ لِعَيْبِ الْمَرْءِ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ فِي دَارِهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: qāla ṭalḥatu bnu ʿubyadi Allāhi: “ʾaqallun liʿaybi al-marʾi ʾan yajlisa fī dārihi”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh said: “A person has fewer faults when he remains in his home.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ: طُوبَى لِمَنْ خَزَنَ لِسَانَهُ، وَوَسِعَهُ بَيْتُهُ، وَبَكَى مِنْ ذِكْرِ خَطِيئَتِهِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, qāla: qāla ʿīsā ʾabnu maryama: ṭūbā liman khazana lisānahu, wawasiʿahu baytuhu, wabakā min dhikri khaṭīʾatihi

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, who said: Jesus son of Mary said: “Blessed is the one who restrains his tongue, finds his home sufficient, and weeps at the memory of his sin.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ لِابْنِهِ: «يَا بُنَيَّ لِيَسَعْكَ بَيْتُكَ، وَامْلِكْ عَلَيْكَ لِسَانَكَ، وَابْكِ مِنْ ذِكْرِ خَطِيئَتِكَ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi liābnihi: “yā bunayya liyasaʿka baytuka, wāmlik ʿalayka lisānaka, wābki min dhikri khaṭīʾatika”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: ʿAbd Allāh told his son: “My son, let your home suffice you, keep control of your tongue, and weep at the memory of your sin.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ الْبَطِينِ قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ شَرَافَ، فَإِذَا شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ مِنْ طَيٍّ يُقَالُ لَهُ: عَدَسَةَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: إِنِّي لِأَرَى هَذَا قَدْ لَقِيَ بَعْضَ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ مَرَّ بِنَا ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ هَاهُنَا، فَأَهْدَى لَهُ أَهْلِي شَيْئًا مِنْ إِقِطٍ وَسَمْنٍ وَطَيْرٍ جَاءَتْ بِهِ رِعَانَا مِنْ مَسِيرَةِ أَرْبَعٍ. فَقَالَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي حَيْثُ صِيدَ هَذَا الطَّيْرُ، لَا يُكَلِّمُنِي أَحَدٌ وَلَا أُكَلِّمُهُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan muslimin al-baṭīni qāla: ʾataytu sharāfa, faʾidhā shaykhun kabīrun min ṭayyin yuqālu lahu: ʿadasata qāla: qultu fī nafsī: ʾinnī liʾarā hadhā qad laqiya baʿḍa ʾaṣḥābi muḥammadin rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fasaʾaltuhu faqāla: naʿam marra binā ʾabnu masʿūdin hāhunā, faʾahdā lahu ʾahlī shayʾan min ʾiqiṭin wasamnin waṭayrin jāʾat bihi riʿānā min masīrati ʾarbaʿin. faqāla ʾabnu masʿūdin: “wadidtu ʾannī ḥaythu ṣīda hadhā al-ṭayru, lā yukallimunī ʾaḥadun walā ʾukallimuhu”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Muslim al-Baṭīn, who said: I came to Sharāf and found an elderly man of Ṭayyiʾ called ʿAdasah. I thought to myself, “This man must have met some of the Companions of Muḥammad, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.” I asked him and he replied: “Yes. Ibn Masʿūd passed us here. My family gave him some dried yogurt, clarified butter, and a bird that our shepherds had brought from a journey of four days. Ibn Masʿūd said, ‘I wish I were at the place where this bird was hunted, with no one speaking to me and me speaking to no one.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: كَانَ أَصْحَابَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ يُفْتُونَ وَيُقْرِئُونَ الْقُرْآنَ: عَلْقَمَةُ، وَالْأَسْوَدُ، وَمَسْرُوقٌ، وَعَمْرُو بْنُ شُرَحْبِيلَ، وَعَبِيدَةُ السَّلْمَانِيُّ، وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الْجُعْفِيُّ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, qāla: kāna ʾaṣḥāba ʿabdi Allāhi al-dhīna yuftūna wayuqriʾūna al-qurāna: ʿalqamatu, wa-l-ʾaswadu, wamasrūqun, waʿamrū bnu shuraḥbīla, waʿabīdatu al-salmāniyyu, wa-l-ḥārithu bnu qaysin al-juʿfiyyu

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, who said: “The companions of ʿAbd Allāh who issued legal opinions and taught the Qurʾan were ʿAlqamah, al-Aswad, Masrūq, ʿAmr ibn Shuraḥbīl, ʿAbīdah al-Salmānī, and al-Ḥārith ibn Qays al-Juʿfī.”

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بَابُ مَنْ كَرِهَ التَّسْوِيفَ فِي الْعَمَلِ

bābu man kariha al-taswīfa fī al-ʿamali

Chapter: Those who disliked postponing good deeds

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ قَالَ: إِذَا كُنْتَ فِي أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا فَتَوَحَّ، وَإِذَا كُنْتَ فِي أَمْرِ الْآخِرَةِ فَتَمَكَّثْ، وَإِذَا هَمَمْتَ بِخَيْرٍ فَلَا تُؤَخِّرْ، وَإِذَا أَتَاكَ الشَّيْطَانُ وَأَنْتَ تُصَلِّي، فَقَالَ: إِنَّكَ تُرَائِي، فَزِدْهَا طُولًا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan khaythamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿani al-ḥārithi bni qaysin al-juʿfiyyi qāla: ʾidhā kunta fī ʾamri al-dunyā fatawaḥḥa, waʾidhā kunta fī ʾamri al-ākhirati fatamakkath, waʾidhā hamamta bikhayrin falā tuʾakhkhir, waʾidhā ʾatāka al-shayṭānu waʾanta tuṣallī, faqāla: ʾinnaka turāʾī, fazidhā ṭūlan

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from al-Ḥārith ibn Qays al-Juʿfī, who said: “When occupied with a worldly matter, move swiftly past it; when occupied with a matter of the Hereafter, linger over it. When you intend something good, do not postpone it. If Satan comes while you are praying and says, ‘You are only showing off,’ then make the prayer still longer.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ حَمْزَةَ الْعَبْدِيِّ ثَنَا أَشْيَاخُنَا قَالُوا: خَرَجَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ، فَنَادَى: يَا ذَا وَلَمْ يُنَاجِ نَجَاءً فَقَالَ: الْمِرْطَاطُ بِشَاطِئِ الْفُرَاتِ - طَرِيقُ بُغْيَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ هِرَابٌ مِنَ الدَّجَّالِ. قَالَ: فَمَا يَنْتَظِرُونَ بِالْعَمَلِ؟ أَخُرُوجَ الدَّجَّالِ، فَبِئْسَ الْمُنْتَظَرُ، أَوْ قِيَامَ السَّاعَةِ؟ فَالسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَى وَأَمَرُّ، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ حَصَاةً، فَقَالَ بِهَا هَكَذَا عَلَى ظُفْرِهِ: مَا خُرُوجُ الدَّجَّالِ بِأَنْقَصَ لِإِيمَانِ مُؤْمِنٍ إِلَّا مَا نَقَصَ هَذِهِ الْحَصَاةُ مِنْ ظُفْرِي

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ḥamzata al-ʿabdiyyi thanā ʾashyākhunā qālū: kharaja ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin, fanādā: yā dhā walam yunāji najāʾan faqāla: al-mirṭāṭu bishāṭiʾi al-furāti - ṭarīqu bughyati al-muʾminīna hirābun mina al-dajjāli. qāla: famā yantaẓirūna bi-l-ʿamali? ʾakhurūja al-dajjāli, fabiʾsa al-muntaẓaru, ʾaw qiyāma al-sāʿati? fa-l-sāʿatu ʾadhā waʾamarru, thumma ʾakhadha ḥaṣātan, faqāla bihā hakadhā ʿalā ẓufrihi: mā khurūju al-dajjāli biʾanqaṣa liʾīmāni muʾminin ʾillā mā naqaṣa hadhihi al-ḥaṣātu min ẓufrī

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Ḥamzah al-ʿAbdī; our shaykhs related to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd went out and called aloud, rather than speaking privately: “Al-Marṭāṭ, on the bank of the Euphrates, is the road sought by believers fleeing from the Antichrist.” He then said: “What are people waiting for before they act? The emergence of the Antichrist? What a dreadful thing to await! Or the onset of the Hour? The Hour is more calamitous and more bitter.” Then he took a pebble and rubbed it against his fingernail, saying: “The emergence of the Antichrist will diminish a believer’s faith no more than this pebble has diminished my fingernail.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ: «التُّؤَدَةُ فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَيْرٌ، إِلَّا مَا كَانَ فِي أَمْرِ الْآخِرَةِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan māliki bni al-ḥārithi qāla: qāla ʿumaru: “al-tuʾadatu fī kulli shayʾin khayrun, ʾillā mā kāna fī ʾamri al-ākhirati”

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith, who said: ʿUmar said: “Deliberation is good in everything except a matter of the Hereafter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: بَادِرُوا بِالْأَعْمَالِ سِتًّا: طُلُوعَ الشَّمْسِ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا، وَالدَّجَّالَ، وَدَابَّةَ الْأَرْضِ، وَيَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ، وَخُوَيْصَّةَ أَحَدِكُمْ

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: bādirū bi-l-ʾaʿmāli sittan: ṭulūʿa al-shamsi min maghribihā, wa-l-dajjāla, wadābbata al-ʾarḍi, wayaʾjūja wamaʾjūja, wakhuwayṣṣata ʾaḥadikum

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Hasten to perform good deeds before six things: the sun rising in the west, the Antichrist, the Beast of the Earth, Gog and Magog, and the private affair of any one of you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَصْحَابُنَا، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: أُنْذِرُكُمْ سَوْفَ

ḥaddathanā ʾaṣḥābunā, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa ʿan rajulin min ʿabdi al-qaysi ʾannahu kāna yaqūlu: ʾundhirukum sawfa

Our companions related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from a man of ʿAbd al-Qays who used to say: “I warn you against saying, ‘I will do it later.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ: {بَلْ يُرِيدُ الْإِنْسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 5] قَالَ: يَقُولُ: «سَوْفَ أَتُوبُ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin: {bal yurīdu al-ʾinsānu liyafjura ʾamāmahu} [al-qiyāmatu: 5] qāla: yaqūlu: “sawfa ʾatūbu”

My father related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, concerning {But man desires to persist in sin ahead of him} [al-Qiyāmah 75:5]. He said: “He says, ‘I will repent later.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، حَدَّثَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ عَرَبِيٍّ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ: {بَلْ يُرِيدُ الْإِنْسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُ} [الْقِيَامَةُ: 5] قَالَ: قُدُمًا لَا يُنْزَعُ مِنْ فُجُورِهِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ḥaddathanā al-naḍru bnu ʿarabiyyin, ʿan ʿikrimata: {bal yurīdu al-ʾinsānu liyafjura ʾamāmahu} [al-qiyāmatu: 5] qāla: quduman lā yunzaʿu min fujūrihi

Sufyān related to us; al-Naḍr ibn ʿArabī related to us, from ʿIkrimah, concerning {But man desires to persist in sin ahead of him} [al-Qiyāmah 75:5]. He said: “He presses ever onward, never desisting from his wickedness.”

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بَابُ مَنْ يُخَالِفُ قَوْلُهُ عَمَلَهُ

bābu man yukhālifu qawluhu ʿamalahu

Chapter: When one’s words contradict one’s deeds

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ عِمَرَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، وَمِسْعَرٍ، عَنْ مَعْنٍ قَالَا قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ أَحْسَنُوا الْقَوْلَ كُلُّهُمْ، فَمَنْ وَافَقَ قَوْلُهُ فِعْلَهُ فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي أَصَابَ حَظَّهُ، وَمَنْ خَالَفَ قَوْلُهُ فِعْلَهُ، فَإِنَّمَا يُوبِّخُ نَفْسَهُ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan ʿimarāna bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, wamisʿarin, ʿan maʿnin qālā qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾinna al-nāsa qad ʾaḥsanū al-qawla kulluhum, faman wāfaqa qawluhu fiʿlahu fadhalika al-dhī ʾaṣāba ḥaẓẓahu, waman khālafa qawluhu fiʿlahu, faʾinnamā yūbbikhu nafsahu”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from ʿImrān ibn Abī al-Jaʿd; and Misʿar related from Maʿn. They both said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Everyone has learned to speak well. The one whose actions agree with his words is the one who has attained his share; the one whose actions contradict his words merely rebukes himself.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ قَالَ: كَانَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ يَقُولُ: «قُولُوا خَيْرًا تُعْرَفُوا بِهِ، وَاعْمَلُوا بِهِ تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ، وَلَا تَكُونُوا عُجُلًا مَذَايِيعَ بُذُرًا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan zubaydin qāla: kāna ʾabnu masʿūdin yaqūlu: “qūlū khayran tuʿrafū bihi, wāʿmalū bihi takūnū min ʾahlihi, walā takūnū ʿujulan madhāyīʿa budhuran”

Sufyān related to us, from Zubayd, who said: Ibn Masʿūd used to say: “Speak good so that you become known for it, and act upon it so that you become one of its people. Do not be hasty people who broadcast everything and scatter things recklessly.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سِنَانٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ: {إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ وَالْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ} [فَاطِرٌ: 10]، قَالَ: «الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُ الْكَلَامَ الطَّيِّبَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū sinānin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin: {ʾilayhi yaṣʿadu al-kalimu al-ṭayyibu wa-l-ʿamalu al-ṣāliḥu yarfaʿuhu} [fāṭirun: 10], qāla: “al-ʿamalu al-ṣāliḥu yarfaʿu al-kalāma al-ṭayyiba”

Abū Sinān related to us, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, concerning {To Him ascends good speech, and righteous action raises it} [Fāṭir 35:10]. He said: “Righteous action raises good speech.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَالْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَا: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنِّي لَأَحْسَبُ الرَّجُلَ يَنْسَى الْعِلْمَ كَانَ يَعْلَمُهُ لِلْخَطِيئَةِ يَعْمَلُهَا»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, wa-l-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-ḥasani bni saʿdin ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ʿabdi Allāhi qālā: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾinnī laʾaḥsabu al-rajula yansā al-ʿilma kāna yaʿlamuhu li-l-khaṭīʾati yaʿmaluhā”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; and al-Masʿūdī related from al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿd, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh. They both said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “I believe that a man forgets knowledge he once possessed because of a sin he commits.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُنَبِّهٍ السَّعْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَوْفَى بْنِ دِلْهَمٍ الْعَدَوِيِّ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا عَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «تَعَلَّمُوا الْعِلْمَ تُعْرَفُوا بِهِ، وَاعْمَلُوا بِهِ تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ، فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِي مِنْ بَعْدِكُمْ زَمَانٌ يُنْكِرُ فِيهِ الْحَقَّ تِسْعَةُ أَعْشَارِهِمْ، لَا يَنْجُو مِنْهُ إِلَّا كُلُّ نُوَمَةٍ، أُولَئِكَ أَئِمَّةُ الْهُدَى وَمَصَابِيحُ الْعِلْمِ، لَيْسُوا بِالْعُجُلِ الْمَذَايِيعِ الْبُذُرِ»

ḥaddathanā ʿumaru bnu munabbihin al-saʿdiyyu, ʿan ʾawfā bni dilhamin al-ʿadawiyyi qāla: balaghanā ʿan ʿaliyyin raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu ʾannahu qāla: “taʿallamū al-ʿilma tuʿrafū bihi, wāʿmalū bihi takūnū min ʾahlihi, faʾinnahu sayaʾtī min baʿdikum zamānun yunkiru fīhi al-ḥaqqa tisʿatu ʾaʿshārihim, lā yanjū minhu ʾillā kullu nuwamatin, ʾūlaʾika ʾaʾimmatu al-hudā wamaṣābīḥu al-ʿilmi, laysū bi-l-ʿujuli al-madhāyīʿi al-budhuri”

ʿUmar ibn Munabbih al-Saʿdī related to us, from Awfā ibn Dilham al-ʿAdawī, who said: We were told that ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, said: “Acquire knowledge so that you become known for it, and act upon it so that you become one of its people. A time will come after you when nine tenths of its people will reject the truth. None will be saved except every person who remains unnoticed. They are the leaders of guidance and lamps of knowledge; they are not hasty people who broadcast everything and scatter things recklessly.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: «يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَجْتَمِعُونَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، لَيْسَ فِيهِمْ مُؤْمِنٌ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan khaythamata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara qāla: “yaʾtī ʿalā al-nāsi zamānun yajtamiʿūna fī al-masjidi, laysa fīhim muʾminun”

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Khaythamah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said: “A time will come when people gather in a mosque without a single believer among them.”

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بَابُ قِلَّةِ الذُّنُوبِ

bābu qillati al-dhunūbi

Chapter: Having few sins

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ: سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: أَرَأَيْتَ رَجُلًا كَثِيرَ الذُّنُوبِ كَثِيرَ الْعَمَلِ، أَوْ رَجُلًا قَلِيلَ الذُّنُوبِ، قَلِيلَ الْعَمَلِ؟ قَالَ: «مَا أَعْدِلُ بِالسِّلَامَةِ شَيْئًا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yaḥyā bni saʿīdin, ʿani al-qāsimi bni muḥammadin qāla: saʾala rajulun ʾabna ʿabbāsin qāla: ʾaraʾayta rajulan kathīra al-dhunūbi kathīra al-ʿamali, ʾaw rajulan qalīla al-dhunūbi, qalīla al-ʿamali? qāla: “mā ʾaʿdilu bi-l-silāmati shayʾan”

Sufyān related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿd, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, who said: A man asked Ibn ʿAbbās, “What do you say of a man with many sins and many deeds, as compared with a man with few sins and few deeds?” He replied: “I would not exchange freedom from sin for anything.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: «أَقِلُّوا الذُّنُوبَ، فَإِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَلْقَوُا اللَّهَ بِشَيْءٍ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ قِلَّةِ الذُّنُوبِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥammādin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: “ʾaqillū al-dhunūba, faʾinnakum lan talqawuā Allāha bishayʾin ʾafḍala min qillati al-dhunūbi”

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: “Keep your sins few, for you will meet Allah with nothing better than few sins.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الرُّقَاشِيِّ، وَكَانَ غَزَا مَعَ عُمَرَ سَبْعَ غَزَوَاتٍ قَالَ: «لَا يُلْهِيَنَّكَ النَّاسُ عَنْ ذَاتِ نَفْسِكَ، فَإِنَّ الْأَمْرَ يَخْلُصُ إِلَيْكَ دُونَهُمْ، وَلَا تَقْطَعِ النَّهَارَ بِكَيْتَ وَكَيْتَ، فَإِنَّهُ مَحْفُوظٌ عَلَيْكَ مَا قُلْتَ، وَلَمْ تَرَ شَيْئًا أَحْسَنَ طَلَبًا وَلَا أَسْرَعَ إِدْرَاكًا مِنْ حَسَنَةٍ حَدِيثَةٍ لِذَنْبٍ قَدِيمٍ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni sulaymāna, ʿan fuḍayli bni zaydin al-ruqāshiyyi, wakāna ghazā maʿa ʿumara sabʿa ghazawātin qāla: “lā yulhiyannaka al-nāsu ʿan dhāti nafsika, faʾinna al-ʾamra yakhluṣu ʾilayka dūnahum, walā taqṭaʿi al-nahāra bikayta wakayta, faʾinnahu maḥfūẓun ʿalayka mā qulta, walam tara shayʾan ʾaḥsana ṭalaban walā ʾasraʿa ʾidrākan min ḥasanatin ḥadīthatin lidhanbin qadīmin”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, from Fuḍayl ibn Zayd al-Ruqāshī, who had campaigned alongside ʿUmar on seven expeditions. He said: “Do not let people distract you from the state of your own soul, for the matter will come to you alone, without them. Do not spend the day talking about so-and-so and such-and-such, for everything you say is recorded against you. I have seen nothing that seeks more beautifully, or catches more swiftly, than a recent good deed pursuing an old sin.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَشْيَاخُنَا قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ: «تَعَلَّمُوا الْعِلْمَ وَتَعَلَّمُوا لِلْعِلْمِ السَّكِينَةَ وَالْحِلْمَ، وَتَوَاضَعُوا لِمَنْ تَعَلَّمُونَ وَلْيَتَوَاضَعْ لَكُمْ مَنْ تُعَلِّمُونَ، وَلَا تَكُونُوا مِنْ جَبَابِرَةِ الْعُلَمَاءِ، فَلَا يَقُومُ لِعِلْمِكُمْ مَعَ جَهْلِكُمْ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʿalāʾu bnu ʿabdi al-karīmi, ḥaddathanā ʾashyākhunā qāla: qāla ʿumaru: “taʿallamū al-ʿilma wataʿallamū li-l-ʿilmi al-sakīnata wa-l-ḥilma, watawāḍaʿū liman taʿallamūna walyatawāḍaʿ lakum man tuʿallimūna, walā takūnū min jabābirati al-ʿulamāʾi, falā yaqūmu liʿilmikum maʿa jahlikum”

Al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm related to us; our shaykhs related to us, saying: ʿUmar said: “Acquire knowledge, and acquire tranquility and forbearance along with it. Humble yourselves before those from whom you learn, and let those whom you teach humble themselves before you. Do not be tyrannical scholars, lest your knowledge fail to stand alongside your ignorance.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: «لَا يَبْلُغُ عَبْدٌ حَقِيقَةَ الْإِيمَانِ حَتَّى يَعُدُّهُ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ حَمْقَى فِي دِينِهِمْ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara qāla: “lā yablughu ʿabdun ḥaqīqata al-ʾīmāni ḥattā yaʿudduhu baʿḍu al-nāsi ḥamqā fī dīnihim”

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: “A servant does not attain the true reality of faith until some people regard him as foolish in matters of their religion.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي صُولِحْتُ عَلَى أَنْ أَعْمَلَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ تِسْعَ خَطِيئَاتٍ وَحَسَنَةً»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “wadidtu ʾannī ṣūliḥtu ʿalā ʾan ʾaʿmala kulla yawmin tisʿa khaṭīʾātin waḥasanatan”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “I wish I could settle for committing nine sins and one good deed each day.”

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بَابُ التَّوْبَةِ وَحِفْظِ اللِّسَانِ

bābu al-tawbati waḥifẓi al-lisāni

Chapter: Repentance and guarding the tongue

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَحْوَلِ، عَنِ الشِّعْبِيِّ قَالَ: التَّائِبُ مِنَ الذَّنْبِ كَمَنْ لَا ذَنْبَ لَهُ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: {إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ التَّوَّابِينَ، وَيُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 222]

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni sulaymāna al-ʾaḥwali, ʿani al-shiʿbiyyi qāla: al-tāʾibu mina al-dhanbi kaman lā dhanba lahu, thumma qaraʾa: {ʾinna Allāha yuḥibbu al-tawwābīna, wayuḥibbu al-mutaṭahhirīna} [al-baqaratu: 222]

Sufyān related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān al-Aḥwal, from al-Shaʿbī, who said: “One who repents from a sin is like one who has no sin.” He then recited: {Allah loves those who repeatedly repent and loves those who purify themselves} [al-Baqarah 2:222].

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: جَالِسُوا التَّوَّابِينَ فَإِنَّهُمْ أَرَقُّ شَيْءٍ أَفْئِدَةً

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿutbata qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: jālisū al-tawwābīna faʾinnahum ʾaraqqu shayʾin ʾafʾidatan

Misʿar related to us, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “Sit with those who repeatedly repent, for their hearts are the most tender of all.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، أَنَّ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ: «خَائِفًا مُسْتَجِيرًا تَائِبًا مُسْتَغْفِرًا رَاغِبًا رَاهِبًا»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʾanna ʾabna masʿūdin kāna yaqūlu fī duʿāʾihi: “khāʾifan mustajīran tāʾiban mustaghfiran rāghiban rāhiban”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Abū Yaḥyā, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who reported that Ibn Masʿūd used to say in his supplication: “Fearful, seeking refuge; repentant, asking forgiveness; full of hope, full of awe.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَوْفٍ الْأَعْرَابِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْمِنْهَالِ سَيَّارِ بْنِ سَلَامَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ: {يُحِبُّ التَّوَّابِينَ وَيُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 222] مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿawfin al-ʾaʿrābiyyi ʿan ʾabī al-minhāli sayyāri bni salāmata, ʿan ʾabī al-ʿāliyati: {yuḥibbu al-tawwābīna wayuḥibbu al-mutaṭahhirīna} [al-baqaratu: 222] mina al-dhunūbi

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAwf al-Aʿrābī, from Abū al-Minhāl Sayyār ibn Salāmah, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah, concerning {He loves those who repeatedly repent and loves those who purify themselves} [al-Baqarah 2:222]. He said: “From sins.”

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حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ: {يُحِبُّ التَّوَّابِينَ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 222] قَالَ: مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ {وَيُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ} [الْبَقَرَةُ: 222] قَالَ: بِالْوُضُوءِ لِلصَّلَاةِ

ḥaddathanā ṭalḥatu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin: {yuḥibbu al-tawwābīna} [al-baqaratu: 222] qāla: mina al-dhunūbi {wayuḥibbu al-mutaṭahhirīna} [al-baqaratu: 222] qāla: bi-l-wuḍūʾi li-l-ṣalāti

Ṭalḥah related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ. Concerning {He loves those who repeatedly repent} [al-Baqarah 2:222], he said: “From sins.” Concerning {and He loves those who purify themselves} [al-Baqarah 2:222], he said: “By performing ablution for prayer.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ، قَالَ: «أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ ذُنُوبًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَكْثَرُهُمْ كَلَامًا فِي الْمَعْصِيَةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan shimri bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan salmāna, qāla: “ʾaktharu al-nāsi dhunūban yawma al-qiyāmati ʾaktharuhum kalāman fī al-maʿṣiyati”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyyah, from Salmān, who said: “The people with the most sins on the Day of Resurrection will be those who spoke the most about sinful things.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ خَبَّابٍ، عَنْ حُصَيْنِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ الْفَزَارِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ ذُنُوبًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَكْثَرُهُمْ خَوْضًا فِي الْبَاطِلِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ṣāliḥi bni khabbābin, ʿan ḥuṣayni bni ʿuqbata al-fazāriyyi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾaktharu al-nāsi dhunūban yawma al-qiyāmati ʾaktharuhum khawḍan fī al-bāṭili”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Khabbāb, from Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿUqbah al-Fazārī, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “The people with the most sins on the Day of Resurrection will be those who plunged most deeply into falsehood.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ حَيَّانَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ عَنْبِسِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «وَاللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهُ غَيْرُهُ، مَا عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْأَرْضِ شَيْءٌ أَحَقُّ بِطُولِ السِّجْنِ مِنَ اللِّسَانِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, wasufyānu, ʿan yazīda bni ḥayyāna al-taymiyyi, ʿan ʿanbisi bni ʿuqbata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “wa-llāhi al-dhī lā ʾilahu ghayruhu, mā ʿalā ẓahri al-ʾarḍi shayʾun ʾaḥaqqu biṭūli al-sijni mina al-lisāni”

Al-Aʿmash and Sufyān related to us, from Yazīd ibn Ḥayyān al-Taymī, from ʿAnbas ibn ʿUqbah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “By Allah, other than whom there is no god, nothing on the face of the earth deserves a longer imprisonment than the tongue.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: أَخَذَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ بِطَرَفِ لِسَانِهِ فَقَالَ: «قُلْ خَيْرًا تَغْنَمْ وَاسْكُتْ تَسْلَمْ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū bakrin al-hudhaliyyu, ʿan qatādata qāla: ʾakhadha ʾabnu ʿabbāsin biṭarafi lisānihi faqāla: “qul khayran taghnam wāskut taslam”

Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī related to us, from Qatādah, who said: Ibn ʿAbbās took hold of the tip of his tongue and said: “Speak good and you will gain; remain silent and you will be safe.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: أَخَذَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بِطَرَفِ لِسَانِهِ فِي مَرَضِهِ، فَجَعَلَ يَلُوكُهُ، وَيَقُولُ: «هَذَا أَوْرَدَنِي الْمَوَارِدَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan zaydi bni ʾaslama, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: ʾakhadha ʾabū bakrin biṭarafi lisānihi fī maraḍihi, fajaʿala yalūkuhu, wayaqūlu: “hadhā ʾawradanī al-mawārida”

Sufyān related to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father, who said: During his illness Abū Bakr took hold of the tip of his tongue, moved it about, and said: “This has brought me to dangerous places.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ: «لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَعْظَمَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مِنَ الْكَلَامِ، وَمَا خَطَا عَبْدٌ خُطْوَةً، إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ أَوْ سَيِّئَةٌ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā, ʿan masrūqin qāla: “laysa shayʾun ʾaʿẓama ʿinda Allāhi mina al-kalāmi, wamā khaṭā ʿabdun khuṭwatan, ʾillā kutiba lahu ḥasanatun ʾaw sayyiʾatun”

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq, who said: “Nothing is more momentous in Allah’s sight than speech, and a servant takes no step without either a good deed or an evil deed being recorded for him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ لِابْنِهِ: «يَا بُنَيَّ امْلِكْ عَلَيْكَ لِسَانَكَ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi liābnihi: “yā bunayya ʾamlik ʿalayka lisānaka”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from al-Qāsim, who said: ʿAbd Allāh told his son: “My son, keep control of your tongue.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْبَخْتَرِيِّ، عَنْ مَنْ سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «لَنْ يُهْلَكَ قَوْمٌ حَتَّى يُعْذَرُوا مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ»

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾabī al-bakhtariyyi, ʿan man samiʿa al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: “lan yuhlaka qawmun ḥattā yuʿdharū min ʾanfusihim”

Shuʿbah related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū al-Bakhtarī, from someone who heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: “A people will not be destroyed until their own conduct has left them without excuse.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الْأَسَدِيُّ، عَنْ مَعْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «لَا تَفْتَرِقُوا فَتَهْلَكُوا»

ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu qaysin al-ʾasadiyyu, ʿan maʿni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “lā taftariqū fatahlakū”

Muḥammad ibn Qays al-Asadī related to us, from Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Do not divide, lest you be destroyed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ جَوَّابٍ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: إِنَّ مِنْ أَحَبِّ الْكَلَامِ إِلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ يَقُولَ الْعَبْدُ: اللَّهُمَّ أَعْتَرِفُ بِالذَّنْبِ، وَأَبُوءُ بِالنِّعْمَةِ فَاغْفِرْ لِي، إِنَّهُ لَا يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan jawwābin al-taymiyyi, ʿani al-ḥārithi bni suwaydin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: ʾinna min ʾaḥabbi al-kalāmi ʾilā Allāhi ʾan yaqūla al-ʿabdu: Allāhumma ʾaʿtarifu bi-l-dhanbi, waʾabūʾu bi-l-niʿmati fāghfir lī, ʾinnahu lā yaghfiru al-dhunūba ʾillā ʾanta

Misʿar related to us, from Jawwāb al-Taymī, from al-Ḥārith ibn Suwayd, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Among the words dearest to Allah are a servant’s words: ‘O Allah, I acknowledge my sin and confess Your blessing, so forgive me; none forgives sins but You.’”

