1-9 Kitab al Zuhd Wal Raqaiq: The Book of Zuhd and Heart-Softening Narrations by Abdullah bin Mubarak

كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ وَالرَّقَائِقِ

Kitāb al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqāʾiq:The Book of Zuhd and Heart-Softening Narrations

Obedience, Worship, and Sincerity

Chapters 1–9

عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak

كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ بِرِوَايَةِ الْمَرْوَزِيِّ

kitābu al-zuhdi bi-riwāyati al-marwaziyyi

Kitāb al-Zuhd in the transmission of al-Marwazī.

بَابُ التَّحْضِيضِ عَلَى طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ

bābu al-taḥḍīḍi ʿalā ṭāʿati Allāhi ʿazza wajalla

A chapter urging obedience to God, mighty and majestic.

١ - أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ أَبُو غَالِبٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْبَنَّاءِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْوَرَّاقُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ يَوْمَ الْخَمِيسِ لِسِتٍّ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ خَمْسَ عَشَرَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ عِنْدَ بَابِ دَارِهِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَالْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ نِعْمَتَانِ مَغْبُونٌ فِيهِمَا كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ: الصِّحَّةُ وَالْفَرَاغُ”

1 - ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu ʾabū ghālibin ʾaḥmadu bnu al-ḥasani bni ʾaḥmada bni al-bannāʾi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muḥammadin al-ḥasanu bnu ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadi bni al-ḥasani al-jawhariyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadin al-warrāqu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin yawma al-khamīsi lisittin khalawna min rabīʿin al-ʾawwali sanata khamsa ʿashara wathalāthimiʾatin ʿinda bābi dārihi, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu ʾabū ʿabdi Allāhi sanata khamsin waʾarbaʿīna wamiʾatayni qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, wa-l-faḍlu bnu mūsā qālā: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu saʿīdi bni ʾabī hinda, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhumā qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ niʿmatāni maghbūnun fīhimā kathīrun mina al-nāsi: al-ṣiḥḥatu wa-l-farāghu”

Shaykh Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bannāʾ reported to us from Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jawharī, from Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Warrāq, from Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid. Yaḥyā transmitted it at his doorway on Thursday, six nights into Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 315 AH. He reported from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, who transmitted it in 245 AH, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak and al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā. They reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may God be pleased with them both, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘There are two blessings concerning which many people incur a loss: health and free time.’

٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ الْبُرْقَانِ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ الْأَوْدِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِرَجُلٍ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُ: “ اِغْتَنِمْ خَمْسًا قَبْلَ خَمْسٍ: شَبَابَكَ قَبْلَ هَرَمِكَ، وَصِحَّتَكَ قَبْلَ سَقَمِكَ، وَغِنَاكَ قَبْلَ فَقْرِكَ، وَفَرَاغَكَ قَبْلَ شُغْلِكَ، وَحَيَاتَكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِكَ ”

2 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu al-burqāni, ʿan ziyādi bni al-jarrāḥi, ʿan ʿamri bni maymūnin al-ʾawdiyyi qāla: qāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama lirajulin wahuwa yaʿiẓuhu: “ ightanim khamsan qabla khamsin: shabābaka qabla haramika, waṣiḥḥataka qabla saqamika, waghināka qabla faqrika, wafarāghaka qabla shughlika, waḥayātaka qabla mawtika ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related from Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Jaʿfar ibn al-Burqān, from Ziyād ibn al-Jarrāḥ, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī. He said that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, counseled a man: ‘Make the most of five things before five others: your youth before old age, your health before illness, your wealth before poverty, your free time before occupation, and your life before death.’

٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا كَهْمَسُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي السَّلِيلِ، عَنْ غُنَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: كُنَّا نَتَوَاعَظُ فِي أَوَّلِ الْإِسْلَامِ بِأَرْبَعٍ، كُنَّا نَقُولُ: «اِعْمَلْ فِي شَبَابِكَ لِكِبَرِكَ، وَاعْمَلْ فِي فَرَاغِكَ لِشُغْلِكَ، وَاعْمَلْ فِي صِحَّتِكَ لِسَقَمِكَ، وَاعْمَلْ فِي حَيَاتِكَ لِمَوْتِكَ»

3 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā kahmasu bnu al-ḥasani, ʿan ʾabī al-salīli, ʿan ghunaymi bni qaysin qāla: kunnā natawāʿaẓu fī ʾawwali al-ʾislāmi biʾarbaʿin, kunnā naqūlu: «iʿmal fī shabābika likibarika, waʿmal fī farāghika lishughlika, waʿmal fī ṣiḥḥatika lisaqamika, waʿmal fī ḥayātika limawtika»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā and al-Ḥusayn from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Kahmas ibn al-Ḥasan, from Abū al-Salīl, from Ghunaym ibn Qays. He said: ‘At the beginning of Islam, we used to exhort one another with four sayings: Work in your youth for your old age; work when you have time for when you are occupied; work while healthy for when you are ill; and work during your life for your death.’

٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ كَرَامَةَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى، عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ قَالَ: «اِعْمَلُوا فِي الصِّحَّةِ قَبْلَ الْمَرَضِ، وَفِي الْحَيَاةِ قَبْلَ الْمَوْتِ، وَفِي الشَّبَابِ قَبْلَ الْكِبَرِ، وَفِي الْفَرَاغِ قَبْلَ الشُّغْلِ»

4 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā, ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿuthmāna bni karāmata qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu mūsā, ʿan ʾisrāʾīla, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿamri bni maymūnin qāla: «iʿmalū fī al-ṣiḥḥati qabla al-maraḍi, wafī al-ḥayāti qabla al-mawti, wafī al-shabābi qabla al-kibari, wafī al-farāghi qabla al-shughli»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related through Yaḥyā from Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Karāma, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, from Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn. He said: ‘Act while healthy before illness, while alive before death, in youth before old age, and while you have time before occupation.’

٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ: «مَا نَنْتَظِرُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا كَلًّا مُحْزِنًا، أَوْ فِتْنَةً تُنْتَظَرُ»

5 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʾabī burdata, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi qāla: «mā nantaẓiru mina al-dunyā ʾillā kallan muḥzinan, ʾaw fitnatan tuntaẓaru»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from Saʿīd ibn Abī Burda, from his father, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, who said: ‘What do we await from this world except a burdensome distress or a trial yet to come?’

٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَنْظَلَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «مَا أَكْثَرَ أَشْبَاهَ الدُّنْيَا مِنْهَا»

6 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥanẓalatu bnu ʾabī sufyāna, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni ʾabī rabāḥin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: «mā ʾakthara ʾashbāha al-dunyā minhā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥanẓala ibn Abī Sufyān reported from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: ‘How many of this world’s likenesses it contains.’

٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرُ بْنُ رَاشِدٍ، عَنْ مَنْ سَمِعَ الْمَقْبُرِيَّ يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «مَا يَنْتَظِرُ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَّا غِنًى مُطْغِيًا، أَوْ فَقْرًا مُنْسِيًا، أَوْ مَرَضًا مُفْسِدًا، أَوْ هَرَمًا مُفْنِدًا، أَوْ مَوْتًا مُجْهِزًا، أَوِ الدَّجَّالَ ، فَالدَّجَّالُ شَرُّ غَائِبٍ يُنْتَظَرُ، أَوِ السَّاعَةَ، وَالسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَى وَأَمَرُّ»

7 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmaru bnu rāshidin, ʿan man samiʿa al-maqburiyya yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾannahu qāla: «mā yantaẓiru ʾaḥadukum ʾillā ghinan muṭghiyan, ʾaw faqran munsiyan, ʾaw maraḍan mufsidan, ʾaw haraman mufnidan, ʾaw mawtan mujhizan, ʾawi al-dajjāla , fa-l-dajjālu sharru ghāʾibin yuntaẓaru, ʾawi al-sāʿata, wa-l-sāʿatu ʾadhā waʾamarru»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar ibn Rāshid reported from someone who heard al-Maqburī relate from Abū Hurayra that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘What is any one of you waiting for but wealth that makes one overbearing, poverty that makes one forget, illness that corrupts, old age that enfeebles, death that overtakes, or the Antichrist? The Antichrist is the worst absent thing to await. Or are you waiting for the Hour? The Hour is more calamitous and more bitter.’

٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: «اِبْنَ آدَمَ، إِيَّاكَ وَالتَّسْوِيفَ؛ فَإِنَّكَ بِيَوْمِكَ وَلَسْتَ بِغَدٍ، فَإِنْ يَكُنْ غَدٌ لَكَ فَكِسْ فِي غَدٍ كَمَا كِسْتَ فِي الْيَوْمِ، وَإِلَّا يَكُنْ لَكَ لَمْ تَنْدَمْ عَلَى مَا فَرَّطْتَ فِي الْيَوْمِ»

8 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-wārithi bnu saʿīdin ʾabū ʿubaydata, ʿan rajulin, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu kāna yaqūlu: «ibna ʾādama, ʾiyyāka wa-l-taswīfa; faʾinnaka biyawmika walasta bighadin, faʾin yakun ghadun laka fakis fī ghadin kamā kista fī al-yawmi, waʾillā yakun laka lam tandam ʿalā mā farraṭta fī al-yawmi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd, Abū ʿUbayda, reported through a man from al-Ḥasan, who used to say: ‘Child of Adam, beware of putting things off. You possess today, not tomorrow. If tomorrow comes to you, apply yourself then as you did today. If it does not come, you will have no regret for neglecting today.’

قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي غَيْرُهُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: «أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ أَشَحَّ عَلَى عُمُرِهِ مِنْهُ عَلَى دَرَاهِمِهِ وَدَنَانِيرِهِ»

qāla: waḥaddathanī ghayruhu ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu kāna yaqūlu: «ʾadraktu ʾaqwāman kāna ʾaḥaduhum ʾashaḥḥa ʿalā ʿumurihi minhu ʿalā darāhimihi wadanānīrihi»

He said: Someone else also related to me from al-Ḥasan that he used to say: ‘I knew people who guarded their lifetime more jealously than their dirhams and dinars.’

٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرُ بْنُ كِدَامٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَوْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: «مَنْ يَتَفَقَّدْ يُفْقَدْ، وَمَنْ لَا يُعِدَّ الصَّبْرَ لِفَوَاجِعِ الْأُمُورِ يَعْجَزْ»

9 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿaru bnu kidāmin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿawnu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: «man yatafaqqad yufqad, waman lā yuʿidda al-ṣabra lifawājiʿi al-ʾumūri yaʿjaz»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar ibn Kidām related from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh that Abū al-Dardāʾ said: ‘Whoever looks about for others will himself be missed; whoever does not prepare patience for the blows of circumstance will be helpless.’

١٠ - قَالَ: عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ مَعْنٍ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: «كَمْ مِنْ مُسْتَقْبِلٍ يَوْمًا لَا يَسْتَكْمِلُهُ، وَمُنْتَظِرٍ غَدًا لَا يَبْلُغُهُ، لَوْ تَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْأَجَلِ وَمَسِيرِهِ لَأَبْغَضْتُمُ الْأَمَلَ وَغُرُورَهُ»

10 - qāla: ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki: waḥaddathanī misʿarun, ʿan maʿnin, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi ʾannahu kāna yaqūlu: «kam min mustaqbilin yawman lā yastakmiluhu, wamuntaẓirin ghadan lā yablughuhu, law tanẓurūna ʾilā al-ʾajali wamasīrihi laʾabghaḍtumu al-ʾamala waghurūrahu»

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak said: Misʿar also related to me through Maʿn from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who used to say: ‘How many greet a new day without living to its end, and how many await tomorrow without reaching it. If you looked at the appointed end and its steady approach, you would loathe false hope and its delusion.’

١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ: قِيلَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ فِي مَرَضِهِ: أَوْصِنَا، قَالَ: «أَنْذَرْتُكُمْ سَوْفَ»

11 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, ʿan shuʿbata bni al-ḥajjāji, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa qāla: qīla lirajulin min ʿabdi al-qaysi fī maraḍihi: ʾawṣinā, qāla: «ʾandhartukum sawfa»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related through Yaḥyā and al-Ḥusayn from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj, from Abū Isḥāq. A man of ʿAbd al-Qays was asked during his illness, ‘Give us your last counsel.’ He replied, ‘I warn you against “later.”’

١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُخَرِّمِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ الْعَيْزَارِ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ: أَوْصَاهُمْ ثُمَامَةُ بْنُ بِجَادٍ السُّلَمِيُّ، قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ: “ أَيْ قَوْمِ، أَنْذَرْتُكُمْ: سَوْفَ أَعْمَلُ، سَوْفَ أُصَلِّي، سَوْفَ أَصُومُ ”

12 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi al-mukharrimiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā bnu ʾādama, ʿan ʾisrāʾīla, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿani al-ʿayzāri bni ḥuraythin qāla: ʾawṣāhum thumāmatu bnu bijādin al-sulamiyyu, qāla liqawmihi: “ ʾay qawmi, ʾandhartukum: sawfa ʾaʿmalu, sawfa ʾuṣallī, sawfa ʾaṣūmu ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related through Yaḥyā from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī, from Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, from Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-ʿAyzār ibn Ḥurayth. Thumāma ibn Bijād al-Sulamī counseled his people: ‘My people, I warn you against saying: “I shall act later; I shall pray later; I shall fast later.”’

١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِبَعْضِ جَسَدِي فَقَالَ: «كُنْ كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا، أَوْ عَابِرُ سَبِيلٍ، وَعُدَّ نَفْسَكَ فِي أَهْلِ الْقُبُورِ»

13 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, ʿan sufyāna, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ibni ʿumara qāla: ʾakhadha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bibaʿḍi jasadī faqāla: «kun kaʾannaka gharībun fī al-dunyā, ʾaw ʿābiru sabīlin, waʿudda nafsaka fī ʾahli al-qubūri»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related through Yaḥyā and al-Ḥusayn from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Sufyān, from Layth, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿUmar. Ibn ʿUmar said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, took hold of part of my body and said: ‘Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler passing through. Count yourself among those in the graves.’

قَالَ: وَقَالَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ: «إِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ فَلَا تُحَدِّثْ نَفْسَكَ بِالْمَسَاءِ، وَإِذَا أَمْسَيْتَ فَلَا تُحَدِّثْ نَفْسَكَ بِالصَّبَاحِ، وَخُذْ مِنْ صِحَّتِكَ قَبْلَ سَقَمِكَ، وَمِنْ حَيَاتِكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِكَ؛ فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ مَا اِسْمُكَ غَدًا»

qāla: waqāla ibnu ʿumara: «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 yā ʿabda Allāhi mā ismuka ghadan»

Ibn ʿUmar also said: ‘When morning comes, do not promise yourself the evening; when evening comes, do not promise yourself the morning. Make use of your health before illness and your life before death, for you do not know, servant of God, what name you will bear tomorrow.’

١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: «إِذَا شِئْتَ رَأَيْتَ بَصِيرًا لَا صَبْرَ لَهُ، فَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ بَصِيرًا ذَا صَبْرٍ فَهُنَالِكَ»

14 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu: «ʾidhā shiʾta raʾayta baṣīran lā ṣabra lahu, faʾidhā raʾayta baṣīran dhā ṣabrin fahunālika»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: I heard al-Ḥasan say, ‘You may see someone who understands but lacks patience. When you see one who understands and is patient, there you have it.’