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بَابُ التَّنَظُّفِ

bābu al-tanaẓẓufi

Chapter: Cleanliness

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حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ الْمَكِّيُّ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «نَظِّفُوا أَفْنِيَتِكُمْ، فَإِنَّ الْيَهُودَ أَنْتَنُ النَّاسِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾibrāhīmu al-makkiyyu, ʿan ʿamri bni dīnārin, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “naẓẓifū ʾafniyatikum, faʾinna al-yahūda ʾantanu al-nāsi”

Ibrāhīm al-Makkī related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Abū Jaʿfar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Clean your courtyards, for the Jews are the foulest-smelling of people.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي عَائِشَةَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «تَنَظَّفُوا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan mūsā bni ʾabī ʿāʾishata, ʿan sulaymāna bni saʿdin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “tanaẓẓafū”

Sufyān related to us, from Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah, from Sulaymān ibn Saʿd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Keep yourselves clean.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْبَرَاءَ يَقُولُ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ مِنْ ذِي لِمَّةٍ فِي حُلَّةٍ حَمْرَاءَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، لَهُ شَعْرٌ يَضْرِبُ مَنْكِبَيْهِ، بَعِيدٌ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَنْكِبَيْنِ لَيْسَ بِالْقَصِيرِ، وَلَيْسَ بِالطَّوِيلِ، صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, qāla samiʿtu al-barāʾa yaqūlu: “mā raʾaytu min dhī limmatin fī ḥullatin ḥamrāʾa min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, lahu shaʿrun yaḍribu mankibayhi, baʿīdun mā bayna al-mankibayni laysa bi-l-qaṣīri, walaysa bi-l-ṭawīli, ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, who said: I heard al-Barāʾ say: “I never saw anyone with shoulder-length hair wearing a red suit more handsome than the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. His hair reached his shoulders; he was broad between the shoulders, neither short nor tall—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”

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بَابُ التَّرْتِيلِ فِي الْخُطْبَةِ

bābu al-tartīli fī al-khuṭbati

Chapter: Measured delivery in the sermon

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ شَيْخًا لَمْ يَكُنْ يُسَمِّيهِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا، وَابْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولَانِ: قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا: كَانَ كَلَامُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَرْتِيلًا وَتَرْسِيلًا. وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ: مَا قَامَ رَجُلٌ بِخُطْبَةٍ يُرَائِي بِهَا إِلَّا كَانَ فِي سَخَطِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يَسْكُتَ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun qāla: samiʿtu shaykhan lam yakun yusammīhi, qāla: samiʿtu jābiran, wābna ʿumara yaqūlāni: qāla ʾaḥaduhumā: kāna kalāmu rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama tartīlan watarsīlan. waqāla al-ākharu: mā qāma rajulun bikhuṭbatin yurāʾī bihā ʾillā kāna fī sakhaṭi Allāhi ḥattā yaskuta

Misʿar related to us. He said: I heard an unnamed shaykh say: I heard Jābir and Ibn ʿUmar say—one of them said: “The speech of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was measured and unhurried.” The other said: “No man stands to deliver a sermon for show without remaining under Allah’s displeasure until he falls silent.”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَرَرْتُ لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِي عَلَى قَوْمٍ تُقْرَضُ شِفَاهُهُمْ بِمَقَارِيضَ مِنْ نَارٍ، فَقُلْتُ: مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ؟ قَالَ: هَؤُلَاءِ قَوْمٌ مِنَ الْخُطَبَاءِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا مِمَّنْ كَانُوا يَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَيَنْسَوْنَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ، وَهُمْ يَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ، أَفَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ

ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni zaydin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: marartu laylata ʾusriya bī ʿalā qawmin tuqraḍu shifāhuhum bimaqārīḍa min nārin, faqultu: man haʾulāʾi? qāla: haʾulāʾi qawmun mina al-khuṭabāʾi min ʾahli al-dunyā mimman kānū yaʾmurūna al-nāsa bi-l-birri wayansawna ʾanfusahum, wahum yatlūna al-kitāba, ʾafalā yaʿqilūna

Ḥammād ibn Salamah related to us, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “On the night I was taken on the Night Journey, I passed people whose lips were being cut with scissors of fire. I asked, ‘Who are these?’ It was said: ‘These are worldly preachers who used to command people to be righteous while forgetting themselves, even though they recited the Book. Will they not understand?’”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ يَحْيَى الْقُرَشِيِّ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَالَ: لَعَنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الَّذِينَ يُشَقِّقُونَ الْكَلَامَ تَشْقِيقَ الشِّعْرِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan jābirin, ʿan ʿamri bni yaḥyā al-qurashiyyi, ʿan muʿāwiyata, qāla: laʿana rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-dhīna yushaqqiqūna al-kalāma tashqīqa al-shiʿri

Sufyān related to us, from Jābir, from ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā al-Qurashī, from Muʿāwiyah, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, cursed those who elaborate their speech as poetry is elaborated.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مَعْنُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، ثَنَا الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ: إنَّا نَحْضُرُ الْأُمَرَاءَ، فَنَتَكَلَّمُ بِالشَّيْءِ، يَعْلَمُ اللَّهَ مِنْ قُلُوبِنَا خِلَافَهُ، فَقَالَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ: «كُنَّا نَعُدُّهَا نِفَاقًا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ»

ḥaddathanā maʿnu bnu yazīda, thanā al-ʾaswadu bnu saʿīdin al-hamdāniyyu qāla: qultu liʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara: ʾnnā naḥḍuru al-ʾumarāʾa, fanatakallamu bi-l-shayʾi, yaʿlamu Allāha min qulūbinā khilāfahu, faqāla ʾabnu ʿumara: “kunnā naʿudduhā nifāqan ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi”

Maʿn ibn Yazīd related to us; al-Aswad ibn Saʿd al-Hamdānī related to us, saying: I told ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar: “We attend upon the rulers and say things that Allah knows are contrary to what is in our hearts.” Ibn ʿUmar replied: “In the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, we counted that as hypocrisy.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعُمَيْسِ، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْعَوْفِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: أَقْبَلَ رَجُلَانِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَشْرِقِ، فَتَكَلَّمَ أَحَدُهُمَا, فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ سِحْرًا، أَوْ إِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ لَسِحْرًا»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-ʿumaysi, ʿan ʿaṭiyyata bni saʿdin al-ʿawfiyyi, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara qāla: ʾaqbala rajulāni min ʾahli al-mashriqi, fatakallama ʾaḥaduhumā, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna mina al-bayāni siḥran, ʾaw ʾinna mina al-bayāni lasiḥran”

Abū al-ʿUmays related to us, from ʿAṭiyyah ibn Saʿd al-ʿAwfī, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: Two men from the East arrived, and one of them spoke. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Some eloquence is magic”—or: “Indeed, some eloquence is surely magic.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «الْفِتْنَةُ مِنْ هَاهُنَا وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ نَحْوَ الْمَشْرِقِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni dīnārin, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: “al-fitnatu min hāhunā waʾashāra biyadihi naḥwa al-mashriqi”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: “Tribulation will come from here,” and he gestured with his hand toward the East.

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حَدَّثَنَا نَافِعُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْجُمَحِيُّ، عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُبْغِضُ الْبَلِيغَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ الَّذِي يَتَخَلَّلُ بِلِسَانِهِ تَخُلُّلَ الْبَقَرَةِ بِلِسَانِهَا»

ḥaddathanā nāfiʿu bnu ʿumara al-jumaḥiyyu, ʿan bishri bni ʿāṣimin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha yubghiḍu al-balīgha mina al-rijāli al-dhī yatakhallalu bilisānihi takhullula al-baqarati bilisānihā”

Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar al-Jumaḥī related to us, from Bishr ibn ʿĀṣim, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah detests the grandiloquent man who rolls his tongue through speech as a cow rolls its tongue.”

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بَابُ الرِّيَاءِ

bābu al-riyāʾi

Chapter: Showing off

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ حَسَّانَ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي زَكَرِيَّا قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا رَايَا بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ أَحْبَطَ مَا قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan ḥassāna bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī zakariyyā qāla: balaghanī ʾanna al-rajula ʾidhā rāyā bishayʾin min ʿamalihi ʾaḥbaṭa mā qabla dhalika

Al-Awzāʿī related to us, from Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zakariyyā, who said: “I have been told that when a man makes a display of any part of his deeds, it nullifies what came before it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ كُرْدُوسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ: «الشِّرْكُ أَخْفَى مِنْ دَبِيبِ النَّمْلِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna al-taymiyyi, ʿan kurdūsin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bni masʿūdin: “al-shirku ʾakhfā min dabībi al-namli”

Sufyān related to us, from Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Kurdūs, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: “Associating partners with Allah can be more hidden than the creeping of ants.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، وَعِمَارَةُ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُسْمِعُ مِنْ مُسْمِعٍ وَلَا مُرَاءٍ وَلَا دَاعٍ إِلَّا دَاعٍ دُعَاءً ثَبِتًا مِنْ قَلْبِهِ، وَلَا يَقْبَلُ إِلَّا النَّاخِلَةَ مِنَ الدُّعَاءِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan māliki bni al-ḥārithi, waʿimāratu bnu ʿumayrin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni yazīda, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾinna Allāha lā yusmiʿu min musmiʿin walā murāʾin walā dāʿin ʾillā dāʿin duʿāʾan thabitan min qalbihi, walā yaqbalu ʾillā al-nākhilata mina al-duʿāʾi”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith; and ʿImārah ibn ʿUmayr related from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Allah does not listen to one who seeks to be heard, a show-off, or any supplicant except one whose prayer rises firmly from his heart. He accepts only the purest prayer.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «الْمُنَافِقُ الَّذِي إِذَا صَلَّى رَاءَى بِصَلَاتِهِ، وَإِذَا فَاتَتْهُ لَمْ يَأْسَ عَلَيْهَا، وَيَمْنَعُ زَكَاةَ مَالِهِ»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “al-munāfiqu al-dhī ʾidhā ṣallā rāʾā biṣalātihi, waʾidhā fātathu lam yaʾsa ʿalayhā, wayamnaʿu zakāta mālihi”

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “The hypocrite is one who, when he prays, makes a show of his prayer; when he misses it, feels no regret for it; and withholds the alms due on his wealth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جُنْدَبًا الْعَقْلِيَّ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ يُسَمِّعْ يُسَمِّعِ اللَّهُ بِهِ، وَمَنْ يُرَاءِ يُرَاءِ اللَّهُ بِهِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan salamata bni kuhaylin qāla: samiʿtu jundaban al-ʿaqliyya yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man yusammiʿ yusammiʿi Allāhu bihi, waman yurāʾi yurāʾi Allāhu bihi”

Sufyān related to us, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, who said: I heard Jundab al-ʿAqalī say: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever seeks to make his deeds heard, Allah will expose him; whoever acts for show, Allah will expose him.”

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بَابُ السُّمْعَةِ

bābu al-sumʿati

Chapter: Seeking to be heard and praised

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو يُحَدِّثُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ قَالَ: «مَنْ يُسَمِّعِ النَّاسَ بِعَمَلِهِ، سَمَّعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ سَامِعَ خَلْقِهِ، وَحَقَّرَهُ، وَصَغَّرَهُ»، قَالَ: فَبَكَى ابْنُ عُمَرَ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan rajulin qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿamrin yuḥaddithu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿumara qāla: “man yusammiʿi al-nāsa biʿamalihi, sammaʿa Allāhu bihi sāmiʿa khalqihi, waḥaqqarahu, waṣaghgharahu”, qāla: fabakā ʾabnu ʿumara

Misʿar related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from a man who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr relate to ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar: “Whoever makes people hear of his deeds, Allah will make him known to all His creation who can hear, and will belittle and abase him.” Ibn ʿUmar then wept.

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: «مَنْ يُسَمِّعْ سَمَّعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: “man yusammiʿ sammaʿa Allāhu bihi”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “Whoever seeks to make his deeds heard, Allah will expose him.”

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بَابُ مَنْ قَالَ: الْبَلَاءُ مُوَكَّلٌّ بِالْقَوْلِ

bābu man qāla: al-balāʾu muwakkallun bi-l-qawli

Chapter: Affliction follows speech

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حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْبَلَاءُ مُوَكَّلٌّ بِالْقَوْلِ»

ḥaddathanā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-balāʾu muwakkallun bi-l-qawli”

Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Affliction is entrusted to speech.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «الْبَلَاءُ مُوَكَّلٌّ بِالْقَوْلِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: “al-balāʾu muwakkallun bi-l-qawli”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: “Affliction is entrusted to speech.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَمَّادِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «الْبَلَاءُ مُوَكَّلٌّ بِالْكَلَامِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥammādi, ʿan ʾibrāhīmi, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “al-balāʾu muwakkallun bi-l-kalāmi”

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Affliction is entrusted to words.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: «إِنِّي لِأَرَى الشَّرَّ أَكْرَهُهُ، فَمَا يَمْنَعُنِي أَنْ أَتَكَلَّمَ بِهِ إِلَّا مَخَافَةَ أَنْ أُبْتَلَى بِهِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, qāla: “ʾinnī liʾarā al-sharra ʾakrahuhu, famā yamnaʿunī ʾan ʾatakallama bihi ʾillā makhāfata ʾan ʾubtalā bihi”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, who said: “I may see an evil that I detest, yet nothing prevents me from speaking about it except the fear that I will be afflicted with the same thing.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَ قَالَ: قَالُوا: «لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا يُرْضِعُ عَنْزًا فَسَخِرْتُ مِنْهُ خَشِيتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَهُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿamri bni shuraḥbīla qāla: qālū: “law raʾaytu rajulan yurḍiʿu ʿanzan fasakhirtu minhu khashītu ʾan ʾakūna mithlahu”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Shuraḥbīl, who said: “They used to say: If I saw a man nursing a goat and mocked him, I would fear becoming like him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «اتَّبِعُوا وَلَا تَبْتَدِعُوا، فَقَدْ كُفِيتُمْ، كُلُّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٌ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmani al-sulamiyyi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾattabiʿū walā tabtadiʿū, faqad kufītum, kullu bidʿatin ḍalālatun”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Follow and do not introduce innovations. You have been given all that you need; every innovation is misguidance.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ عِمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ التَّيْمِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «عَلَيْكُمْ بِالسَّمْتِ الْأَوَّلِ، فَإِنَّا الْيَوْمَ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan ʿimārata bni ʿumayrin al-taymiyyi, qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʿalaykum bi-l-samti al-ʾawwali, faʾinnā al-yawma ʿalā al-fiṭrati”

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ʿImārah ibn ʿUmayr al-Taymī, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Hold to the earliest way and bearing, for today we remain upon the natural disposition.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، قَالَ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَهُوَ يَقْرَأُ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ، فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ، فَغَطَّاهُ، وَقَالَ: «لَا يَرَى هَذَا أَنِّي أَقْرَأُ فِيهِ كُلَّ سَاعَةٍ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, qāla: kuntu ʿinda ʾibrāhīma, wahuwa yaqraʾu fī al-muṣḥafi, fadakhala ʿalayhi rajulun, faghaṭṭāhu, waqāla: “lā yarā hadhā ʾannī ʾaqraʾu fīhi kulla sāʿatin”

Al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: I was with Ibrāhīm while he was reading from the written Qurʾan. When a man entered, he covered it and said: “Lest this man think I spend every hour reading from it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، حَدَّثَتْنِي سُرِيَّةُ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ قَالَتْ: كَانَ الرَّبِيعُ يَقْرَأُ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ، فَإِذَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نَاسٌ، غَطَّاهُ، قَالَتْ: وَكَانَ يَأْمُرُ بِالدَّارِ فَتُنَظَّفُ قَالَتْ: وَكَانَ يَعْزِلُ عَنِّي

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ḥaddathatnī suriyyatu al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin qālat: kāna al-rabīʿu yaqraʾu fī al-muṣḥafi, faʾidhā dakhala ʿalayhi nāsun, ghaṭṭāhu, qālat: wakāna yaʾmuru bi-l-dāri fatunaẓẓafu qālat: wakāna yaʿzilu ʿannī

Sufyān related to us. The concubine of al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym told me: “Al-Rabīʿ would read from the written Qurʾan, but when people entered he would cover it. He would order that the house be cleaned, and he practiced withdrawal with me.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: «كَانُوا يَكْرَهُونَ إِذَا اجْتَمَعُوا أَنْ يُخْرِجَ الرَّجُلُ أَحْسَنَ حَدِيثِهِ أَوْ أَحْسَنَ مَا عِنْدَهُ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʿawnin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, qāla: “kānū yakrahūna ʾidhā ʾajtamaʿū ʾan yukhrija al-rajulu ʾaḥsana ḥadīthihi ʾaw ʾaḥsana mā ʿindahu”

Ibn ʿAwn related to us, from Ibrāhīm, who said: “When they gathered, they disliked for a man to bring out his finest conversation or the finest thing he possessed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: «إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيَجْلِسُ مَعَ الْقَوْمِ فَيَرَوْنَ أَنَّ بِهِ عِيًّا، وَمَا بِهِ مِنْ عِيٍّ، إِنَّهُ لَفَقِيهٌ مُسْلِمٌ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yūnusa bni ʿubaydin, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: “ʾin kāna al-rajulu layajlisu maʿa al-qawmi fayarawna ʾanna bihi ʿiyyan, wamā bihi min ʿiyyin, ʾinnahu lafaqīhun muslimun”

Sufyān related to us, from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “A man would sit with a group and they would think him unable to speak, though he had no speech defect at all. He was, rather, a discerning Muslim.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ شَيْخُ الْأَنْصَارِ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ: اللَّهُمَّ ذِكْرًا خَامِلًا لِي وَلِوَلَدِي، لَا يُنْقِصُنَا عِنْدَكَ شَيْئًا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yaḥyā bni saʿīdin, qāla: kāna shaykhu al-ʾanṣāri yaqūlu fī duʿāʾihi: Allāhumma dhikran khāmilan lī waliwaladī, lā yunqiṣunā ʿindaka shayʾan

Sufyān related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿd, who said: An elderly man of the Anṣār used to say in his supplication: “O Allah, grant me and my children an obscure reputation that diminishes nothing of our standing with You.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَبَّانَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ غِنَاي وَغِنَى مَوْلَايَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, qāla ḥaddathanā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin, ʿan muḥammadi bni yaḥyā bni ḥabbāna ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yaqūlu fī duʿāʾihi: Allāhumma ʾinnī ʾasʾaluka ghināy waghinā mawlāya

Sufyān related to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿd related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to say in his supplication: “O Allah, I ask You for my own sufficiency and the sufficiency of those under my care.”

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بَابُ السَّمْتِ الْحَسَنِ وَالْخُشُوعِ

bābu al-samti al-ḥasani wa-l-khushūʿi

Chapter: Dignified bearing and humility

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ قَابُوسَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: «الْهَدْيُ الصَّالِحُ، وَالسَّمْتُ الصَّالِحُ، وَالِاقْتِصَادُ جُزْءٌ مِنْ خَمْسَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ جُزْءًا مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan qābūsa, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin, qāla: “al-hadyu al-ṣāliḥu, wa-l-samtu al-ṣāliḥu, wa-l-ʾaqtiṣādu juzʾun min khamsatin waʿishrīna juzʾan mina al-nubuwwati”

Sufyān related to us, from Qābūs, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “Sound guidance, dignified bearing, and moderation are one part out of twenty-five parts of prophethood.”

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حَدَّثَنَا قَيْسٌ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: «لَا يُشْبِهُ الزِّيُّ الزِّيَّ حَتَّى تُشْبِهَ الْقُلُوبُ الْقُلُوبَ»

ḥaddathanā qaysun, ʿan laythin, ʿan rajulin ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla: “lā yushbihu al-ziyyu al-ziyya ḥattā tushbiha al-qulūbu al-qulūba”

Qays related to us, from Layth, from a man, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: “One mode of dress does not come to resemble another until hearts come to resemble one another.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ: {دَائِمُونَ} [الْمَعَارِجُ: 23] قَالَ: «الْمَكْتُوبَةَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma: {dāʾimūna} [al-maʿāriju: 23] qāla: “al-maktūbata”

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, concerning {who are constant in their prayer} [al-Maʿārij 70:23]. He said: “The prescribed prayer.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: سِيمَاهُمْ فِي وُجُوهِهِمْ مِنْ أَثَرِ السُّجُودِ قَالَ: «الْخُشُوعُ وَالتَّوَاضُعُ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥumaydin al-ʾaʿraji, ʿan mujāhidin: sīmāhum fī wujūhihim min ʾathari al-sujūdi qāla: “al-khushūʿu wa-l-tawāḍuʿu”

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj, from Mujāhid, concerning {Their mark is upon their faces from the trace of prostration} [al-Fatḥ 48:29]. He said: “Reverence and humility.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: «لَيْسَ بِهَذَا الْأَثَرِ الَّذِي فِي الْوَجْهِ، وَلَكِنَّهَا الْخُشُوعُ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: “laysa bihadhā al-ʾathari al-dhī fī al-wajhi, walakinnahā al-khushūʿu”

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said: “It is not this physical mark on the face; it is reverence.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ ضِرَارِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: «الْخُشُوعُ فِي الْقَلْبِ، أَنْ تُلِينَ كَنَفَكَ لِلرَّجُلِ الْمُسْلِمِ وَأَنْ لَا تَلْتَفِتَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʾabī sinānin ḍirāri bni murrata al-shaybāniyyi, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿaliyyin qāla: “al-khushūʿu fī al-qalbi, ʾan tulīna kanafaka li-l-rajuli al-muslimi waʾan lā taltafita fī al-ṣalāti”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Abū Sinān Ḍirār ibn Murrah al-Shaybānī, from a man, from ʿAlī, who said: “Reverence is in the heart: it means being gentle toward a Muslim and not looking around during prayer.”

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بَابُ الْحُبِّ فِي اللَّهِ

bābu al-ḥubbi fī Allāhi

Chapter: Love for Allah’s sake

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَسَعِ الْمَكْفُوفُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَوْثَقُ عُرَى الْإِيمَانِ الْحُبُّ فِي اللَّهِ، وَالْبُغْضُ فِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-yasaʿi al-makfūfu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾawthaqu ʿurā al-ʾīmāni al-ḥubbu fī Allāhi, wa-l-bughḍu fīhi”

Abū al-Yasaʿ al-Makfūf related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The firmest bonds of faith are loving for Allah’s sake and hating for His sake.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ زِيَادٍ الْمُصَفَّرِ قَالَ: أَرَاهُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «مَنْ أَفَادَ أَخًا فِي اللَّهِ رَفَعَهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ziyādin al-muṣaffari qāla: ʾarāhu ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “man ʾafāda ʾakhan fī Allāhi rafaʿahu bihā darajatan”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Ziyād al-Muṣaffar—I believe from al-Ḥasan—who said: “Whoever gains a brother for Allah’s sake is raised one degree by it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، لَا تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى تُؤْمِنُوا وَلَا تُؤْمِنُوا حَتَّى تَحَابُّوا، أَلَا أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ، إِذَا فَعَلْتُمُوهُ تَحَابَبْتُمْ أَفْشُوا السَّلَامَ بَيْنَكُمْ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “wa-l-dhī nafsī biyadihi, lā tadkhulū al-jannata ḥattā tuʾminū walā tuʾminū ḥattā taḥābbū, ʾalā ʾadullukum ʿalā shayʾin, ʾidhā faʿaltumūhu taḥābabtum ʾafshū al-salāma baynakum”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “By the One in whose hand is my soul, you will not enter Paradise until you believe, and you will not believe until you love one another. Shall I guide you to something which, if you do it, will make you love one another? Spread greetings of peace among yourselves.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الْجَحَّافِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْبَخْتَرِيِّ، قَالَ: «إِنَّمَا هُوَ حُبٌّ وَبُغْضٌ وَرِضًا وَسَخَطٌ»، يَعْنِي يُحِبُّ أَهْلَ الْخَيْرِ، وَيَبْغُضُ أَهْلَ الشَّرِّ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī al-jaḥḥāfi, ʿan ʾabī al-bakhtariyyi, qāla: “ʾinnamā huwa ḥubbun wabughḍun wariḍan wasakhaṭun”, yaʿnī yuḥibbu ʾahla al-khayri, wayabghuḍu ʾahla al-sharri

Sufyān related to us, from Abū al-Jaḥḥāf, from Abū al-Bakhtarī, who said: “It is all a matter of love and hate, approval and displeasure”—meaning that one loves the people of goodness and hates the people of evil.

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ بَهْرَامَ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْمُتَحَابِّينَ فِي اللَّهِ عَلَى مَنَابِرَ مِنْ نُورٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-ḥamīdi bnu bahrāma, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna al-mutaḥābbīna fī Allāhi ʿalā manābira min nūrin yawma al-qiyāmati”

ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām related to us, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Those who love one another for Allah’s sake will be upon pulpits of light on the Day of Resurrection.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ مَعْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ، قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: «إِذَا رَزَقَكَ اللَّهُ وُدَّ امْرِئٍ مُسْلِمٍ، فَتَشَبَّثْ بِهِ مَا اسْتَطَعْتَ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan maʿni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿani al-qāsimi, qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: “ʾidhā razaqaka Allāhu wudda ʾamriʾin muslimin, fatashabbath bihi mā ʾastaṭaʿta”

Misʿar related to us, from Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from al-Qāsim, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “When Allah grants you the affection of a Muslim, hold fast to it as much as you can.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ ضَمُرَةَ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ، قَالَ: «مَنْ أَحَبَّ فِي اللَّهِ، وَأَبْغَضَ فِي اللَّهِ وَأَعْطَى لِلَّهِ وَمَنَعَ لِلَّهِ فَقَدِ اسْتَكْمَلَ الْإِيمَانَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḍamurata, ʿan kaʿbin, qāla: “man ʾaḥabba fī Allāhi, waʾabghaḍa fī Allāhi waʾaʿṭā li-llāhi wamanaʿa li-llāhi faqadi ʾastakmala al-ʾīmāna”

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḍamurah, from Kaʿb, who said: “Whoever loves for Allah, hates for Allah, gives for Allah, and withholds for Allah has perfected faith.”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: خَرَجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ، يَزُورُ أَخًا لَهُ فِي قَرْيَةٍ أُخْرَى، فَأَرْصَدَ اللَّهُ عَلَى طَرِيقِهِ مَلَكًا فَقَالَ: أَيْنَ تُرِيدُ؟ قَالَ: أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَزُورَ أَخًا لِي فِي هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ فِي اللَّهِ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ لَهُ: هَلْ لَهُ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ نِعْمَةٍ تَرُبُّهَا؟ قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنِّي أَحْبَبْتُهُ فِي اللَّهِ، قَالَ: فَإِنِّي رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ، إِنَّهُ قَدْ أَحَبَّكَ كَمَا أَحْبَبْتَهُ فِيهِ

ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan ʾabī rāfiʿin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: kharaja rajulun min qaryatin, yazūru ʾakhan lahu fī qaryatin ʾukhrā, faʾarṣada Allāhu ʿalā ṭarīqihi malakan faqāla: ʾayna turīdu? qāla: ʾurīdu ʾan ʾazūra ʾakhan lī fī hadhihi al-qaryati fī Allāhi, qāla: faqāla lahu: hal lahu ʿalayka min niʿmatin tarubbuhā? qāla: lā, walakinnī ʾaḥbabtuhu fī Allāhi, qāla: faʾinnī rasūlu rabbi al-ʿālamīna, ʾinnahu qad ʾaḥabbaka kamā ʾaḥbabtahu fīhi

Ḥammād ibn Salamah related to us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Abū Rāfiʿ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A man left one village to visit a brother of his in another village. Allah stationed an angel along his road. The angel asked, ‘Where are you going?’ He replied, ‘I intend to visit a brother of mine in this village for Allah’s sake.’ The angel asked, ‘Do you owe him some favor that you are tending?’ He replied, ‘No; I simply love him for Allah’s sake.’ The angel said, ‘I am a messenger from the Lord of all worlds: He loves you just as you have loved your brother for His sake.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا أَحَبَّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ لِلَّهِ، فَلْيُبَيِّنْ لَهُ فَإِنَّهُ خَيْرٌ فِي الْأُلْفَةِ وَأَبْقَى فِي الْمَوَدَّةِ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni al-ḥusayni qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾidhā ʾaḥabba ʾaḥadukum ʾakhāhu li-llāhi, falyubayyin lahu faʾinnahu khayrun fī al-ʾulfati waʾabqā fī al-mawaddati”

Misʿar related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When one of you loves his brother for Allah’s sake, let him make that known to him. It is better for fellowship and makes affection more lasting.”

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بَابُ إِخْفَاءِ الدُّعَاءِ

bābu ʾikhfāʾi al-duʿāʾi

Chapter: Concealing one’s supplication

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: «كَانُوا يَجْتَهِدُونَ فِي الدُّعَاءِ وَلَا تَسْمَعُ إِلَّا هَمْسًا»

ḥaddathanā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: “kānū yajtahidūna fī al-duʿāʾi walā tasmaʿu ʾillā hamsan”

Mubārak ibn Faḍālah related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “They would exert themselves in supplication, yet you would hear nothing but a whisper.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَبِيبَةَ، عَنْ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «خَيْرُ الذِّكْرِ الْخَفِيُّ، وَخَيْرُ الرِّزْقِ مَا يَكْفِي»

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī labībata, ʿan saʿdin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “khayru al-dhikri al-khafiyyu, wakhayru al-rizqi mā yakfī”

Usāmah ibn Zayd related to us, from Ibn Abī Labībah, from Saʿd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The best remembrance is that which is kept private, and the best provision is what suffices.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: إِنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَجُلًا رَافِعًا صَوْتَهُ بِالدُّعَاءِ، فَرَمَاهُ بِالْحَصَى

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī hāshimin, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla: ʾinnahu samiʿa rajulan rāfiʿan ṣawtahu bi-l-duʿāʾi, faramāhu bi-l-ḥaṣā

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Hāshim, from Mujāhid, who heard a man raising his voice in supplication and pelted him with pebbles.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: كُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: «أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ لَا تَدْعُونَ أَصَمَّ وَلَا غَائِبًا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni sulaymāna, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʿan ʾabī mūsā qāla: kunnā maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: “ʾayyuhā al-nāsu ʾinnakum lā tadʿūna ʾaṣamma walā ghāʾiban”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Abū Mūsā, who said: We were with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he said: “People, you are not calling upon one who is deaf or absent.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ: كَانَتْ تُغْلِقُ عَلَيْهَا بَابَهَا، ثُمَّ تُصَلِّي الضُّحَى صَلَاةً طَوِيلَةً

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿāʾishata: kānat tughliqu ʿalayhā bābahā, thumma tuṣallī al-ḍuḥā ṣalātan ṭawīlatan

Shuʿbah related to us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀʾishah, who would close her door and then perform a long midmorning prayer.

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حَدَّثَنَا عِمَرَانُ بْنُ حُدَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مِجْلَزٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: «يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ لَا تَدْعُونَ غَائِبًا وَلَا أَصَمَّ»

ḥaddathanā ʿimarānu bnu ḥudayrin, ʿan ʾabī mijlazin, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara qāla: “yā ʾayyuhā al-nāsu ʾinnakum lā tadʿūna ghāʾiban walā ʾaṣamma”

ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr related to us, from Abū Mijlaz, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: “People, you are not calling upon one who is absent or deaf.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ: إِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ، فَلْيُدْنِ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ سِتْرِهِ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُقَسِّمُ الثَّنَاءَ كَمَا يُقَسِّمُ الرِّزْقَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan hilāli bni yasāfin qāla: qāla ʿīsā ʾabnu maryama: ʾidhā ṣallā ʾaḥadukum, falyudni ʿalayhi min sitrihi, faʾinna Allāha yuqassimu al-thanāʾa kamā yuqassimu al-rizqa

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, who said: Jesus son of Mary said: “When one of you prays, let him draw his screen close around him, for Allah apportions praise just as He apportions provision.”

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بَابُ مَنْ يُحَبِّبُ الرَّبَّ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ

bābu man yuḥabbibu al-rabba ʾilā khalqihi

Chapter: One who makes the Lord beloved to His creation

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: لَئِنْ شِئْتُمْ لَأُقْسِمَنَّ لَكُمْ، إِنَّ أَحَبَّ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ، الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ وَيُحِبِّبُونَ اللَّهَ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ، وَلَئِنْ شِئْتُمْ لَأُقْسِمَنَّ لَكُمْ إِنَّ أَحَبَّ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ رُعَاةُ الشَّمْسِ وَالْقَمَرِ يَمْشُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ نُصَحَاءَ

ḥaddathanā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: laʾin shiʾtum laʾuqsimanna lakum, ʾinna ʾaḥabba ʿibādi Allāhi ʾilā Allāhi, al-dhīna yuḥibbūna Allāha wayuḥibbibūna Allāha ʾilā khalqihi, walaʾin shiʾtum laʾuqsimanna lakum ʾinna ʾaḥabba ʿibādi Allāhi ʾilā Allāhi ruʿātu al-shamsi wa-l-qamari yamshūna fī al-ʾarḍi nuṣaḥāʾa

Mubārak ibn Faḍālah related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: Abū al-Dardāʾ said: “If you wish, I will swear to you that the servants of Allah dearest to Allah are those who love Allah and make Allah beloved to His creation. If you wish, I will swear to you that the servants of Allah dearest to Allah are those who observe the sun and moon and walk the earth offering sincere counsel.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ، عَنْ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ، الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ، الدِّينُ النَّصِيحَةُ، قَالُوا: لِمَنْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «لِلَّهِ وَلِكِتَابِهِ وَلِأَئِمَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَلِجَمَاعَتِهِمْ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan suhayli bni ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni yazīda al-laythiyyi, ʿan tamīmin al-dāriyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: al-dīnu al-naṣīḥatu, al-dīnu al-naṣīḥatu, al-dīnu al-naṣīḥatu, qālū: liman yā rasūla Allāhi? qāla: “li-llāhi walikitābihi waliʾaʾimmati al-muslimīna walijamāʿatihim”

Sufyān related to us, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yazīd al-Laythī, from Tamīm al-Dārī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said three times: “Religion is sincere counsel.” They asked, “For whom, Messenger of Allah?” He replied: “For Allah, His Book, the leaders of the Muslims, and their community.”

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حَدَّثَنَا خَارِجَةُ بْنُ مُصْعَبٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِثْلَهُ

ḥaddathanā khārijatu bnu muṣʿabin, ʿan zaydi bni ʾaslama, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mithlahu

Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab related to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with the same report.

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ عِلَاقَةَ، عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «بَايَعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى السَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ وَالنُّصْحِ لِكُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, wasufyānu, ʿan ziyādi bni ʿilāqata, ʿan jarīri bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: “bāyaʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā al-samʿi wa-l-ṭāʿati wa-l-nuṣḥi likulli muslimin”

Misʿar and Sufyān related to us, from Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah, from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “I pledged allegiance to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to hear and obey and to offer sincere counsel to every Muslim.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ السَّكْسَكِيِّ ثَنَا أَصْحَابُنَا عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: لَئِنْ شِئْتُمْ لَأُقْسِمَنَّ لَكُمْ أَنَّ أَحَبَّ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ رُعَاةُ الشَّمْسِ وَالْقَمَرِ وَالنُّجُومِ وَالْأُظَلَّةِ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʾibrāhīma al-saksakiyyi thanā ʾaṣḥābunā ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla: laʾin shiʾtum laʾuqsimanna lakum ʾanna ʾaḥabba ʿibādi Allāhi ʾilā Allāhi ruʿātu al-shamsi wa-l-qamari wa-l-nujūmi wa-l-ʾuẓallati lidhikri Allāhi

Misʿar related to us, from Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī; our companions related to us, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: “If you wish, I will swear to you that the servants of Allah dearest to Allah are those who observe the sun, moon, stars, and shadows for the remembrance of Allah.”

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بَابُ النِّيَّةِ

bābu al-niyyati

Chapter: Intention

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يُونُسَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: {قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلَى شَاكِلَتِهِ} [الْإِسْرَاءُ: 84] قَالَ: عَلَى نِيَّتِهِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabū yūnusa, qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu: {qul kullun yaʿmalu ʿalā shākilatihi} [al-ʾisrāʾu: 84] qāla: ʿalā niyyatihi

Abū Yūnus related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say concerning {Say: Each acts according to his own disposition} [al-Isrāʾ 17:84]: “According to his intention.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَقَّاصٍ اللَّيْثِيِّ، عَنْ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّةِ وَلِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى، فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ، وَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى دُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا أَوِ امْرَأَةٍ يَتَزَوَّجُهَا فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yaḥyā bni saʿīdin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʿan ʿalqamata bni waqqāṣin al-laythiyyi, ʿan ʿumara raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinnamā al-ʾaʿmālu bi-l-niyyati walikulli ʾamriʾin mā nawā, faman kānat hijratuhu ʾilā Allāhi warasūlihi fahijratuhu ʾilā mā hājara ʾilayhi, waman kānat hijratuhu ʾilā dunyā yuṣībuhā ʾawi ʾamraʾatin yatazawwajuhā fahijratuhu ʾilā mā hājara ʾilayhi”

Sufyān related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿd, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ al-Laythī, from ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Deeds are only by intention, and each person will have only what he intended. Whoever emigrated for Allah and His Messenger, his emigration was for that for which he emigrated. Whoever emigrated for some worldly gain or a woman he wished to marry, his emigration was for that for which he emigrated.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ رُفَيْعٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: النَّجَاةُ فِي اثْنَتَيْنِ، وَالْهَلَكَةُ فِي اثْنَتَيْنِ: النَّجَاةُ فِي النِّيَّةِ، وَالنُّهَى، وَالْهَلَكَةُ فِي الْقُنُوطِ وَالْإِعْجَابِ

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan zaydi bni rufayʿin, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, qāla qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: al-najātu fī ʾathnatayni, wa-l-halakatu fī ʾathnatayni: al-najātu fī al-niyyati, wa-l-nuhā, wa-l-halakatu fī al-qunūṭi wa-l-ʾiʿjābi

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Zayd ibn Rufayʿ, from Abū ʿUbaydah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Salvation lies in two things and ruin lies in two. Salvation lies in sound intention and sound reason; ruin lies in despair and self-admiration.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ لَمْ يُسَمِّهِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: «لَا تُؤَدِّ النَّصِيحَةَ إِلَى أَخِيكَ حَتَّى تَأْمُرَهُ بِمَا يَعْجُزُ عَنْهُ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin lam yusammihi, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: “lā tuʾaddi al-naṣīḥata ʾilā ʾakhīka ḥattā taʾmurahu bimā yaʿjuzu ʿanhu”

Sufyān related to us, from an unnamed man, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “You do not fully discharge the duty of sincere counsel toward your brother until you direct him even toward what lies beyond his present ability.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «الْمُسْلِمُ مِرْآةُ أَخِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “al-muslimu mirātu ʾakhīhi”

Al-Rabīʿ related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “A Muslim is his brother’s mirror.”

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بَابُ مَنْ تَرَكَ الشَّيْءَ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى

bābu man taraka al-shayʾa li-llāhi taʿālā

Chapter: One who gives something up for Allah Most High

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبِي هَارُونَ الْغَنَوِيِّ، عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: «مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ تَرَكَ شَيْئًا لِلَّهِ إِلَّا أَبْدَلَهُ اللَّهُ بِهِ مَا هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ، وَلَا تَهَاوَنَ بِهِ عَبْدٌ، فَأَخَذَ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَصْلُحُ إِلَّا أَتَاهُ اللَّهُ بِمَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ عَلَيْهِ»

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʾabī hārūna al-ghanawiyyi, ʿan muslimi bni shaddādin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin, ʿan ʾabī bni kaʿbin qāla: “mā min ʿabdin taraka shayʾan li-llāhi ʾillā ʾabdalahu Allāhu bihi mā huwa khayrun minhu min ḥaythu lā yaḥtasibu, walā tahāwana bihi ʿabdun, faʾakhadha min ḥaythu lā yaṣluḥu ʾillā ʾatāhu Allāhu bimā huwa ʾashaddu ʿalayhi”

Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm related to us, from Abū Hārūn al-Ghanawī, from Muslim ibn Shaddād, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, who said: “No servant gives something up for Allah without Allah replacing it for him with something better from where he does not expect. No servant treats such a matter lightly and takes something from an improper source without Allah bringing him something still more grievous.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ الْعَدَوِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ، وَأَبِي الدَّهْمَاءِ قَالَا: أَتَيْنَا عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَادِيَةِ، فَقُلْنَا لَهُ: هَلْ سَمِعْتَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ شَيْئًا؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّكَ لَمْ تَدَعْ شَيْئًا لِلَّهِ إِلَّا أَبْدَلَكَ اللَّهُ بِهِ مَا هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ»

ḥaddathanā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin al-ʿadawiyyi, ʿan ʾabī qatādata, waʾabī al-dahmāʾi qālā: ʾataynā ʿalā rajulin min ʾahli al-bādiyati, faqulnā lahu: hal samiʿta min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama shayʾan? qāla: naʿam samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: “ʾinnaka lam tadaʿ shayʾan li-llāhi ʾillā ʾabdalaka Allāhu bihi mā huwa khayrun minhu”

Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah related to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl al-ʿAdawī, from Abū Qatādah and Abū al-Dahmāʾ, who said: We came upon a man of the desert and asked him, “Did you hear anything from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?” He replied: “Yes. I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘You will never give something up for Allah without Allah replacing it for you with something better.’”

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بَابُ الْبَرَاءَةِ مِنَ الْكِبْرِ وَالْهَمِّ فِي الدُّنْيَا

bābu al-barāʾati mina al-kibri wa-l-hammi fī al-dunyā

Chapter: Freedom from arrogance and worldly anxiety

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْدَةَ قَالَ: «مَنْ وَضَعَ جَبِينَهُ لِلَّهِ سَاجِدًا، فَلَيْسَ بِمُتَكَبِّرٍ، وَقَدْ بَرِئَ مِنَ الْكِبْرِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan yaḥyā bni jaʿdata qāla: “man waḍaʿa jabīnahu li-llāhi sājidan, falaysa bimutakabbirin, waqad bariʾa mina al-kibri”

Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿdah, who said: “One who places his forehead on the ground in prostration before Allah is not arrogant and has freed himself of pride.”

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حَدَّثَنَا خَارِجَةُ بْنُ مُصْعَبٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «بَرَاءٌ مِنَ الْكِبْرِ رُكُوبُ الْحِمَارِ وَلُبْسُ الصُّوفِ وَاعْتِقَالُ الْعَنْزِ، وَمُجَالَسَةُ فُقَرَاءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْمَسَاكِينِ»

ḥaddathanā khārijatu bnu muṣʿabin, ʿan zaydi bni ʾaslama, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “barāʾun mina al-kibri rukūbu al-ḥimāri walubsu al-ṣūfi wāʿtiqālu al-ʿanzi, wamujālasatu fuqarāʾi al-muslimīna al-masākīni”

Khārijah ibn Muṣʿab related to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Freedom from pride lies in riding a donkey, wearing wool, holding a goat for milking, and sitting with the poor and needy Muslims.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبَانَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ كَانَتِ الْآخِرَةُ هَمَّهُ، جَعَلَ اللَّهُ غِنَاهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ، وَجَمَعَ لَهُ شَمْلَهُ، وَأَتَتْهُ الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ رَاغِمَةٌ. وَمَنْ كَانَتِ الدُّنْيَا هَمَّهُ، جَعَلَ اللَّهُ الْفَقْرَ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ، وَفَرَّقَ عَلَيْهِ شَمْلَهُ وَلَمْ يَأْتِهِ مِنْهَا إِلَّا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهُ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ṣubayḥin, ʿan yazīda bni ʾabāna, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man kānati al-ākhiratu hammahu, jaʿala Allāhu ghināhu fī qalbihi, wajamaʿa lahu shamlahu, waʾatathu al-dunyā wahiya rāghimatun. waman kānati al-dunyā hammahu, jaʿala Allāhu al-faqra bayna ʿaynayhi, wafarraqa ʿalayhi shamlahu walam yaʾtihi minhā ʾillā mā quddira lahu”

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ related to us, from Yazīd ibn Abān, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When the Hereafter is a person’s chief concern, Allah places wealth in his heart, gathers his affairs for him, and this world comes to him despite itself. When this world is a person’s chief concern, Allah places poverty before his eyes, scatters his affairs, and nothing of this world comes to him except what has been decreed for him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْعُمَرِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْوهَابِ بْنِ بُخْتٍ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ كَانَ هَمُّهُ هَمًّا وَاحِدًا كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ هَمَّهُ، وَمَنْ كَانَ هَمُّهُ فِي كُلِّ وَادٍ، لَمْ يُبَالِ اللَّهِ بِأَيِّهَا هَلَكَ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʿumariyyu, ʿan ʿabdi al-whābi bni bukhtin, ʿan sulaymāna bni ḥabībin al-muḥāribiyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man kāna hammuhu hamman wāḥidan kafāhu Allāhu hammahu, waman kāna hammuhu fī kulli wādin, lam yubāli Allāhi biʾayyihā halaka”

Al-ʿUmarī related to us, from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bukht, from Sulaymān ibn Ḥabīb al-Muḥāribī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever has a single concern, Allah will suffice him in that concern. Whoever’s concerns run through every valley, Allah does not care in which of them he perishes.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «إِيَّاكُمْ وَكَثْرَةَ الْأَشْغَالِ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ فَتَحَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ بَابَ شُغْلٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “ʾiyyākum wakathrata al-ʾashghāli faʾinnahu man fataḥa ʿalā nafsihi bāba shughlin mina al-dunyā fataḥa Allāhu ʿalayhi ʾakthara min dhalika”

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “Beware of having too many occupations. Whoever opens for himself one door of worldly business will have Allah open still more of it upon him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ قَالَ: يُجَاءُ بِالدُّنْيَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُقَالُ: مَيِّزُوا مَا كَانَ مِنْهَا لِلَّهِ، فَيُمَيَّزُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَلْقُوا سَائِرَهَا فِي النَّارِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan shimri bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan ʿubādata bni al-ṣāmiti qāla: yujāʾu bi-l-dunyā yawma al-qiyāmati, fayuqālu: mayyizū mā kāna minhā li-llāhi, fayumayyazu, thumma qāla: ʾalqū sāʾirahā fī al-nāri

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyyah, from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, who said: “This world will be brought on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said: ‘Set apart whatever in it was for Allah.’ That will be set apart. Then He will say: ‘Cast the rest of it into the Fire.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ قَالَ: يُؤْتَى بِالرَّجُلِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُوزَنُ بِالْحَبَّةِ، فَلَا يَزِنُهَا وَيُوزَنُ بِجَنَاحِ بَعُوضَةٍ فَلَا يَزِنُهَا، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: {فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَزْنًا} [الْكَهْفُ: 105]

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan shimri bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā, ʿan kaʿbi bni ʿujrata qāla: yuʾtā bi-l-rajuli yawma al-qiyāmati, fayūzanu bi-l-ḥabbati, falā yazinuhā wayūzanu bijanāḥi baʿūḍatin falā yazinuhā, thumma qaraʾa: {falā nuqīmu lahum yawma al-qiyāmati waznan} [al-kahfu: 105]

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyyah, from Abū Yaḥyā, from Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah, who said: “A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and weighed against a single grain, yet he will not equal its weight. He will be weighed against a mosquito’s wing, yet he will not equal its weight.” He then recited: {On the Day of Resurrection We shall assign them no weight at all} [al-Kahf 18:105].

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حُسَيْنٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ مِنْ حُسْنِ إِسْلَامِ الْمَرْءِ تَرْكَهُ مَا لَا يَعَنِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿani ʾabni shihābin, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni ḥusaynin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna min ḥusni ʾislāmi al-marʾi tarkahu mā lā yaʿanīhi”

Mālik ibn Anas related to us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Part of a person’s good practice of Islam is leaving what does not concern him.”

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بَابُ الْحِسَابِ

bābu al-ḥisābi

Chapter: The reckoning

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «الْأَرْضُ كُلُّهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ نَارٌ، وَالْجَنَّةُ مِنْ وَرَائِهَا، تُرَى كَوَاعِبُهَا، وَأَكْوَابُهَا، وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَعْرَقُ حَتَّى يَفِيضَ عَرَقًا، وَحَتَّى يَسُوخَ فِي الْأَرْضِ قَامَةً، وَيَرْتَفِعُ حَتَّى يَكُونَ عِنْدَ أَنْفِهِ، وَمَا مَسَّهُ الْحِسَابُ» قَالُوا: مِمَّ ذَاكَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ؟ قَالَ: «مِمَّا يَرَى النَّاسَ يَلْقَوْنَ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan khaythamata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “al-ʾarḍu kulluhā yawma al-qiyāmati nārun, wa-l-jannatu min warāʾihā, turā kawāʿibuhā, waʾakwābuhā, waʾinna al-rajula layaʿraqu ḥattā yafīḍa ʿaraqan, waḥattā yasūkha fī al-ʾarḍi qāmatan, wayartafiʿu ḥattā yakūna ʿinda ʾanfihi, wamā massahu al-ḥisābu” qālū: mimma dhāka yā ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmani? qāla: “mimmā yarā al-nāsa yalqawna”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Khaythamah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “On the Day of Resurrection the entire earth will be fire, with Paradise beyond it—its full-breasted maidens and its cups visible. A man will sweat until his sweat pours forth, until he sinks his own height into the earth and the sweat rises as high as his nose, even though the reckoning has not yet touched him.” They asked: “Why is that, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān?” He replied: “Because of what he sees other people undergoing.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يُعْرَضُ النَّاسُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ثَلَاثَ عَرَضَاتٍ، فَأَمَّا عَرْضَتَانِ: فَجِدَالٌ، وَمَعَاذِيرُ، وَأَمَّا الثَّالِثَةُ فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ تَطِيرُ الصُّحُفُ فِي الْأَيْدِي، فَآخِذٌ بِيَمِينِهِ وَآخِذٌ بِشِمَالِهِ

ḥaddathanā ʿaliyyu bnu ʿaliyyi bni rifāʿata, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: yuʿraḍu al-nāsu yawma al-qiyāmati thalātha ʿaraḍātin, faʾammā ʿarḍatāni: fajidālun, wamaʿādhīru, waʾammā al-thālithatu faʿinda dhalika taṭīru al-ṣuḥufu fī al-ʾaydī, faākhidhun biyamīnihi waākhidhun bishimālihi

ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Rifāʿah related to us, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “People will be presented three times on the Day of Resurrection. The first two presentations will involve argument and excuses. At the third, the scrolls will fly into people’s hands: some will take them in the right hand and others in the left.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يُؤْتَى بِالرَّجُلِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيُقَالُ: اعْرِضُوا عَلَيْهِ صِغَارَ ذُنُوبِهِ فَتُعْرَضُ عَلَيْهِ، وَيُخَبَّأُ عَنْهُ كِبَارُهَا، فَيُقَالُ: عَمِلْتَ يَوْمَ كَذَا وَكَذَا، كَذَا وَكَذَا وَهُوَ مُقِرٌّ، لَا يُنْكِرُ، وَهُوَ مُشْفِقٌ مِنَ الْكِبَارِ، فَيُقَالُ: أَعْطُوهُ مَكَانَ كُلِّ سَيِّئَةٍ عَمِلَهَا حَسَنَةً، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: إِنَّ لِي ذُنُوبًا مَا أَرَاهَا هَاهُنَا قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ: فَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ضَحِكَ حَتَّى بَدَتْ نَوَاجِذُهُ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani al-maʿrūri bni suwaydin, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: yuʾtā bi-l-rajuli yawma al-qiyāmati, fayuqālu: ʾaʿriḍū ʿalayhi ṣighāra dhunūbihi fatuʿraḍu ʿalayhi, wayukhabbaʾu ʿanhu kibāruhā, fayuqālu: ʿamilta yawma kadhā wakadhā, kadhā wakadhā wahuwa muqirrun, lā yunkiru, wahuwa mushfiqun mina al-kibāri, fayuqālu: ʾaʿṭūhu makāna kulli sayyiʾatin ʿamilahā ḥasanatan, qāla: fayaqūlu: ʾinna lī dhunūban mā ʾarāhā hāhunā qāla ʾabū dharrin: falaqad raʾaytu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḍaḥika ḥattā badat nawājidhuhu

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Maʿrūr ibn Suwayd, from Abū Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said: ‘Present his lesser sins to him.’ They will be presented while his major sins are hidden from him. He will be told, ‘On such-and-such a day you did this and that.’ He will acknowledge everything and deny nothing, while remaining apprehensive about the major sins. It will then be said: ‘Give him a good deed in place of every evil deed he committed.’ He will say, ‘I have other sins that I do not see here.’” Abū Dharr said: “I saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, laugh until his molar teeth showed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُمْ يَذْكُرُونَ عَنْ شُرَيْحٍ أَنَّهُ رَأَى جِيرَانًا لَهُ يَجُولُونَ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «مَا لَكُمْ تَجُولُونَ»؟ قَالُوا: فَرَغْنَا الْيَوْمَ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ شُرَيْحٌ: «وَبِهَذَا أُمِرَ الْفَارِغُ؟»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla samiʿtuhum yadhkurūna ʿan shurayḥin ʾannahu raʾā jīrānan lahu yajūlūna, faqāla lahum: “mā lakum tajūlūna”? qālū: faraghnā al-yawma, faqāla lahum shurayḥun: “wabihadhā ʾumira al-fārighu?”

Al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: I heard them relate that Shurayḥ saw some of his neighbors wandering about and asked, “Why are you wandering around?” They replied, “We have nothing to do today.” Shurayḥ asked them: “Is this what a person with free time was commanded to do?”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنِّي لَأَمْقُتُ الرَّجُلَ أَرَاهُ فَارِغًا، لَا فِي أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا، وَلَا فِي أَمْرِ الْآخِرَةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani al-musayyibi bni rāfiʿin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾinnī laʾamqutu al-rajula ʾarāhu fārighan, lā fī ʾamri al-dunyā, walā fī ʾamri al-ākhirati”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Musayyib ibn Rāfiʿ, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “I detest seeing a man idle, engaged neither in a matter of this world nor in a matter of the Hereafter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {وَكُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ أَلْزَمْنَاهُ طَائِرَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ} [الْإِسْرَاءُ: 13] أَيْ عَمَلَهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin: {wakulla ʾinsānin ʾalzamnāhu ṭāʾirahu fī ʿunuqihi} [al-ʾisrāʾu: 13] ʾay ʿamalahu

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, concerning {We have bound every person’s fate to his neck} [al-Isrāʾ 17:13]—meaning his deeds.

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: {فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَانْصَبْ} [الشَّرْحُ: 7] قَالَ: إِذَا فَرَغْتَ مِنْ أَمْرِ دُنْيَاكَ فَانْصَبْ: فَصَلِّ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: {faʾidhā faraghta fānṣab} [al-sharḥu: 7] qāla: ʾidhā faraghta min ʾamri dunyāka fānṣab: faṣalli

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said concerning {When you are free, strive in worship} [al-Sharḥ 94:7]: “When you are free from your worldly business, exert yourself: pray.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ دِرْهَمٍ أَبُو الْعَلَاءِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: {وَكُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ أَلْزَمْنَاهُ طَائِرَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ} [الْإِسْرَاءُ: 13] قَالَ: كِتَابَهُ

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu dirhamin ʾabū al-ʿalāʾi, qāla: samiʿtu ʾanasa bna mālikin qāla: {wakulla ʾinsānin ʾalzamnāhu ṭāʾirahu fī ʿunuqihi} [al-ʾisrāʾu: 13] qāla: kitābahu

Yazīd ibn Dirham Abū al-ʿAlāʾ related to us. He said: I heard Anas ibn Mālik comment on {We have bound every person’s fate to his neck} [al-Isrāʾ 17:13]. He said: “His record.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَرَبِيٍّ قَالَ:: رَأَيْتُ شُرَيْحًا قَائِمًا عَلَى دَرَجِ الْمَسْجِدِ، وَهُوَ يَنْظُرُ، فَقُلْتُ: مَا تَنْظُرُ يَا أَبَا أُمَيَّةَ؟ قَالَ: «أَنْظُرُ إِلَى خُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani ʾabni ʿarabiyyin qāla:: raʾaytu shurayḥan qāʾiman ʿalā daraji al-masjidi, wahuwa yanẓuru, faqultu: mā tanẓuru yā ʾabā ʾumayyata? qāla: “ʾanẓuru ʾilā khuluqin ḥasanin”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibn ʿArabī, who said: I saw Shurayḥ standing on the steps of the mosque, looking about. I asked, “What are you looking at, Abū Umayyah?” He replied: “I am looking for good character.”