١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْتُونَ مَا آتَوْا} [الْمُؤْمِنُونَ: ٦٠] ، قَالَ: «يُعْطُونَ مَا أَعْطَوْا» ، {وَقُلُوبُهُمْ وَجِلَةٌ} [الْمُؤْمِنُونَ: ٦٠] ، قَالَ: «يَعْمَلُونَ مَا عَمِلُوا مِنْ أَعْمَالِ الْبِرِّ وَهُمْ يَخْشَوْنَ أَنْ لَا يُنْجِيَهُمْ ذَلِكَ مِنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

15 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla: {wa-l-ladhīna yuʾtūna mā ʾātaw} [al-muʾminūna: 60] , qāla: «yuʿṭūna mā ʾaʿṭaw» , {waqulūbuhum wajilatun} [al-muʾminūna: 60] , qāla: «yaʿmalūna mā ʿamilū min ʾaʿmāli al-birri wahum yakhshawna ʾan lā yunjiyahum dhālika min ʿadhābi rabbihim ʿazza wajalla»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān reported from al-Ḥasan concerning God’s words, mighty and majestic, ‘And those who give what they give’ [Qurʾān 23:60]. He said, ‘They give what they give.’ Concerning ‘while their hearts tremble’ [23:60], he said, ‘They carry out righteous deeds, yet fear that these deeds will not save them from the punishment of their Lord, mighty and majestic.’

١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، كَتَبَ إِلَى يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ: «إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُدْرِكَكَ الصَّرْعَةُ عِنْدَ الْغِرَّةِ، فَلَا تُقَالُ الْعَثْرَةُ، وَلَا تُمَكَّنُ مِنَ الرَّجْعَةِ، وَلَا يَحْمَدُكَ مَنْ خَلَّفْتَ بِمَا تَرَكْتَ، وَلَا يَعْذُرُكَ مَنْ تَقْدَمُ عَلَيْهِ بِمَا اِشْتَغَلْتَ بِهِ، وَالسَّلَامُ»

16 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin, ʾanna ʿumara bna ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi, kataba ʾilā yazīda bni ʿabdi al-maliki: «ʾiyyāka ʾan tudrikaka al-ṣarʿatu ʿinda al-ghirrati, falā tuqālu al-ʿathratu, walā tumakkanu mina al-rajʿati, walā yaḥmaduka man khallafta bimā tarakta, walā yaʿdhuruka man taqdamu ʿalayhi bimā ishtaghalta bihi, wa-l-salāmu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir reported that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz wrote to Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik: ‘Beware lest the final collapse overtake you while you are heedless. Then no misstep will be set right, no return will be granted. Those you leave behind will not praise you for what you left, and those you meet ahead will not excuse you for what occupied you. Peace.’

١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «لَيْسَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ رَاحَةٌ دُونَ لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَمَنْ كَانَتْ رَاحَتُهُ فِي لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ فَكَأَنْ قَدْ»

17 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi bni al-musayyabi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma , qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: «laysa lilmuʾmini rāḥatun dūna liqāʾi Allāhi ʿazza wajalla, waman kānat rāḥatuhu fī liqāʾi Allāhi fakaʾan qad»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab, from Ibrāhīm, that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: ‘The believer finds no rest short of meeting God, mighty and majestic. Whoever finds his rest in meeting God is already as good as there.’

١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: «أَيْ قَوْمِ، الْمُدَاوَمَةَ الْمُدَاوَمَةَ؛ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ لِعَمَلِ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَجَلًا دُونَ الْمَوْتِ»

18 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu: «ʾay qawmi, al-mudāwamata al-mudāwamata; faʾinna Allāha lam yajʿal liʿamali al-muʾmini ʾajalan dūna al-mawti»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: I heard al-Ḥasan say, ‘People, persevere, persevere! God has set no term for the believer’s work before death.’

١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ} [الْحِجْرِ: ٩٩] ، قَالَ: «الْمَوْتُ»

19 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla: {waʿbud rabbaka ḥattā yaʾtiyaka al-yaqīnu} [al-ḥijri: 99] , qāla: «al-mawtu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla reported from al-Ḥasan, commenting on God’s words, ‘Worship your Lord until certainty comes to you’ [Qurʾān 15:99]. He said: ‘Certainty means death.’

٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا يَعْنِي الْمُبَارَكُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «إِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَيْكَ الشَّيْطَانُ فَرَآكَ مُدَاوِمًا فِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ، فَبَغَاكَ وَبَغَاكَ، فَرَآكَ مُدَاوِمًا مَلَّكَ وَرَفَضَكَ، وَإِذَا كُنْتَ مَرَّةً هَكَذَا وَمَرَّةً هَكَذَا طَمِعَ فِيكَ»

20 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan yaʿnī al-mubāraku, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qāla: «ʾidhā naẓara ʾilayka al-shayṭānu faraʾāka mudāwiman fī ṭāʿati Allāhi, fabaghāka wabaghāka, faraʾāka mudāwiman mallaka warafaḍaka, waʾidhā kunta marratan hākadhā wamarratan hākadhā ṭamiʿa fīka»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: He also reported from al-Mubārak, from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘When Satan looks at you and sees you steadily obeying God, he seeks you out again and again. If he still finds you constant, he grows weary of you and leaves you alone. But if you are one way at one time and another way at another, he hopes to get the better of you.’

٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِذَا كَانَ الْعَبْدُ فِي صَلَاتِهِ فَإِنَّهُ يَقْرَعُ بَابَ الْمَلِكِ، وَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يَدْأَبْ قَرْعَ بَابِ الْمَلِكِ يُوشِكُ أَنْ يُفْتَحَ لَهُ»

21 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan zaydin, ʿan murrata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: «ʾidhā kāna al-ʿabdu fī ṣalātihi faʾinnahu yaqraʿu bāba al-maliki, waʾinnahu man yadʾab qarʿa bābi al-maliki yūshiku ʾan yuftaḥa lahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from Zayd, from Murra, that ʿAbd Allāh [ibn Masʿūd] said: ‘When a servant prays, he knocks at the King’s door. Whoever keeps knocking at the King’s door is likely to have it opened for him.’

٢٢ - قَالَ: وَقَالَ مُرَّةُ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ: {اِتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ} [آلِ عِمْرَانَ: ١٠٢] ، قَالَ: «حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ أَنْ يُطَاعَ فَلَا يُعْصَى، وَأَنْ يُشْكَرَ فَلَا يُكْفَرَ، وَأَنْ يُذْكَرَ فَلَا يُنْسَى»

22 - qāla: waqāla murratu: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi fī hādhihi al-ʾāyati: {ittaqū Allāha ḥaqqa tuqātihi} [ʾāli ʿimrāna: 102] , qāla: «ḥaqqa tuqātihi ʾan yuṭāʿa falā yuʿṣā, waʾan yushkara falā yukfara, waʾan yudhkara falā yunsā»

Murra also said that ʿAbd Allāh [ibn Masʿūd], explaining the verse ‘Be mindful of God as He rightly ought to be’ [Qurʾān 3:102], said: ‘What is rightly due is that He be obeyed, never disobeyed; thanked, never denied; and remembered, never forgotten.’

٢٣ - وَقَالَ مُرَّةُ، قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «فَضْلُ صَلَاةِ اللَّيْلِ عَلَى النَّهَارِ كَفَضْلِ صَدَقَةِ السِّرِّ عَلَى الْعَلَانِيَةِ»

23 - waqāla murratu, qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: «faḍlu ṣalāti al-layli ʿalā al-nahāri kafaḍli ṣadaqati al-sirri ʿalā al-ʿalāniyati»

Murra also said that ʿAbd Allāh [ibn Masʿūd] said: ‘Prayer at night surpasses prayer by day just as charity given in secret surpasses charity given in public.’

٢٤ - وَقَالَ مُرَّةُ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {وَآتَى الْمَالَ عَلَى حُبِّهِ} [الْبَقَرَةِ: ١٧٧] ، قَالَ: «وَأَنْتَ حَرِيصٌ شَحِيحٌ تَأْمَلُ الْغِنَى، وَتَخْشَى الْفَقْرَ» قَالَ يَحْيَى بْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَقَدْ رَفَعَ بَعْضَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ مَخْلَدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ , عَنْ سَفِينٍ , عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ

24 - waqāla murratu: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: {waʾātā al-māla ʿalā ḥubbihi} [al-baqarati: 177] , qāla: «waʾanta ḥarīṣun shaḥīḥun taʾmalu al-ghinā, watakhshā al-faqra» qāla yaḥyā bnu ṣāʿidin: waqad rafaʿa baʿḍa hādhā al-ḥadīthi makhladu bnu yazīda , ʿan safīnin , ʿan zubaydin

Murra also said that ʿAbd Allāh [ibn Masʿūd], explaining ‘and gives wealth despite loving it’ [Qurʾān 2:177], said: ‘While you are still eager and reluctant to part with it, hoping for wealth and fearing poverty.’ Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid said: Makhlad ibn Yazīd traced part of this report back to the Prophet, through Safīn and Zubayd.

٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُمَرَ الْإِمَامُ عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِحَرَّانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَضْلُ صَلَاةِ اللَّيْلِ عَلَى صَلَاةِ النَّهَارِ كَفَضْلِ صَدَقَةِ السِّرِّ عَلَى الْعَلَانِيَةِ»

25 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū ʿumara al-ʾimāmu ʿabdu al-ḥamīdi bnu muḥammadin biḥarrāna qāla: ḥaddathanā makhladu bnu yazīda al-ḥarrāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu al-thawriyyu, ʿan zubaydin, ʿan murrata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: qāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «faḍlu ṣalāti al-layli ʿalā ṣalāti al-nahāri kafaḍli ṣadaqati al-sirri ʿalā al-ʿalāniyati»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, who heard this from Abū ʿUmar the imām, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad, in Ḥarrān. He reported from Makhlad ibn Yazīd al-Ḥarrānī, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Zubayd, from Murra, from ʿAbd Allāh [ibn Masʿūd], that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Prayer at night surpasses prayer by day just as charity given in secret surpasses charity given in public.’

٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ اِبْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّهُ مَرَّ بِقَوْمٍ بَعْدَمَا أُصِيبَ فِي بَصَرِهِ يَجُذُّونَ حَجَرًا، وَقَالَ: «مَا يَصْنَعُ هَؤُلَاءِ؟» قَالَ: يَجُذُّونَ حَجَرًا، فَقَالَ: «عُمَّالُ اللَّهِ أَقْوَى مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ»

26 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani ibni ṭāwūsin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, ʾannahu marra biqawmin baʿdamā ʾuṣība fī baṣarihi yajudhdhūna ḥajaran, waqāla: «mā yaṣnaʿu hāʾulāʾi?» qāla: yajudhdhūna ḥajaran, faqāla: «ʿummālu Allāhi ʾaqwā min hāʾulāʾi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās. After losing his sight, Ibn ʿAbbās passed people hauling a stone. He asked, ‘What are they doing?’ He was told, ‘Hauling a stone.’ He said, ‘Those who work for God have greater strength than these people.’

٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ النَّارِ نَامَ هَارِبُهَا، وَلَا مِثْلَ الْجَنَّةِ نَامَ طَالِبُهَا»

27 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu ʾabī yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «mā raʾaytu mithla al-nāri nāma hāribuhā, walā mithla al-jannati nāma ṭālibuhā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh said: I heard my father say: I heard Abū Hurayra say that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘I have never seen anything like the Fire, yet those fleeing it sleep; nor anything like Paradise, yet those seeking it sleep.’

٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ هَرِمُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ النَّارِ نَامَ هَارِبُهَا، وَلَا مِثْلَ الْجَنَّةِ نَامَ طَالِبُهَا»

28 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu muslimin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla harimu bnu ḥayyāna: «mā raʾaytu mithla al-nāri nāma hāribuhā, walā mithla al-jannati nāma ṭālibuhā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim related from al-Ḥasan that Harim ibn Ḥayyān said: ‘I have never seen anything like the Fire, yet those fleeing it sleep; nor anything like Paradise, yet those seeking it sleep.’

٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ عُمَرَ قَالَ: وَكَانَ عَمْرُو بْنُ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ يَخْرُجُ عَلَى فَرَسِهِ فَيَقِفُ لَيْلًا عَلَى الْقُبُورِ فَيَقُولُ: «يَا أَهْلَ الْقُبُورِ، قَدْ طُوِيَتِ الصُّحُفُ، وَقَدْ رُفِعَتِ الْأَعْمَالُ» ، ثُمَّ يَبْكِي، ثُمَّ يَصْفِنُ بَيْنَ قَدَمَيْهِ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ، ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ فَيَشْهَدُ صَلَاةَ الصُّبْحِ

29 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿīsā bnu ʿumara qāla: wakāna ʿamru bnu ʿutbata bni farqadin yakhruju ʿalā farasihi fayaqifu laylan ʿalā al-qubūri fayaqūlu: «yā ʾahla al-qubūri, qad ṭuwiyati al-ṣuḥufu, waqad rufiʿati al-ʾaʿmālu» , thumma yabkī, thumma yaṣfinu bayna qadamayhi ḥattā yuṣbiḥa, thumma yarjiʿu fayashhadu ṣalāta al-ṣubḥi

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar said: ʿAmr ibn ʿUtba ibn Farqad would ride out on his horse and stop at the graves at night. He would say, ‘People of the graves, your records have been closed and your deeds have been taken up.’ Then he would weep and stand with his feet aligned until morning. He would return to join the dawn prayer.

٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نُشَيْطٍ الْوَعْلَانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي قَيْسُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ، أَوْ غَيْرُهُ، عَنْ مَوْلًى لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو نَظَرَ إِلَى الْمَقْبَرَةِ، فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا نَزَلَ فَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: هَذَا شَيْءٌ لَمْ تَكُنْ تَصْنَعُهُ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ: «ذَكَرْتُ أَهْلَ الْقُبُورِ، وَمَا حِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَهُ، فَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَتَقَرَّبَ إِلَى اللَّهِ بِهِمَا»

30 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾibrāhīmu bnu nushayṭin al-waʿlāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanī qaysu bnu rāfiʿin, ʾaw ghayruhu, ʿan mawlan liʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi, ʾanna ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿamrin naẓara ʾilā al-maqbarati, falammā naẓara ʾilayhā nazala faṣallā rakʿatayni, faqīla lahu: hādhā shayʾun lam takun taṣnaʿuhu, qāla: faqāla: «dhakartu ʾahla al-qubūri, wamā ḥīla baynahum wabaynahu, faʾaḥbabtu ʾan ʾataqarraba ʾilā Allāhi bihimā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ibrāhīm ibn Nushayṭ al-Waʿlānī related from Qays ibn Rāfiʿ, or someone else, from a freedman of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ. ʿAbd Allāh looked toward the cemetery, dismounted, and prayed two cycles. Someone said, ‘You did not usually do that.’ He replied, ‘I remembered the people of the graves and how they are kept from doing this. I wanted to draw near to God through these two cycles of prayer.’

٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَمْلَى اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ عَلَيْنَا هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ مِنْ لَفْظِهِ، وَقَالَ: «هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ» ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ أَبُو هِشَامٍ الرِّفَاعِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مَالِكٍ وَهُوَ سَعْدُ بْنُ طَارِقٍ الْأَشْجَعِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: مَرَّ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ دُفِنَ حَدِيثًا فَقَالَ: «رَكْعَتَانِ خَفِيفَتَانِ مِمَّا تَحْقِرُونَ وَتَنْفِلُونَ يَزِيدُهُمَا هَذَا فِي عَمَلِهِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ بَقِيَّةِ دُنْيَاكُمْ» . قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ حَسَنٌ»

31 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾamlā ibnu ṣāʿidin ʿalaynā hādhā al-ḥadītha min lafẓihi, waqāla: «hādhā ḥadīthun gharībun» , ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu yazīda ʾabū hishāmin al-rifāʿiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥafṣu bnu ghiyāthin, ʿan ʾabī mālikin wahuwa saʿdu bnu ṭāriqin al-ʾashjaʿiyyu, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: marra al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā qabrin dufina ḥadīthan faqāla: «rakʿatāni khafīfatāni mimmā taḥqirūna watanfilūna yazīduhumā hādhā fī ʿamalihi ʾaḥabbu ʾilayhi min baqiyyati dunyākum» . qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «hādhā ḥadīthun gharībun ḥasanun»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq said: Ibn Ṣāʿid dictated this report to us in his own words. He said, ‘This is an unusual report.’ Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Abū Hishām al-Rifāʿī related to us from Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, from Abū Mālik, namely Saʿd ibn Ṭāriq al-Ashjaʿī, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayra. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, passed a recently buried grave and said: ‘Two short cycles of prayer, which you regard as trivial and perform as extra worship: if this person could add them to his deeds, they would be dearer to him than the rest of your world.’ Ibn Ṣāʿid said: ‘This is an unusual, good report.’

٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَتْنِي أُمُّ الدَّرْدَاءِ أَنَّهُ أُغْمِيَ عَلَى أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ، فَأَفَاقَ فَإِذَا بِلَالٌ اِبْنُهُ عِنْدَهُ، فَقَالَ: «قُمْ فَاخْرُجْ عَنِّي» ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: “ مَنْ يَعْمَلُ مِثْلَ مُضْطَجَعِي هَذَا؟ مَنْ يَعْمَلُ مِثْلَ سَاعَتِي هَذِهِ؟ {وَنُقَلِّبُ أَفْئِدَتَهُمْ وَأَبْصَارَهُمْ كَمَا لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَنَذَرُهُمْ فِي طُغْيَانِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ} [الْأَنْعَامِ: ١١٠] ، أُتِيتُمْ ”، ثُمَّ أُغْمِيَ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَبِثَ لَبْثًا ثُمَّ يُفِيقُ فَيَقُولُ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يُرَدِّدُهَا حَتَّى قُبِضَ

32 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi qāla: ḥaddathatnī ʾummu al-dardāʾi ʾannahu ʾughmiya ʿalā ʾabī al-dardāʾi, faʾafāqa faʾidhā bilālun ibnuhu ʿindahu, faqāla: «qum fakhruj ʿannī» , thumma qāla: “ man yaʿmalu mithla muḍṭajaʿī hādhā? man yaʿmalu mithla sāʿatī hādhihi? {wanuqallibu ʾafʾidatahum waʾabṣārahum kamā lam yuʾminū bihi ʾawwala marratin wanadharuhum fī ṭughyānihim yaʿmahūna} [al-ʾanʿāmi: 110] , ʾutītum ”, thumma ʾughmiya ʿalayhi, falabitha labthan thumma yufīqu fayaqūlu mithla dhālika, falam yazal yuraddiduhā ḥattā qubiḍa

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir reported from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, who said: Umm al-Dardāʾ told me that Abū al-Dardāʾ lost consciousness. When he came around, his son Bilāl was beside him. He said, ‘Get up and leave me.’ Then he said, ‘Who can do anything while lying as I am? Who can act at an hour like this?’ He recited: ‘We turn their hearts and their eyes away, as they did not believe in it the first time, and We leave them wandering blindly in their defiance’ [Qurʾān 6:110], then said, ‘You have been brought.’ He lost consciousness again, remained that way for a while, then came around and repeated the same words. He kept repeating them until he died.

٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَمُوتُ إِلَّا نَدِمَ» ، قَالُوا: وَمَا نَدَامَتُهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «إِنْ كَانَ مُحْسِنًا نَدِمَ أَنْ لَا يَكُونَ اِزْدَادَ، وَإِنْ كَانَ مُسِيئًا نَدِمَ أَنْ لَا يَكُونَ نَزَعَ»

33 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu ʾabī yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «mā min ʾaḥadin yamūtu ʾillā nadima» , qālū: wamā nadāmatuhu yā rasūla Allāhi? qāla: «ʾin kāna muḥsinan nadima ʾan lā yakūna izdāda, waʾin kāna musīʾan nadima ʾan lā yakūna nazaʿa»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh said: I heard my father say: I heard Abū Hurayra say that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘No one dies without regret.’ They asked, ‘What is the regret, Messenger of God?’ He replied, ‘If the person did good, he regrets not doing more. If he did wrong, he regrets not giving it up.’

٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ ، عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَمِيرَةَ، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ: «لَوْ أَنَّ عَبْدًا خَرَّ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ مِنْ يَوْمِ وُلِدَ إِلَى يَوْمِ يَمُوتُ هَرَمًا فِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ لَحَقَّرَهُ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ، وَلَوَدَّ أَنَّهُ زِيدَ كَيْمَا يَزْدَادَ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ وَالثَّوَابِ»

34 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan khālidi bni maʿdāna , ʿan jubayri bni nufayrin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾabī ʿamīrata, wakāna min ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla: «law ʾanna ʿabdan kharra ʿalā wajhihi min yawmi wulida ʾilā yawmi yamūtu haraman fī ṭāʿati Allāhi laḥaqqarahu dhālika al-yawma, walawadda ʾannahu zīda kaymā yazdāda mina al-ʾajri wa-l-thawābi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Thawr ibn Yazīd reported from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAmīra, a Companion of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: ‘Even if a servant fell on his face in obedience to God from the day of his birth until he died in old age, he would consider that too little on that Day and wish his life had been longer, so he could gain more reward.’

٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، عَنِ الْحُرَيْثِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: “ إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَمْرًا مِنَ الْخَيْرِ فَلَا تُؤَخِّرْهُ لِغَدٍ، وَإِذَا كُنْتَ فِي أَمْرِ الْآخِرَةِ فَامْكُثْ مَا اِسْتَطَعْتَ، وَإِذَا كُنْتَ فِي أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا فَتَوَحَّ، وَإِذَا كُنْتَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَقَالَ لَكَ الشَّيْطَانُ: إِنَّكَ تُرَائِي، فَزِدْهَا طُولًا ”

35 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu al-thawriyyu, ʿan sulaymāna al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan khaythamata, ʿani al-ḥuraythi bni qaysin qāla: “ ʾidhā ʾaradta ʾamran mina al-khayri falā tuʾakhkhirhu lighadin, waʾidhā kunta fī ʾamri al-ʾākhirati famkuth mā istaṭaʿta, waʾidhā kunta fī ʾamri al-dunyā fatawaḥḥa, waʾidhā kunta fī al-ṣalāti faqāla laka al-shayṭānu: ʾinnaka turāʾī, fazidhā ṭūlan ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān al-Thawrī reported from Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, from Khaythama, from al-Ḥurayth ibn Qays, who said: ‘If you intend a good deed, do not put it off until tomorrow. When engaged in something for the afterlife, stay with it as long as you can. When dealing with worldly matters, finish them promptly. If Satan says to you during prayer, “You are showing off,” make the prayer longer.’

٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَوْنٌ وَمَعْنٌ، أَوْ أَحَدُهُمَا، أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ فَقَالَ: اِعْهَدْ إِلَيَّ، فَقَالَ: “ إِذَا سَمِعْتَ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا} [الْبَقَرَةِ: ١٠٤] فَأَرْعِهَا سَمْعَكَ؛ فَإِنَّهُ خَيْرٌ يَأْمُرُ بِهِ، أَوْ شَرٌّ يَنْهَى عَنْهُ ”

36 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿawnun wamaʿnun, ʾaw ʾaḥaduhumā, ʾanna rajulan ʾatā ʿabda Allāhi bna masʿūdin faqāla: iʿhad ʾilayya, faqāla: “ ʾidhā samiʿta Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu: {yā ʾayyuhā al-ladhīna ʾāmanū} [al-baqarati: 104] faʾarʿihā samʿaka; faʾinnahu khayrun yaʾmuru bihi, ʾaw sharrun yanhā ʿanhu ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar said: ʿAwn and Maʿn, or one of them, related that a man came to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd and asked, ‘Give me counsel.’ He replied: ‘When you hear God Most High say, “You who believe” [Qurʾān 2:104], listen closely. He will either command something good or forbid something evil.’

٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَالِمٌ الْمَكِّيُّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَعْلَمَ مَا هُوَ فَلْيَعْرِضْ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى الْقُرْآنِ»

37 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sālimun al-makkiyyu, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: «man ʾaḥabba ʾan yaʿlama mā huwa falyaʿriḍ nafsahu ʿalā al-qurʾāni»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sālim al-Makkī reported from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘Whoever wants to know what he is like should measure himself against the Qurʾān.’

٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ هِلَالٍ يَعْنِي الْوَزَّانَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُكَيْمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ، بَدَأَ بِالْيَمِينِ قَبْلَ الْحَدِيثِ فَقَالَ: “ مَا مِنْكُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا سَيَخْلُو بِهِ رَبُّهُ كَمَا يَخْلُو أَحَدُكُمْ بِالْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: اِبْنَ آدَمَ، مَا غَرَّكَ بِي؟ يَا اِبْنَ آدَمَ، مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ فِيمَا عَلِمْتَ؟ يَا اِبْنَ آدَمَ، مَاذَا أَجَبْتَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ؟ ”

38 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sharīku bnu ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan hilālin yaʿnī al-wazzāna, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿukaymin qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna masʿūdin, badaʾa bi-l-yamīni qabla al-ḥadīthi faqāla: “ mā minkum ʾaḥadun ʾillā sayakhlū bihi rabbuhu kamā yakhlū ʾaḥadukum bi-l-qamari laylata al-badri, thumma yaqūlu: ibna ʾādama, mā gharraka bī? yā ibna ʾādama, mādhā ʿamilta fīmā ʿalimta? yā ibna ʾādama, mādhā ʾajabta al-mursalīna? ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq related to us through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh reported from Hilāl, meaning al-Wazzān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUkaym, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd take an oath before speaking. He said: ‘Each of you will be alone with his Lord, as one of you is alone with the full moon. Then He will say, “Child of Adam, what deceived you about Me? Child of Adam, what did you do with what you knew? Child of Adam, how did you respond to the messengers?”’

٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ قَالَ : قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: “ إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ إِذَا وُقِفْتُ عَلَى الْحِسَابِ أَنْ يُقَالَ لِي: قَدْ عَلِمْتَ، فَمَاذَا عَمِلْتَ فِيمَا عَلِمْتَ؟ ”

39 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin qāla : qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: “ ʾinna ʾakhwafa mā ʾakhāfu ʾidhā wuqiftu ʿalā al-ḥisābi ʾan yuqāla lī: qad ʿalimta, famādhā ʿamilta fīmā ʿalimta? ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā and al-Ḥusayn from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl. Abū al-Dardāʾ said: ‘What I fear most when I stand for the reckoning is being told, “You knew; what did you do with what you knew?”’

٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ سَيْفٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كَبْشَةَ السَّلُولِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ مِنْ شَرِّ النَّاسِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مَنْزِلَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَالِمٌ لَا يُنْتَفَعُ بِعِلْمِهِ»

40 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun mina al-ʾanṣāri, ʿan yūnusa bni sayfin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾabū kabshata al-salūliyyu qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā al-dardāʾi yaqūlu: «ʾinna min sharri al-nāsi ʿinda Allāhi manzilatan yawma al-qiyāmati ʿālimun lā yuntafaʿu biʿilmihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā and al-Ḥusayn from Ibn al-Mubārak, from a man of the Anṣār, from Yūnus ibn Sayf, from Abū Kabsha al-Salūlī, who said: I heard Abū al-Dardāʾ say: ‘Among the people worst placed with God on the Day of Resurrection is a scholar from whose knowledge no one benefits.’

٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ أَبِي كَرِيمَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ _ قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ هَذَا يُقَالُ لَهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ الْهَاشِمِيُّ وَلَيْسَ بِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا _ يَقُولُ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: بَارَكَ اللَّهُ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ فِيكَ، فَخُصَّنِي مِنْكَ بِخَاصَّةِ خَيْرٍ، قَالَ: «مُسْتَوْصٍ أَنْتَ؟» أُرَاهُ قَالَ: ثَلَاثًا، قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «اِجْلِسْ، إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَمْرًا فَتَدَبَّرْ عَاقِبَتَهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ خَيْرًا فَأَمْضِهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ شَرًّا فَانْتَهِ» .

41 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu al-thawriyyu, ʿan khālidi bni ʾabī karīmata qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā jaʿfarin _ qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: ʾabū jaʿfarin hādhā yuqālu lahu ʿabdu Allāhi al-hāshimiyyu walaysa bimuḥammadi bni ʿaliyyin raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhumā _ yaqūlu: jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: bāraka Allāhu lilmuslimīna fīka, fakhuṣṣanī minka bikhāṣṣati khayrin, qāla: «mustawṣin ʾanta?» ʾurāhu qāla: thalāthan, qāla: naʿam, qāla: «ijlis, ʾidhā ʾaradta ʾamran fatadabbar ʿāqibatahu, faʾin kāna khayran faʾamḍihi, waʾin kāna sharran fantahi» .

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā and al-Ḥusayn from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Khālid ibn Abī Karīma. He said: I heard Abū Jaʿfar—whom Ibn Ṣāʿid identified as ʿAbd Allāh al-Hāshimī, not Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, may God be pleased with them both—say: A man came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, ‘May God bless the Muslims through you. Give me a piece of counsel especially for me.’ The Prophet asked, ‘Will you accept advice?’ I think he asked it three times. The man said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Sit down. When you intend to do something, consider where it will lead. If it is good, go ahead; if it is bad, stop.’

٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ أَبِي كَرِيمَةَ، مِثْلَهُ

42 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, ʾakhbaranā ʿīsā bnu yūnusa, ʿan khālidi bni ʾabī karīmata, mithlahu

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, who reported from ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, from Khālid ibn Abī Karīma, a version like the preceding one.

بَابُ مَنْ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ لِعَرَضٍ فِي الدُّنْيَا

bābu man ṭalaba al-ʿilma liʿaraḍin fī al-dunyā

Chapter on those who seek knowledge for worldly gain.

٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَائِدَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَبَّانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي رَهْطٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِرَاقِ، أَنَّهُمْ مَرُّوا عَلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ فَسَأَلُوهُ، فَحَدَّثَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: “ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ هَذِهِ الْأَحَادِيثَ الَّتِي يُبْتَغَى بِهَا وَجْهُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى لَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَهَا أَحَدٌ يُرِيدُ بِهَا الْعَرَضَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، أَوْ قَالَ: لَا يُرِيدُ بِهَا إِلَّا عَرَضَ الدُّنْيَا، فَيَجِدَ عَرْفَ الْجَنَّةِ أَبَدًا ”. وَزَعَمَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ أَنَّ عَرْفَهَا رِيحُهَا

44 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zāʾidatu bnu qudāmata qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni maʿmarin al-ʾanṣāriyyu, ʿan muḥammadi bni yaḥyā bni ḥabbāna qāla: ḥaddathanī rahṭun min ʾahli al-ʿirāqi, ʾannahum marrū ʿalā ʾabī dharrin fasaʾalūhu, faḥaddathahum faqāla lahum: “ taʿlamūna ʾanna hādhihi al-ʾaḥādītha al-latī yubtaghā bihā wajhu Allāhi taʿālā lan yataʿallamahā ʾaḥadun yurīdu bihā al-ʿaraḍa mina al-dunyā, ʾaw qāla: lā yurīdu bihā ʾillā ʿaraḍa al-dunyā, fayajida ʿarfa al-jannati ʾabadan ”. wazaʿama ʿabdu Allāhi ʾanna ʿarfahā rīḥuhā

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported from Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Zāʾida ibn Qudāma, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maʿmar al-Anṣārī, from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān. He said: A group of Iraqis passed by Abū Dharr and asked him questions. After relating reports to them, he said: ‘Do you know that no one who learns these reports, which are sought for the sake of God Most High, while seeking some worldly gain—or, he said, seeking nothing but worldly gain—will ever find the fragrance of Paradise?’ ʿAbd Allāh said that ʿarf, here, means its scent.

٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ سَيَّارٍ، عَنْ عَائِذِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «مَنْ يَتَتَبَّعِ الْعِلْمَ أَوِ الْحَدِيثَ لِيَتَحَدَّثَ بِهِ لَمْ يَجِدْ رِيحَ الْجَنَّةِ أَبَدًا»

45 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu al-taymiyyu, ʿan sayyārin, ʿan ʿāʾidhi Allāhi qāla: «man yatatabbaʿi al-ʿilma ʾawi al-ḥadītha liyataḥaddatha bihi lam yajid rīḥa al-jannati ʾabadan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sulaymān al-Taymī reported from Sayyār, from ʿĀʾidh Allāh, who said: ‘Whoever pursues knowledge or a report merely to talk about it will never smell the fragrance of Paradise.’

٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «كَفَى بِخَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ عِلْمًا، وَكَفَى بِاغْتِرَارٍ بِاللَّهِ جَهْلًا»

46 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi: «kafā bikhashyati Allāhi ʿilman, wakafā bightirārin bi-llāhi jahlan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī reported from al-Qāsim that ʿAbd Allāh said: ‘Reverence for God is knowledge enough; complacent presumption about God is ignorance enough.’

٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ: «اِتَّقُوا اللَّهَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْقُرَّاءِ، وَخُذُوا طَرِيقَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ، فَوَاللَّهِ لَئِنِ اِسْتَقَمْتُمْ لَقَدْ سَبَقْتُمْ سَبْقًا بَعِيدًا، وَلَئِنْ تَرَكْتُمُوهُ يَمِينًا وَشِمَالًا لَقَدْ ضَلَلْتُمْ ضَلَالًا بَعِيدًا»

47 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿawnin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: qāla ḥudhayfatu: «ittaqū Allāha yā maʿshara al-qurrāʾi, wakhudhū ṭarīqa man kāna qablakum, fawallāhi laʾini istaqamtum laqad sabaqtum sabqan baʿīdan, walaʾin taraktumūhu yamīnan washimālan laqad ḍalaltum ḍalālan baʿīdan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn, from Ibrāhīm. Ḥudhayfa said: ‘Be mindful of God, reciters of the Qurʾān, and follow the path of those before you. By God, if you keep straight, you will have advanced a great distance; if you leave their path to the right or the left, you will have gone far astray.’

٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ قَالَ:

48 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun min ʾahli al-shāmi, ʿan yazīda bni ʾabī ḥabībin qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: A man from Syria reported from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, who said:

“ إِنَّ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْعَالِمِ الْفَقِيهِ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْكَلَامُ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الِاسْتِمَاعِ وَإِنْ وَجَدَ مَنْ يَكْفِيهِ، فَإِنَّهُ فِي الِاسْتِمَاعِ سَلَامَةٌ، وَزِيَادَةٌ فِي الْعِلْمِ، وَالْمُسْتَمِعُ شَرِيكُ الْمُتَكَلِّمِ، وَفِي الْكَلَامِ إِلَّا مَا عَصَمَ اللَّهُ تَوَهُّقٌ وَتَزَيُّنٌ وَزِيَادَةٌ وَنُقْصَانٌ.

“ ʾinna min fitnati al-ʿālimi al-faqīhi ʾan yakūna al-kalāmu ʾaḥabba ʾilayhi mina al-istimāʿi waʾin wajada man yakfīhi, faʾinnahu fī al-istimāʿi salāmatun, waziyādatun fī al-ʿilmi, wa-l-mustamiʿu sharīku al-mutakallimi, wafī al-kalāmi ʾillā mā ʿaṣama Allāhu tawahhuqun watazayyunun waziyādatun wanuqṣānun.

‘One temptation for a learned jurist is to prefer speaking to listening, even when someone else could speak for him. Listening brings safety and growth in knowledge, and the listener shares with the speaker. Speech, except when God protects a person, brings entanglement, self-display, excess, and omission.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَرَى أَنَّ بَعْضَ النَّاسِ لِشَرَفِهِ وَوَجْهِهِ أَحَقُّ بِكَلَامِهِ مِنْ بَعْضٍ، وَيَزْدَرِي الْمَسَاكِينَ، وَلَا يَرَاهُمْ لِذَلِكَ مَوْضِعًا.

waminhum man yarā ʾanna baʿḍa al-nāsi lisharafihi wawajhihi ʾaḥaqqu bikalāmihi min baʿḍin, wayazdarī al-masākīna, walā yarāhum lidhālika mawḍiʿan.

Some scholars regard certain people as more deserving of their words because of their status and standing, while they look down on the poor and consider them unworthy of attention.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَخْزُنُ عِلْمَهُ، وَيَرَى أَنَّ تَعْلِيمَهُ ضَيْعَةٌ، وَلَا يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُوجَدَ إِلَّا عِنْدَهُ.

waminhum man yakhzunu ʿilmahu, wayarā ʾanna taʿlīmahu ḍayʿatun, walā yuḥibbu ʾan yūjada ʾillā ʿindahu.

Some hoard their knowledge, regard teaching it as a loss, and want it found nowhere but with themselves.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَأْخُذُ فِي عِلْمِهِ بِأَخْذِ السُّلْطَانِ حَتَّى يَغْضَبَ أَنْ يُرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ، وَأَنْ يُغْفَلَ عَنْ شَيْءٍ مِنْ حَقِّهِ.

waminhum man yaʾkhudhu fī ʿilmihi biʾakhdhi al-sulṭāni ḥattā yaghḍaba ʾan yuradda ʿalayhi shayʾun min qawlihi, waʾan yughfala ʿan shayʾin min ḥaqqihi.

Some handle their knowledge like a ruler wielding power: they grow angry if any of their statements is challenged or any of their due respect is overlooked.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يُنَصِّبُ نَفْسَهُ لِلْفُتْيَا، فَلَعَلَّهُ يُؤْتَى بِالْأَمْرِ لَا عِلْمَ لَهُ بِهِ فَيَسْتَحْيِي أَنْ يَقُولَ: لَا عِلْمَ لِي بِهِ، فَيُرَجِّمُ فَيُكْتَبُ مِنَ الْمُتَكَلِّفِينَ.

waminhum man yunaṣṣibu nafsahu lilfutyā, falaʿallahu yuʾtā bi-l-ʾamri lā ʿilma lahu bihi fayastaḥyī ʾan yaqūla: lā ʿilma lī bihi, fayurajjimu fayuktabu mina al-mutakallifīna.

Some appoint themselves to issue legal opinions. When a question comes that they cannot answer, they are ashamed to say, ‘I do not know’; instead, they guess and are counted among those who pretend to know.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَرْوِي كُلَّ مَا سَمِعَ، حَتَّى أَنْ يَرْوِيَ كَلَامَ الْيَهُودِ وَالنَّصَارَى إِرَادَةَ أَنْ يُعَزِّرَ كَلَامَهُ ”

waminhum man yarwī kulla mā samiʿa, ḥattā ʾan yarwiya kalāma al-yahūdi wa-l-naṣārā ʾirādata ʾan yuʿazzira kalāmahu ”

Some transmit everything they hear, even sayings of Jews and Christians, to lend weight to their own speech.’

٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ، أَوْ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: «الْقَاصُّ يَنْتَظِرُ الْمَقْتَ مِنَ اللَّهِ، وَالْمُسْتَمِعُ يَنْتَظِرُ الرَّحْمَةَ»

49 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu burqāna, ʾaw qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan jaʿfari bni burqāna, ʿan maymūni bni mihrāna qāla: «al-qāṣṣu yantaẓiru al-maqta mina Allāhi, wa-l-mustamiʿu yantaẓiru al-raḥmata»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jaʿfar ibn Burqān reported—or Ibn al-Mubārak said, Sufyān reported from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān—from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, who said: ‘The storyteller awaits God’s displeasure, while the listener awaits mercy.’

٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ يَخْرُجُ فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ رِجَالٌ يَخْتُلُونَ الدُّنْيَا بِالدِّينِ، يَلْبَسُونَ لِلنَّاسِ جُلُودَ الضَّأْنِ مِنَ اللِّينِ، أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ أَحْلَى مِنَ الْعَسَلِ، وَقُلُوبُهُمْ قُلُوبُ الذِّئَابِ، يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: أَفَبِي تَغْتَرُّونَ، أَمْ عَلَيَّ تَجْتَرِئُونَ، فَبِي حَلَفْتُ لَأَبْعَثَنَّ عَلَى أُولَئِكَ مِنْهُمْ فِتْنَةً تَدَعُ الْحَلِيمَ مِنْهُمْ حَيْرَانَ ”

50 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu ʾabī yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ yakhruju fī ʾākhiri al-zamāni rijālun yakhtulūna al-dunyā bi-l-dīni, yalbasūna lil-nāsi julūda al-ḍaʾni mina al-līni, ʾalsinatuhum ʾaḥlā mina al-ʿasali, waqulūbuhum qulūbu al-dhiʾābi, yaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā: ʾafabī taghtarrūna, ʾam ʿalayya tajtariʾūna, fabī ḥalaftu laʾabʿathanna ʿalā ʾulāʾika minhum fitnatan tadaʿu al-ḥalīma minhum ḥayrāna ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh said: I heard my father say: I heard Abū Hurayra say that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Toward the end of time, men will come who seek to snare worldly gain by exploiting religion. Before others they wear soft sheepskins; their tongues are sweeter than honey, but their hearts are the hearts of wolves. God Most High will say, “Do you presume upon Me, or dare to defy Me? By Myself I swear: I will send among them a trial that will leave even the forbearing among them bewildered.”’

٥١ - أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَجْلَانَ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ أَمْرًا، فَقَالَ: «لَا أَعْلَمُهُ»

51 - ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʿajlāna, ʿan nāfiʿin, ʿani ibni ʿumara ʾannahu suʾila ʾamran, faqāla: «lā ʾaʿlamuhu»

Ibn al-Mubārak reported from Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, from Nāfiʿ, that Ibn ʿUmar was asked about a matter and replied, ‘I do not know.’

٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عُقْبَةُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، أَنَّ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ سُئِلَ عَنْ شَيْءٍ، فَقَالَ: «لَا أَدْرِي» ، ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَهَا، فَقَالَ: “ أَتُرِيدُونَ أَنْ تَجْعَلُوا ظُهُورَنَا لَكُمْ جُسُورًا فِي جَهَنَّمَ، أَنْ تَقُولُوا: أَفْتَانَا بِهَذَا اِبْنُ عُمَرَ ”

52 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿuqbatu bnu muslimin, ʾanna ibna ʿumara suʾila ʿan shayʾin, faqāla: «lā ʾadrī» , thumma ʾatbaʿahā, faqāla: “ ʾaturīdūna ʾan tajʿalū ẓuhūranā lakum jusūran fī jahannama, ʾan taqūlū: ʾaftānā bihādhā ibnu ʿumara ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ reported from ʿUqba ibn Muslim that Ibn ʿUmar was asked about something and said, ‘I do not know.’ He then added: ‘Do you want to make our backs into bridges for you in Hell by saying, “Ibn ʿUmar gave us this ruling”?’

٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ اِبْنِ شُبْرُمَةَ قَالَ: أَبْصَرَ اِبْنُ مَسْعُودٍ تَمِيمَ بْنَ حَذْلَمٍ سَاكِنًا، وَابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ يُحَدِّثُ الْقَوْمَ، فَقَالَ اِبْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «يَا تَمِيمُ بْنَ حَذْلَمٍ، إِنِ اِسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَكُونَ أَنْتَ الْمُحَدَّثَ فَافْعَلْ»

53 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿani ibni shubrumata qāla: ʾabṣara ibnu masʿūdin tamīma bna ḥadhlamin sākinan, wabnu masʿūdin yuḥaddithu al-qawma, faqāla ibnu masʿūdin: «yā tamīmu bna ḥadhlamin, ʾini istaṭaʿta ʾan takūna ʾanta al-muḥaddatha fafʿal»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna reported from Ibn Shubruma: Ibn Masʿūd noticed Tamīm ibn Ḥadhlam sitting silently while Ibn Masʿūd spoke to the people. He said, ‘Tamīm ibn Ḥadhlam, if you can be the one to whom the reports are told, do so.’

٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ الْمُتَكَلِّمَ يَنْتَظِرُ الْفِتْنَةَ، وَالْمُنْصِتَ يَنْتَظِرُ الرَّحْمَةَ»

54 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: samiʿtu yazīda bna ʾabī ḥabībin yaqūlu: «ʾinna al-mutakallima yantaẓiru al-fitnata, wa-l-munṣita yantaẓiru al-raḥmata»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ said: I heard Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb say, ‘The one who speaks awaits a trial; the one who listens attentively awaits mercy.’

٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ مُسْلِمٍ يَقُولُ: «الْحَدِيثُ مَعَ الرَّجُلِ وَالرَّجُلَيْنِ وَالثَّلَاثَةِ وَالْأَرْبَعَةِ، فَإِذَا عَظُمَتِ الْحَلْقَةُ فَأَنْصِتْ، أَوِ اُنْشُزْ»

55 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: samiʿtu ʿuqbata bna muslimin yaqūlu: «al-ḥadīthu maʿa al-rajuli wa-l-rajulayni wa-l-thalāthati wa-l-ʾarbaʿati, faʾidhā ʿaẓumati al-ḥalqatu faʾanṣit, ʾawi unshuz»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ said: I heard ʿUqba ibn Muslim say, ‘Speak of reports with one, two, three, or four people. If the circle grows large, be silent or get up and leave.’

٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَبَاحُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ قَالَ: «إِنَّ لِلْعِلْمِ طُغْيَانًا كَطُغْيَانِ الْمَالِ»

56 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rabāḥu bnu zaydin, ʿan rajulin, ʿan wahbi bni munabbihin qāla: «ʾinna lilʿilmi ṭughyānan kaṭughyāni al-māli»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Rabāḥ ibn Zayd reported through an unnamed man from Wahb ibn Munabbih, who said: ‘Knowledge, too, can breed arrogance, just as wealth can.’

٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ نُبَيْطٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {لَوْلَا يَنْهَاهُمُ الرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْأَحْبَارُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِمُ الْإِثْمَ وَأَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَ} [الْمَائِدَةِ: ٦٣] ، قَالَ: «وَاللَّهِ مَا فِي الْقُرْآنِ آيَةٌ أَخْوَفُ عِنْدِي مِنْهَا»

57 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan salamata bni nubayṭin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {lawlā yanhāhumu al-rabbāniyyūna wa-l-ʾaḥbāru ʿan qawlihimu al-ʾithma waʾaklihimu al-suḥta} [al-māʾidati: 63] , qāla: «wa-llāhi mā fī al-qurʾāni ʾāyatun ʾakhwafu ʿindī minhā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, from Sufyān, from Salama ibn Nubayṭ, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim. Commenting on God Most High’s words, ‘Why do their devoted scholars and learned men not forbid their sinful speech and their consumption of illicit gain?’ [Qurʾān 5:63], he said: ‘By God, there is no verse in the Qurʾān I find more frightening than this one.’

٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى قَالَ: “ أَدْرَكْتُ عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَةً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، أُرَاهُ قَالَ: فِي هَذَا الْمَسْجِدِ، فَمَا كَانَ مِنْهُمْ مُحَدِّثٌ إِلَّا وَدَّ أَنَّ أَخَاهُ كَفَاهُ الْحَدِيثَ، وَلَا مُفْتٍ إِلَّا وَدَّ أَنَّ أَخَاهُ كَفَاهُ الْفُتْيَا ”

58 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī laylā qāla: “ ʾadraktu ʿishrīna wamiʾatan min ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, ʾurāhu qāla: fī hādhā al-masjidi, famā kāna minhum muḥaddithun ʾillā wadda ʾanna ʾakhāhu kafāhu al-ḥadītha, walā muftin ʾillā wadda ʾanna ʾakhāhu kafāhu al-futyā ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, who said: ‘I knew 120 Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—I think he said, “in this mosque.” Every one of them who might relate a report wished his brother would do so instead, and every one who might give a legal opinion wished his brother would take that task instead.’

٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وُهَيْبُ بْنُ الْوَرْدِ، أَوْ قَالَ: عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْوَرْدِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي دَاوُدُ بْنُ شَابُورَ قَالَ: قُلْنَا لِطَاوُسٍ: اُدْعُ بِدَعَوَاتٍ، قَالَ: «لَا أَجِدُ لِذَلِكَ حِسْبَةً»

59 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā wuhaybu bnu al-wardi, ʾaw qāla: ʿabdu al-jabbāri bnu al-wardi, qāla: ḥaddathanī dāwūdu bnu shābūra qāla: qulnā liṭāwūsin: udʿu bidaʿawātin, qāla: «lā ʾajidu lidhālika ḥisbatan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Wuhayb ibn al-Ward—or perhaps ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Ward—reported from Dāwūd ibn Shābūr, who said: We asked Ṭāwūs to make some supplications. He replied, ‘I do not find in myself the sincerity needed for that.’

٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ بَكَّارٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قِيلَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَالَكَ لَا تُحَدِّثُ كَمَا يُحَدِّثُ فُلَانٌ وَفُلَانٌ؟ فَقَالَ: «مَا لِي أَلَّا أَكُونَ سَمِعْتُ مِثْلَ مَا سَمِعُوا، وَحَضَرْتُ مِثْلَ مَا حَضَرُوا، وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يَدْرُسِ الْأَمْرُ بَعْدُ، وَالنَّاسُ مُتَمَاسِكُونَ، فَأَنَا أَجِدُ مَنْ يَكْفِينِي، وَأَكْرَهُ التَّزَيُّدَ وَالنُّقْصَانَ فِي حَدِيثِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَاللَّهِ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُكَلِّمُنِي بِالْكَلَامِ جَوَابُهُ أَشْهَى إِلَيَّ مِنْ شُرْبِ الْمَاءِ الْبَارِدِ عَلَى الظَّمَأِ، فَأَتْرُكُ جَوَابَهُ خِيفَةَ أَنْ يَكُونَ فَضْلًا»

60 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿumaru bnu bakkārin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ḥārithi, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi bni saʿdi bni masʿūdin qāla: qīla lirajulin min ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: mālaka lā tuḥaddithu kamā yuḥaddithu fulānun wafulānun? faqāla: «mā lī ʾallā ʾakūna samiʿtu mithla mā samiʿū, waḥaḍartu mithla mā ḥaḍarū, walākin lam yadrusi al-ʾamru baʿdu, wa-l-nāsu mutamāsikūna, faʾanā ʾajidu man yakfīnī, waʾakrahu al-tazayyuda wa-l-nuqṣāna fī ḥadīthi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wa-llāhi ʾinna al-rajula layukallimunī bi-l-kalāmi jawābuhu ʾashhā ʾilayya min shurbi al-māʾi al-bāridi ʿalā al-ẓamaʾi, faʾatruku jawābahu khīfata ʾan yakūna faḍlan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, from ʿUmar ibn Bakkār, from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Saʿd ibn Masʿūd. A Companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked: ‘Why do you not relate reports as so-and-so and so-and-so do?’ He replied: ‘It is not that I have heard less or witnessed less than they have. But the matter has not yet faded from memory, and people remain together, so I can find someone to do it for me. I dislike adding to or taking away from a report of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him. By God, a person sometimes says something to me whose answer would be sweeter to me than cold water to someone thirsty. Yet I hold back, for fear that my answer would be unnecessary speech.’

٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي بَكْرُ بْنُ سَوَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ اللَّخْمِيِّ، أَوْ قَالَ: الْجُمَحِيِّ، وَالصَّوَابُ هُوَ الْجُمَحِيُّ، هَذَا قَوْلُ اِبْنِ صَاعِدٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: “ إِنَّ مِنْ أَشْرَاطِ السَّاعَةِ ثَلَاثًا: إِحْدَاهُنَّ أَنْ يُلْتَمَسَ الْعِلْمُ عِنْدَ الْأَصَاغِرِ ”

61 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī bakru bnu sawādata, ʿan ʾabī ʾumayyata al-lakhmiyyi, ʾaw qāla: al-jumaḥiyyi, wa-l-ṣawābu huwa al-jumaḥiyyu, hādhā qawlu ibni ṣāʿidin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: “ ʾinna min ʾashrāṭi al-sāʿati thalāthan: ʾiḥdāhunna ʾan yultamasa al-ʿilmu ʿinda al-ʾaṣāghiri ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿa reported from Bakr ibn Sawāda, from Abū Umayya al-Lakhmī—or, he said, al-Jumaḥī. Ibn Ṣāʿid held that al-Jumaḥī is correct. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Among the signs of the Hour are three things. One is that knowledge will be sought from the lesser ones.’

٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ: «اِعْلَمُوا مَا شِئْتُمْ أَنْ تَعْلَمُوهَا؛ فَلَنْ يَأْجُرَكُمُ اللَّهُ بِعِلْمٍ حَتَّى تَعْمَلُوا»

62 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi, ʿan yazīda bni yazīda bni jābirin qāla: qāla muʿādhu bnu jabalin: «iʿlamū mā shiʾtum ʾan taʿlamūhā; falan yaʾjurakumu Allāhu biʿilmin ḥattā taʿmalū»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz reported from Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir that Muʿādh ibn Jabal said: ‘Learn whatever you wish to learn. God will not reward you for knowledge until you act on it.’

٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ لِرَجُلٍ: «اُنْظُرْ مَا تَسْأَلُنِي، فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَسْأَلُنِي عَنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا زَادَكَ اللَّهُ بِهِ بَلَاءً»

63 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: qāla ʾabū dharrin lirajulin: «unẓur mā tasʾalunī, faʾinnaka lā tasʾalunī ʿan shayʾin ʾillā zādaka Allāhu bihi balāʾan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān said: Abū Dharr told a man, ‘Consider carefully what you ask me. Every matter you ask me about will bring you another test from God.’

٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ: “ يَطَّلِعُ الْقَوْمُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ إِلَى قَوْمٍ فِي النَّارِ، فَيَقُولُونَ: مَا أَدْخَلَكُمُ النَّارَ، وَإِنَّمَا دَخَلْنَا الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ تَأْدِيبِكُمْ وَتَعْلِيمِكُمْ؟ قَالُوا: إِنَّا كُنَّا نَأْمُرُ بِالْخَيْرِ وَلَا نَفْعَلُهُ ”

64 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾismāʿīla bni ʾabī khālidin, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi qāla: “ yaṭṭaliʿu al-qawmu min ʾahli al-jannati ʾilā qawmin fī al-nāri, fayaqūlūna: mā ʾadkhalakumu al-nāra, waʾinnamā dakhalnā al-jannata bifaḍli taʾdībikum wataʿlīmikum? qālū: ʾinnā kunnā naʾmuru bi-l-khayri walā nafʿaluhu ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, from al-Shaʿbī, who said: ‘A group in Paradise will look toward a group in the Fire and ask, “What brought you into the Fire? We entered Paradise through the benefit of your guidance and teaching.” They will reply, “We used to call people to do good, but we did not do it ourselves.”’

٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ رَزِينٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي هِلَالٍ، وَشَهِدْنَا جِنَازَةً: «اِرْمِ بِعَيْنَيْكَ إِلَى مَجْلِسٍ يَكْفِينَا الْكَلَامَ نَجْلِسْ إِلَيْهِ»

65 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu razīnin qāla: qāla lī ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu ʾabī hilālin, washahidnā jināzatan: «irmi biʿaynayka ʾilā majlisin yakfīnā al-kalāma najlis ʾilayhi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Razīn said: As we attended a funeral, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Hilāl said to me, ‘Look for a gathering where someone will spare us having to speak, so that we can sit with them.’

بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي تَخْوِيفِ عَوَاقِبِ الذُّنُوبِ

bābu mā jāʾa fī takhwīfi ʿawāqibi al-dhunūbi

Chapter on warnings about the consequences of sins.

٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ بِمَكَّةَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ: رَجُلٌ قَلِيلُ الْعَمَلِ قَلِيلُ الذُّنُوبِ أَعْجَبُ إِلَيْكَ، أَوْ رَجُلٌ كَثِيرُ الْعَمَلِ كَثِيرُ الذُّنُوبِ؟

66 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu bimakkata qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin, ʿani al-qāsimi bni muḥammadin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin ʾannahu qāla lahu rajulun: rajulun qalīlu al-ʿamali qalīlu al-dhunūbi ʾaʿjabu ʾilayka, ʾaw rajulun kathīru al-ʿamali kathīru al-dhunūbi?

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī in Mecca, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, from Ibn ʿAbbās. A man asked Ibn ʿAbbās: ‘Which do you prefer: someone whose good deeds and sins are both few, or someone whose good deeds and sins are both many?’

قَالَ: «لَا أَعْدِلُ بِالسَّلَامَةِ» . قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «يَعْنِي شَيْئًا»

qāla: «lā ʾaʿdilu bi-l-salāmati» . qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «yaʿnī shayʾan»

He replied, ‘I would not set anything alongside safety [from sin].’ Ibn Ṣāʿid added, ‘That is, anything at all.’

٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: «مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَسْبِقَ الدَّائِبَ الْمُجْتَهِدَ فَلْيَكُفَّ نَفْسَهُ عَنِ الذُّنُوبِ؛ فَإِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَلْقَوُا اللَّهَ بِشَيْءٍ خَيْرٍ لَكُمْ مِنْ قِلَّةِ الذُّنُوبِ»

67 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ḥammādin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿāʾishata qālat: «man sarrahu ʾan yasbiqa al-dāʾiba al-mujtahida falyakuffa nafsahu ʿani al-dhunūbi; faʾinnakum lan talqawu Allāha bishayʾin khayrin lakum min qillati al-dhunūbi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀʾisha, who said: ‘If you want to outpace someone who works and strives without ceasing, hold yourself back from sin. You will meet God with nothing better for you than having committed few sins.’

٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا فِطْرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَيَرَى ذَنْبَهُ كَأَنَّهُ تَحْتَ صَخْرَةٍ يَخَافُ أَنْ تَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ، وَإِنَّ الْكَافِرَ لَيَرَى ذَنْبَهُ كَأَنَّهُ ذُبَابٌ مَرَّ عَلَى أَنْفِهِ»

68 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā fiṭrun, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: «ʾinna al-muʾmina layarā dhanbahu kaʾannahu taḥta ṣakhratin yakhāfu ʾan taqaʿa ʿalayhi, waʾinna al-kāfira layarā dhanbahu kaʾannahu dhubābun marra ʿalā ʾanfihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Fiṭr reported from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: ‘A believer sees his sin as though he were beneath a rock, afraid it might fall on him; an unbeliever sees his sin as though it were a fly passing over his nose.’

٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: “ إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَيَرَى ذُنُوبَهُ كَأَنَّهُ جَالِسٌ فِي أَصْلِ جَبَلٍ يَخْشَى أَنْ يَنْقَلِبَ عَلَيْهِ، وَإِنَّ الْفَاجِرَ لَيَرَى ذُنُوبَهُ كَذُبَابٍ مَرَّ عَلَى أَنْفِهِ، فَقَالَ بِهِ: هَكَذَا ”

69 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʿani al-ḥārithi bni suwaydin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla: “ ʾinna al-muʾmina layarā dhunūbahu kaʾannahu jālisun fī ʾaṣli jabalin yakhshā ʾan yanqaliba ʿalayhi, waʾinna al-fājira layarā dhunūbahu kadhubābin marra ʿalā ʾanfihi, faqāla bihi: hākadhā ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Sulaymān, from Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from al-Ḥārith ibn Suwayd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: ‘A believer sees his sins as though he were sitting at the foot of a mountain, fearful that it might topple onto him. A heedless sinner sees his sins as a fly that passes over his nose, and waves it away like this.’

٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ قَالَ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَرَادَ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا جَعَلَ الْإِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ وَبِيلًا، فَإِذَا أَرَادَ بِعَبْدٍ شَرًّا خَضَّرَ لَهُ»

70 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan sulaymāna bni ḥabībin qāla: «ʾinna Allāha ʾidhā ʾarāda biʿabdin khayran jaʿala al-ʾithma ʿalayhi wabīlan, faʾidhā ʾarāda biʿabdin sharran khaḍḍara lahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī reported through an unnamed man from Sulaymān ibn Ḥabīb: ‘When God wishes a servant well, He makes sin weigh heavily upon him. When He wishes him ill, He makes it appear fresh and inviting to him.’

٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ بِلَالَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ يَقُولُ: «لَا تَنْظُرْ إِلَى صِغَرِ الْخَطِيئَةِ، وَلَكِنِ اُنْظُرْ مَنْ عَصَيْتَ»

71 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu qāla: samiʿtu bilāla bna saʿdin yaqūlu: «lā tanẓur ʾilā ṣighari al-khaṭīʾati, walākini unẓur man ʿaṣayta»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī said: I heard Bilāl ibn Saʿd say, ‘Do not look at how small the sin is. Look instead at the One you have disobeyed.’

٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «لَنَفْسُ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَشَدُّ اِرْتِكَاضًا مِنَ الْخَطِيئَةِ مِنَ الْعُصْفُورِ حِينَ يُقْذَفُ بِهِ»

72 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ḥārithi, ʾannahu balaghahu ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi ʾannahu qāla: «lanafsu al-muʾmini ʾashaddu irtikāḍan mina al-khaṭīʾati mina al-ʿuṣfūri ḥīna yuqdhafu bihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd reported from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith that word reached him from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said: ‘The believer’s soul thrashes over a sin more fiercely than a sparrow when it is hurled.’

٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْخُزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، عَنْ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ اللَّيْثِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَمَثَلُ الْإِيمَانِ كَمَثَلِ الْفَرَسِ فِي آخِيَّتِهِ، يَجُولُ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى آخِيَّتِهِ.

73 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā saʿīdu bnu ʾabī ʾayyūba al-khuzāʿiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-walīdi, ʿan ʾabī sulaymāna al-laythiyyi, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «mathalu al-muʾmini wamathalu al-ʾīmāni kamathali al-farasi fī ʾākhiyyatihi, yajūlu thumma yarjiʿu ʾilā ʾākhiyyatihi.

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb al-Khuzāʿī reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd, from Abū Sulaymān al-Laythī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘A believer and faith are like a horse and its tethering stake: it roams and then returns to its stake.

وَإِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ يَسْهُو ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ، فَأَطْعِمُوا طَعَامَكُمُ الْأَتْقِيَاءَ، وَأَوْلُوا مَعْرُوفَكُمُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ»

waʾinna al-muʾmina yas-hū thumma yarjiʿu ʾilā al-ʾīmāni, faʾaṭʿimū ṭaʿāmakumu al-ʾatqiyāʾa, waʾawlū maʿrūfakumu al-muʾminīna»

A believer, too, may slip and then return to faith. Feed your food to the God-fearing, and give your acts of kindness to believers.’

٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو قَيْسِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ قَالَ: اِجْتَمَعَ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عِنْدَ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فَتَذَاكَرُوا الْخَيْرَ فَرَقُّوا، وَوَاقِدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ سَاكِتٌ،

74 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʿabdi al-karīmi bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʾabī ʿamrin qaysi bni rāfiʿin qāla: ijtamaʿa nāsun min ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿinda ibni ʿabbāsin, fatadhākarū al-khayra faraqqū, wawāqidu bnu al-ḥārithi sākitun,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd reported from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Ḥārith, from Abū ʿAmr Qays ibn Rāfiʿ: Some Companions of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, met with Ibn ʿAbbās. As they spoke about goodness, their hearts softened; Wāqid ibn al-Ḥārith remained silent.

فَقَالُوا: يَا أَبَا الْحَارِثِ، أَلَا تَتَكَلَّمُ؟ فَقَالَ: قَدْ تَكَلَّمْتُمْ وَكُفِيتُمْ، فَقَالُوا: تَكَلَّمْ، لَعَمْرِي مَا أَنْتَ بِأَصْغَرِنَا سِنًّا؟

faqālū: yā ʾabā al-ḥārithi, ʾalā tatakallamu? faqāla: qad takallamtum wakufītum, faqālū: takallam, laʿamrī mā ʾanta biʾaṣgharinā sinnan?

They asked, ‘Abū al-Ḥārith, will you not speak?’ He replied, ‘You have spoken, and that is enough.’ They said, ‘Speak! By my life, you are hardly the youngest among us.’