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بَابُ السَّخَاءِ وَالْبُخْلِ

bābu al-sakhāʾi wa-l-bukhli

Chapter: Generosity and miserliness

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ سَيِّدُكُمْ يَا بَنِي سَلَمَةَ؟» قَالُوا: الْجِدُّ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، وَإِنَّا لَنُبَخِّلُهُ قَالَ: «وَأَيُّ دَاءٍ أَدْوَى مِنَ الْبُخْلِ؟ بَلْ سَيِّدُكُمُ الْجَعْدُ الْأَبْيَضُ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْجُمُوحِ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man sayyidukum yā banī salamata?” qālū: al-jiddu bnu qaysin, waʾinnā lanubakhkhiluhu qāla: “waʾayyu dāʾin ʾadwā mina al-bukhli? bal sayyidukumu al-jaʿdu al-ʾabyaḍu ʿamrū bnu al-jumūḥi”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked: “Who is your chief, Banū Salamah?” They replied: “Al-Jadd ibn Qays, though we consider him miserly.” He said: “What disease is more incurable than miserliness? Rather, your chief is the fair, curly-haired man ʿAmr ibn al-Jamūḥ.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ صَدَقَةِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: ذُكِرَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ امْرَأَةً مُتَعَبِّدَةً، وَقِيلَ: إِنَّهَا بَخِيلَةٌ قَالَ: «فَمَا خَيْرُهَا إذَنْ؟»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ṣadaqati bni yasārin, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin muḥammadi bni ʿaliyyin qāla: dhukira lirasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾamraʾatan mutaʿabbidatan, waqīla: ʾinnahā bakhīlatun qāla: “famā khayruhā ʾdhan?”

Sufyān related to us, from Ṣadaqah ibn Yasār, from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, who said: A woman devoted to worship was mentioned to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and it was said that she was miserly. He replied: “What good is there in her, then?”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يَكُونَ بَخِيلًا وَلَا جَبَانًا»

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan jābirin, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “lā yanbaghī li-l-muʾmini ʾan yakūna bakhīlan walā jabānan”

Isrāʾīl related to us, from Jābir, from Abū Jaʿfar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A believer should be neither miserly nor cowardly.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَنْفِقْ بِلَالُ، وَلَا تَخْشَ مِنْ ذِي الْعَرْشِ إِقْلَالًا»

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan masrūqin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾanfiq bilālu, walā takhsha min dhī al-ʿarshi ʾiqlālan”

Isrāʾīl related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Masrūq, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Spend, Bilāl, and do not fear that the Lord of the Throne will leave you with little.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ: أَصْبَحَ عِنْدَ بِلَالٍ تَمْرٌ، قَدْ ذَخَرَهُ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَمِنْتَ أَنْ يُصْبِحَ لَهُ بُخَارٌ فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ، أَنْفِقْ يَا بِلَالُ وَلَا تَخْشَ مِنْ ذِي الْعَرْشِ إِقْلَالًا»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʾabī ḥuṣaynin qāla: ʾaṣbaḥa ʿinda bilālin tamrun, qad dhakharahu li-l-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾaminta ʾan yuṣbiḥa lahu bukhārun fī nāri jahannama, ʾanfiq yā bilālu walā takhsha min dhī al-ʿarshi ʾiqlālan”

Misʿar related to us, from Abū Ḥuṣayn, who said: Bilāl once had dates in the morning that he had stored for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The Prophet said: “Do you feel safe that their vapor will not rise for you in the Fire of Hell? Spend, Bilāl, and do not fear that the Lord of the Throne will leave you with little.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ ضَمُرَةَ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: مَا مِنْ صَبَاحٍ إِلَّا وَمَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ: اللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِ مُنْفِقًا خَلَفًا وَأَعْطِ مُمْسِكًا تَلَفًا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḍamurata, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: mā min ṣabāḥin ʾillā wamalakāni yunādiyāni: Allāhumma ʾaʿṭi munfiqan khalafan waʾaʿṭi mumsikan talafan

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mujāhid, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḍamurah, from Kaʿb, who said: “Every morning two angels call out: ‘O Allah, grant replacement to the one who spends, and grant ruin to the one who withholds.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: مَا سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ شَيْئًا قَطُّ، فَقَالَ: لَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan muḥammadi bni al-munkadiri, ʿan jābirin qāla: mā suʾila rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama shayʾan qaṭṭu, faqāla: lā

Sufyān related to us, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was never asked for anything and replied, ‘No.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ ضَمُرَةَ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: مَا مِنْ صَبَاحٍ إِلَّا وَمَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ: يَا بَاغِيَ الْخَيْرِ هَلُمَّ. وَيَا بَاغِيَ الشَّرِّ أَقْصِرْ. وَمَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ: سُبْحَانَ الْمَلِكِ الْقَدُّوسِ، وَمَلَكَانِ مُوَكَّلَانِ بِالصُّورِ، يَنْتَظِرَانِ حَتَّى يُؤْمَرَا فَيَنْفُخَا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mujāhidin, thanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ḍamurata, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: mā min ṣabāḥin ʾillā wamalakāni yunādiyāni: yā bāghiya al-khayri halumma. wayā bāghiya al-sharri ʾaqṣir. wamalakāni yunādiyāni: subḥāna al-maliki al-qaddūsi, wamalakāni muwakkalāni bi-l-ṣūri, yantaẓirāni ḥattā yuʾmarā fayanfukhā

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mujāhid; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḍamurah related to us, from Kaʿb, who said: “Not a morning passes without two angels calling: ‘Seeker of good, come forward! Seeker of evil, desist!’ Two other angels call: ‘Glory be to the Sovereign, the Most Holy!’ And two angels are entrusted with the Trumpet, waiting until they are commanded to blow it.”

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بَابُ الْحَيَاءِ

bābu al-ḥayāʾi

Chapter: Modesty

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حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي السِّوَارِ الْعَدَوِيِّ، عَنْ عِمَرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْحَيَاءُ خَيْرٌ كُلُّهُ»

ḥaddathanā khālidu bnu rabāḥin al-hudhaliyyu, ʿan ʾabī al-siwāri al-ʿadawiyyi, ʿan ʿimarāna bni ḥuṣaynin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-ḥayāʾu khayrun kulluhu”

Khālid ibn Rabāḥ al-Hudhalī related to us, from Abū al-Siwār al-ʿAdawī, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Modesty is wholly good.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ صَفْوَانَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ رُكَانَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ لِكُلِّ دِينٍ خُلُقًا وَإِنَّ خُلُقَ الْإِسْلَامِ الْحَيَاءُ»

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan salamata bni ṣafwāna, ʿan yazīda bni rukānata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna likulli dīnin khuluqan waʾinna khuluqa al-ʾislāmi al-ḥayāʾu”

Mālik ibn Anas related to us, from Salamah ibn Ṣafwān, from Yazīd ibn Rukānah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Every religion has a distinctive character, and the distinctive character of Islam is modesty.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْحَيَاءُ شُعْبَةٌ فِي الْإِيمَانِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan suhayli bni ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni dīnārin, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-ḥayāʾu shuʿbatun fī al-ʾīmāni”

Sufyān related to us, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Modesty is a branch of faith.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْحَيِيَّ الْحَلِيمَ الْمُتَعَفِّفَ، وَيُبْغِضُ الْبَذِيءَ السَّائِلَ الْمُلْحِفَ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha yuḥibbu al-ḥayiyya al-ḥalīma al-mutaʿaffifa, wayubghiḍu al-badhīʾa al-sāʾila al-mulḥifa”

Al-Rabīʿ related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah loves the modest, forbearing person who preserves his chastity, and He detests the foul-mouthed beggar who importunes people.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْحَيِيَّ الْحَلِيمَ الْمُتَعَفِّفَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʿabdi al-maliki bni ʿumayrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha yuḥibbu al-ḥayiyya al-ḥalīma al-mutaʿaffifa”

My father related to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah loves the modest, forbearing person who preserves his chastity.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنَ أُمَيَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْحَيَاءَ، وَالسِّتْرَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī laylā, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan yaʿlā bna ʾumayyata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha yuḥibbu al-ḥayāʾa, wa-l-sitra”

Ibn Abī Laylā related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Yaʿlā ibn Umayyah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah loves modesty and concealment.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَامَةَ عَمْرُو بْنُ عِيسَى، عَنْ حُجَيْرِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ الْعَدَوِيِّ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنَ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «الْحَيَاءُ خَيْرٌ كُلُّهُ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū nuʿāmata ʿamrū bnu ʿīsā, ʿan ḥujayri bni al-rabīʿi al-ʿadawiyyi, ʿan ʿimrāna bna ḥuṣaynin qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: “al-ḥayāʾu khayrun kulluhu”

Abū Nuʿāmah ʿAmr ibn ʿĪsā related to us, from Ḥujayr ibn al-Rabīʿ al-ʿAdawī, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: “Modesty is wholly good.”

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ، وَصَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَسْلِيمًا

bismi Allāhi al-raḥmani al-raḥīmi wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi waḥdahu, waṣallā Allāhu ʿalā muḥammadin waālihi wasallama taslīman

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. Praise belongs to Allah alone. May Allah bless Muḥammad and his family and grant them abundant peace.

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بَابُ مَنْ أَتَى مَسْجِدَ قُبَاءَ

bābu man ʾatā masjida qubāʾa

Chapter: One who visits Qubāʾ Mosque

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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَرِّدٍ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ يَأْتِي مَسْجِدَ قُبَاءَ كُلَّ سَبْتٍ مَاشِيًا

ḥaddathanā muʿāwiyatu bnu ʾabī muzarridin qāla: raʾaytu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿumara yaʾtī masjida qubāʾa kulla sabtin māshiyan

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Muzarrid related to us, saying: “I saw ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar go to the Mosque of Qubāʾ on foot every Saturday.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ, عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ, عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَأْتِي قُبَاءَ رَاكِبًا وَمَاشِيًا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni dīnārin, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yaʾtī qubāʾa rākiban wamāshiyan

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to go to Qubāʾ both riding and on foot.

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نَافِعٍ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عُمَرَ, عَنْ أَبِيهِ, عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَأْتِي قُبَاءَ رَاكِبًا وَمَاشِيًا

ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu nāfiʿin mawlā ʾabni ʿumara, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ʾabni ʿumara ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yaʾtī qubāʾa rākiban wamāshiyan

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ, the client of Ibn ʿUmar, related to us, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to go to Qubāʾ both riding and on foot.

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ, عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ حُنَيْفٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ أَتَى مَسْجِدَ قُبَاءَ، فَصَلَّى فِيهِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ أَوْ أَرْبَعًا كَانَتْ لَهُ كَعُمْرَةٍ»

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan ʾabī ʾumāmata bni sahli bni ḥunayfin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man ʾatā masjida qubāʾa, faṣallā fīhi rakʿatayni ʾaw ʾarbaʿan kānat lahu kaʿumratin”

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl ibn Ḥunayf, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever comes to the Mosque of Qubāʾ and prays two or four units of prayer there will receive a reward like that of an ʿumrah.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ الْمَدِينِيُّ، عَنْ أُمِّهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهَا، عَنْ هِنْدِ بِنْتِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: لَأَنْ أُصَلِّيَ فِي مَسْجِدِ قُبَاءَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أُصَلِّيَ فِي مَسْجِدِ إِيلْيَاءَ قَالَ: وَكَانَ سَعْدُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ يَكُونُ مَعَهُ عَصَا نَبْعٍ يَتَخَصَّرُ بِهَا

ḥaddathanā yaḥyā bnu ʿumayrin al-madīniyyu, ʿan ʾummihi, ʿan ʾabīhā, ʿan hindi binti al-ḥasani, ʿan saʿdi bni mālikin qāla: laʾan ʾuṣalliya fī masjidi qubāʾa ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾuṣalliya fī masjidi ʾīlyāʾa qāla: wakāna saʿdu bnu mālikin yakūnu maʿahu ʿaṣā nabʿin yatakhaṣṣaru bihā

Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmayr al-Madīnī related to us, from his mother, from her father, from Hind bint al-Ḥasan, from Saʿd ibn Mālik, who said: “I would rather pray in the Mosque of Qubāʾ than pray in the mosque of Iliya [Jerusalem].” He said: Saʿd ibn Mālik used to carry a staff of nabʿ wood and lean upon it.

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حَدَّثَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَنْطَبٍ أَنَّ عُمَرَ أَتَى مَسْجِدَ قُبَاءَ عَلَى فَرَسٍ، فَصَلَّى فِيهِ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا أَرْفَى ائْتِنِي بِجَرِيدَةٍ، وَتَجَنَّبِ الْعَوَاهِنَ يَعْنِي لُبَّ النَّخْلِ، فَأَتَاهُ بِجَرِيدَةٍ، فَاحْتَجَزَ عُمَرُ بِثَوْبِهِ، ثُمَّ كَسَحَهُ

ḥaddathanā kathīru bnu zaydin, ʿani al-muṭṭalibi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḥanṭabin ʾanna ʿumara ʾatā masjida qubāʾa ʿalā farasin, faṣallā fīhi rakʿatayni, thumma qāla: yā ʾarfā ʾaʾtinī bijarīdatin, watajannabi al-ʿawāhina yaʿnī lubba al-nakhli, faʾatāhu bijarīdatin, fāḥtajaza ʿumaru bithawbihi, thumma kasaḥahu

Kathīr ibn Zayd related to us, from al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanṭab, that ʿUmar came to the Mosque of Qubāʾ on horseback and prayed two units there. Then he said: “Arfā, bring me a palm branch, but avoid the tender central fronds.” Arfā brought him a branch; ʿUmar tucked up his garment and then swept the mosque.

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بَابُ الْكَذِبِ وَالصِّدْقِ

bābu al-kadhibi wa-l-ṣidqi

Chapter: Falsehood and truthfulness

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَالْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مَعْمَرٍ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَخْبَرَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «لَا يَصْلُحُ الْكَذِبُ فِي هَزْلٍ وَلَا جَدٍّ» قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ: ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ، وَكُونُوا مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ}

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, wa-l-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʾabī maʿmarin ʿabdi Allāhi bni sakhbarata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: “lā yaṣluḥu al-kadhibu fī hazlin walā jaddin” qāla al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma: thumma qaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: {yā ʾayyuhā al-dhīna āmanū ʾattaqū Allāha, wakūnū mina al-ṣādiqīna}

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAbd Allāh; and al-Aʿmash related from Mujāhid, from Abū Maʿmar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sakhbarah, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “Lying is not proper, whether in jest or in earnest.” Al-Aʿmash related from Ibrāhīm that ʿAbd Allāh then recited: {Believers, be mindful of Allah and be among the truthful} [al-Tawbah 9:119].

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، وَإِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «لَا يَصْلُحُ الْكَذِبُ فِي هَزْلٍ وَلَا جَدٍّ، وَلَا أَنْ يَعِدَ أَحَدُكُمْ صَبِيَّهُ شَيْئًا ثُمَّ لَا يُنْجِزُهُ بِهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, waʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “lā yaṣluḥu al-kadhibu fī hazlin walā jaddin, walā ʾan yaʿida ʾaḥadukum ṣabiyyahu shayʾan thumma lā yunjizuhu bihi”

My father and Isrāʾīl related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Lying is not proper, whether in jest or in earnest; nor should any of you promise his child something and then fail to give it to him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ، فَإِنَّ الْكَذِبَ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْفُجُورِ، وَإِنَّ الْفُجُورَ يَهْدِي إِلَى النَّارِ، وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَكْذِبُ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ كَذَّابًا، وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالصِّدْقِ، فَإِنَّ الصِّدْقَ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْبِرِّ، وَإِنَّ الْبِرَّ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ، وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَصْدُقُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الصِّدْقَ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ صِدِّيقًا»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾyyākum wa-l-kadhiba, faʾinna al-kadhiba yahdī ʾilā al-fujūri, waʾinna al-fujūra yahdī ʾilā al-nāri, waʾinna al-rajula layakdhibu ḥattā yuktaba ʿinda Allāhi kadhdhāban, waʿalaykum bi-l-ṣidqi, faʾinna al-ṣidqa yahdī ʾilā al-birri, waʾinna al-birra yahdī ʾilā al-jannati, waʾinna al-rajula layaṣduqu wayataḥarrā al-ṣidqa ḥattā yuktaba ʿinda Allāhi ṣiddīqan”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Beware of lying, for lying leads to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Fire. A man will persist in lying until he is recorded with Allah as an inveterate liar. Hold fast to truthfulness, for truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to the Garden. A man will speak truthfully and diligently seek the truth until he is recorded with Allah as a man of perfect truth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ بْنِ شَرَاحِيلَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَصْدُقُ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ صِدِّيقًا، وَيَتَحَرَّى الصِّدْقَ حَتَّى مَا يَكُونَ لِلْفُجُورِ فِي قَلْبِهِ مَوْضِعُ إِبْرَةٍ يَسْتَقِرُّ فِيهِ، وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَكْذِبُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الْكَذِبَ حَتَّى مَا يَكُونُ لِلْبِرِّ فِي قَلْبِهِ مَوْضِعُ إِبْرَةٍ يَسْتَقِرُّ فِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan murrata bni sharāḥīla qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾinna al-rajula layaṣduqu ḥattā yuktaba ʿinda Allāhi ṣiddīqan, wayataḥarrā al-ṣidqa ḥattā mā yakūna li-l-fujūri fī qalbihi mawḍiʿu ʾibratin yastaqirru fīhi, waʾinna al-rajula layakdhibu wayataḥarrā al-kadhiba ḥattā mā yakūnu li-l-birri fī qalbihi mawḍiʿu ʾibratin yastaqirru fīhi”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Murrah ibn Sharāḥīl, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “A man will speak truthfully until he is recorded with Allah as a man of perfect truth; and he will diligently seek the truth until there remains in his heart not so much as a needle’s space in which wickedness can settle. A man will lie and diligently pursue falsehood until there remains in his heart not so much as a needle’s space in which righteousness can settle.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: «إيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ فَإِنَّ الْكَذِبَ مُجَانِبٌ الْإِيمَانَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: qāla ʾabū bakrin: “ʾyyākum wa-l-kadhiba faʾinna al-kadhiba mujānibun al-ʾīmāna”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: Abū Bakr said: “Beware of lying, for lying stands apart from faith.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عِمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: اعْتَبِرُوا الْمُنَافِقَ بِثَلَاثٍ: إِذَا حَدَّثَ كَذَبَ، وَإِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ، وَإِذَا عَاهَدَ غَدَرَ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ عَاهَدَ اللَّهَ لَئِنْ آتَانَا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ لَنَصَّدَّقَنَّ وَلَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ} [التَّوْبَةُ: 75]

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿimārata bni ʿumayrin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni yazīdin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: ʾaʿtabirū al-munāfiqa bithalāthin: ʾidhā ḥaddatha kadhaba, waʾidhā waʿada ʾakhlafa, waʾidhā ʿāhada ghadara, thumma qaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: {waminhum man ʿāhada Allāha laʾin ātānā min faḍlihi lanaṣṣaddaqanna walanakūnanna mina al-ṣāliḥīna} [al-tawbatu: 75]

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿImārah ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Recognize the hypocrite by three traits: when he speaks, he lies; when he promises, he breaks his promise; and when he makes a covenant, he betrays it.” Then ʿAbd Allāh recited: {Among them are those who made a covenant with Allah: ‘If He gives us from His bounty, we will certainly give charity and be among the righteous’} [al-Tawbah 9:75].

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «لَا يَصْلُحُ الْكَذِبُ فِي هَزْلٍ وَلَا جِدٍّ، وَلَا أَنْ يَعِدَ أَحَدُكُمْ صَبِيَّهُ شَيْئًا، ثُمَّ لَا يُنْجِزُهُ لَهُ» ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَكُونُوا مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ} [التَّوْبَةُ: 119]

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: “lā yaṣluḥu al-kadhibu fī hazlin walā jiddin, walā ʾan yaʿida ʾaḥadukum ṣabiyyahu shayʾan, thumma lā yunjizuhu lahu” thumma qaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: {yā ʾayyuhā al-dhīna āmanū ʾattaqū Allāha wakūnū maʿa al-ṣādiqīna} [al-tawbatu: 119]

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “Lying is not proper, whether in jest or in earnest; nor should one of you promise his child something and then fail to give it to him.” Then ʿAbd Allāh recited: {Believers, be mindful of Allah and be with the truthful} [al-Tawbah 9:119].

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بَابُ صِلَةِ الرَّحِمِ

bābu ṣilati al-raḥimi

Chapter: Maintaining ties of kinship

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ قَارِبٍ الثَّقَفِيِّ قَالَ: سَمْعِتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو يَقُولُ: إِنَّ الرَّحِمَ مُعَلَّقَةٌ بِالْعَرْشِ، تُنَادِي بِلِسَانٍ ذَلِقٍ: اللَّهُمَّ صِلْ مَنْ وَصَلَنِي، وَاقْطَعْ مَنْ قَطَعَنِي

ḥaddathanā ʾabū ʿāṣimin al-thaqafiyyu, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni qāribin al-thaqafiyyi qāla: samʿitu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿamrin yaqūlu: ʾinna al-raḥima muʿallaqatun bi-l-ʿarshi, tunādī bilisānin dhaliqin: Allāhumma ṣil man waṣalanī, wāqṭaʿ man qaṭaʿanī

Abū ʿĀṣim al-Thaqafī related to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qārib al-Thaqafī, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr say: “The bond of kinship hangs from the Throne, calling in a fluent tongue: ‘O Allah, maintain ties with whoever maintains me, and sever ties with whoever severs me.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا فِطْرٌ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الرَّحِمَ لَمُعَلَّقَةٌ بِالْعَرْشِ، وَلَيْسَ الْوَاصِلُ بِالْمُكَافِئِ، وَلَكِنَّ الْوَاصِلَ مَنْ إِذَا قُطِعَتْ رَحِمُهُ وَصَلَهَا»

ḥaddathanā fiṭrun, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna al-raḥima lamuʿallaqatun bi-l-ʿarshi, walaysa al-wāṣilu bi-l-mukāfiʾi, walakinna al-wāṣila man ʾidhā quṭiʿat raḥimuhu waṣalahā”

Fiṭr related to us, from Mujāhid, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The bond of kinship hangs from the Throne. The one who truly maintains kinship is not merely the one who reciprocates; rather, it is the one who restores the bond when his relatives sever it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَرِّدٍ الْمَدِينِيُّ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ رُومَانَ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: الرَّحِمُ مُعَلَّقَةٌ بِالْعَرْشِ، تَقُولُ: مَنْ وَصَلَنِي وَصَلَهُ اللَّهُ، وَمَنْ قَطَعَنِي قَطَعَهُ اللَّهُ

ḥaddathanā muʿāwiyatu bnu ʾabī muzarridin al-madīniyyu, ʿan yazīda bni rūmāna, ʿan ʿurwata bni al-zubayri, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: al-raḥimu muʿallaqatun bi-l-ʿarshi, taqūlu: man waṣalanī waṣalahu Allāhu, waman qaṭaʿanī qaṭaʿahu Allāhu

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Muzarrid al-Madīnī related to us, from Yazīd ibn Rūmān, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The bond of kinship hangs from the Throne and says: ‘Whoever maintains me, Allah will maintain ties with him; and whoever severs me, Allah will sever ties with him.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبَانَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يُنْسَأَ لَهُ فِي الْأَجَلِ وَيُبْسَطَ لَهُ فِي الرِّزْقِ، فَلْيَصِلْ رَحِمَهُ

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ṣubayḥin, ʿan yazīda bni ʾabāna, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: man sarrahu ʾan yunsaʾa lahu fī al-ʾajali wayubsaṭa lahu fī al-rizqi, falyaṣil raḥimahu

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ related to us, from Yazīd ibn Abān, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever would be pleased to have his lifespan extended and his provision increased should maintain his ties of kinship.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ بُرْدٍ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَعْجَلُ الْبِرِّ ثَوَابًا صِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ، وَأَعْجَلُ الشَّرِّ عُقُوبَةً الْبَغْيُ، وَالْيَمِينُ الصَّبْرُ الْفَاجِرَةُ تَدَعُ الدِّيَارَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا بَلَاقِعَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan burdin ʾabī al-ʿalāʾi, ʿan makḥūlin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾaʿjalu al-birri thawāban ṣilatu al-raḥimi, waʾaʿjalu al-sharri ʿuqūbatan al-baghyu, wa-l-yamīnu al-ṣabru al-fājiratu tadaʿu al-diyāra min ʾahlihā balāqiʿa”

Sufyān related to us, from Burd Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, from Makḥūl, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The righteous deed whose reward comes most swiftly is maintaining ties of kinship. The evil whose punishment comes most swiftly is transgression. And a deliberately sworn false oath leaves inhabited homes desolate.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عِيسَى، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا يَزِيدُ فِي الْعُمُرِ إِلَّا الْبِرُّ، وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُحْرَمُ الرِّزْقَ بِالذَّنْبِ يُصِيبُهُ، وَلَا يَرُدُّ الْقَدَرَ إِلَّا الدُّعَاءُ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿīsā, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿan thawbāna qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā yazīdu fī al-ʿumuri ʾillā al-birru, waʾinna al-rajula layuḥramu al-rizqa bi-l-dhanbi yuṣībuhu, walā yaruddu al-qadara ʾillā al-duʿāʾu”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Thawbān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Nothing increases one’s lifespan except righteousness. A man may be deprived of provision because of a sin he commits, and nothing repels the decree except supplication.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ مَغْرَاءَ أَبِي الْمَخَارِقِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ صِلَةَ الرَّحِمِ مَنْسَأَةٌ فِي الْأَجَلِ، مَحَبَّةٌ فِي الْأَهْلِ، مَثْرَاةٌ فِي الْمَالِ»

ḥaddathanā yūnusu bnu ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan maghrāʾa ʾabī al-makhāriqi qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿumara yaqūlu: “ʾinna ṣilata al-raḥimi mansaʾatun fī al-ʾajali, maḥabbatun fī al-ʾahli, mathrātun fī al-māli”

Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq related to us, from Maghrāʾ Abū al-Makhāriq, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar say: “Maintaining ties of kinship extends one’s lifespan, inspires love within the family, and increases wealth.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُجِمِّعُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «بُلُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ وَلَوْ بِالسَّلَامِ»

ḥaddathanā mujimmiʿu bnu yaḥyā al-ʾanṣāriyyu, ʿan suwaydi bni ʿāmirin al-ʾanṣāriyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “bulū ʾarḥāmakum walaw bi-l-salāmi”

Mujammiʿ ibn Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī related to us, from Suwayd ibn ʿĀmir al-Anṣārī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Keep your ties of kinship alive, even if only by offering a greeting of peace.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْفَضْلُ فِي أَنْ تَصِلَ مَنْ قَطَعَكَ، وَتُعْطِي مَنْ حَرَمَكَ، وَتَعْفُوَ عَمَّنْ ظَلَمَكَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī laylā, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni ʾabī rabāḥin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-faḍlu fī ʾan taṣila man qaṭaʿaka, watuʿṭī man ḥaramaka, wataʿfuwa ʿamman ẓalamaka”

Ibn Abī Laylā related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “True virtue is to maintain ties with one who cuts you off, give to one who denies you, and pardon one who wrongs you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍ الْمَكِّيِّ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ لِي قَرَابَةً أَصِلُهُمْ، وَيَقْطَعُونَ، وَأَفْعَلُ وَيَفْعَلُونَ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنْ تَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ، فَكَأَنَّمَا تُسِفُّهُمْ بِذَلِكَ الْمَلَّةَ وَكَانَ مَعَكَ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَوْنٌ ظَهِيرٌ»

ḥaddathanā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī ḥusaynin al-makkiyyi qāla: jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾinna lī qarābatan ʾaṣiluhum, wayaqṭaʿūna, waʾafʿalu wayafʿalūna, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾin tafʿal dhalika, fakaʾannamā tusiffuhum bidhalika al-mallata wakāna maʿaka mina Allāhi ʿawnun ẓahīrun”