فَقَالَ: «أَسْمَعُ الْقَوْلَ، فَالْقَوْلُ قَوْلُ خَائِفٍ، وَأَنْظُرُ الْفِعْلَ، فَالْفِعْلُ فِعْلُ آمِنٍ»

faqāla: «ʾasmaʿu al-qawla, fa-l-qawlu qawlu khāʾifin, waʾanẓuru al-fiʿla, fa-l-fiʿlu fiʿlu ʾāminin»

He replied, ‘I hear words, and they sound like the words of people who fear [God]. I look at what is done, and it looks like the conduct of people who feel safe [from His judgment].’

٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ أَحْسَنُوا الْقَوْلَ كُلُّهُمْ، فَمَنْ وَافَقَ قَوْلُهُ فِعْلَهُ فَذَاكَ الَّذِي أَصَابَ حَظَّهُ، وَمَنْ خَالَفَهُ فَإِنَّمَا يُؤَبِّخُ نَفْسَهُ»

75 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan ʿimrāna bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: «ʾinna al-nāsa qad ʾaḥsanū al-qawla kulluhum, faman wāfaqa qawluhu fiʿlahu fadhāka al-ladhī ʾaṣāba ḥaẓẓahu, waman khālafahu faʾinnamā yuʾabbikhu nafsahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid reported from ʿImrān ibn Abī al-Jaʿd that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: ‘Everyone has learned to speak well. Whoever’s deeds match his words has gained his share; whoever’s deeds contradict his words merely rebukes himself.’

٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ اِبْنَ مَسْعُودٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ: «فُقَهَاءُ مَا لَمْ يَعْمَلُوا»

76 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʿan sufyāna bni ʿuyaynata qāla: balaghanī ʾanna ibna masʿūdin kāna yaqūlu: «fuqahāʾu mā lam yaʿmalū»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: From Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, who said: Word reached me that Ibn Masʿūd used to say, ‘Learned jurists, so long as they do not act.’

٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «اِعْتَبِرُوا النَّاسَ بِأَعْمَالِهِمْ , وَدَعُوا قَوْلَهُمْ؛ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَدَعْ قَوْلًا إِلَّا جَعَلَ عَلَيْهِ دَلِيلًا مِنْ عَمَلٍ يُصَدِّقُهُ أَوْ يُكَذِّبُهُ،

77 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni al-mukhtāri, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: «iʿtabirū al-nāsa biʾaʿmālihim , wadaʿū qawlahum; faʾinna Allāha lam yadaʿ qawlan ʾillā jaʿala ʿalayhi dalīlan min ʿamalin yuṣaddiquhu ʾaw yukadhdhibuhu,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from Yaḥyā ibn al-Mukhtār, from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘Judge people by their deeds and leave aside what they say. God has made every statement answerable to the evidence of some deed, which either confirms it or gives it the lie.

فَإِذَا سَمِعْتَ قَوْلًا حَسَنًا فَرُوَيْدًا بِصَاحِبِهِ، فَإِنْ وَافَقَ قَوْلًا وَعَمَلًا فَنِعْمَ وَنُعْمَةُ عَيْنٍ فَآخِهِ وَأَحْبِبْهُ وَأَوْدِدْهُ،

faʾidhā samiʿta qawlan ḥasanan faruwaydan biṣāḥibihi, faʾin wāfaqa qawlan waʿamalan faniʿma wanuʿmatu ʿaynin faʾākhihi waʾaḥbibhu waʾawdidhu,

When you hear fine words, take your time with the person who speaks them. If words and deeds agree, how good! Take him as a brother, love him, and show him affection.

وَإِنْ خَالَفَ قَوْلًا وَعَمَلًا فَمَاذَا يُشْبِهُ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُ، أَوْ مَاذَا يَخْفَى عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُ؟ إِيَّاكَ وَإِيَّاهُ، لَا يَخْدَعَنَّكَ كَمَا خَدَعَ اِبْنَ آدَمَ،

waʾin khālafa qawlan waʿamalan famādhā yushbihu ʿalayka minhu, ʾaw mādhā yakhfā ʿalayka minhu? ʾiyyāka waʾiyyāhu, lā yakhdaʿannaka kamā khadaʿa ibna ʾādama,

If words and deeds disagree, what is there in him to confuse you, or what about him remains hidden from you? Keep away from him; do not let him deceive you as he deceived the son of Adam.

إِنَّ لَكَ لَقَوْلًا وَعَمَلًا، فَعَمَلُكَ أَحَقُّ بِكَ مِنْ قَوْلِكَ، وَإِنَّ لَكَ سَرِيرَةً وَعَلَانِيَةً، فَسَرِيرَتُكَ أَحَقُّ بِكَ مِنْ عَلَانِيَتِكَ، وَإِنَّ لَكَ عَاجِلَةً وَعَاقِبَةً، فَعَاقِبَتُكَ أَحَقُّ بِكَ مِنْ عَاجِلَتِكَ»

ʾinna laka laqawlan waʿamalan, faʿamaluka ʾaḥaqqu bika min qawlika, waʾinna laka sarīratan waʿalāniyatan, fasarīratuka ʾaḥaqqu bika min ʿalāniyatika, waʾinna laka ʿājilatan waʿāqibatan, faʿāqibatuka ʾaḥaqqu bika min ʿājilatika»

You have words and deeds, and your deeds tell more truly who you are than your words. You have a private self and a public face, and your private self tells more truly who you are. You have your present state and your eventual outcome, and that outcome matters more than the present moment.’

٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِلْحَسَنِ: أَوْصِنِي، قَالَ: «أَعِزَّ أَمْرَ اللَّهِ يُعِزَّكَ اللَّهُ»

78 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu qāla: qāla rajulun lilḥasani: ʾawṣinī, qāla: «ʾaʿizza ʾamra Allāhi yuʿizzaka Allāhu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān said: A man asked al-Ḥasan, ‘Give me some advice.’ He replied, ‘Honor God’s command, and God will honor you.’

٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَائِدَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «كَانَ الرَّجُلُ إِذَا طَلَبَ الْعِلْمَ لَمْ يَلْبَثْ أَنْ يُرَى ذَلِكَ فِي تَخَشُّعِهِ، وَبَصَرِهِ، وَلِسَانِهِ، وَيَدِهِ ، وَصَلَاتِهِ، وَحَدِيثِهِ، وَزُهْدِهِ.

79 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zāʾidatu, ʿan hishāmin, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qāla: «kāna al-rajulu ʾidhā ṭalaba al-ʿilma lam yalbath ʾan yurā dhālika fī takhashshuʿihi, wabaṣarihi, walisānihi, wayadihi , waṣalātihi, waḥadīthihi, wazuhdihi.

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Zāʾida reported from Hishām, from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘In earlier days, when a man sought knowledge, it was soon evident in his humble demeanor, his gaze, his speech, his hands, his prayer, his conversation, and his restraint from worldly things.

وَإِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيُصِيبُ الْبَابَ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ الْعِلْمِ فَيَعْمَلُ بِهِ، فَيَكُونُ خَيْرًا لَهُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا لَوْ كَانَتْ لَهُ، فَجَعَلَهَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ»

waʾin kāna al-rajulu layuṣību al-bāba min ʾabwābi al-ʿilmi fayaʿmalu bihi, fayakūnu khayran lahu mina al-dunyā wamā fīhā law kānat lahu, fajaʿalahā fī al-ʾākhirati»

A man could learn one branch of knowledge and act upon it, and that would be better for him than the whole world and all it contains, even if the world were his and he devoted it to the Hereafter.’

٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ قَالَ: قَدِمَ صَعْصَعَةُ، يَعْنِي عَمَّ الْفَرَزْدَقِ أَوْ جَدَّهُ، عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، أَوْ قَالَ: " قَدِمْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقْرَأُ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ} [الزَّلْزَلَةِ: ٨] ، فَقَالَ: حَسْبِي حَسْبِي، لَا أُبَالِي أَنْ أَسْمَعَ غَيْرَهَا

80 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana qāla: qadima ṣaʿṣaʿatu, yaʿnī ʿamma al-farazdaqi ʾaw jaddahu, ʿalā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, ʾaw qāla: " qadimtu ʿalā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fasamiʿtuhu yaqraʾu hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {faman yaʿmal mithqāla dharratin khayran yarahu waman yaʿmal mithqāla dharratin sharran yarahu} [al-zalzalati: 8] , faqāla: ḥasbī ḥasbī, lā ʾubālī ʾan ʾasmaʿa ghayrahā

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: I heard al-Ḥasan say that Ṣaʿṣaʿa—meaning al-Farazdaq’s uncle or grandfather—came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him; or the report said, ‘I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and heard him recite this verse: “Whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it” [al-Zalzala 99:7–8].’ He said, ‘Enough for me, enough for me. I need hear nothing else.’

٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ يَعْمَلُ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا إِلَّا رَآهُ، وَلَا يَعْمَلُ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا إِلَّا رَآهُ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ» ، قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقَ الرَّجُلُ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: وَاسَوْءَتَاهُ، قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «آمَنَ الرَّجُلُ»

81 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan zaydi bni ʾaslama, ʾanna rajulan qāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, laysa ʾaḥadun yaʿmalu mithqāla dharratin khayran ʾillā raʾāhu, walā yaʿmalu mithqāla dharratin sharran ʾillā raʾāhu? qāla: «naʿam» , qāla: fanṭalaqa al-rajulu wahuwa yaqūlu: wāsawʾatāhu, qāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾāmana al-rajulu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from Zayd ibn Aslam that a man asked, ‘Messenger of God, will everyone who does an atom’s weight of good see it, and everyone who does an atom’s weight of evil see it?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ The man walked away crying, ‘Oh, my shame!’ The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘The man has come to faith.’

٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ قَالَ: قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ {فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ} [الزَّلْزَلَةِ: ٨] ، قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ: «حَسْبِي إِنْ عَمِلْتُ ذَرَّةٍ مِنْ خَيْرٍ أَوْ شَرٍّ رَأَيْتُهُ، اِنْتَهَتِ الْمَوْعِظَةُ»

82 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun qāla: qāla al-ḥasanu: lammā nazalat {faman yaʿmal mithqāla dharratin khayran yarahu waman yaʿmal mithqāla dharratin sharran yarahu} [al-zalzalati: 8] , qāla rajulun mina al-muslimīna: «ḥasbī ʾin ʿamiltu dharratin min khayrin ʾaw sharrin raʾaytuhu, intahati al-mawʿiẓatu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar said: Al-Ḥasan said that when ‘Whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it’ [al-Zalzala 99:7–8] was revealed, a Muslim said, ‘That is enough for me: if I do even an atom’s weight of good or evil, I will see it. The lesson is complete.’

٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «إِنِّي لَأَحْسَبُ الرَّجُلَ يَنْسَى الْعِلْمَ يَعْلَمُهُ بِالْخَطِيئَةِ يَعْمَلُهَا»

83 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: «ʾinnī laʾaḥsabu al-rajula yansā al-ʿilma yaʿlamuhu bi-l-khaṭīʾati yaʿmaluhā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī reported from al-Qāsim, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said: ‘I think a man may forget knowledge he has learned because of a sin he commits.’

٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ اِبْنَ عُيَيْنَةَ يَقُولُ: «إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيَسْمَعُ الْكَلِمَةَ فَيَصِيرُ بِهَا فَقِيهًا»

84 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani, qāla: samiʿtu ibna ʿuyaynata yaqūlu: «ʾin kāna al-rajulu layasmaʿu al-kalimata fayaṣīru bihā faqīhan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan, who said: I heard Ibn ʿUyayna say, ‘A man may hear a single word and become learned through it.’

٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ قَالَ: “ مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ ثُمَّ نَسِيَهُ إِلَّا بِذَنْبٍ يُحْدِثُهُ، وَذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: {وَمَا أَصَابَكُمْ مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَنْ كَثِيرٍ} [الشُّورَى: ٣٠] ، وَنِسْيَانُ الْقُرْآنِ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ الْمَصَائِبِ ”

85 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī rawwādin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki qāla: “ mā min ʾaḥadin taʿallama al-qurʾāna thumma nasiyahu ʾillā bidhanbin yuḥdithuhu, wadhālika biʾanna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu: {wamā ʾaṣābakum min muṣībatin fabimā kasabat ʾaydīkum wayaʿfū ʿan kathīrin} [al-shūrā: 30] , wanisyānu al-qurʾāni min ʾaʿẓami al-maṣāʾibi ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād reported from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, who said: ‘No one who learns the Qurʾān then forgets it does so except through a sin he commits. For God Most High says, “Whatever misfortune befalls you is because of what your hands have earned, yet He pardons much” [al-Shūrā 42:30]. Forgetting the Qurʾān is among the gravest misfortunes.’

٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عِيسَى، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُحْرَمُ الرِّزْقَ بِالذَّنْبِ يُصِيبُهُ»

86 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿīsā, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿan thawbāna qāla: qāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾinna al-rajula layuḥramu al-rizqa bi-l-dhanbi yuṣībuhu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Thawbān, who said the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘A man may be deprived of his sustenance because of a sin he commits.’

٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ: «إِنِّي لَأَكْذِبُ الْكَذْبَةَ فَأَعْرِفُهَا فِي عَمَلِي»

87 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin qāla: «ʾinnī laʾakdhibu al-kadhbata faʾaʿrifuhā fī ʿamalī»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from an unnamed man who said, ‘Sometimes I tell a lie and can recognize its effects in my work.’

٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ شُعَيْبِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، كَيْفَ لِي أَنْ أَعْلَمَ كَيْفَ أَنَا؟

88 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata ʿan shuʿaybi bni ʾabī saʿīdin, ʾanna rajulan qāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, kayfa lī ʾan ʾaʿlama kayfa ʾanā?

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ibn Lahīʿa reported from Shuʿayb ibn Abī Saʿīd that a man asked: ‘Messenger of God, how can I tell what state I am in?’ He replied:

قَالَ: «إِذَا رَأَيْتَ كُلَّمَا طَلَبْتَ شَيْئًا مِنْ أَمْرِ الْآخِرَةِ وَابْتَغَيْتَهُ يُسِّرَ لَكَ، وَإِذَا أَرَدْتَ شَيْئًا مِنْ أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا وَابْتَغَيْتَهُ عُسِّرَ عَلَيْكَ، فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّكَ عَلَى حَالٍ حَسَنَةٍ.

qāla: «ʾidhā raʾayta kullamā ṭalabta shayʾan min ʾamri al-ʾākhirati wabtaghaytahu yussira laka, waʾidhā ʾaradta shayʾan min ʾamri al-dunyā wabtaghaytahu ʿussira ʿalayka, faʿlam ʾannaka ʿalā ḥālin ḥasanatin.

‘If, whenever you seek something for the Hereafter, it is made easy for you, while what you seek of this world is made difficult, know that you are in a good state.

فَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ كُلَّمَا طَلَبْتَ شَيْئًا مِنْ أَمْرِ الْآخِرَةِ وَابْتَغَيْتَهُ عُسِّرَ عَلَيْكَ، وَإِذَا طَلَبْتَ شَيْئًا مِنْ أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا وَابْتَغَيْتَهُ يُسِّرَ لَكَ، فَأَنْتَ عَلَى حَالٍ قَبِيحَةٍ»

faʾidhā raʾayta kullamā ṭalabta shayʾan min ʾamri al-ʾākhirati wabtaghaytahu ʿussira ʿalayka, waʾidhā ṭalabta shayʾan min ʾamri al-dunyā wabtaghaytahu yussira laka, faʾanta ʿalā ḥālin qabīḥatin»

But if what you seek for the Hereafter is made difficult for you, while what you seek of this world is made easy, then you are in a poor state.’

٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ قَالَ : كَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ: «دَعْ مَا لَسْتَ مِنْهُ فِي شَيْءٍ، وَلَا تَنْطِقْ فِي مَا لَا يَعْنِيكَ، وَاحْرُزْ لِسَانَكَ كَمَا تَخْزُنُ وَرَقَكَ» .

89 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin qāla : kāna ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿumara yaqūlu: «daʿ mā lasta minhu fī shayʾin, walā tanṭiq fī mā lā yaʿnīka, waḥruz lisānaka kamā takhzunu waraqaka» .

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra reported from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar used to say: ‘Leave matters that have nothing to do with you. Do not speak about what does not concern you. Guard your tongue as you store away your silver coins.’

وَالصَّوَابُ: وَاخْزُنْ

wa-l-ṣawābu: wakhzun

The text adds: ‘The correct wording is “store away [your tongue].”’

٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو السِّنَانِ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الضَّحَّاكَ بْنَ مُزَاحِمٍ يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ وَالْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ} [فَاطِرٍ: ١٠] ، قَالَ: «الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُ الْكَلَامَ الطَّيِّبَ»

90 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū al-sināni al-shaybāniyyu qāla: samiʿtu al-ḍaḥḥāka bna muzāḥimin yaqūlu fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {ʾilayhi yaṣʿadu al-kalimu al-ṭayyibu wa-l-ʿamalu al-ṣāliḥu yarfaʿuhu} [fāṭirin: 10] , qāla: «al-ʿamalu al-ṣāliḥu yarfaʿu al-kalāma al-ṭayyiba»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Abū al-Sinān al-Shaybānī said: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim say about God Most High’s words, ‘To Him rises good speech, and righteous action raises it’ [Fāṭir 35:10]: ‘Righteous action raises good speech.’

٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، أَنَّ الْحَسَنَ قَالَ: «الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُ الْكَلَامَ الطَّيِّبَ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، فَإِذَا كَانَ كَلَامٌ طَيِّبٌ وَعَمَلٌ سَيِّئٌ، رُدَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ، وَكَانَ عَمَلٌ أَحَقَّ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ»

91 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʾanna al-ḥasana qāla: «al-ʿamalu al-ṣāliḥu yarfaʿu al-kalāma al-ṭayyiba ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā, faʾidhā kāna kalāmun ṭayyibun waʿamalun sayyiʾun, rudda al-qawlu ʿalā al-ʿamali, wakāna ʿamalun ʾaḥaqqa min qawlihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported that al-Ḥasan said: ‘Righteous action raises good speech to God Most High. But when good speech accompanies bad deeds, the words are judged by the deeds; a person’s deeds count for more than his words.’

قَالَ: وَقَالَ قَتَادَةُ: {الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ} [فَاطِرٍ: ١٠] ، قَالَ: «يَرْفَعُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْعَمَلَ الصَّالِحَ لِصَاحِبِهِ»

qāla: waqāla qatādatu: {al-ʿamalu al-ṣāliḥu yarfaʿuhu} [fāṭirin: 10] , qāla: «yarfaʿu Allāhu taʿālā al-ʿamala al-ṣāliḥa liṣāḥibihi»

He said: Qatāda also said about ‘Righteous action He raises’ [Fāṭir 35:10]: ‘God Most High raises a person’s righteous deeds for him.’

بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي فَضْلِ الْعِبَادَةِ

bābu mā jāʾa fī faḍli al-ʿibādati

Chapter on the merit of worship.

٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «رَحِمَ اللَّهُ قَوْمًا يَحْسَبُهُمُ النَّاسُ مَرْضَى، وَمَا هُمْ بِمَرْضَى» .

92 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla : qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «raḥima Allāhu qawman yaḥsabuhumu al-nāsu marḍā, wamā hum bimarḍā» .

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla, from al-Ḥasan, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘May God have mercy on people whom others think are ill, though they are not.’

قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: «جَهَدَتْهُمُ الْعِبَادَةُ»

qāla al-ḥasanu: «jahadathumu al-ʿibādatu»

Al-Ḥasan added: ‘Worship has worn them down.’

٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هَمَّامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: “ كَانَ يُقَالُ: مَا سَهِرَ اللَّيْلَ مُنَافِقٌ ”

93 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā hammāmun, ʿan qatādata qāla: “ kāna yuqālu: mā sahira al-layla munāfiqun ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Hammām reported from Qatāda, who said: ‘People used to say: No hypocrite keeps vigil through the night [in worship].’

٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ: “ هَذَا مَقَامُ أَخِيكَ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ، لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهُ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ، أَوْ كَرُبَ أَنْ يُصْبِحَ، يَقْرَأُ آيَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَيَرْكَعُ وَيَسْجُدُ وَيَبْكِي: {أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ اِجْتَرَحُوا السَّيِّئَاتِ أَنْ نَجْعَلَهُمْ كَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ سَوَاءً مَحْيَاهُمْ وَمَمَاتُهُمْ سَاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ} [الْجَاثِيَةِ: ٢١] ”

94 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā, ʿan masrūqin qāla: qāla lī rajulun min ʾahli makkata: “ hādhā maqāmu ʾakhīka tamīmin al-dāriyyi, laqad raʾaytuhu dhāta laylatin ḥattā ʾaṣbaḥa, ʾaw karuba ʾan yuṣbiḥa, yaqraʾu ʾāyatan min kitābi Allāhi wayarkaʿu wayasjudu wayabkī: {ʾam ḥasiba al-ladhīna ijtaraḥū al-sayyiʾāti ʾan najʿalahum ka-l-ladhīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū al-ṣāliḥāti sawāʾan maḥyāhum wamamātuhum sāʾa mā yaḥkumūna} [al-jāthiyati: 21] ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from ʿAmr ibn Murra, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq, who said: A man from Mecca told me, ‘Here is the place where your brother Tamīm al-Dārī stood. I saw him one night, until morning or almost morning, reciting a verse from God’s Book, bowing, prostrating, and weeping: “Do those who commit evil deeds think We will treat them like those who believe and do good, making their life and death equal? How badly they judge!” [al-Jāthiya 45:21].’

٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَائِدَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ، عَنِ اِمْرَأَةِ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَتْ: «مَا كَانَ مَسْرُوقٌ يُوجَدُ إِلَّا وَسَاقَاهُ قَدِ اِنْتَفَخَتَا مِنْ طُولِ الصَّلَاةِ» .

95 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zāʾidatu bnu qudāmata, ʿan hishāmi bni ḥassāna, ʿan muḥammadin , ʿani imraʾati masrūqin qālat: «mā kāna masrūqun yūjadu ʾillā wasāqāhu qadi intafakhatā min ṭūli al-ṣalāti» .

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Zāʾida ibn Qudāma reported from Hishām ibn Ḥassān, from Muḥammad, from Masrūq’s wife, who said: ‘Whenever Masrūq was found, his shins were swollen from standing so long in prayer.’

قَالَتْ: «وَاللَّهِ إِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَجْلِسُ خَلْفَهُ فَأَبْكِي رَحْمَةً لَهُ»

qālat: «wa-llāhi ʾin kuntu laʾajlisu khalfahu faʾabkī raḥmatan lahu»

She added: ‘By God, I would sit behind him and weep out of pity for him.’

٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، أَنَّ كَعْبًا سَمِعَ قِرَاءَةَ رَجُلٍ أَوْ دُعَاءَهُ أَوْ نَحْوَ هَذَا، فَتَسَمَّعَ، ثُمَّ مَضَى وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: «وَاهًا لِلنَّوَّاحِينَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ قَبْلَ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ»

96 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʾanna kaʿban samiʿa qirāʾata rajulin ʾaw duʿāʾahu ʾaw naḥwa hādhā, fatasammaʿa, thumma maḍā wahuwa yaqūlu: «wāhan lil-nawwāḥīna ʿalā ʾanfusihim qabla yawmi al-qiyāmati»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī reported from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr that Kaʿb heard a man reciting, or supplicating, or something of that kind. He listened, then went on his way saying, ‘Ah, those who lament over themselves before the Day of Resurrection!’

٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَعْنٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ، عَنْ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: «كَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ إِذَا هَدَأَتِ الْعُيُونُ قَامَ، فَسَمِعْتُ لَهُ دَوِيًّا كَدَوِيِّ النَّحْلِ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ»

97 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun qāla: ḥaddathanī maʿnun ʾin shāʾa Allāhu, ʿan ʿawnin, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: «kāna ʿabdu Allāhi ʾidhā hadaʾati al-ʿuyūnu qāma, fasamiʿtu lahu dawiyyan kadawiyyi al-naḥli ḥattā yuṣbiḥa»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar said: Maʿn told me, if God wills, from ʿAwn, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh: ‘When eyes had fallen still, ʿAbd Allāh would rise. I could hear from him a hum like the humming of bees until morning.’

٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا، يَعْنِي مِسْعَرًا، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْأَقْمَرِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَطْرُقُ الْفُسْطَاطَ فَيَسْمَعُ فِيهِ كَدَوِيِّ النَّحْلِ، فَمَا بَالُ هَؤُلَاءِ يَأْمَنُونَ مَا كَانَ أُولَئِكَ يَخَافُونَ»

98 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan, yaʿnī misʿaran, qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿaliyyu bnu al-ʾaqmari, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi qāla: «ʾinna al-rajula layaṭruqu al-fusṭāṭa fayasmaʿu fīhi kadawiyyi al-naḥli, famā bālu hāʾulāʾi yaʾmanūna mā kāna ʾulāʾika yakhāfūna»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: He also reported from Misʿar, as the text explains. Misʿar said: ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar told me, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ‘A man would come to a tent and hear a sound inside like the humming of bees. Why, then, do these people feel secure from what those others feared?’

٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: “ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَيُدْخِلُ خَلْقًا الْجَنَّةَ فَيُعْطِيهِمْ حَتَّى يَتَمَلَّوْا، وَفَوْقَهُمُ النَّاسُ فِي الدَّرَجَاتِ الْعُلَى، فَإِذَا نَظَرُوا إِلَيْهِمْ عَرَفُوهُمْ، فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا رَبَّنَا، إِخْوَانُنَا كُنَّا مَعَهُمْ، فَبِمَ فَضَّلْتَهُمْ عَلَيْنَا؟

99 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: “ ʾinna Allāha taʿālā layudkhilu khalqan al-jannata fayuʿṭīhim ḥattā yatamallaw, wafawqahumu al-nāsu fī al-darajāti al-ʿulā, faʾidhā naẓarū ʾilayhim ʿarafūhum, fayaqūlūna: yā rabbanā, ʾikhwānunā kunnā maʿahum, fabima faḍḍaltahum ʿalaynā?

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd reported from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: ‘God Most High will bring some people into Paradise and give them until they are fully satisfied. Above them will be others at higher ranks. Seeing them, they will recognize them and say, “Our Lord, they are our brothers; we were with them. Why have You raised them above us?”’

فَيَقُولُ: هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ، إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يَجُوعُونَ حِينَ تَشْبَعُونَ، وَيَظْمَئُونَ حِينَ تَرْوُونَ، وَيَقُومُونَ حِينَ تَنَامُونَ، وَيَشْخَصُونَ حِينَ تَخْفِضُونَ ”

fayaqūlu: hayhāta hayhāta, ʾinnahum kānū yajūʿūna ḥīna tashbaʿūna, wayaẓmaʾūna ḥīna tarwūna, wayaqūmūna ḥīna tanāmūna, wayashkhaṣūna ḥīna takhfiḍūna ”

He will say, ‘Far from it, far from it! They went hungry while you ate your fill, endured thirst while you drank, stood [in worship] while you slept, and rose while you settled down.’

١٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُتَوَكِّلِ النَّاجِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ إِنَّ الدَّرَجَةَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَوْقَ الدَّرَجَةِ كَمَا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ، وَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيَرْفَعُ بَصَرَهُ فَيَلْمَعُ لَهُ بَرْقٌ يَكَادُ يَخْطَفُ بَصَرَهُ، فَيَفْزَعُ لِذَلِكَ فَيَقُولُ: مَا هَذَا؟ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: هَذَا نُورُ أَخِيكَ فُلَانٍ،

100 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu muslimin al-ʿabdiyyu, ʿan ʾabī al-mutawakkili al-nājiyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ ʾinna al-darajata fī al-jannati fawqa al-darajati kamā bayna al-samāʾi wa-l-ʾarḍi, waʾinna al-ʿabda layarfaʿu baṣarahu fayalmaʿu lahu barqun yakādu yakhṭafu baṣarahu, fayafzaʿu lidhālika fayaqūlu: mā hādhā? fayuqālu lahu: hādhā nūru ʾakhīka fulānin,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-ʿAbdī reported from Abū al-Mutawakkil al-Nājī, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘One rank in Paradise stands above another as far as heaven is from earth. A servant raises his eyes and sees a flash so bright it nearly takes his sight. Startled, he asks, “What is that?” He is told, “That is the light of your brother so-and-so.”’

فَيَقُولُ: أَخِي فُلَانٌ، كُنَّا نَعْمَلُ فِي الدُّنْيَا جَمِيعًا، وَقَدْ فُضِّلَ عَلَيَّ هَكَذَا؟

fayaqūlu: ʾakhī fulānun, kunnā naʿmalu fī al-dunyā jamīʿan, waqad fuḍḍila ʿalayya hākadhā?

He says, ‘My brother so-and-so? We worked together in this world, yet he has been raised so far above me?’

قَالَ: فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: إِنَّهُ كَانَ أَفْضَلَ مِنْكَ عَمَلًا، ثُمَّ يُجْعَلُ فِي قَلْبِهِ الرِّضَا حَتَّى يَرْضَى ”

qāla: fayuqālu lahu: ʾinnahu kāna ʾafḍala minka ʿamalan, thumma yujʿalu fī qalbihi al-riḍā ḥattā yarḍā ”

He is told, ‘His deeds were better than yours.’ Then contentment is placed in his heart until he is content.’

١٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا حَمْزَةَ ، رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: “ يُقَالُ لَهُ: طَلْحَةُ، مَوْلَى قَرَظَةَ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ ”،

101 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā ḥamzata , rajulan mina al-ʾanṣāri, qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: “ yuqālu lahu: ṭalḥatu, mawlā qaraẓata bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi ”,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from ʿAmr ibn Murra, who said: I heard Abū Ḥamza, a man of the Anṣār. Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘He is called Ṭalḥa, a freedman of Qaraẓa ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī.’

وَقَالَ لَنَا اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى: «سَلَمَةُ مَوْلَى قَرَظَةَ» ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْسٍ، قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «وَهَذَا الَّذِي لَمْ يُسَمَّ هُوَ عِنْدِي صِلَةُ بْنُ زُفَرَ الْعَبْسِيُّ» ،

waqāla lanā ibnu ṣāʿidin marratan ʾukhrā: «salamatu mawlā qaraẓata» , yuḥaddithu ʿan rajulin min banī ʿabsin, qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «wahādhā al-ladhī lam yusamma huwa ʿindī ṣilatu bnu zufara al-ʿabsiyyu» ,

At another time Ibn Ṣāʿid told us, ‘Salama, the freedman of Qaraẓa.’ Abū Ḥamza related this from a man of the Banū ʿAbs. Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘In my opinion, this unnamed man is Ṣila ibn Zufar al-ʿAbsī.’

عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ، أَنَّهُ صَلَّى مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ قَالَ: «اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ ذُو الْمَلَكُوتِ، وَالْجَبَرُوتِ، وَالْكِبْرِيَاءِ، وَالْعَظَمَةِ» ،

ʿan ḥudhayfata bni al-yamāni, ʾannahu ṣallā maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mina al-layli, falammā dakhala fī al-ṣalāti qāla: «Allāhu ʾakbaru dhū al-malakūti, wa-l-jabarūti, wa-l-kibriyāʾi, wa-l-ʿaẓamati» ,

That unnamed man related from Ḥudhayfa ibn al-Yamān, who prayed at night with the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him. When the Prophet entered the prayer, he said, ‘God is greatest, Lord of sovereignty, irresistible power, majesty, and greatness.’