Al-Masʿūdī related to us, from Ibn Abī Ḥusayn al-Makkī, who said: A man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said: “Messenger of Allah, I have relatives with whom I maintain ties, but they cut me off. I treat them well, but they treat me badly.” The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, replied: “If you continue doing that, it is as though you are making them swallow hot ashes, and you will continue to have a mighty helper from Allah against them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ الْمُحَارِبِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ أَبِي أَوْفَى يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَشِيَّةَ يَوْمَ عَرَفَةَ: «إِنَّ الرَّحْمَةَ لَا تَنْزِلُ عَلَى قَوْمٍ فِيهِمْ قَاطِعُ رَحِمٍ»

ḥaddathanā sulaymānu bnu zaydin al-muḥāribiyyu qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʾabī ʾawfā yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿashiyyata yawma ʿarafata: “ʾinna al-raḥmata lā tanzilu ʿalā qawmin fīhim qāṭiʿu raḥimin”

Sulaymān ibn Zayd al-Muḥāribī related to us, saying: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā say: On the evening of the Day of ʿArafah, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Mercy does not descend upon a people among whom there is someone who severs ties of kinship.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَرِّدٍ الْمَدِينِيُّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَّا خَلَقَ الْخَلْقَ، قَامَتِ الرَّحِمُ، فَتَعَلَّقَتْ بِهِ، فَقَالَتْ: هَذَا مُقَامُ عَائِذٍ بِكَ مِنَ الْقَطِعَيَةِ، فَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: أَتَرْضِينَ أَنْ أَصِلَ مَنْ وَصَلَكِ، وَأَقْطَعَ مَنْ قَطَعَكِ؟ قَالَتْ: نَعَمْ، وَاقْرَءُوا إِنْ شِئْتُمْ: {فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِنْ تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَنْ تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ} [مُحَمَّدٌ: 22]

ḥaddathanā muʿāwiyatu bnu ʾabī muzarridin al-madīniyyu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ʾinna Allāha lammā khalaqa al-khalqa, qāmati al-raḥimu, fataʿallaqat bihi, faqālat: hadhā muqāmu ʿāʾidhin bika mina al-qaṭiʿayati, faqāla Allāhu taʿālā: ʾatarḍīna ʾan ʾaṣila man waṣalaki, waʾaqṭaʿa man qaṭaʿaki? qālat: naʿam, wāqraʾū ʾin shiʾtum: {fahal ʿasaytum ʾin tawallaytum ʾan tufsidū fī al-ʾarḍi watuqaṭṭiʿū ʾarḥāmakum} [muḥammadun: 22]

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Muzarrid al-Madanī related to us, from a man, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When Allah created creation, kinship stood and clung to Him, saying, ‘This is the station of one who seeks Your protection from being severed.’ Allah Most High said, ‘Will you be content if I maintain ties with whoever maintains you and sever ties with whoever severs you?’ It replied, ‘Yes.’ Recite, if you wish: {If you turn away, will you spread corruption in the land and sever your ties of kinship?} [Muḥammad 47:22].”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَرِّدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أُبَيٌّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِيَدِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ثُمَّ وَضَعَ قَدَمَيْهِ، عَلَى قَدَمَيْهِ، قَالَ: «تَرَقَّ عَيْنَ بَقَّةٍ»

ḥaddathanā muʿāwiyatu bnu ʾabī muzarridin, ḥaddathanī ʾubayyun, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: ʾakhadha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama biyadi al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyin thumma waḍaʿa qadamayhi, ʿalā qadamayhi, qāla: “taraqqa ʿayna baqqatin”

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Muzarrid related to us; Ubayy related to me, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī by the hand and placed the boy’s feet upon his own, saying playfully: “Climb up, little gnat’s eye!”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُزَرِّدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أُبَيٌّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: «يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَكُونُ الْقَتَبُ وَالْحَبْلُ أَحَبَّ إِلَى أَحَدِكُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الدَّارِ»، وَأَشَارَ إِلَى دَارِ كَثِيرِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ الْكِنْدِيِّ

ḥaddathanā muʿāwiyatu bnu ʾabī muzarridin, ḥaddathanī ʾubayyun, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: “yaʾtī ʿalā al-nāsi zamānun yakūnu al-qatabu wa-l-ḥablu ʾaḥabba ʾilā ʾaḥadikum min hadhihi al-dāri”, waʾashāra ʾilā dāri kathīri bni al-ṣalti al-kindiyyi

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Muzarrid related to us; Ubayy related to me, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “A time will come upon people when a pack-saddle and rope will be dearer to one of you than this house.” He pointed to the house of Kathīr ibn al-Ṣalt al-Kindī.

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بَابُ الْحِلْمِ

bābu al-ḥilmi

Chapter: Forbearance

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حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ سَالِمٍ الْأَفْطَسِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ: {وَسَيِّدًا} [آلُ عِمْرَانَ: 39] قَالَ: هُوَ الْحَلِيمُ

ḥaddathanā sharīkun, ʿan sālimin al-ʾafṭasi, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin: {wasayyidan} [ālu ʿimrāna: 39] qāla: huwa al-ḥalīmu

Sharīk related to us, from Sālim al-Afṭas, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, concerning {and a noble leader} [Āl ʿImrān 3:39]. He said: “It means one who is forbearing.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ أَوْ غَيْرُهُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ: {وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَامًا} [الْفُرْقَانُ: 63] قَالَ: «حُلَمَاءُ لَا يَجْهَلُونَ، وَإِنْ جُهِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَلُمُوا»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun ʾaw ghayruhu, ʿani al-ḥasani: {waʾidhā khāṭabahumu al-jāhilūna qālū salāman} [al-furqānu: 63] qāla: “ḥulamāʾu lā yajhalūna, waʾin juhila ʿalayhim ḥalumū”

Mubārak—or someone else—related to us, from al-Ḥasan, concerning {When the ignorant address them, they say words of peace} [al-Furqān 25:63]. He said: “They are forbearing and do not act ignorantly; when others act ignorantly toward them, they respond with forbearance.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نُجَيْحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا} [الْفُرْقَانُ: 63] قَالَ: «بِالْوَقَارِ وَالسَّكِينَةِ»، {وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا: سَلَامًا} [الْفُرْقَانُ: 63] قَالُوا: سَدَادًا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī nujayḥin, ʿan mujāhidin: {yamshūna ʿalā al-ʾarḍi hawnan} [al-furqānu: 63] qāla: “bi-l-waqāri wa-l-sakīnati”, {waʾidhā khāṭabahumu al-jāhilūna qālū: salāman} [al-furqānu: 63] qālū: sadādan

Sufyān related to us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid. Concerning {They walk upon the earth with humility} [al-Furqān 25:63], he said: “With dignity and tranquility.” Concerning {When the ignorant address them, they say words of peace} [25:63], he said: “They say what is right and proper.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعُمَيْسِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ سَابِطٍ: قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: «لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَلَا أَعَمَّ نَفْعًا مِنْ حِلْمِ إِمَامٍ وَرِفْقِهِ، وَلَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَبْغَضَ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَلَا أَعَمَّ ضَرَرًا مِنْ جَهْلِ إِمَامٍ وَخُرْقِهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-ʿumaysi, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿani ʾabni sābiṭin: qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: “laysa shayʾun ʾaḥabba ʾilā Allāhi ʿazza wajalla, walā ʾaʿamma nafʿan min ḥilmi ʾimāmin warifqihi, walaysa shayʾun ʾabghaḍa ʾilā Allāhi walā ʾaʿamma ḍararan min jahli ʾimāmin wakhurqihi”

Abū al-ʿUmays related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Ibn Sābiṭ, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: “Nothing is more beloved to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, or more broadly beneficial, than a leader’s forbearance and gentleness. And nothing is more hateful to Allah or more broadly harmful than a leader’s ignorance and harshness.”

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بَابُ الْخُلُقِ الْحَسَنِ

bābu al-khuluqi al-ḥasani

Chapter: Good character

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، وَالرَّبِيعُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَكْمَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, wa-l-rabīʿu, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾakmalu al-muʾminīna ʾaḥsanuhum khuluqan”

Mubārak and al-Rabīʿ related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The believers whose faith is most complete are those whose character is best.”

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حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَبْلُغُ بِحُسْنِ الْخُلُقِ دَرَجَةَ الصَّائِمِ الْقَائِمِ»

ḥaddathanā ṭalḥatu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin qāla: “ʾinna al-rajula layablughu biḥusni al-khuluqi darajata al-ṣāʾimi al-qāʾimi”

Ṭalḥah related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, who said: “Through good character, a man may attain the rank of one who fasts by day and stands in prayer by night.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: مَكْتُوبٌ فِي الْحِكْمَةِ: لِيَكُنْ وَجْهُكَ مُنْبَسِطًا، وَكَلِمَتُكَ لَيِّنَةً، تَكُنْ أَحَبَّ إِلَى النَّاسِ مِنَ الَّذِي يُعْطِيهُمُ الْعَطَاءَ

ḥaddathanā hishāmun, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: maktūbun fī al-ḥikmati: liyakun wajhuka munbasiṭan, wakalimatuka layyinatan, takun ʾaḥabba ʾilā al-nāsi mina al-dhī yuʿṭīhumu al-ʿaṭāʾa

Hishām related to us, from his father, who said: It is written in the wisdom literature: “Let your face be cheerful and your words gentle; you will be dearer to people than one who gives them gifts.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ عِلَاقَةَ، عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ شَرِيكٍ قَالَ: قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَفْضَلُ مَا أُعْطِيَ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ؟ قَالَ: «خُلُقٌ حَسَنٌ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, wasufyānu, ʿan ziyādi bni ʿilāqata, ʿan ʾusāmata bni sharīkin qāla: qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi mā ʾafḍalu mā ʾuʿṭiya al-marʾu al-muslimu? qāla: “khuluqun ḥasanun”

Misʿar and Sufyān related to us, from Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah, from Usāmah ibn Sharīk, who said: They asked, “Messenger of Allah, what is the best thing a Muslim can be given?” He replied: “Good character.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: لَمْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَاحِشًا وَلَا مُتَفَحِّشًا. وَكَانَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ مِنْ خِيَارِكُمْ أَحَاسِنَكُمْ أَخْلَاقًا»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin qāla: lam yakun rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fāḥishan walā mutafaḥḥishan. wakāna yaqūlu: “ʾinna min khiyārikum ʾaḥāsinakum ʾakhlāqan”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Wāʾil, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was neither obscene nor given to affected obscenity. He used to say: “Among the best of you are those whose character is best.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَيْمَنُ بْنُ نَابِلٍ أَبُو عِمْرَانَ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ أَحَبَّكُمْ إِلَيَّ وَأَقْرَبَكُمْ مِنِّي أَحَاسِنُكُمْ أَخْلَاقًا، وَإِنَّ أَبْغَضَكُمْ إِلَيَّ وَأَبْعَدَكُمْ مِنِّي الثَّرْثَارُونَ الْمُتَفَيْهِقُونَ الْمُتَشَدِّقُونَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾaymanu bnu nābilin ʾabū ʿimrāna, ʿan makḥūlin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna ʾaḥabbakum ʾilayya waʾaqrabakum minnī ʾaḥāsinukum ʾakhlāqan, waʾinna ʾabghaḍakum ʾilayya waʾabʿadakum minnī al-tharthārūna al-mutafayhiqūna al-mutashaddiqūna”

Ayman ibn Nābil Abū ʿImrān related to us, from Makḥūl, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Those of you dearest to me and seated nearest to me are those whose character is best. Those of you most hateful to me and farthest from me are the incessant talkers, the pompous, and those who speak with affected grandiosity.”

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بَابُ الْبَغْيِ

bābu al-baghyi

Chapter: Transgression

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حَدَّثَنَا فِطْرُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَّاطُ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَوْ أَنَّ جَبَلًا بَغَى عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَدُكَّ الْبَاغِي مِنْهُمَا»

ḥaddathanā fiṭru bnu khalīfata ʾabū bakrin al-ḥannāṭu, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā al-qattāti, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “law ʾanna jabalan baghā ʿalā jabalin ladukka al-bāghī minhumā”

Fiṭr ibn Khalīfah Abū Bakr al-Ḥannāṭ related to us, from Abū Yaḥyā al-Qattāt, from Mujāhid, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “If one mountain were to transgress against another, the transgressing mountain would be crushed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: «لَوْ أَنَّ جَبَلَيْنِ بَغَى أَحَدُهُمَا عَلَى الْآخَرِ، لَدُكَّ الْبَاغِي مِنْهُمَا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā al-qattāti, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin qāla: “law ʾanna jabalayni baghā ʾaḥaduhumā ʿalā al-ākhari, ladukka al-bāghī minhumā”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Yaḥyā al-Qattāt, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “If one of two mountains were to transgress against the other, the transgressing mountain would be crushed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ. وَسَلَّمَ: «أَعْجَلُ الشَّرِّ عُقُوبَةً الْبَغْيُ، وَقَطِيعَةُ الرَّحِمِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī al-ʿalāʾi, ʿan makḥūlin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi. wasallama: “ʾaʿjalu al-sharri ʿuqūbatan al-baghyu, waqaṭīʿatu al-raḥimi”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, from Makḥūl, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The evils whose punishment comes most swiftly are transgression and severing ties of kinship.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جَوْشَنٍ الْغَطَفَانِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا مِنْ ذَنْبٍ أَجْدَرُ أَنْ يُعَجِّلَ اللَّهُ لِصَاحِبِهِ الْعُقُوبَةَ، مَعَ مَا يُدَّخَرُ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْبَغْيِ، وَقَطِيعَةِ الرَّحِمِ»

ḥaddathanā ʿuyaynatu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni jawshanin al-ghaṭafāniyyu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī bakrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā min dhanbin ʾajdaru ʾan yuʿajjila Allāhu liṣāḥibihi al-ʿuqūbata, maʿa mā yuddakharu lahu fī al-ākhirati mina al-baghyi, waqaṭīʿati al-raḥimi”

ʿUyaynah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jawshan al-Ghaṭafānī related to us, from his father, from Abū Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No sin more deserves that Allah hasten its perpetrator’s punishment in this world—in addition to what is stored up for him in the Hereafter—than transgression and severing ties of kinship.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْمُكْتِبِ، عَنْ طَلِيقِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْحَنَفِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ: «اللَّهُمَّ انْصُرْنِي عَلَى مَنْ بَغَى عَلَيَّ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu ḥaddathanā ʿamrū bnu murrata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-ḥārithi al-muktibi, ʿan ṭalīqi bni qaysin al-ḥanafiyyi, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yaqūlu fī duʿāʾihi: “Allāhumma ʾanṣurnī ʿalā man baghā ʿalayya”

Sufyān related to us; ʿAmr ibn Murrah related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith al-Muktib, from Ṭalīq ibn Qays al-Ḥanafī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to say in his supplication: “O Allah, grant me victory over whoever transgresses against me.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ الرَّاسِبِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعْدٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي بَكْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: ذَنْبَانِ مُعَجَّلَانِ لَا يُؤَخَّرَانِ: الْبَغْيُ وَقَطِيعَةُ الرَّحِمِ

ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi al-rāsibiyyu, ʿan ʾabī saʿdin mawlā ʾabī bakrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: dhanbāni muʿajjalāni lā yuʾakhkharāni: al-baghyu waqaṭīʿatu al-raḥimi

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rāsibī related to us, from Abū Saʿd, the client of Abū Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Two sins are punished without delay: transgression and severing ties of kinship.”

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بَابُ الْغِيبَةِ

bābu al-ghībati

Chapter: Backbiting

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ: إِنَّهُ ذَكَرَ الْغِيبَةَ، فَقَالَ: «أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى جِيفَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ مُنْتِنَةٍ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ṣubayḥin, ʿani ʾabni sīrīna qāla: ʾinnahu dhakara al-ghībata, faqāla: “ʾalam tara ʾilā jīfatin khaḍrāʾa muntinatin”

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ related to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, who spoke of backbiting and said: “Have you not seen a green, putrid carcass?”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِّ أَنَّهُ مَرَّ عَلَى بَغْلٍ مَيِّتٍ، فَقَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: «لَأَنْ يَأْكُلَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ هَذَا الْبَغْلِ، حَتَّى يَمْلَأَ بَطْنَهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِنْ لَحْمِ أَخِيهِ الْمُسْلِمِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣṣi ʾannahu marra ʿalā baghlin mayyitin, faqāla liʾaṣḥābihi: “laʾan yaʾkula ʾaḥadukum min hadhā al-baghli, ḥattā yamlaʾa baṭnahu khayrun lahu min ʾan yaʾkula min laḥmi ʾakhīhi al-muslimi”

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who passed by a dead mule and said to his companions: “It would be better for one of you to eat from this mule until he fills his stomach than to eat the flesh of his Muslim brother.”

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حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ رَجُلًا فَقَالَ: ذَاكَ الْأَسْوَدُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ، أَخَافُ أَنْ أَكُونَ قَدِ اغْتَبْتُهُ

ḥaddathanā jarīrun, ʿani ʾabni sīrīna ʾannahu dhakara rajulan faqāla: dhāka al-ʾaswadu, thumma qāla: ʾastaghfiru Allāha, ʾakhāfu ʾan ʾakūna qadi ʾaghtabtuhu

Jarīr related to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, who once mentioned a man and said, “That black man.” Then he said: “I seek Allah’s forgiveness. I fear that I may have backbitten him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ: إِذَا كَانَ يَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَقُولَ: شَعْرُكَ جَعْدٌ، فَلَا تَقُلْهُ لَهُ

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu, ʿani ʾabni sīrīna qāla: ʾidhā kāna yakrahu ʾan taqūla: shaʿruka jaʿdun, falā taqulhu lahu

Wakīʿ related to us; al-Rabīʿ related to us, from Ibn Sīrīn, who said: “If he would dislike your saying, ‘Your hair is curly,’ then do not say it about him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْأَقْمَرِ، عَنْ أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا أُحِبُّ أَنِّي حَكِيتُ أَحَدًا، وَأَنْ يَكُونَ لِي كَذَا وَكَذَا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni al-ʾaqmari, ʿan ʾabī ḥudhayfata, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “mā ʾuḥibbu ʾannī ḥakītu ʾaḥadan, waʾan yakūna lī kadhā wakadhā”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, from Abū Ḥudhayfah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “I would not like to imitate someone mockingly, even if I were to receive such-and-such in return.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَنْطَبٍ قَالَ: ذُكِرَتِ الْغِيبَةُ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «الْغِيبَةُ أَنْ يُذْكَرَ الرَّجُلُ بِمَا فِيهِ مِنْ خُلُقِهِ أَوْ خَلْقِهِ»، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا كُنَّا نَرَى الْغِيبَةَ إِلَّا أَنْ نَذْكُرَ بِمَا لَيْسَ فِيهِ مِنْ خُلُقِهِ؟ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «ذَلِكُمُ الْبُهْتَانُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿani al-muṭṭalibi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḥanṭabin qāla: dhukirati al-ghībatu ʿinda al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla: “al-ghībatu ʾan yudhkara al-rajulu bimā fīhi min khuluqihi ʾaw khalqihi”, qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi mā kunnā narā al-ghībata ʾillā ʾan nadhkura bimā laysa fīhi min khuluqihi? qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “dhalikumu al-buhtānu”

Al-Awzāʿī related to us, from al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanṭab, who said: Backbiting was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said: “Backbiting is to mention a man for something truly present in his character or physical form.” They said: “Messenger of Allah, we thought backbiting meant mentioning a character trait that he does not possess.” The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, replied: “That is slander.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سَلَّامٌ، عَنْ مُغِيرَةَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: ادْعُ أَخَاكَ بِأَحَبِّ أَسْمَائِهِ إِلَيْهِ

ḥaddathanā sallāmun, ʿan mughīrata, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: kāna yuqālu: ʾadʿu ʾakhāka biʾaḥabbi ʾasmāʾihi ʾilayhi

Sallām related to us, from Mughīrah, from Ibrāhīm, who said: It used to be said: “Call your brother by the name he loves most.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ: {وَيْلٌ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍ} [الْهُمَزَةُ: 1] قَالَ: الَّذِي يَأْكُلُ لُحُومَ النَّاسِ، وَاللُّمَزَةُ: الطَّعَّانُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī najīḥin, ʿan mujāhidin: {waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin} [al-humazatu: 1] qāla: al-dhī yaʾkulu luḥūma al-nāsi, wa-l-lumazatu: al-ṭaʿʿānu

Sufyān related to us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid, concerning {Woe to every backbiter and faultfinder} [al-Humazah 104:1]. He said: “The backbiter is one who consumes people’s flesh, and the faultfinder is one who assails them with abuse.”

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بَابُ الْحَسَدِ

bābu al-ḥasadi

Chapter: Envy

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: لَا حَسَدَ إِلَّا فِي اثْنَيْنِ: رَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا، فَسَلَّطَهُ عَلَى هَلَكَتِهِ فِي الْحَقِّ، وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ حِكْمَةً، فَهُوَ يَقْضِي بِهَا وَيُعَلِّمُهَا

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: lā ḥasada ʾillā fī ʾathnayni: rajulun ātāhu Allāhu mālan, fasallaṭahu ʿalā halakatihi fī al-ḥaqqi, warajulun ātāhu Allāhu ḥikmatan, fahuwa yaqḍī bihā wayuʿallimuhā

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Envy is justified in only two cases: a man to whom Allah has given wealth and enabled him to spend it upholding the truth, and a man to whom Allah has given wisdom, by which he judges and which he teaches.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «غَمُّوا هَذَا الْحَسَدَ، فَإِنَّهُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ وَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِضَارِّ عَبْدٍ مَا لَمْ يَعْدُ بِيَدٍ أَوْ لِسَانٍ»

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun ʿan baʿḍi ʾaṣḥābinā, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ghammū hadhā al-ḥasada, faʾinnahu mina al-shayṭāni waʾinnahu laysa biḍārri ʿabdin mā lam yaʿdu biyadin ʾaw lisānin”

Wakīʿ related to us, from one of our companions, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Smother this envy, for it comes from Satan. It does not harm a servant so long as he does not transgress with hand or tongue.”

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بَابُ النَّمِيمَةِ

bābu al-namīmati

Chapter: Tale-bearing

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ قَتَّاتٌ»، قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ: الْقَتَّاتُ: النَّمَّامُ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan hammāmi bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ḥudhayfata qāla: qāla rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “lā yadkhulu al-jannata qattātun”, qāla al-ʾaʿmashu: al-qattātu: al-nammāmu

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, from Hammām ibn al-Ḥārith, from Ḥudhayfah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A clandestine informer will not enter the Garden.” Al-Aʿmash said: “A clandestine informer is a tale-bearer.”

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قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ: إِبْرَاهِيمُ، عَنْ هُمَامٍ قَالَ: ذُكِرَ لِحُذَيْفَةَ رَجُلٌ لَا يَزَالُ يَرْفَعُ الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ قَتَّاتٌ»

qāla al-ʾaʿmashu qāla: ʾibrāhīmu, ʿan humāmin qāla: dhukira liḥudhayfata rajulun lā yazālu yarfaʿu al-ḥadītha ʾilā al-sulṭāni qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “lā yadkhulu al-jannata qattātun”

Al-Aʿmash said: Ibrāhīm related from Hammām, who said: A man who constantly carried reports to the ruler was mentioned to Ḥudhayfah. He said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A clandestine informer will not enter the Garden.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ: قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: مَرَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِقَبْرَيْنِ؛ فَقَالَ: إِنَّهُمَا لَيُعَذَّبَانِ وَمَا يُعَذَّبَانِ فِي كَبِيرٍ، أَمَّا هَذَا فَكَانَ لَا يَسْتَتِرُ مِنْ بَوْلِهِ، وَأَمَّا هَذَا فَكَانَ يَمْشِي بِالنَّمِيمَةِ، ثُمَّ دَعَا بِعَسِيبٍ رَطْبٍ، فَشَقَّهُ بِاثْنَيْنِ، فَغَرَسَ عَلَى هَذَا وَاحِدًا، وَعَلَى هَذَا وَاحِدًا، قَالَ: «لَعَلَّهُ أَنْ يُخَفِّفَ عَنْهُمَا مَا لَمْ يَيْبَسَا»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu: qāla samiʿtu mujāhidan yuḥaddithu ʿan ṭāwusin, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin qāla: marra rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama biqabrayni; faqāla: ʾinnahumā layuʿadhdhabāni wamā yuʿadhdhabāni fī kabīrin, ʾammā hadhā fakāna lā yastatiru min bawlihi, waʾammā hadhā fakāna yamshī bi-l-namīmati, thumma daʿā biʿasībin raṭbin, fashaqqahu biāthnayni, fagharasa ʿalā hadhā wāḥidan, waʿalā hadhā wāḥidan, qāla: “laʿallahu ʾan yukhaffifa ʿanhumā mā lam yaybasā”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, saying: I heard Mujāhid relate from Ṭāwūs, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed by two graves and said: “They are being punished, though they are not being punished for something that seemed grave to them. One of them did not shield himself from his urine, while the other went about spreading malicious gossip.” He then called for a fresh palm stalk, split it in two, and planted one half on each grave. He said: “Perhaps their punishment will be lightened so long as these have not dried.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ وَأُبَيٌّ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا تَعَجَّلَ مُوسَى إِلَى رَبِّهِ مَرَّ بِرَجُلٍ غَبَطَهُ بِقُرْبِهِ مِنَ الْعَرْشِ، فَسَأَلَ عَنْهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَبُّ مَنْ هَذَا؟ فَقِيلَ لَهُ: لَنْ نُخْبِرَكَ بِاسْمِهِ، وَسَنُخْبِرُكَ بِعَمَلِهِ، إِنَّهُ كَانَ لَا يَحْسُدُ النَّاسَ عَلَى مَا آتَاهُمْ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ، وَكَانَ لَا يَمْشِي بِالنَّمِيمَةِ، وَكَانَ لَا يَعُقُّ وَالِدَيْهِ، قَالَ: يَا رَبُّ وَكَيْفَ يَعُقُّ الرَّجُلُ وَالِدَيْهِ؟ قَالَ: يَسْتَسِبُّ لَهُمَا حَتَّى يُسَبَّا

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu waʾubayyun, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿamri bni maymūnin qāla: lammā taʿajjala mūsā ʾilā rabbihi marra birajulin ghabaṭahu biqurbihi mina al-ʿarshi, fasaʾala ʿanhu, faqāla: yā rabbu man hadhā? faqīla lahu: lan nukhbiraka biāsmihi, wasanukhbiruka biʿamalihi, ʾinnahu kāna lā yaḥsudu al-nāsa ʿalā mā ātāhum min faḍlihi, wakāna lā yamshī bi-l-namīmati, wakāna lā yaʿuqqu wa-l-dayhi, qāla: yā rabbu wakayfa yaʿuqqu al-rajulu wa-l-dayhi? qāla: yastasibbu lahumā ḥattā yusabbā

Isrāʾīl and Ubayy related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn, who said: When Moses hastened to his Lord, he passed a man whose nearness to the Throne stirred his admiration. Moses asked about him, saying, “My Lord, who is this?” He was told: “We will not tell you his name, but We will tell you his deeds: he did not envy people for what Allah had given them from His bounty; he did not spread malicious gossip; and he did not mistreat his parents.” Moses asked: “My Lord, how does a man mistreat his parents?” He replied: “He provokes others to insult them, until they are insulted.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ قَالَ: قَدِمْتُ مِنْ مَكَّةَ، فَلَقِيَنِي الشَّعْبِيُّ، فَقَالَ لِي: يَا أَبَا زَيْدٍ أَطْرَفْنَا مَا سَمِعْتَ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا، إِلَّا أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَابِطٍ يَقُولُ: «لَا يَسْكُنُ مَكَّةَ سَافِكُ دَمٍ، وَلَا آكِلُ الرِّبَا، وَلَا مَشَّاءٌ بِنَمِيمٍ»، قَالَ: فَعَجِبْتُ مِنْهُ حِينَ عَدَلَ النَّمِيمَةَ بِسَفْكِ الدَّمِ، وَأَكْلِ الرِّبَا، قَالَ: قَالَ الشَّعْبِيُّ: وَمَا تَعْجَبُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ؟ وَهَلْ تُسْفَكُ الدِّمَاءُ وَتُسْتَحَلُّ الْمَحَارِمُ إِلَّا بِالنَّمِيمَةِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi qāla: qadimtu min makkata, falaqiyanī al-shaʿbiyyu, faqāla lī: yā ʾabā zaydin ʾaṭrafnā mā samiʿta, qāla: qultu: lā, ʾillā ʾannī samiʿtu ʿabda al-raḥmani bna ʿabdi Allāhi bni sābiṭin yaqūlu: “lā yaskunu makkata sāfiku damin, walā ākilu al-ribā, walā mashshāʾun binamīmin”, qāla: faʿajibtu minhu ḥīna ʿadala al-namīmata bisafki al-dami, waʾakli al-ribā, qāla: qāla al-shaʿbiyyu: wamā taʿjabu min dhalika? wahal tusfaku al-dimāʾu watustaḥallu al-maḥārimu ʾillā bi-l-namīmati

My father related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who said: I returned from Mecca and al-Shaʿbī met me. He said: “Abū Zayd, tell us something novel that you heard.” I replied: “Nothing, except that I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sābiṭ say: ‘Mecca will not remain home to a shedder of blood, a consumer of usury, or one who goes about spreading malicious gossip.’” I was surprised that he placed tale-bearing alongside bloodshed and consuming usury. Al-Shaʿbī said: “Why are you surprised? Is blood ever shed and the inviolable made lawful except through malicious gossip?”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ نَدَبَهُمُ اللَّهُ إِلَى الْوَيْلِ؟ قَالَ: {وَيْلٌ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍ} [الْهُمَزَةُ: 1] قَالَ: «هُمُ الْمَشَّاؤُونَ بِالنَّمِيمَةِ، الْمُفَرِّقُونَ بَيْنَ الْإِخْوَانِ الْبَاغُونَ الْبُرَآءَ الْعَنَتَ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan rajulin min ʾahli al-baṣrati, ʿan ʾabī al-jawzāʾi qāla: qultu lābni ʿabbāsin: man haʾulāʾi al-dhīna nadabahumu Allāhu ʾilā al-wayli? qāla: {waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin} [al-humazatu: 1] qāla: “humu al-mashshāʾūna bi-l-namīmati, al-mufarriqūna bayna al-ʾikhwāni al-bāghūna al-buraāʾa al-ʿanata”

My father related to us, from a man of Basra, from Abū al-Jawzāʾ, who said: I asked Ibn ʿAbbās, “Who are those whom Allah has consigned to woe?” He replied by reciting: {Woe to every backbiter and faultfinder} [al-Humazah 104:1]. He then said: “They are those who go about spreading malicious gossip, divide brothers, and seek to bring distress upon the innocent.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ «مِنَ الْخِيَانَةِ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ الرَّجُلُ بِسِرِّ أَخِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun, ʿan baʿḍi ʾaṣḥābi al-ḥasani, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama “mina al-khiyānati ʾan yuḥadditha al-rajulu bisirri ʾakhīhi”

Wakīʿ related to us, from one of al-Ḥasan’s companions, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “It is a form of betrayal for a man to disclose his brother’s secret.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ شَيْخًا يُكْنَى أَبَا دَاوُدَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ، وَقِيلَ لَهُ: نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فِي أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ {وَيْلٌ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍ} [الْهُمَزَةُ: 1] فَقَالَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ: «مَا عُنِينَا بِهَا، وَمَا عُنِينَا بِعُشْرِ الْقُرْآنِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, qāla: samiʿtu shaykhan yuknā ʾabā dāwuda qāla: samiʿtu ʾabna ʿumara, waqīla lahu: nazalat hadhihi al-āyatu fī ʾaṣḥābi muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama {waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin} [al-humazatu: 1] faqāla ʾabnu ʿumara: “mā ʿunīnā bihā, wamā ʿunīnā biʿushri al-qurāni”

Al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: I heard a shaykh known as Abū Dāwūd say: I heard Ibn ʿUmar when someone told him, “This verse was revealed about the Companions of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: {Woe to every backbiter and faultfinder} [al-Humazah 104:1].” Ibn ʿUmar replied: “We were not the ones intended by it, nor were we intended by a tenth of the Qurʾan.”

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بَابُ السَّتْرِ

bābu al-satri

Chapter: Concealing the faults of others

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ شُبَيْلِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ الْأَحْمَسِي قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: مَنْ سَمِعَ بِفَاحِشَةٍ، فَأَفْشَاهَا، كَانَ فِيهَا كَالَّذِي بَدَأَهَا

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan shubayli bni ʿawfin al-ʾaḥmasī qāla: kāna yuqālu: man samiʿa bifāḥishatin, faʾafshāhā, kāna fīhā ka-l-dhī badaʾahā

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Shubayl ibn ʿAwf al-Aḥmasī, who said: It used to be said: “Whoever hears of an indecency and broadcasts it bears the same guilt as the one who began it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ الْحَلَبِيُّ أَبُو بِشْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا سَتَرَكُمُ اللَّهُ، فَاسْتَتِرُوا»

ḥaddathanā ʿimrānu al-ḥalabiyyu ʾabū bishrin, ʿan ʾabī qilābata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾidhā satarakumu Allāhu, fāstatirū”

ʿImrān al-Ḥalabī Abū Bishr related to us, from Abū Qilābah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “When Allah conceals your faults, keep them concealed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ هُزَالٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ مَاعِزَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ كَانَ فِي حِجْرِهِ، فَلَمَّا فَجَرَ قَالَ أَبِي: ائْتِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَأَخْبِرْهُ، قَالَ: فَأَتَاهُ، فَأَخْبَرَهُ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حِينَ لَقِيَهُ: «أَمَا إِنَّكَ لَوْ كُنْتَ سَتَرْتَهُ بِثَوْبِكَ، كَانَ خَيْرًا مِمَّا فَعَلْتَ بِهِ»

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu saʿdin qāla: ʾakhbaranī yazīdu bnu nuʿaymi bni huzālin, ʿan ʾabīhi ʾanna māʿiza bna mālikin kāna fī ḥijrihi, falammā fajara qāla ʾabī: ʾaʾti rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faʾakhbirhu, qāla: faʾatāhu, faʾakhbarahu, qāla: faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥīna laqiyahu: “ʾamā ʾinnaka law kunta satartahu bithawbika, kāna khayran mimmā faʿalta bihi”

Hishām ibn Saʿd related to us, saying: Yazīd ibn Nuʿaym ibn Hazzāl informed me, from his father, that Māʿiz ibn Mālik was in his care. When Māʿiz committed unlawful intercourse, my father told him: “Go to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and tell him.” So he went and told him. When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, later met my father, he said: “Had you covered him with your garment, that would have been better than what you did to him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عِمَرَانُ بْنُ حُدَيْرٍ السَّلُولِيُّ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ قَالَ: «مَنِ اسْتَمَعَ حَدِيثَ قَوْمٍ وَهُمْ لَهُ كَارِهُونَ أُذِيبَ فِي أُذُنِهِ الْآنَكُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

ḥaddathanā ʿimarānu bnu ḥudayrin al-salūliyyu, ʿan ʿikrimata qāla: “mani ʾastamaʿa ḥadītha qawmin wahum lahu kārihūna ʾudhība fī ʾudhunihi al-ānaku yawma al-qiyāmati”

ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr al-Salūlī related to us, from ʿIkrimah, who said: “Whoever listens to people’s conversation when they do not want him to hear it will have molten lead poured into his ear on the Day of Resurrection.”

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حَدَّثَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَنْطَبٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّمَا تُجَالَسُونَ بِالْأَمَانَةِ»

ḥaddathanā kathīru bnu zaydin, ʿani al-muṭṭalibi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḥanṭabin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinnamā tujālasūna bi-l-ʾamānati”

Kathīr ibn Zayd related to us, from al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanṭab, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Private conversation is held in trust.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ أَشْعَثَ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: كَانَ شُرَحْبِيلُ بْنُ السَّمْطِ عَلَى جَيْشٍ قَالَ: فَقَالَ: إِنَّكُمْ نَزَلْتُمْ أَرْضًا فِيهَا نِسَاءٌ وَشَرَابٌ، فَمَنْ أَصَابَ مِنْكُمْ حَدًّا، فَلْيَأْتِنَا حَتَّى نُطَهِّرَهُ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ: «لَا أُمَّ لَكَ تَأْمُرُ قَوْمًا سَتَرَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَهْتِكُوا سِتْرَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabī, ʿan ʾashʿatha bni ʾabī al-shaʿthāʾi, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: kāna shuraḥbīlu bnu al-samṭi ʿalā jayshin qāla: faqāla: ʾinnakum nazaltum ʾarḍan fīhā nisāʾun washarābun, faman ʾaṣāba minkum ḥaddan, falyaʾtinā ḥattā nuṭahhirahu, fabalagha dhalika ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi, fakataba ʾilayhi: “lā ʾumma laka taʾmuru qawman satara Allāhu ʿalayhim ʾan yahtikū sitra Allāhi ʿalayhim”

My father related to us, from Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ, from his father, who said: Shuraḥbīl ibn al-Simṭ was commanding an army. He said: “You have entered a land containing women and wine. Whoever among you incurs a prescribed punishment should come to us so that we may purify him.” This reached ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, who wrote to him: “May your mother be bereaved of you! Are you ordering people whom Allah has concealed to tear away Allah’s covering from themselves?”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ: «ظُلْمًا لِأَخِيكَ أَنْ تَذْكُرَ فِيهِ أَسْوَأَ مَا تَعْلَمُ مِنْهُ، وَتَكْتُمَ خَيْرَهُ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ṣubayḥin, ʿan muḥammadi bni sīrīna qāla: “ẓulman liʾakhīka ʾan tadhkura fīhi ʾaswaʾa mā taʿlamu minhu, wataktuma khayrahu”

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, who said: “It is an injustice to your brother that you mention the worst thing you know about him while concealing his good.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍ، عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ ذِي حُنَابٍ، عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ: ثَلَاثٌ مِنَ الْفَوَاقِرِ: إِمَامٌ إِنْ أَحْسَنْتَ لَمْ يَشْكُرْ، وَإِنْ أَسَأْتَ لَمْ يَغْفِرْ، وَجَارٌ إِنْ رَأَى حَسَنَةً دَفَنَهَا، وَإِنْ رَأَى سَيِّئَةً أَفْشَاهَا، وَزَوْجَةٌ إِنْ حَضَرْتَ آذَتْكَ وَإِنْ غِبْتَ عَنْهَا خَانَتْكَ فِي مَالِكَ وَنَفْسِهَا

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan hilāli bni yasāfin, ʿan nuʿaymi bni dhī ḥunābin, ʿan faḍālata bni ʿubaydin al-ʾanṣāriyyi qāla: thalāthun mina al-fawāqiri: ʾimāmun ʾin ʾaḥsanta lam yashkur, waʾin ʾasaʾta lam yaghfir, wajārun ʾin raʾā ḥasanatan dafanahā, waʾin raʾā sayyiʾatan ʾafshāhā, wazawjatun ʾin ḥaḍarta ādhatka waʾin ghibta ʿanhā khānatka fī mālika wanafsihā

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, from Nuʿaym ibn Dhī Ḥunāb, from Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd al-Anṣārī, who said: “Three things are crushing calamities: a leader who does not thank you when you do good and does not forgive you when you do wrong; a neighbor who buries any good he sees and broadcasts any fault he sees; and a wife who hurts you when you are present and, when you are away, betrays you regarding your property and herself.”

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بَابُ الرِّفْقِ

bābu al-rifqi

Chapter: Gentleness

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: مَكْتُوبٌ فِي الْحِكْمَةِ: الرِّفْقُ رَأْسُ الْحِكْمَةِ

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: maktūbun fī al-ḥikmati: al-rifqu raʾsu al-ḥikmati

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, who said: It is written in the wisdom literature: “Gentleness is the crown of wisdom.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ثَوْرٌ الشَّامِيُّ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ رَفِيقٌ يُحِبُّ الرِّفْقَ، وَيُعْطِي عَلَيْهِ مَا لَا يُعْطِي عَلَى الْعُنْفِ»

ḥaddathanā thawrun al-shāmiyyu, ʿan khālidi bni maʿdāna qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna Allāha rafīqun yuḥibbu al-rifqa, wayuʿṭī ʿalayhi mā lā yuʿṭī ʿalā al-ʿunfi”

Thawr al-Shāmī related to us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Allah is gentle and loves gentleness; He grants for gentleness what He does not grant for violence.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: مَنْ يُعْطَ الرِّفْقَ فِي الدُّنْيَا، نَفَعَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: kāna yuqālu: man yuʿṭa al-rifqa fī al-dunyā, nafaʿahu fī al-ākhirati

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: It used to be said: “Whoever is granted gentleness in this world will benefit from it in the Hereafter.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ تَمِيمِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ السُّلَمِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ الْعَبْسِيِّ، عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ يُحْرَمِ الرِّفْقَ يُحْرَمِ الْخَيْرَ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan tamīmi bni salamata al-sulamiyyi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni hilālin al-ʿabsiyyi, ʿan jarīri bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man yuḥrami al-rifqa yuḥrami al-khayra”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Tamīm ibn Salamah al-Sulamī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hilāl al-ʿAbsī, from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever is deprived of gentleness is deprived of goodness.”

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اللَّهُمَّ مَنْ رَفَقَ بِأُمَّتِي فَارْفُقْ بِهِ، وَمَنْ شَقَّ عَلَيْهِمْ فَشُقَّ عَلَيْهِ»

ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi al-muzaniyyi, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “Allāhumma man rafaqa biʾummatī fārfuq bihi, waman shaqqa ʿalayhim fashuqqa ʿalayhi”

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “O Allah, be gentle with whoever is gentle with my community, and make matters difficult for whoever makes matters difficult for them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: الرِّفْقُ يُمْنٌ، وَالْخُرْقُ شُؤْمٌ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin qāla: kāna yuqālu: al-rifqu yumnun, wa-l-khurqu shuʾmun

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, saying: It used to be said: “Gentleness brings blessing, while harsh ineptitude brings misfortune.”

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أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، وَشَرِيكٌ، عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ هَانِئٍ الْحَارِثِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَا كَانَ الرِّفْقُ فِي شَيْءٍ إِلَّا زَانَهُ، وَلَا عُزِلَ عَنْهُ إِلَّا شَانَهُ»

ʾakhbaranā ʾisrāʾīlu, washarīkun, ʿani al-miqdāmi bni shurayḥi bni hāniʾin al-ḥārithiyyi, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿāʾishata ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: “mā kāna al-rifqu fī shayʾin ʾillā zānahu, walā ʿuzila ʿanhu ʾillā shānahu”

Isrāʾīl and Sharīk informed us, from al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ al-Ḥārithī, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Gentleness adorns whatever it enters, and whenever it is removed from something, that thing is disfigured.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ أَنَّ رَجُلًا صَعِدَ إِلَى أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ - وَهُوَ فِي غُرْفَةٍ لَهُ - وَهُوَ يَلْتَقِطُ حَبًّا مَنْثُورًا فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: إِنَّ مِنْ فِقْهِ الرَّجُلِ رِفْقَهُ فِي مَعِيشَتِهِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi ʾanna rajulan ṣaʿida ʾilā ʾabī al-dardāʾi - wahuwa fī ghurfatin lahu - wahuwa yaltaqiṭu ḥabban manthūran faqāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: ʾinna min fiqhi al-rajuli rifqahu fī maʿīshatihi

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, that a man went up to Abū al-Dardāʾ in an upper room of his and found him gathering scattered grains. Abū al-Dardāʾ said: “Part of a man’s understanding of religion is his careful moderation in managing his livelihood.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ، عَنْ أُمِّهِ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا دَخَلَ حُجْرَتَهُ فَرَأَى حَبًّا مَنْثُورًا، فَالْتَقَطَهُ، وَقَالَ: «شَبِعْتُمْ يَا آلَ عَلِيٍّ؟»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu ḥassāna, ʿan ʾummihi ʾanna ʿaliyyan dakhala ḥujratahu faraʾā ḥabban manthūran, fa-l-taqaṭahu, waqāla: “shabiʿtum yā āla ʿaliyyin?”

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Ḥassān related to us, from his mother, that ʿAlī entered his room, saw grains scattered about, and picked them up. He said: “Have you had your fill, family of ʿAlī?”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي عَائِشَةَ وَكَانَ ثِقَةً عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ مَيْمُونَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهَا رَأَتْ حَبَّةً فَأَخَذَتْهَا وَقَالَتْ: «لَا يُحِبُّ اللَّهُ الْفَسَادَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan mūsā bni ʾabī ʿāʾishata wakāna thiqatan ʿan rajulin, ʿan maymūnata zawji al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾannahā raʾat ḥabbatan faʾakhadhathā waqālat: “lā yuḥibbu Allāhu al-fasāda”

Sufyān related to us, from Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah—who was trustworthy—from a man, from Maymūnah, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that she saw a grain, picked it up, and said: “Allah does not love waste.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ مَرْجَانَةَ مَوْلَاةِ صَفِيَّةَ قَالَتْ: رَأَيْتُ عَلِيًّا يَلْتَقِطُ حَبَّ رُمَّانٍ يَأْكُلُهُ

ḥaddathanā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan marjānata mawlāti ṣafiyyata qālat: raʾaytu ʿaliyyan yaltaqiṭu ḥabba rummānin yaʾkuluhu

Mālik ibn Mighwal related to us, from Marjānah, the client-woman of Ṣafiyyah, who said: “I saw ʿAlī picking up pomegranate seeds and eating them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ: «الْخُرْقُ فِي الْمَعِيشَةِ أَخْوَفُ عِنْدِي عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ الْعَوَزِ؛ لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَبْقَى مَعَ الْفَسَادِ شَيْءٌ، وَلَا يَقِلُّ مَعَ الْإِصْلَاحِ شَيْءٌ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma qāla: qāla ʿumaru: “al-khurqu fī al-maʿīshati ʾakhwafu ʿindī ʿalaykum mina al-ʿawazi; liʾannahu lā yabqā maʿa al-fasādi shayʾun, walā yaqillu maʿa al-ʾiṣlāḥi shayʾun”

Misʿar related to us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, who said: ʿUmar said: “I fear poor management of your livelihood for you more than I fear poverty. Nothing survives wastefulness, while nothing is too little when managed well.”

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حَدَّثَنَا حَنَشُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ النَّخَعِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: كَانَ شَهِدَ الْقَادِسِيَّةَ، قَالَ: رَجَعْنَا مِنَ الْقَادِسِيَّةِ، فَكَانَ أَحَدُنَا يُنْتِجُ فَرَسُهُ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ، فَإِذَا أَصْبَحَ نَحَرَ مُهْرَهَا، قَالَ: فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ عُمَرَ، فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْنَا: «أَنْ أَصْلِحُوا مَا رَزَقَكُمُ اللَّهُ، فَإِنَّ الْأَمْرَ نَفَسٌ»

ḥaddathanā ḥanashu bnu al-ḥārithi al-nakhaʿiyyu, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: kāna shahida al-qādisiyyata, qāla: rajaʿnā mina al-qādisiyyati, fakāna ʾaḥadunā yuntiju farasuhu mina al-layli, faʾidhā ʾaṣbaḥa naḥara muhrahā, qāla: fabalagha dhalika ʿumara, fakataba ʾilaynā: “ʾan ʾaṣliḥū mā razaqakumu Allāhu, faʾinna al-ʾamra nafasun”

Ḥanash ibn al-Ḥārith al-Nakhaʿī related to us, from his father, who had witnessed al-Qādisiyyah. He said: “When we returned from al-Qādisiyyah, a man’s mare might give birth during the night and, by morning, he would slaughter her foal. This reached ʿUmar, who wrote to us: ‘Take good care of what Allah has provided you, for the matter has a long course ahead.’”

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بَابُ صِفَةِ النِّفَاقِ

bābu ṣifati al-nifāqi

Chapter: The characteristics of hypocrisy

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ هُرْمُزَ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى قَالَ: سُئِلَ حُذَيْفَةُ: مَا الْمُنَافِقُ؟ قَالَ: الَّذِي يَصِفُ الْإِسْلَامَ وَلَا يَعْمَلُ بِهِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu wasufyānu, ʿan thābiti bni hurmuza ʾabī al-miqdāmi, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā qāla: suʾila ḥudhayfatu: mā al-munāfiqu? qāla: al-dhī yaṣifu al-ʾislāma walā yaʿmalu bihi

Al-Aʿmash and Sufyān related to us, from Thābit ibn Hurmuz Abū al-Miqdām, from Abū Yaḥyā, who said: Ḥudhayfah was asked, “What is a hypocrite?” He replied: “One who describes Islam but does not practice it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عِمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: اعْتَبِرُوا الْمُنَافِقَ بِثَلَاثٍ: إِذَا حَدَّثَ كَذِبَ، وَإِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ وَإِذَا عَاهَدَ غَدَرَ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ عَاهَدَ اللَّهَ} [التَّوْبَةُ: 75] إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَبِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿimārata bni ʿumayrin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni yazīda qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: ʾaʿtabirū al-munāfiqa bithalāthin: ʾidhā ḥaddatha kadhiba, waʾidhā waʿada ʾakhlafa waʾidhā ʿāhada ghadara, thumma qaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: {waminhum man ʿāhada Allāha} [al-tawbatu: 75] ʾilā qawlihi wabimā kānū yakdhibūna

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿImārah ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Recognize the hypocrite by three traits: when he speaks, he lies; when he promises, he breaks his promise; and when he makes a covenant, he betrays it.” Then ʿAbd Allāh recited from {Among them are those who made a covenant with Allah} [al-Tawbah 9:75] through {because they used to lie} [9:77].

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: أَرْبَعٌ مَنْ كُنَّ فِيهِ كَانَ مُنَافِقًا خَالِصًا، وَإِنْ كَانَتْ فِيهِ خَصْلَةٌ مِنْهُنَّ لَمْ تَزَلْ فِيهِ خَصْلَةٌ مِنْ نِفَاقٍ، حَتَّى يَدَعَهَا: إِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ، وَإِذَا حَدَّثَ كَذِبَ، وَإِذَا خَاصَمَ فَجَرَ، وَإِذَا عَاهَدَ غَدَرَ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni murrata, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ʾarbaʿun man kunna fīhi kāna munāfiqan khāliṣan, waʾin kānat fīhi khaṣlatun minhunna lam tazal fīhi khaṣlatun min nifāqin, ḥattā yadaʿahā: ʾidhā waʿada ʾakhlafa, waʾidhā ḥaddatha kadhiba, waʾidhā khāṣama fajara, waʾidhā ʿāhada ghadara

Sufyān related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Murrah, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever possesses four traits is a pure hypocrite; and whoever possesses one of them retains a trait of hypocrisy until he abandons it: when he promises, he breaks his promise; when he speaks, he lies; when he disputes, he behaves wickedly; and when he makes a covenant, he betrays it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا زَمْعَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ وَهْرَامٍ، عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ الْجَبَائِيِّ - وَكَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْكُتُبَ قَالَ: فِي بَعْضِ الْكُتُبِ: إِذَا كَمُلَ فُجُورُ الْعَبْدِ مَلَكَ عَيْنَيْهِ، فَإِذَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَبْكِيَ بَكَى

ḥaddathanā zamʿatu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿan salamata bni wahrāmin, ʿan shuʿaybin al-jabāʾiyyi - wakāna yaqraʾu al-kutuba qāla: fī baʿḍi al-kutubi: ʾidhā kamula fujūru al-ʿabdi malaka ʿaynayhi, faʾidhā shāʾa ʾan yabkiya bakā

Zamʿah ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us, from Salamah ibn Wahrām, from Shuʿayb al-Jabāʾī—who used to read the earlier scriptures—who said: It is written in one of the books: “When a servant’s wickedness becomes complete, he gains command of his eyes: whenever he wishes to weep, he weeps.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: «الْمُنَافِقُونَ الَّذِينَ فِيكُمُ الْيَوْمَ، شَرٌّ مِنَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ». قُلْنَا: لِمَ ذَاكَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «لِأَنَّ أُولَئِكَ كَانُوا يُسِرُّونَ نِفَاقَهُمْ، وَأَنّ هَؤُلَاءِ أَعْلَنُوهُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin, ʿan ḥudhayfata qāla: “al-munāfiqūna al-dhīna fīkumu al-yawma, sharrun mina al-munāfiqīna al-dhīna kānū ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama”. qulnā: lima dhāka yā ʾabā ʿabdi Allāhi? qāla: “liʾanna ʾūlaʾika kānū yusirrūna nifāqahum, waʾann haʾulāʾi ʾaʿlanūhu”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Wāʾil, from Ḥudhayfah, who said: “The hypocrites among you today are worse than the hypocrites who lived in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.” We asked: “Why is that, Abū ʿAbd Allāh?” He replied: “Those people concealed their hypocrisy, whereas these people display it openly.”

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حَدَّثَنَا رَزِينُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ الْجُهَنِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي رُقَادِ الْعَيشِيِّ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَّ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَيَصِيرُ بِهَا مُنَافِقًا، وَإِنِّي لَأَسْمَعُهَا مِنْ أَحَدِكُمُ الْيَوْمَ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ»

ḥaddathanā razīnu bnu ḥabībin al-juhaniyyu, ʿan ʾabī ruqādi al-ʿayshiyyi, ʿan ḥudhayfata qāla: “ʾinna al-rajulla layatakallamu bi-l-kalimati ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fayaṣīru bihā munāfiqan, waʾinnī laʾasmaʿuhā min ʾaḥadikumu al-yawma fī al-majlisi ʿashra marrātin”

Razīn ibn Ḥabīb al-Juhanī related to us, from Abū Ruqād al-ʿAyshī, from Ḥudhayfah, who said: “In the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, a man might utter a single statement and thereby become a hypocrite. Today I hear one of you say the same thing ten times in a single gathering.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ زَيْدَ بْنَ وَهْبٍ الْجُهَنِيَّ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: مَرَّ بِي عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ، وَأَنَا جَالِسٌ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، فَقَالَ لِي: يَا حُذَيْفَةُ، إِنَّ فُلَانًا قَدْ مَاتَ، فَاشْهَدْ قَالَ: ثُمَّ مَضَى حَتَّى إِذَا كَادَ أَنْ يَخْرُجَ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ، الْتَفَتَ إِلَيَّ، فَرَآنِي، وَأَنَا جَالِسٌ فَعَرَفَ، فَرَجَعَ إِلَيَّ، فَقَالَ: يَا حُذَيْفَةُ أُنْشِدُكَ بِاللَّهِ أَمِنَ الْقَوْمِ أَنَا؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: «اللَّهُمَّ لَا، وَلَنْ أُبَرِّيَ أَحَدًا بَعْدَكَ»، قَالَ: فَرَأَيْتُ عَيْنَيْ عُمَرَ جَادَتَا

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin qāla samiʿtu zayda bna wahbin al-juhaniyya, ʿan ḥudhayfata qāla: marra bī ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi, waʾanā jālisun fī al-masjidi, faqāla lī: yā ḥudhayfatu, ʾinna fulānan qad māta, fāshhad qāla: thumma maḍā ḥattā ʾidhā kāda ʾan yakhruja mina al-masjidi, al-tafata ʾilayya, faraānī, waʾanā jālisun faʿarafa, farajaʿa ʾilayya, faqāla: yā ḥudhayfatu ʾunshiduka bi-llāhi ʾamina al-qawmi ʾanā? qāla: qultu: “Allāhumma lā, walan ʾubarriya ʾaḥadan baʿdaka”, qāla: faraʾaytu ʿaynay ʿumara jādatā

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, saying: I heard Zayd ibn Wahb al-Juhanī relate from Ḥudhayfah, who said: “ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb passed me while I was seated in the mosque. He said, ‘Ḥudhayfah, so-and-so has died; come attend his funeral.’ He continued on. When he was about to leave the mosque, he looked back, saw that I was still seated, and understood. He returned and said: ‘Ḥudhayfah, I adjure you by Allah: am I one of those people?’ I replied: ‘By Allah, no—but I will never exonerate anyone after you.’” Ḥudhayfah said: “I saw ʿUmar’s eyes overflow with tears.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ زَيْدَ بْنَ وَهْبٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: «تَقْتَتِلُ فِئَتَانِ بِهَذَا الْغَيْطِ لَا أُبَالِي فِي أَيَّتِهِمَا عَرَفْتُكَ؟» قَالَ: قُلْنَا: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَهَذِهِ أَوْ هَذِهِ يَعْنِي ضَالَّةٌ أَوْ مُهْتَدِيَةٌ، قَالَ: «مَا أُبَالِي فِي أَيَّتِهِمَا عَرَفْتُكَ»؟ قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: أَبَى أَنَّهُمَا ضَالَّتَانِ كِلْتَاهُمَا قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: وَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهُمْ

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin qāla: samiʿtu zayda bna wahbin yuḥaddithu ʿan ḥudhayfata qāla: “taqtatilu fiʾatāni bihadhā al-ghayṭi lā ʾubālī fī ʾayyatihimā ʿaraftuka?” qāla: qulnā: yā ʾabā ʿabdi Allāhi fahadhihi ʾaw hadhihi yaʿnī ḍāllatun ʾaw muhtadiyatun, qāla: “mā ʾubālī fī ʾayyatihimā ʿaraftuka”? qāla wakīʿun: ʾabā ʾannahumā ḍāllatāni kiltāhumā qāla wakīʿun: waqad raʾaytuhum

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, saying: I heard Zayd ibn Wahb relate from Ḥudhayfah, who said: “Two factions will fight in this low ground. I would not care in which of the two I recognized you.” We asked: “Abū ʿAbd Allāh, is this one astray and that one rightly guided?” He repeated: “I would not care in which of the two I recognized you.” Wakīʿ said: “He refused to distinguish between them; both were astray.” Wakīʿ added: “I saw those two factions.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ زَيْدَ بْنَ وَهْبٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَةٌ: إِنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ لَشَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ، مَا يَجِدُ بَرْدَ الْمَاءِ مِنَ الْكِبَرِ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ، أَوْ فَقِيلَ لَهُ: إِنَّكُمْ أَصْحَابُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تُحَدِّثُونَا بِالْحَدِيثِ مَا نَدْرِي مَا هِيَ؟ فَمَا بَالُ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ يَبْقُرُونَ بُيُوتَنَا، وَيَسْرِقُونَ أَعْلَافَنَا، قَالَ: «أُولَئِكَ الْفُسَّاقُ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī khālidin qāla: samiʿtu zayda bna wahbin yuḥaddithu ʿan ḥudhayfata qāla: lam yabqa mina al-munāfiqīna al-dhīna kānū ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾillā ʾarbaʿatun: ʾinna ʾaḥadahum lashaykhun kabīrun, mā yajidu barda al-māʾi mina al-kibari, faqultu lahu, ʾaw faqīla lahu: ʾinnakum ʾaṣḥābu muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama tuḥaddithūnā bi-l-ḥadīthi mā nadrī mā hiya? famā bālu haʾulāʾi al-dhīna yabqurūna buyūtanā, wayasriqūna ʾaʿlāfanā, qāla: “ʾūlaʾika al-fussāqu”

Ibn Abī Khālid related to us, saying: I heard Zayd ibn Wahb relate from Ḥudhayfah, who said: “Only four of the hypocrites who lived in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, remain. One of them is now so old that, because of his age, he cannot feel the coolness of water.” I said to him—or someone said to him: “You Companions of Muḥammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, relate reports to us whose meaning we do not understand. What, then, of these people who break into our homes and steal our fodder?” He replied: “Those are brazen sinners.”

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بَابُ النَّظْرَةِ

bābu al-naẓrati

Chapter: The glance

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حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ لَكَ النَّظْرَةُ الْأُولَى، فَمَا بَالُ الثَّانِيَةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “yā ʾabna ādama laka al-naẓratu al-ʾūlā, famā bālu al-thāniyati”

Al-Rabīʿ related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Child of Adam, the first glance is yours—but what excuse have you for the second?”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَرِيرٍ، عَنْ جِدِّهِ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ نَظْرَةِ الْفَجْأَةِ؟ قَالَ: «اصْرِفْ بَصَرَكَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yūnusa bni ʿubaydin, ʿan ʿamri bni saʿīdin, ʿan ʾabī zurʿata bni ʿamri bni jarīrin, ʿan jiddihi jarīri bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: saʾaltu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿan naẓrati al-fajʾati? qāla: “ʾaṣrif baṣaraka”

Sufyān related to us, from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, from ʿAmr ibn Saʿd, from Abū Zurʿah ibn ʿAmr ibn Jarīr, from his grandfather Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: I asked the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about an accidental glance. He replied: “Turn your gaze away.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ: «كُلُّ نَظْرَةٍ يَهْوَاهَا الْقَلْبُ فَلَا خَيْرَ فِيهَا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin qāla: “kullu naẓratin yahwāhā al-qalbu falā khayra fīhā”

Sufyān related to us, from Layth, from ʿAṭāʾ, who said: “There is no good in any glance that the heart desires.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: النَّظْرَةُ الْأُولَى لَا يَمْلِكُهَا صَاحِبُهَا، وَلَكِنَّ الَّذِي يَدُسُّ النَّظَرَ دَسًّا

ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: kāna yuqālu: al-naẓratu al-ʾūlā lā yamlikuhā ṣāḥibuhā, walakinna al-dhī yadussu al-naẓara dassan

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: It used to be said: “A person cannot control the first glance; blame belongs to the one who deliberately slips in glance after glance.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: جَاءَ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ خُثَيْمٍ إِلَى عَلْقَمَةَ، فَوَجَدَ الْبَابَ مُغْلَقًا، فَجَلَسَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، فَمَرَّتْ نِسْوَةٌ، فَغَمَّضَ عَيْنَيْهِ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: jāʾa al-rabīʿu bnu khuthaymin ʾilā ʿalqamata, fawajada al-bāba mughlaqan, fajalasa fī al-masjidi, famarrat niswatun, faghammaḍa ʿaynayhi

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, who said: Al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym came to see ʿAlqamah and found his door locked, so he sat in the mosque. Some women passed by, and he closed his eyes.

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ بْنُ صَمْعَةَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: الشَّيْطَانُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ مَنَازِلَ: فِي بَصَرِهِ وَقَلْبِهِ وَذَكَرِهِ وَهُوَ مِنَ الْمَرْأَةِ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ مَنَازِلَ: فِي بَصَرِهَا وَقَلْبِهَا وَعُجُزِهَا

ḥaddathanā ʾabānu bnu ṣamʿata, ʿan ʿikrimata, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin qāla: al-shayṭānu mina al-rajuli fī thalāthati manāzila: fī baṣarihi waqalbihi wadhakarihi wahuwa mina al-marʾati fī thalāthati manāzila: fī baṣarihā waqalbihā waʿujuzihā

Abān ibn Ṣamʿah related to us, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “Satan has three stations in a man: his sight, his heart, and his private organ. He has three stations in a woman: her sight, her heart, and her buttocks.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تُتْبِعِ النَّظْرَةَ بَعْدَ النَّظْرَةِ فَإِنَّمَا لَكَ الْأُولَى، وَلَيْسَتْ لَكَ الْآخِرَةُ»

ḥaddathanā sharīkun, ʿan ʾabī rabīʿata, ʿani ʾabni buraydata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “lā tutbiʿi al-naẓrata baʿda al-naẓrati faʾinnamā laka al-ʾūlā, walaysat laka al-ākhiratu”

Sharīk related to us, from Abū Rabīʿah, from Ibn Buraydah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Do not follow one glance with another. The first is yours, but the later one is not.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ سَلَّامٍ أَبِي شُرَحْبِيلَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ حَبَّةَ وَسَوَاءَ ابْنَيْ خَالِدٍ يَقُولَانِ: أَتَيْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ يَعْمَلُ عَمَلًا أَوْ يُبْنِي بِنَاءً، فَأَعَنَّاهُ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ دَعَا لَنَا، وَقَالَ: «لَا تَيْأَسَا مِنَ الْخَيْرِ مَا تَهَزَّزَتْ بِهِ رُءُوسُكُمَا، فَإِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ تَلِدُهُ أُمُّهُ أَحْمَرَ، لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ قَشْرَةٌ، ثُمَّ يَرْزُقُهُ اللَّهُ وَيُعْطِيهِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan sallāmin ʾabī shuraḥbīla qāla: samiʿtu ḥabbata wasawāʾa ʾabnay khālidin yaqūlāni: ʾataynā rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wahuwa yaʿmalu ʿamalan ʾaw yubnī bināʾan, faʾaʿannāhu, falammā faragha daʿā lanā, waqāla: “lā tayʾasā mina al-khayri mā tahazzazat bihi ruʾūsukumā, faʾinna al-ʾinsāna taliduhu ʾummuhu ʾaḥmara, laysa ʿalayhi qashratun, thumma yarzuquhu Allāhu wayuʿṭīhi”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Sallām Abū Shuraḥbīl, who said: I heard Ḥabbah and Sawāʾ, the two sons of Khālid, say: “We came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was working at some task or constructing something, so we helped him. When he finished, he prayed for us and said: ‘Do not despair of goodness so long as your heads can still move. A human being is born red from his mother, without so much as a covering upon him; then Allah provides for him and gives to him.’”

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حَدَّثَنِي سَكِينُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَرْدَفَ الْفَضْلَ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ مِنْ عَرَفَةَ، قَالَ: فَفَطِنَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَهُوَ يُلَاحِظُ النِّسَاءَ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِيَدَيْهِ عَلَى عَيْنَيْهِ يَعْنِي غَطَّاهُمَا، وَقَالَ: «هَذَا يَوْمٌ مَنْ حَفِظَ فِيهِ لِسَانَهُ وَبَصَرَهُ غُفِرَ لَهُ»

ḥaddathanī sakīnu bnu ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ʾabni ʿabbāsin ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾardafa al-faḍla bna ʿabbāsin min ʿarafata, qāla: fafaṭina lahu rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wahuwa yulāḥiẓu al-nisāʾa, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama biyadayhi ʿalā ʿaynayhi yaʿnī ghaṭṭāhumā, waqāla: “hadhā yawmun man ḥafiẓa fīhi lisānahu wabaṣarahu ghufira lahu”

Sakīn ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz related to me, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, seated al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās behind him while returning from ʿArafah. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, noticed al-Faḍl glancing at the women, so the Prophet placed both hands over his eyes to cover them and said: “On this day, whoever guards his tongue and his sight will be forgiven.”

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قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: يَنْبَغِي لِلْإِنْسَانِ يَوْمَ الْعِيدِ أَنْ يَبْدَأَ فَيَغُضَّ بَصَرَهُ، يَهْتَمُّ بِذَلِكَ قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: كَانَ يُقَالُ: النَّظَرُ إِلَى الْمَرْأَةِ إِذَا أَدْبَرَتْ هُوَ سَهْمٌ مَسْمُومٌ

qāla sufyānu: yanbaghī li-l-ʾinsāni yawma al-ʿīdi ʾan yabdaʾa fayaghuḍḍa baṣarahu, yahtammu bidhalika qāla wakīʿun: kāna yuqālu: al-naẓaru ʾilā al-marʾati ʾidhā ʾadbarat huwa sahmun masmūmun

Sufyān said: “On the festival day, a person should begin by lowering his gaze and should make that a matter of concern.” Wakīʿ said: It used to be said: “Looking at a woman after she has turned away is a poisoned arrow.”

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بَابُ الْخِدْمَةِ وَالتَّوَاضُعِ

bābu al-khidmati wa-l-tawāḍuʿi

Chapter: Service and humility

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُلَيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ اللَّخْمِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُصَلِّي عَلَى الرَّجُلِ، يَرَاهُ يَخْدُمُ أَصْحَابَهُ

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿulayyi bni rabāḥin al-lakhmiyyu, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yuṣallī ʿalā al-rajuli, yarāhu yakhdumu ʾaṣḥābahu

Mūsā ibn ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ al-Lakhmī related to us, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would invoke blessings for a man whom he saw serving his companions.

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُنْذِرٍ أَبِي يَعْلَى قَالَ: كَانَ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ خُثَيْمٍ يَكْنُسُ الْحَشَّ بِنَفْسِهِ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: إِنَّكَ تُكْفَى هَذَا، فَقَالَ: «إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ آخُذَ بِنَصِيبِي مِنَ الْمِهْنَةِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mundhirin ʾabī yaʿlā qāla: kāna al-rabīʿu bnu khuthaymin yaknusu al-ḥashsha binafsihi, faqīla lahu: ʾinnaka tukfā hadhā, faqāla: “ʾinnī ʾuḥibbu ʾan ākhudha binaṣībī mina al-mihnati”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mundhir Abū Yaʿlā, who said: Al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym used to sweep the privy himself. Someone said to him: “You could be spared this work.” He replied: “I want to take my share of humble service.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ قَالَ: «كَانُوا يَدْخُلُونَ عَلَى عَلْقَمَةَ وَهُوَ يُقَرِّعُ غَنَمَهُ، فَيَعْلِفُ وَيَحْلِبُ» قَالَ وَكِيعٌ: التَّقْرِيعُ: أَنْ يُنَزُّوا عَلَيْهِ الْفَحْلَ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani al-musayyabi bni rāfiʿin qāla: “kānū yadkhulūna ʿalā ʿalqamata wahuwa yuqarriʿu ghanamahu, fayaʿlifu wayaḥlibu” qāla wakīʿun: al-taqrīʿu: ʾan yunazzū ʿalayhi al-faḥla

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ, who said: “People would enter upon ʿAlqamah while he was breeding his sheep; he would feed them and milk them himself.” Wakīʿ said: “Breeding them means letting the ram mount them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ ابْنَةٍ لِخَبَّابٍ قَالَتْ: كَانَ خَبَّابٌ فِي سَرِيَّةٍ، فَكَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَتَعَاهَدُنَا حَتَّى يَحْلِبَ عَنْزًا لَنَا فِي جَفْنَةٍ لَنَا، قَالَتْ: فَتَمْتَلِئُ حَتَّى تَفِيضَ، قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ خَبَّابٌ، فَعَادَ حِلَابَهَا إِلَى مَا كَانَ، قَالَتْ: فَقُلْنَا لِخَبَّابٍ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَحْلِبُهَا حَتَّى تَفِيضَ جَفْنَتُنَا، فَلَمَّا حَلَبْتَهَا عَادَ حِلَابُهَا

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni yazīda, ʿani ʾabnatin likhabbābin qālat: kāna khabbābun fī sariyyatin, fakāna al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yataʿāhadunā ḥattā yaḥliba ʿanzan lanā fī jafnatin lanā, qālat: fatamtaliʾu ḥattā tafīḍa, qālat: falammā qadima khabbābun, faʿāda ḥilābahā ʾilā mā kāna, qālat: faqulnā likhabbābin: kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaḥlibuhā ḥattā tafīḍa jafnatunā, falammā ḥalabtahā ʿāda ḥilābuhā

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from a daughter of Khabbāb, who said: “Khabbāb was away on a military expedition, and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would look after us, even milking a goat of ours into our bowl. The bowl would fill until it overflowed. When Khabbāb returned, the goat’s yield reverted to what it had been. We told Khabbāb: ‘The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to milk her until our bowl overflowed; when you milked her, her yield returned to its former amount.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنِ امْرِئِ الْقَيْسِ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ بُحَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي الشَّيْخِ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ قَالَ: أَتَانَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: «نَصَرَكُمُ اللَّهُ يَا مَعْشَرَ مُحَارِبٍ لَا تَسْقُونِي حَلْبَ امْرَأَةٍ»

ḥaddathanā qaysu bnu al-rabīʿi, ʿani ʾamriʾi al-qaysi, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni buḥayrin, ʿani ʾabni ʾabī al-shaykhi al-muḥāribiyyi qāla: ʾatānā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: “naṣarakumu Allāhu yā maʿshara muḥāribin lā tasqūnī ḥalba ʾamraʾatin”

Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ related to us, from Imruʾ al-Qays, from ʿĀṣim ibn Buḥayr, from Ibn Abī al-Shaykh al-Muḥāribī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to us and said: “May Allah grant you victory, clan of Muḥārib. Do not give me milk milked by a woman.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ بُحَيْرٍ، عَنْ ضِرَارِ بْنِ الْأَزْوَرِ قَالَ: بَعَثَنِي أَهْلِي بِلَقُوحٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهَا، فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَحْلِبَهَا، فَحَلَبْتُهَا، فَقَالَ: «دَعْ دَاعِيَ اللَّبَنِ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan yaʿqūba bni buḥayrin, ʿan ḍirāri bni al-ʾazwari qāla: baʿathanī ʾahlī bilaqūḥin ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faʾataytuhu bihā, faʾamaranī ʾan ʾaḥlibahā, faḥalabtuhā, faqāla: “daʿ dāʿiya al-labani”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Yaʿqūb ibn Buḥayr, from Ḍirār ibn al-Azwar, who said: “My family sent me to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with a milk camel. I brought her to him, and he instructed me to milk her. When I had done so, he said: ‘Leave some in the udder to call forth more milk.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِعَائِشَةَ: أَيَّ شَيْءٍ كَانَ يَصْنَعُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا دَخَلَ بَيْتَهُ؟ قَالَتْ: يَكُونُ فِي مِهْنَةِ أَهْلِهِ، فَإِذَا حَضَرَتِ الصَّلَاةُ قَامَ، فَصَلَّى

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿani al-ḥakami, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿani al-ʾaswadi bni yazīda qāla: qultu liʿāʾishata: ʾayya shayʾin kāna yaṣnaʿu al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾidhā dakhala baytahu? qālat: yakūnu fī mihnati ʾahlihi, faʾidhā ḥaḍarati al-ṣalātu qāma, faṣallā

Shuʿbah related to us, from al-Ḥakam, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad ibn Yazīd, who said: I asked ʿĀʾishah, “What did the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, do when he entered his home?” She replied: “He worked in the service of his household. When the time for prayer came, he rose and prayed.”

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بَابُ الرَّحْمَةِ

bābu al-raḥmati

Chapter: Mercy

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حَدَّثَنَا قُرَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ أَخِيهِ مُطَرِّفٍ قَالَ: «إنَّ اللَّهَ يَرْحَمُ بِرَحْمَةِ الْعُصْفُورِ»، قَالَ: وَأَصَابَ مُطَرِّفٌ حُمَّرَةً، فَأَرْسَلَهَا، قَالَ: «أَتَصَدَّقُ بِكِ الْيَوْمَ عَلَى فِرَاخِكَ»

ḥaddathanā qurratu bnu khālidin, ʿan yazīda bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-shikhkhīri ʾabī al-ʿalāʾi, ʿan ʾakhīhi muṭarrifin qāla: “ʾnna Allāha yarḥamu biraḥmati al-ʿuṣfūri”, qāla: waʾaṣāba muṭarrifun ḥummaratan, faʾarsalahā, qāla: “ʾataṣaddaqu biki al-yawma ʿalā firākhika”

Qurrah ibn Khālid related to us, from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, from his brother Muṭarrif, who said: “Allah shows mercy on account of mercy shown even to a sparrow.” Muṭarrif caught a small red bird and released her, saying: “Today I give you in charity to your chicks.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: مَكْتُوبٌ فِي الْحِكْمَةِ: كَمَا تَرْحَمُونَ تُرْحَمُونُ

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: maktūbun fī al-ḥikmati: kamā tarḥamūna turḥamūnu

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, who said: It is written in the wisdom literature: “As you show mercy, so will you be shown mercy.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، وَأُبَيٌّ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «ارْحَمْ مَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ، يَرْحَمْكَ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, waʾubayyun, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾarḥam man fī al-ʾarḍi, yarḥamka man fī al-samāʾi”

Isrāʾīl and Ubayy related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Show mercy to those on earth, and the One in heaven will show mercy to you.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا أَدْرَكَ قَوْمَ نُوحٍ الْغَرَقُ، كَانَتْ فِيهِمُ امْرَأَةٌ مَعَهَا صَبِيٌّ لَهَا، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ الْمَاءُ، رَفَعَتْهُ إِلَى رُكْبَتِهَا، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ الْمَاءُ رَفَعَتْهُ إِلَى حِقْوِهَا، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ رَفَعَتْهُ إِلَى صَدْرِهَا، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ الْمَاءُ رَفَعَتْهُ بِيَدِهَا، فَقَالَ اللَّهُ: لَوْ كُنْتُ رَاحِمًا مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًا لَرَحَمْتُهَا بِرَحْمَتِهَا الصَّبِيَّ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla samiʿtu mujāhidan yuḥaddithu ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin qāla: lammā ʾadraka qawma nūḥin al-gharaqu, kānat fīhimu ʾamraʾatun maʿahā ṣabiyyun lahā, falammā balaghahu al-māʾu, rafaʿathu ʾilā rukbatihā, falammā balaghahu al-māʾu rafaʿathu ʾilā ḥiqwihā, falammā balaghahu rafaʿathu ʾilā ṣadrihā, falammā balaghahu al-māʾu rafaʿathu biyadihā, faqāla Allāhu: law kuntu rāḥiman minhum ʾaḥadan laraḥamtuhā biraḥmatihā al-ṣabiyya

Al-Aʿmash related to us, saying: I heard Mujāhid relate from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said: “When the people of Noah were overtaken by the flood, a woman among them had her young child with her. When the water reached her, she raised him to her knees; when it reached there, she raised him to her waist; when it reached there, she raised him to her chest; and when the water reached there, she lifted him above her with her hands. Allah said: ‘Had I willed to show mercy to any of them, I would have shown mercy to her because of her compassion for her child.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: كَانَ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ يأتُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالُوا: مَا نُقَبِّلُ صِبْيَانَنَا، أَفَتُقَبِّلُونَ صِبْيَانَكُمْ؟ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «وَأَمْلِكُ إِنْ كَانَ اللَّهُ نَزَعَ مِنْ قُلُوبِكُمُ الرَّحْمَةَ؟»

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: kāna nāsun mina al-ʾaʿrābi yʾtūna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqālū: mā nuqabbilu ṣibyānanā, ʾafatuqabbilūna ṣibyānakum? faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “waʾamliku ʾin kāna Allāhu nazaʿa min qulūbikumu al-raḥmata?”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, who said: Some Bedouins used to come to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. They said: “We do not kiss our children. Do you kiss yours?” The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, replied: “What power do I have if Allah has stripped mercy from your hearts?”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: كَانَ عِنْدَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ رَجُلٌ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَسْتَعْمِلَهُ، فَجَاءَ ابْنٌ لِعُمَرَ، فَقَبَّلَهُ، فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ: إِنَّ لِي مِنْهُمْ أَرْبَعَةً أَوْ خَمْسَةً، مَا قَبَّلْتُ مِنْهُمْ صَبِيًّا قَطُّ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: «أَنْتَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَقَلُّ رَحْمَةً، لَا تَلِ لِي عَلَى عَمَلٍ أَبَدًا»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: kāna ʿinda ʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi rajulun yurīdu ʾan yastaʿmilahu, fajāʾa ʾabnun liʿumara, faqabbalahu, faqāla al-rajulu: ʾinna lī minhum ʾarbaʿatan ʾaw khamsatan, mā qabbaltu minhum ṣabiyyan qaṭṭu, faqāla ʿumaru: “ʾanta bi-l-muʾminīna ʾaqallu raḥmatan, lā tali lī ʿalā ʿamalin ʾabadan”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Ibrāhīm, who said: A man whom ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb intended to appoint to office was with him. A son of ʿUmar came in, and ʿUmar kissed him. The man said: “I have four or five children, and I have never kissed any of them.” ʿUmar replied: “You would show even less mercy to the believers. You will never hold office under me.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي صَالِحٍ أَبُو حَبِيبٍ الْبَصْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيُّ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَلٍّ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ حِينَ خَلَقَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ خَلَقَ مِائَةَ رَحْمَةٍ، كُلُّ رَحْمَةٍ طِبَاقُهُمَا، فَأَنْزَلَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ رَحْمَةً وَاحِدَةً، فَبِهَا يَتَآلَفُ الْخَلَائِقُ وَبِهَا يَتَرَاحَمُونَ، وَبِهَا يَتَعَاطَفُونَ وَدَخَرَ عِنْدَهُ تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ رَحْمَةً، فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ، ضَمَّ هَذِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ إِلَى التِّسْعَةِ وَالتِّسْعِينَ»

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ʾabī ṣāliḥin ʾabū ḥabībin al-baṣriyyu ḥaddathanī ʾabū ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyu ʿabdu al-raḥmani bnu mallin yuḥaddithu ʿan salmāna qāla: “ʾinna Allāha ʿazza wajalla ḥīna khalaqa al-samawāti wa-l-ʾarḍa khalaqa miʾata raḥmatin, kullu raḥmatin ṭibāquhumā, faʾanzala ʾilā al-ʾarḍi raḥmatan wāḥidatan, fabihā yataālafu al-khalāʾiqu wabihā yatarāḥamūna, wabihā yataʿāṭafūna wadakhara ʿindahu tisʿatan watisʿīna raḥmatan, faʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati, ḍamma hadhihi al-raḥmata ʾilā al-tisʿati wa-l-tisʿīna”

Yazīd ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ Abū Ḥabīb al-Baṣrī related to us; Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mall—related to me, from Salmān, who said: “When Allah, Mighty and Majestic, created the heavens and the earth, He created one hundred mercies, each as vast as the two of them together. He sent one mercy down to earth. Through it, creatures form bonds, show one another mercy, and feel compassion for one another. He reserved ninety-nine mercies with Himself. On the Day of Resurrection, He will join this one mercy to the other ninety-nine.”

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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُثْمَانَ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ حَيِيٌّ كَرِيمٌ يَسْتَحْيِي مِنْ عَبْدِهِ أَنْ يَرْفَعَ يَدَيْهِ إِلَيْهِ يَدْعُو، ثُمَّ يَرُدُّهُمَا صِفْرًا، أَوْ خَائِبَتَيْنِ»

ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ḥaddathanī ʾabū ʿuthmāna bnu salmāna qāla: “ʾinna Allāha ḥayiyyun karīmun yastaḥyī min ʿabdihi ʾan yarfaʿa yadayhi ʾilayhi yadʿū, thumma yarudduhumā ṣifran, ʾaw khāʾibatayni”

Yazīd ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ related to us; Abū ʿUthmān related to me, from Salmān, who said: “Allah is modest and generous. He is too generous to let His servant raise both hands to Him in supplication and then return them empty and disappointed.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ قَالَ: مَنْ ذَبَحَ عُصْفُورًا عَبَثًا، جَاءَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَعِجُّ، قَالَ: لَمْ يَذْبَحْنِي فَيَأْكُلَنِي، وَلَمْ يَدَعْنِي أَعِيشُ فِي حَشَرَاتِهَا

ḥaddathanā ʾabū bakrin al-hudhaliyyu, ʿan ʾabī qilābata qāla: man dhabaḥa ʿuṣfūran ʿabathan, jāʾa yawma al-qiyāmati yaʿijju, qāla: lam yadhbaḥnī fayaʾkulanī, walam yadaʿnī ʾaʿīshu fī ḥasharātihā

Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī related to us, from Abū Qilābah, who said: “Whoever slaughters a sparrow merely for sport will come on the Day of Resurrection while it cries out: ‘He did not slaughter me in order to eat me, nor did he leave me to live among the creatures of the earth.’”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «مَعَ كُلِّ فَرْحَةٍ تَرْحَةٌ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: “maʿa kulli farḥatin tarḥatun”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “With every joy comes sorrow.”

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «مَعَ كُلِّ فَرْحَةٍ تَرْحَةٌ، وَمَا مُلِئَ بَيْتٌ حَبْرَةً إِلَّا مُلِئَ مِثْلَهَا عَبْرَةً»

ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: “maʿa kulli farḥatin tarḥatun, wamā muliʾa baytun ḥabratan ʾillā muliʾa mithlahā ʿabratan”

Isrāʾīl related to us, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “With every joy comes sorrow. No house is filled with delight without one day being filled with tears to the same measure.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: كُنْتُ رَأَيْتُ مِنَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَشْيَاءَ عَجَبًا: كُنْتُ فِي سَفَرٍ فَنَزَلْنَا مَنْزِلًا، فَقَالَ لِي: ائْتِ تِلْكَ الْأَشْأَتَيْنِ يَعْنِي شَجَرَتَيْنِ صَغِيرَتَيْنِ فَقُلْ لَهُمَا: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَأْمُرُكُمَا أَنْ تَجْتَمِعَا، قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهُمَا فَقُلْتُ لَهُمَا، فَوَثَبَتْ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ إِلَى صَاحِبَتِهَا، فَاجْتَمَعَتَا، فَخَرَجَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَاسْتَتَرَ بِهِمَا، فَقَضَى حَاجَتَهُ، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ فَقَالَ لِي: ائْتِهِمَا فَقُلْ لَهُمَا: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَأْمُرُكُمَا أَنْ تَرْجَعَا، قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهُمَا، فَقُلْتُ لَهُمَا، فَرَجَعَتْ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا إِلَى مَكَانِهَا، قَالَ: ثُمَّ خَرَجْنَا، فَنَزَلْنَا مَنْزِلًا فَجَاءَ بَعِيرٌ، حَتَّى قَامَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ أَصْحَابُ هَذَا الْبَعِيرِ؟» قَالَ: فَجَاءَ أَصْحَابَهُ، فَقَالَ: «مَا شَأْنُ هَذَا الْبَعِيرِ يَشْكُو؟» فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ: بَعِيرٌ كَانَ عِنْدَنَا فَاتَّعَدْنَا أَنْ نَنْحَرَهُ غَدًا، فَقَالَ: «لَا تَنْحَرُوهُ، دَعُوهُ»، فَقَالَ: ثُمَّ خَرَجْنَا، فَنَزَلْنَا مَنْزِلًا فَجَاءَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ مَعَهَا صَبِيٌّ لَهَا بِهِ لَمَمٌ، فَقَالَ: «اخْرُجْ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ، أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ»، قَالَ: فَبَرَأَ فَلَمَّا رَجَعْنَا مِنْ سَفَرِنَا، أَهْدَتْ لَنَا كَبْشَيْنِ وَشَيْئًا مِنْ إِقِطٍ وَسَمْنٍ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يَا يَعْلَى خُذِ الْإِقِطَ وَالسَّمْنَ، وَأَحَدَ الْكَبْشَيْنِ، وَرُدَّ عَلَيْهَا الْآخَرَ

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani al-minhāli bni ʿamrin, ʿan yaʿlā bni murrata qāla: kuntu raʾaytu mina al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama thalāthata ʾashyāʾa ʿajaban: kuntu fī safarin fanazalnā manzilan, faqāla lī: ʾaʾti tilka al-ʾashʾatayni yaʿnī shajaratayni ṣaghīratayni faqul lahumā: ʾinna rasūla Allāhi yaʾmurukumā ʾan tajtamiʿā, qāla: faʾataytuhumā faqultu lahumā, fawathabat kullu wāḥidatin ʾilā ṣāḥibatihā, fājtamaʿatā, fakharaja al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fāstatara bihimā, faqaḍā ḥājatahu, thumma rajaʿa faqāla lī: ʾaʾtihimā faqul lahumā: ʾinna rasūla Allāhi yaʾmurukumā ʾan tarjaʿā, qāla: faʾataytuhumā, faqultu lahumā, farajaʿat kullu wāḥidatin minhumā ʾilā makānihā, qāla: thumma kharajnā, fanazalnā manzilan fajāʾa baʿīrun, ḥattā qāma bayna yadayhi, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “man ʾaṣḥābu hadhā al-baʿīri?” qāla: fajāʾa ʾaṣḥābahu, faqāla: “mā shaʾnu hadhā al-baʿīri yashkū?” faqālū: yā rasūla Allāhi: baʿīrun kāna ʿindanā fāttaʿadnā ʾan nanḥarahu ghadan, faqāla: “lā tanḥarūhu, daʿūhu”, faqāla: thumma kharajnā, fanazalnā manzilan fajāʾathu ʾamraʾatun maʿahā ṣabiyyun lahā bihi lamamun, faqāla: “ʾakhruj ʿaduwwa Allāhi, ʾanā rasūlu Allāhi”, qāla: fabaraʾa falammā rajaʿnā min safarinā, ʾahdat lanā kabshayni washayʾan min ʾiqiṭin wasamnin, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: yā yaʿlā khudhi al-ʾiqiṭa wa-l-samna, waʾaḥada al-kabshayni, warudda ʿalayhā al-ākhara

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, from Yaʿlā ibn Murrah, who said: “I witnessed three wondrous things from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. I was traveling when we stopped at a place. He told me: ‘Go to those two small trees and tell them that the Messenger of Allah commands them to come together.’ I went and told them, and each sprang toward the other until they stood together. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, went out, screened himself behind them, and relieved himself. When he returned, he told me: ‘Go to them and tell them that the Messenger of Allah commands them to return.’ I went and told them, and each returned to its place. Then we traveled on and stopped elsewhere. A camel came and stood before him. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked: ‘Who owns this camel?’ Its owners came, and he asked: ‘What is the matter with this camel? It is complaining.’ They replied: ‘Messenger of Allah, it is a camel we own, and we agreed to slaughter it tomorrow.’ He said: ‘Do not slaughter it; leave it alive.’ Then we traveled on and stopped elsewhere. A woman brought him her young son, who was suffering from an affliction. He said: ‘Come out, enemy of Allah! I am the Messenger of Allah.’ The boy recovered. When we returned from our journey, she gave us two rams and some dried curds and clarified butter. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘Yaʿlā, take the curds, the clarified butter, and one of the rams, and return the other ram to her.’”

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بَابُ الْخَرِبِ

bābu al-kharibi

Chapter: Ruins

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حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ كَانَ يَتْبَعُ الْخَرِبَ فَيَقُولُ: «يَا خَرِبَ الْخَرِبَيْنِ أَيْنَ أَهْلُكِ الْأَوَّلُونَ؟»

ḥaddathanā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin, ʿan makḥūlin ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi kāna yatbaʿu al-khariba fayaqūlu: “yā khariba al-kharibayni ʾayna ʾahluki al-ʾawwalūna?”

Usāmah ibn Zayd related to us, from Makḥūl, that Abū al-Dardāʾ used to visit ruined places and say: “O ruins of those twice ruined, where are your former inhabitants?”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ لَمْ يُسَمِّهِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِهَذَا الْبَيْتِ إِذَا أَصْبَحَ وَإِذَا أَمْسَى: [بَحْرُ الطَّوِيلِ] يَسُرُّ الْفَتَى مَا كَانَ قَدَّمَ مِنْ تُقَى... إِذَا عَرَفَ الدَّاءَ الَّذِي هُوَ قَاتِلُهْ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin lam yusammihi, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu kāna yatamaththalu bihadhā al-bayti ʾidhā ʾaṣbaḥa waʾidhā ʾamsā: [baḥru al-ṭawīli] yasurru al-fatā mā kāna qaddama min tuqā... ʾidhā ʿarafa al-dāʾa al-dhī huwa qātiluh

Sufyān related to us, from a man whom he did not name, from al-Ḥasan, who used to quote this line of long-metre verse morning and evening: “A young man rejoices in the piety he has sent ahead, once he recognizes the disease that will be his death.”

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بَابُ الْإِنْصَاتِ

bābu al-ʾinṣāti

Chapter: Attentive listening

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ مَعْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَكُونَ أَنْتَ الْمُحَدَّثُ» يَعْنِي فَافْعَلْ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan maʿni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmani qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: “ʾini ʾastaṭaʿta ʾan takūna ʾanta al-muḥaddathu” yaʿnī fāfʿal

Misʿar related to us, from Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: “If you are able to be the one to whom others speak”—meaning, rather than the one who speaks—“then do so.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «اغْدُ عَالِمًا أَوْ مُتَعَلِّمًا أَوْ مُنْصِتًا أَوْ مُحِبًّا لِذَلِكَ، وَلَا تَكُنِ الْخَامِسَ فَتَهْلَكَ»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “ʾaghdu ʿāliman ʾaw mutaʿalliman ʾaw munṣitan ʾaw muḥibban lidhalika, walā takuni al-khāmisa fatahlaka”

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: “Begin your day as a scholar, a student, an attentive listener, or one who loves these people. Do not be the fifth kind, lest you perish.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: «اغْدُ عَالِمًا أَوْ مُتَعَلِّمًا أَوْ مُسْتَمِعًا وَلَا تَكُنِ الرَّابِعَ فَتَهْلَكَ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿani ʾabni masʿūdin qāla: “ʾaghdu ʿāliman ʾaw mutaʿalliman ʾaw mustamiʿan walā takuni al-rābiʿa fatahlaka”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from al-Ḥasan, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said: “Begin your day as a scholar, a student, or a listener. Do not be the fourth kind, lest you perish.”

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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْمَخْزُومِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ: «الْمُنْصِتُ الَّذِي لَا يَسْمَعُ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِ الْمُنْصِتِ السَّامِعِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabnu ʾabī laylā, ʿan ʿikrimata bni khālidin al-makhzūmiyyi qāla: qāla ʿumaru: “al-munṣitu al-dhī lā yasmaʿu lahu mithlu ʾajri al-munṣiti al-sāmiʿi”

Ibn Abī Laylā related to us, from ʿIkrimah ibn Khālid al-Makhzūmī, who said: ʿUmar said: “The attentive listener who cannot hear receives a reward like that of the attentive listener who can.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: وَجَبَ الْإِنْصَاتُ فِي اثْنَتَيْنِ: فِي الصَّلَاةِ وَالْإِمَامُ يَقْرَأُ، وَفِي الْجُمُعَةِ وَالْإِمَامُ يَخْطُبُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan jābirin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: wajaba al-ʾinṣātu fī ʾathnatayni: fī al-ṣalāti wa-l-ʾimāmu yaqraʾu, wafī al-jumuʿati wa-l-ʾimāmu yakhṭubu

Sufyān related to us, from Jābir, from Mujāhid, who said: “Attentive silence is obligatory in two situations: during prayer while the imam is reciting, and during the Friday service while the imam is delivering the sermon.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ تَمِيمِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «اغْدُ عَالِمًا أَوْ مُتَعَلِّمًا، وَلَا تَغْدُ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan tamīmi bni salamata, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾaghdu ʿāliman ʾaw mutaʿalliman, walā taghdu bayna dhalika”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Tamīm ibn Salamah, from Abū ʿUbaydah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Begin your day as a scholar or a student; do not occupy a place between the two.”

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سِنَانٍ سَعِيدُ بْنُ سِنَانٍ، عَنْ عَنْتَرَةَ أَبِي وَكِيعٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ: «مَا سَلَكَ رَجُلٌ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا إِلَّا سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ طَرِيقًا إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ وَمَنْ أَبْطَأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَمْ يُسْرِعْ بِهِ نَسَبُهُ وَمَا جَلَسَ قَوْمٌ فِي بَيْتٍ مِنْ بُيُوتِ اللَّهِ يَتَدَارَسُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَهُ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلَّا غَشِيَتْهُمُ الرَّحْمَةُ، وَحَفَّتْهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ، وَذَكَرَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِيمَنْ عِنْدَهُ، وَكَانُوا أَضْيَافَهُ حَتَّى يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ»

ḥaddathanā ʾabū sinānin saʿīdu bnu sinānin, ʿan ʿantarata ʾabī wakīʿin qāla: samiʿtu ʾabna ʿabbāsin yaqūlu: “mā salaka rajulun ṭarīqan yaltamisu fīhi ʿilman ʾillā sahhala Allāhu lahu ṭarīqan ʾilā al-jannati waman ʾabṭaʾa bihi ʿamaluhu lam yusriʿ bihi nasabuhu wamā jalasa qawmun fī baytin min buyūti Allāhi yatadārasūna kitāba Allāhi wayataʿallamūnahu baynahum ʾillā ghashiyathumu al-raḥmatu, waḥaffathumu al-malāʾikatu, wadhakarahumu Allāhu fīman ʿindahu, wakānū ʾaḍyāfahu ḥattā yakhūḍū fī ḥadīthin ghayrihi”

Abū Sinān Saʿd ibn Sinān related to us, from ʿAntarah Abū Wakīʿ, who said: I heard Ibn ʿAbbās say: “No man travels a road seeking knowledge without Allah making a road to the Garden easy for him. Whoever is held back by his deeds will not be carried swiftly forward by his lineage. Whenever people sit in one of Allah’s houses, studying Allah’s Book and learning it together, mercy covers them, the angels surround them, Allah mentions them among those who are with Him, and they remain His guests until they turn to some other subject.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الزَّعْرَاءِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنَّ أَحَدًا لَا يُولَدُ عَالِمًا وَإِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ بِالتَّعَلُّمِ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī al-zaʿrāʾi ʿamri bni ʿamrin, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾinna ʾaḥadan lā yūladu ʿāliman waʾinnamā al-ʿilmu bi-l-taʿallumi”

Sufyān related to us, from Abū al-Zaʿrāʾ ʿAmr ibn ʿAmr, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “No one is born learned; knowledge comes only through learning.”

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حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ رَجَاءَ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الْعُلَمَاءَ هُمْ وَرَثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ، إِنَّ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ لَمْ يُورِّثُوا دِينَارًا وَلَا دِرْهَمًا إِنَّمَا وَرَّثُوا الْعِلْمَ، فَمَنْ أَخَذَ بِهِ أَخَذَ بِحَظٍّ وَافِرٍ»

ḥaddathanā ʿāṣimu bnu rajāʾa bni ḥaywata, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla: “ʾinna al-ʿulamāʾa hum warathatu al-ʾanbiyāʾi, ʾinna al-ʾanbiyāʾa lam yūrrithū dīnāran walā dirhaman ʾinnamā warrathū al-ʿilma, faman ʾakhadha bihi ʾakhadha biḥaẓẓin wāfirin”

ʿĀṣim ibn Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah related to us, from a man, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: “The scholars are the heirs of the prophets. The prophets did not leave dinars or dirhams as an inheritance; they left only knowledge. Whoever takes hold of it has taken an abundant share.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: «تَعَلَّمُوا قَبْلَ أَنْ يُرْفَعَ الْعِلْمُ، فَإِنَّ ذَهَابَ الْعِلْمِ ذَهَابُ الْعَالِمِ، وَإِنَّ الْعَالِمَ وَالْمُتَعَلِّمَ فِي الْأَجْرِ سَوَاءٌ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla: “taʿallamū qabla ʾan yurfaʿa al-ʿilmu, faʾinna dhahāba al-ʿilmi dhahābu al-ʿālimi, waʾinna al-ʿālima wa-l-mutaʿallima fī al-ʾajri sawāʾun”

Misʿar related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: “Learn before knowledge is taken away. The departure of knowledge is the departure of the scholar, and the scholar and the student share alike in reward.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ السُّلَمِيِّ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَفْضَلُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿalqamata bni marthadin, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmani ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḥabībin al-sulamiyyi, ʿan ʿuthmāna bni ʿaffāna qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾafḍalukum man taʿallama al-qurāna waʿallamahu”

Sufyān related to us, from ʿAlqamah ibn Marthad, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb al-Sulamī, from ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The best of you are those who learn the Qurʾan and teach it.”

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حَدَّثَنَا فِطْرٌ، عَنْ مُنْذِرٍ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: لَقَدْ تَرَكَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَمَا يُقَلِّبُ طَائِرٌ جَنَاحَيْهِ فِي السَّمَاءِ، إِلَّا ذَكَرْنَا مِنْهُ عِلْمًا

ḥaddathanā fiṭrun, ʿan mundhirin al-thawriyyi, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: laqad tarakanā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wamā yuqallibu ṭāʾirun janāḥayhi fī al-samāʾi, ʾillā dhakarnā minhu ʿilman

Fiṭr related to us, from Mundhir al-Thawrī, from Abū Dharr, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, left us having mentioned some knowledge to us even about every bird that flaps its wings in the sky.”

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بَابُ كِتَابِ أَهْلِ الْخَيْرِ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ

bābu kitābi ʾahli al-khayri baʿḍuhum ʾilā baʿḍin

Chapter: Letters exchanged by the people of goodness

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حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: كَتَبَتْ عَائِشَةُ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ: «أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا عَمِلَ بِمَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ عَادَ حَامِدُهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ ذَامًّا»

ḥaddathanā zakariyyā bnu ʾabī zāʾidata, ʿan ʿāmirin qāla: katabat ʿāʾishatu ʾilā muʿāwiyata: “ʾammā baʿdu faʾinna al-ʿabda ʾidhā ʿamila bimaʿṣiyati Allāhi ʿāda ḥāmiduhu mina al-nāsi dhāmman”

Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah related to us, from ʿĀmir, who said: ʿĀʾishah wrote to Muʿāwiyah: “To proceed: when a servant acts in disobedience to Allah, those people who once praised him turn to blaming him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى قَالَ: كَتَبَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ إِلَى مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ مَخْلَدٍ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ: فَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا عَمِلَ بِطَاعَةِ اللَّهِ أَحَبَّهُ اللَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحَبَّهُ اللَّهُ، حَبَّبَهُ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ، وَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا عَمِلَ بِمَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ أَبْغَضَهُ اللَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَبْغَضَهُ اللَّهُ بَغَّضَهُ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ

ḥaddathanā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmani bni ʾabī laylā qāla: kataba ʾabū al-dardāʾi ʾilā maslamata bni makhladin: ʾammā baʿdu: faʾinna al-ʿabda ʾidhā ʿamila biṭāʿati Allāhi ʾaḥabbahu Allāhu, faʾidhā ʾaḥabbahu Allāhu, ḥabbabahu ʾilā khalqihi, waʾinna al-ʿabda ʾidhā ʿamila bimaʿṣiyati Allāhi ʾabghaḍahu Allāhu, faʾidhā ʾabghaḍahu Allāhu baghghaḍahu ʾilā khalqihi

Shuʿbah related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, who said: Abū al-Dardāʾ wrote to Maslamah ibn Makhlad: “To proceed: when a servant obeys Allah, Allah loves him; and when Allah loves him, He makes His creatures love him. When a servant disobeys Allah, Allah detests him; and when Allah detests him, He makes His creatures detest him.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ زَيْدٍ الْعَمِّيِّ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتَبَةَ قَالَ: كَانَ أَهْلُ الْخَيْرِ يَكْتُبُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ بِهَؤُلَاءِ الْكَلِمَاتِ، وَتَلَقَّاهُنَّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا: مَنْ عَمِلَ لِآخِرَتِهِ، كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ دُنْيَاهُ، وَمَنْ أَصْلَحَ مَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ اللَّهِ أَصْلَحَ اللَّهُ مَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ النَّاسِ، وَمَنْ أَصْلَحَ سَرِيرَتَهُ أَصْلَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَانِيَتَهُ

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan zaydin al-ʿammiyyi, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿutabata qāla: kāna ʾahlu al-khayri yaktubu baʿḍuhum ʾilā baʿḍin bihaʾulāʾi al-kalimāti, watalaqqāhunna baʿḍuhum baʿḍan: man ʿamila liākhiratihi, kafāhu Allāhu dunyāhu, waman ʾaṣlaḥa mā baynahu wabayna Allāhi ʾaṣlaḥa Allāhu mā baynahu wabayna al-nāsi, waman ʾaṣlaḥa sarīratahu ʾaṣlaḥa Allāhu ʿalāniyatahu

Misʿar related to us, from Zayd al-ʿAmmī, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, who said: The people of goodness used to write these words to one another and pass them on: “Whoever works for his Hereafter, Allah will suffice him in his worldly affairs. Whoever sets right what lies between himself and Allah, Allah will set right what lies between him and other people. Whoever sets his inner life right, Allah will set his outward life right.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الضَّحَاكُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ أَبُو الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ قَالَ: إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا اسْتَوَتْ سَرِيرَتُهُ، وَعَلَانِيَتُهُ قَالَ اللَّهُ: هَذَا عَبْدِي حَقًّا، قَالَ: فَقَالَ مُطَرِّفٌ: لَيُحَصِّلَنَّ اللَّهُ الْحِسَابَ مِنَ الْخَلَائِقِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَتَّى يَأْخُذَ لِلْجَمَّاءِ مِنَ الْقَرْنَاءِ فَضْلَ قَرْنِهَا

ḥaddathanā al-ḍaḥāku bnu yasārin ʾabū al-ʿalāʾi, ʿan yazīda bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-shikhkhīri, ʿan muṭarrifin qāla: ʾinna al-ʿabda ʾidhā ʾastawat sarīratuhu, waʿalāniyatuhu qāla Allāhu: hadhā ʿabdī ḥaqqan, qāla: faqāla muṭarrifun: layuḥaṣṣilanna Allāhu al-ḥisāba mina al-khalāʾiqi yawma al-qiyāmati ḥattā yaʾkhudha li-l-jammāʾi mina al-qarnāʾi faḍla qarnihā

Al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Yasār Abū al-ʿAlāʾ related to us, from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from Muṭarrif, who said: “When a servant’s inner and outward lives are alike, Allah says: ‘This one is truly My servant.’” Muṭarrif also said: “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will settle the accounts among all creatures, even taking compensation for the hornless animal from the horned one because of its horn.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عِمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: كَانَ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَكَنٍ الْأَسَدِيُّ يَدْخُلُ الْمَسْجِدَ، فَيَتَصَفَّحُ الْحِلَقَ، وَيَقُولُ: «أَجْدَبَ الْمَسْجِدُ أَجْدَبَ الْمَسْجِدُ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿimārata bni ʿumayrin qāla: kāna qaysu bnu sakanin al-ʾasadiyyu yadkhulu al-masjida, fayataṣaffaḥu al-ḥilaqa, wayaqūlu: “ʾajdaba al-masjidu ʾajdaba al-masjidu”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿImārah ibn ʿUmayr, who said: Qays ibn Sakan al-Asadī used to enter the mosque, look over its study circles, and say: “The mosque has suffered drought! The mosque has suffered drought!”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ: أَنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا قِيلَ لَهُ: كَيْفَ أَصْبَحْتَ يَا أَبَا يَزِيدَ؟ يَقُولُ: «أَصْبَحْنَا ضُعَفَاءَ مُذْنِبِينَ، نَأْكُلُ أَرْزَاقَنَا، وَنَنْتَظِرُ آجَالَنَا» قَالَ: وَقَالَ الرَّبِيعُ: اضْطَرُّوا هَذَا الْكِتَابَ إِلَى اللَّهِ يَعْنِي الْقُرْآنَ وَإِلَى رَسُولِهِ قَالَ: وَقَالَ الرَّبِيعُ: إِنَّ مِنَ الْحَدِيثِ حَدِيثًا، لَهُ ضَوْءٌ كَضَوْءِ النَّهَارِ، وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْحَدِيثِ حَدِيثًا لَهُ ظُلْمَةٌ كَظُلْمَةِ اللَّيْلِ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan baʿḍi ʾaṣḥābihi, ʿani al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin: ʾannahu kāna ʾidhā qīla lahu: kayfa ʾaṣbaḥta yā ʾabā yazīda? yaqūlu: “ʾaṣbaḥnā ḍuʿafāʾa mudhnibīna, naʾkulu ʾarzāqanā, wanantaẓiru ājālanā” qāla: waqāla al-rabīʿu: ʾaḍṭarrū hadhā al-kitāba ʾilā Allāhi yaʿnī al-qurāna waʾilā rasūlihi qāla: waqāla al-rabīʿu: ʾinna mina al-ḥadīthi ḥadīthan, lahu ḍawʾun kaḍawʾi al-nahāri, waʾinna mina al-ḥadīthi ḥadīthan lahu ẓulmatun kaẓulmati al-layli

Sufyān related to us, from his father, from one of his companions, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, that whenever he was asked, “How are you this morning, Abū Yazīd?” he would reply: “We have reached morning weak and sinful, eating the provision allotted to us and awaiting our appointed deaths.” Al-Rabīʿ also said: “Refer this Book back to Allah”—meaning the Qurʾan—“and to His Messenger.” And al-Rabīʿ said: “Some reports have a light like the light of day, while other reports have a darkness like the darkness of night.”

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حَدَّثَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: خَرَجَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ: «أَيْنَ الرَّاضُونَ بِالْمَقْدُورِ؟ أَيْنَ السَّاعُونَ لِلْمَشْكُورِ؟ عَجِبْتُ لِمَنْ يُؤْمِنُ بِدَارِ الْخُلُودِ، كَيْفَ يَسْعَى لِدَارِ الْغُرُورِ»

ḥaddathanā rajulun min banī al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata qāla: kharaja al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾilā ʾaṣḥābihi faqāla: “ʾayna al-rāḍūna bi-l-maqdūri? ʾayna al-sāʿūna li-l-mashkūri? ʿajibtu liman yuʾminu bidāri al-khulūdi, kayfa yasʿā lidāri al-ghurūri”

A man from Banū al-Ḥārith related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, who said: The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came out to his Companions and said: “Where are those content with what has been decreed? Where are those striving for deeds that will be gratefully received? I marvel at one who believes in the everlasting abode: how can he strive for the abode of delusion?”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ حَارِثَةَ بْنِ مُضَرِّبٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ أَبِي الْحَارِثِ...، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: أَخِلَّاءُ ابْنِ آدَمَ ثَلَاثَةٌ: فَخَلِيلٌ يَقُولُ: أَنَا مَعَكَ حَيًّا وَمَيِّتًا فَهُوَ عَمَلُهُ. وَخَلِيلٌ يَقُولُ: أَنَا مَعَكَ حَيًّا فَإِذَا مِتَّ خَلَّيْتُ سَبِيلَكَ فَهُوَ مَالُهُ. وَخَلِيلٌ يَقُولُ: أَنَا مَعَكَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَ بَابَ الْمَلِكِ، ثُمَّ أُخَلِّي عَنْكَ فَهُوَ وَارِثُهُ

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ḥārithata bni muḍarribin al-ʿabdiyyi ʾabī al-ḥārithi..., ʿan ʿaliyyin qāla: ʾakhillāʾu ʾabni ādama thalāthatun: fakhalīlun yaqūlu: ʾanā maʿaka ḥayyan wamayyitan fahuwa ʿamaluhu. wakhalīlun yaqūlu: ʾanā maʿaka ḥayyan faʾidhā mitta khallaytu sabīlaka fahuwa māluhu. wakhalīlun yaqūlu: ʾanā maʿaka ḥattā taʾtiya bāba al-maliki, thumma ʾukhallī ʿanka fahuwa wārithuhu

Sufyān related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Ḥārithah ibn Muḍarrib al-ʿAbdī Abū al-Ḥārith, from ʿAlī, who said: “The child of Adam has three intimate companions. One says, ‘I am with you in life and in death’—that is his deeds. One says, ‘I am with you while you live, but when you die I leave you to your path’—that is his wealth. And one says, ‘I am with you until you reach the King’s gate; then I leave you’—that is his heir.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، وَسُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بَابَاهُ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «خَالِطُوا النَّاسَ وَزَايِلُوهُمْ بِمَا يَشْتَهُونَ، وَدِينَكَ لَا تَكْلِمَنَّهُ»

ḥaddathanā misʿarun, wasufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni bābāhu qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “khāliṭū al-nāsa wazāyilūhum bimā yashtahūna, wadīnaka lā taklimannahu”

Misʿar and Sufyān related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bābāh, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “Mix with people and accommodate them in what they desire, but never let your religion be wounded.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْأَقْمَرِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَطِيَّةَ الْواَدِعِيِّ قَالَ.: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِذَا كَانَ لَكَ جَارٌ فَاجِرٌ لَا تَسْتَطِيعُ لَهُ غَيْرًا، خَالِقْهُ بِوَجْهٍ مُكْفَهِرٍّ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni al-ʾaqmari, ʿan ʾabī ʿaṭiyyata al-wādiʿiyyi qāla.: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: “ʾidhā kāna laka jārun fājirun lā tastaṭīʿu lahu ghayran, khāliqhu biwajhin mukfahirrin”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, from Abū ʿAṭiyyah al-Wādiʿī, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said: “If you have a wicked neighbor whom you are unable to change, deal with him with a disapproving frown.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْكَافِرَ يَأْكُلُ فِي سَبْعَةِ أَمْعَاءٍ، وَالْمُؤْمِنُ يَأْكُلُ فِي مِعًى وَاحِدَةٍ»

ḥaddathanā mubārakun, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ʾinna al-kāfira yaʾkulu fī sabʿati ʾamʿāʾin, wa-l-muʾminu yaʾkulu fī miʿanā wāḥidatin”

Mubārak related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The unbeliever eats with seven intestines, while the believer eats with one intestine.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ شَيْخًا أُرَاهُ أَبَا خَالِدٍ الْوَالِبِيَّ، عَنْ مَيْمُونَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «الْكَافِرُ يَأْكُلُ فِي سَبْعَةِ أَمْعَاءٍ، وَالْمُؤْمِنُ يَأْكُلُ فِي مِعًى وَاحِدَةٍ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla: samiʿtu shaykhan ʾurāhu ʾabā khālidin al-wālibiyya, ʿan maymūnata zawji al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: “al-kāfiru yaʾkulu fī sabʿati ʾamʿāʾin, wa-l-muʾminu yaʾkulu fī miʿanā wāḥidatin”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, saying: I heard a shaykh whom I believe to have been Abū Khālid al-Wālibī relate from Maymūnah, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The unbeliever eats with seven intestines, while the believer eats with one intestine.”

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حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: «كَانَ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ أَشْفَقَ ثِيَابًا وَأَشْفَقَ قُلُوبًا»

ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: “kāna man qablakum ʾashfaqa thiyāban waʾashfaqa qulūban”

Sufyān related to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, who said: “Those before you wore rougher clothes and had more tender hearts.”

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حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى يَعْنِي الْأَشْعَرِيَّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا أَحَدَ أَصْبَرَ عَلَى أَذًى مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmani, ʿan ʾabī mūsā yaʿnī al-ʾashʿariyya qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “lā ʾaḥada ʾaṣbara ʿalā ʾadhanā mina Allāhi ʿazza wajalla”

Al-Aʿmash related to us, from Saʿd ibn Jubayr, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Mūsā—meaning al-Ashʿarī—who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No one is more patient in the face of abuse than Allah, Mighty and Majestic.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ جُمْهَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: «لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ زَكَاةٌ وَزَكَاةُ الْجَسَدِ الصِّيَامُ»

ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata ʿan jumhāna, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: “likulli shayʾin zakātun wazakātu al-jasadi al-ṣiyāmu”

Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah related to us, from Jumhān, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “Everything has a purifying alms, and the purifying alms of the body is fasting.”

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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِعُمَرَ: هُنَاكَ بَنُوكَ، قَالَ: «بَلْ أَغْنَانِي اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ»

ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rajulun liʿumara: hunāka banūka, qāla: “bal ʾaghnānī Allāhu ʿanhum”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related to us, from his father, who said: A man said to ʿUmar, “Your sons are over there.” He replied: “Rather, Allah has made me independent of them.”

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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ شَيْخٍ لَهُمْ قَالَ: «كُنَّا نَسْتَعِينُ عَلَى طَلَبِ الْحَدِيثِ بِالصَّوْمِ»

ḥaddathanā wakīʿun, ʿan shaykhin lahum qāla: “kunnā nastaʿīnu ʿalā ṭalabi al-ḥadīthi bi-l-ṣawmi”

Wakīʿ related to us, from one of their shaykhs, who said: “We used to seek strength for the pursuit of hadith through fasting.”

آخِرُ كِتَابِ الزُّهْدِ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ، وَصَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ

Ākhiru Kitābi al-Zuhdi, wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi waḥdahu, wa-ṣallā Allāhu ʿalā Muḥammadin wa-ʿalā ālihi wa-sallama.

Here ends Kitāb al-Zuhd. Praise belongs to Allah alone. May Allah bless Muḥammad and his family and grant them peace.

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