ثُمَّ قَرَأَ الْبَقَرَةَ، ثُمَّ رَكَعَ، فَكَانَ رُكُوعُهُ نَحْوًا مِنْ قِرَاءَتِهِ، فَكَانَ يَقُولُ: «سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْعَظِيمِ» ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَكَانَ قِيَامُهُ نَحْوًا مِنْ رُكُوعِهِ، فَكَانَ يَقُولُ: «لِرَبِّيَ الْحَمْدُ، لِرَبِّيَ الْحَمْدُ» ،

thumma qaraʾa al-baqarata, thumma rakaʿa, fakāna rukūʿuhu naḥwan min qirāʾatihi, fakāna yaqūlu: «subḥāna rabbiya al-ʿaẓīmi» , thumma rafaʿa raʾsahu fakāna qiyāmuhu naḥwan min rukūʿihi, fakāna yaqūlu: «lirabbiya al-ḥamdu, lirabbiya al-ḥamdu» ,

Then he recited al-Baqara and bowed. His bowing lasted about as long as his recitation, and he said, ‘Glory be to my Lord, the Magnificent.’ He then raised his head; he stood for about as long as he had bowed, saying, ‘To my Lord belongs praise; to my Lord belongs praise.’

ثُمَّ سَجَدَ، فَكَانَ سُجُودُهُ نَحْوًا مِنْ قِيَامِهِ، فَكَانَ يَقُولُ: «سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْأَعْلَى» ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَكَانَ بَيْنَ السَّجْدَتَيْنِ نَحْوًا مِنَ السُّجُودِ، فَكَانَ يَقُولُ: «رَبِّي اِغْفِرْ لِي، رَبِّي اِغْفِرْ لِي» ،

thumma sajada, fakāna sujūduhu naḥwan min qiyāmihi, fakāna yaqūlu: «subḥāna rabbiya al-ʾaʿlā» , thumma rafaʿa raʾsahu fakāna bayna al-sajdatayni naḥwan mina al-sujūdi, fakāna yaqūlu: «rabbī ighfir lī, rabbī ighfir lī» ,

Then he prostrated for about as long as he had stood, saying, ‘Glory be to my Lord, the Most High.’ He raised his head and spent about as long between the two prostrations as he had prostrated, saying, ‘My Lord, forgive me; my Lord, forgive me.’

حَتَّى قَرَأَ الْبَقَرَةَ، وَآلَ عِمْرَانَ، وَالنِّسَاءَ، وَالْمَائِدَةَ، وَالْأَنْعَامَ " قَالَ شُعْبَةُ: «لَا أَدْرِي الْمَائِدَةَ، أَوِ الْأَنْعَامَ»

ḥattā qaraʾa al-baqarata, waʾāla ʿimrāna, wa-l-nisāʾa, wa-l-māʾidata, wa-l-ʾanʿāma " qāla shuʿbatu: «lā ʾadrī al-māʾidata, ʾawi al-ʾanʿāma»

In that prayer he recited al-Baqara, Āl ʿImrān, al-Nisāʾ, al-Māʾida, and al-Anʿām. Shuʿba said, ‘I do not know whether it was al-Māʾida or al-Anʿām.’

١٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ، عَمَّنْ سَمِعَ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: «فَأَصْبَحَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَأَحْسَنَ مَا يَكُونُ وَجْهًا، وَأَرْوَحَهُ، وَأَطْيَبَهُ نَفْسًا، وَأَصْبَحَ الْآخَرُ وَبِهِ مِنَ النُّعَاسِ وَالْكَسَلِ مَا اللَّهُ بِهِ أَعْلَمُ»

102 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu muslimin al-ʿabdiyyu, ʿamman samiʿa al-ḥasana yaqūlu: «faʾaṣbaḥa al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kaʾaḥsana mā yakūnu wajhan, waʾarwaḥahu, waʾaṭyabahu nafsan, waʾaṣbaḥa al-ʾākharu wabihi mina al-nuʿāsi wa-l-kasali mā Allāhu bihi ʾaʿlamu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-ʿAbdī reported from someone who heard al-Ḥasan say: ‘The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, greeted the morning with his face at its most radiant, feeling refreshed and at ease. The other man woke with such drowsiness and weariness that God alone knows its extent.’

١٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا يَعْنِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي يَزِيدُ الرَّقَاشِيُّ، قَالَ: «كَانَتْ صَلَاةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُسْتَوِيَةً كَأَنَّهَا مَوْزُونَةٌ»

103 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan yaʿnī ʾismāʿīla qāla: ʾakhbaranī yazīdu al-raqāshiyyu, qāla: «kānat ṣalātu rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mustawiyatan kaʾannahā mawzūnatun»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: He reported further from Ismāʿīl, who said: Yazīd al-Raqāshī told me, ‘The Messenger of God’s prayer, peace and blessings be upon him, was even and balanced, as though each part had been measured.’

١٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا: يَعْنِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُتَوَكِّلِ النَّاجِيِّ، «أَنَّ نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَامَ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ بِآيَةٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ يُكَرِّرُهَا عَلَى نَفْسِهِ»

104 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan: yaʿnī ʾismāʿīla, ʿan ʾabī al-mutawakkili al-nājiyyi, «ʾanna nabiyya Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāma dhāta laylatin biʾāyatin mina al-qurʾāni yukarriruhā ʿalā nafsihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Again from Ismāʿīl, from Abū al-Mutawakkil al-Nājī: ‘The Prophet of God, peace and blessings be upon him, spent a night standing in prayer with a single verse of the Qurʾān, repeating it to himself.’

١٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ: لَأَرْمُقَنَّ صَلَاةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ اللَّيْلَةَ، قَالَ: «فَصَلَّى الْعِشَاءَ، ثُمَّ اِضْطَجَعَ غَيْرَ كَبِيرٍ، ثُمَّ قَامَ فَفَرَغَ مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ، ثُمَّ أَتَى مُؤَخِّرَةَ الرَّحْلِ، فَأَخَذَ مِنْهُ السِّوَاكَ فَاسْتَنَّ فَتَوَضَّأَ،

105 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾisḥāqu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī ṭalḥata, ʾanna rajulan qāla: laʾarmuqanna ṣalāta rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-laylata, qāla: «faṣallā al-ʿishāʾa, thumma iḍṭajaʿa ghayra kabīrin, thumma qāma fafaragha min ḥājatihi, thumma ʾatā muʾakhkhirata al-raḥli, faʾakhadha minhu al-siwāka fastanna fatawaḍḍaʾa,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī said: Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥa told me that a man said, ‘Tonight I will watch the prayer of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him.’ He continued: ‘The Prophet prayed the evening prayer and lay down for a short while. Then he rose, took care of his needs, went to the back of his saddle, took a tooth-stick from it, cleaned his teeth, and performed ablution.

فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ مَا رَكَعَ حَتَّى مَا دَرَيْنَا مَا مَضَى مِنَ اللَّيْلِ أَكْثَرُ أَمْ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْهُ، وَحَتَّى رَكِبَنِي مِنَ النَّوْمِ أَمْثَالُ الْجِبَالِ»

fawalladhī nafsī biyadihi mā rakaʿa ḥattā mā daraynā mā maḍā mina al-layli ʾaktharu ʾam mā baqiya minhu, waḥattā rakibanī mina al-nawmi ʾamthālu al-jibāli»

By Him in whose hand is my soul, he did not bow until we no longer knew whether more of the night had passed or remained. Sleep weighed on me like mountains.’

١٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، وَالْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْأَسْلَمِيِّ قَالَ: كُنْتُ أَبِيتُ عِنْدَ حُجْرَةِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَكُنْتُ أَسْمَعُهُ إِذَا قَامَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ يَقُولُ: «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ» , الْهَوِيَّ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ» , الْهَوِيَّ ,

106 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, wa-l-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan rabīʿata bni kaʿbin al-ʾaslamiyyi qāla: kuntu ʾabītu ʿinda ḥujrati al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fakuntu ʾasmaʿuhu ʾidhā qāma mina al-layli yaqūlu: «subḥāna Allāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīna» , al-hawiyya, thumma yaqūlu: «subḥāna Allāhi wabiḥamdihi» , al-hawiyya ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar and al-Awzāʿī reported from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Rabīʿa ibn Kaʿb al-Aslamī, who said: I used to spend the night beside the Prophet’s room, peace and blessings be upon him. When he rose in the night, I heard him say, ‘Glory be to God, Lord of the worlds,’ for a long while; then, ‘Glory be to God and praise be to Him,’ for a long while.

قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ: “ الْهَوِيُّ: الطَّوِيلُ ”

qāla al-ḥusaynu: “ al-hawiyyu: al-ṭawīlu ”

Al-Ḥusayn said, ‘Al-hawī means a long time.’

١٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ عَلَاقَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ يَقُولُ: قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَتَّى تَفَطَّرَتْ قَدَمَاهُ دَمًا ، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَدْ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَكَ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ قَالَ: «أَفَلَا أَكُونُ عَبْدًا شَكُورًا» ،

107 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ziyādi bni ʿalāqata qāla: samiʿtu al-mughīrata bna shuʿbata yaqūlu: qāma rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥattā tafaṭṭarat qadamāhu daman , qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi, qad ghafara Allāhu laka mā taqaddama min dhanbika wamā taʾakhkhara qāla: «ʾafalā ʾakūnu ʿabdan shakūran» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna reported from Ziyād ibn ʿAlāqa, who said: I heard al-Mughīra ibn Shuʿba say that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, stood in prayer until his feet cracked and bled. They said, ‘Messenger of God, God has forgiven your past and future sins.’ He replied, ‘Should I not be a grateful servant?’

١٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ: حَتَّى تَوَرَّمَتْ قَدَمَاهُ

108 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu ʾakhbaranā sufyānu biʾisnādihi, ʾillā ʾannahu qāla: ḥattā tawarramat qadamāhu

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Sufyān with the same chain of transmission, except that he said, ‘Until his feet became swollen.’

١٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: «أَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي وَلِجَوْفِهِ أَزِيزٌ كَأَزِيزِ الْمِرْجَلِ» يَعْنِي يَبْكِي

109 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan muṭarrifin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: «ʾataytu al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wahuwa yuṣallī walijawfihi ʾazīzun kaʾazīzi al-mirjali» yaʿnī yabkī

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥammād ibn Salama reported from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Muṭarrif, from his father, who said: ‘I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, while he was praying. A sound came from within him like the simmer of a pot’—meaning that he was weeping.

١١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ السَّلْمَانِيِّ، عَنِ اِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اِقْرَأْ عَلَيَّ» ، قُلْتُ: أَقْرَأُ وَعَلَيْكَ أُنْزِلَ؟ قَالَ: «إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَسْمَعَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِي» ،

110 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʿabīdata al-salmāniyyi, ʿani ibni masʿūdin qāla: qāla lī rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «iqraʾ ʿalayya» , qultu: ʾaqraʾu waʿalayka ʾunzila? qāla: «ʾinnī ʾuḥibbu ʾan ʾasmaʿahu min ghayrī» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Sulaymān, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAbīda al-Salmānī, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, asked me, ‘Recite to me.’ I said, ‘Shall I recite when it was revealed to you?’ He replied, ‘I love to hear it from someone else.’

قَالَ: فَافْتَتَحْتُ سُورَةَ النِّسَاءِ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغْتُ: {فَكَيْفَ إِذَا جِئْنَا مِنْ كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ بِشَهِيدٍ وَجِئْنَا بِكَ عَلَى هَؤُلَاءِ شَهِيدًا} [النِّسَاءِ: ٤١] فَرَأَيْتُ عَيْنَيْهِ تَذْرِفَانِ، فَقَالَ لِي: «حَسْبُكَ»

qāla: faftataḥtu sūrata al-nisāʾi, falammā balaghtu: {fakayfa ʾidhā jiʾnā min kulli ʾummatin bishahīdin wajiʾnā bika ʿalā hāʾulāʾi shahīdan} [al-nisāʾi: 41] faraʾaytu ʿaynayhi tadhrifāni, faqāla lī: «ḥasbuka»

He continued: ‘So I began Sūrat al-Nisāʾ. When I reached the words, ‘How will it be when We bring a witness from every community, and bring you as a witness over these people?’ [al-Nisāʾ 4:41], I saw tears streaming from his eyes. He said to me, “That is enough.”’

١١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا قَرَأَ اِبْنُ أُمِّ عَبْدٍ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَكَى، فَاشْتَدَّ بُكَاؤُهُ، ثُمَّ قَامَ مُغَطِّيًا رَأْسَهُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ بَيْتَهُ

111 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan khālidi bni yasārin qāla: lammā qaraʾa ibnu ʾummi ʿabdin ʿalā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bakā, fashtadda bukāʾuhu, thumma qāma mughaṭṭiyan raʾsahu ḥattā dakhala baytahu

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda reported from Khālid ibn Yasār: ‘When Ibn Umm ʿAbd recited to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, the Prophet wept. His weeping grew intense. Then he rose, covering his head, and went into his house.’

١١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي فَزَارَةَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَصَمِّ، قَالَ: «لَمْ يُرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُتَثَاوِبًا فِي الصَّلَاةِ»

112 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī fazārata, ʿan yazīda bni al-ʾaṣammi, qāla: «lam yura rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mutathāwiban fī al-ṣalāti»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Abū Fazāra, from Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, who said: ‘The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was never seen yawning during prayer.’

١١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يُسْمَعُ الْقُرْآنُ مِنْ رَجُلٍ أَشْهَى مِنْهُ مِمَّنْ يَخْشَى اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

113 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿumaru bnu saʿīdi bni ʾabī ḥusaynin, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ṭāwūsin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «lā yusmaʿu al-qurʾānu min rajulin ʾashhā minhu mimman yakhshā Allāha ʿazza wajalla»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn reported through an unnamed man from Ṭāwūs, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘The Qurʾān is never more delightful to hear from anyone than from someone who reveres God Almighty.’

١١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ مِنْ أَحْسَنِ النَّاسِ صَوْتًا بِالْقُرْآنِ، الَّذِي إِذَا سَمِعْتَهُ يَقْرَأُ، أُرِيتَ أَنَّهُ يَخْشَى اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

114 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi qāla: balaghanā ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «ʾinna min ʾaḥsani al-nāsi ṣawtan bi-l-qurʾāni, al-ladhī ʾidhā samiʿtahu yaqraʾu, ʾurīta ʾannahu yakhshā Allāha ʿazza wajalla»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yūnus ibn Yazīd reported from al-Zuhrī, who said, ‘It has reached us that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Among those who recite the Qurʾān most beautifully is someone whose voice, when you hear him recite, makes you see that he reveres God Almighty.’

١١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ أَبِي يَسَارٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ، قَالَ: «كَانَتْ قِرَاءَةُ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَرْفًا حَرْفًا»

115 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʾabī yasārin, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi, qāla: «kānat qirāʾatu al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥarfan ḥarfan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb reported from Abū Yasār, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, who said: ‘The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, recited distinctly, letter by letter.’

١١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ مَمْلَكٍ، عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، «أَنَّهَا نَعَتَتْ قِرَاءَةَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَإِذَا هِيَ تَنْعِتُ قِرَاءَةً مُفَسَّرَةً حَرْفًا حَرْفًا»

116 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā laythu bnu saʿdin, ʿani ibni ʾabī mulaykata, ʿan yaʿlā bni mamlakin, ʿan ʾummi salamata, «ʾannahā naʿatat qirāʾata al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faʾidhā hiya tanʿitu qirāʾatan mufassaratan ḥarfan ḥarfan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Layth ibn Saʿd reported from Ibn Abī Mulayka, from Yaʿlā ibn Mamlak, from Umm Salama, who described the Prophet’s recitation, peace and blessings be upon him. What she described was a clearly articulated recitation, letter by letter.

١١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَكِيمُ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَنْ فُتِحَ لَهُ بَابٌ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ فَلْيَنْتَهِزْهُ، فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَدْرِي مَتَى يُغْلَقُ عَنْهُ»

117 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥakīmu bnu ʿumayrin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «man futiḥa lahu bābun mina al-khayri falyantahizhu, faʾinnahu lā yadrī matā yughlaqu ʿanhu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī said: Ḥakīm ibn ʿUmayr told us that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘When a door to something good opens for someone, let him seize the chance; he does not know when it will close to him.’

١١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَائِدَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: «لَا أُلْفِيَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ جِيفَةَ لَيْلِهِ قُطْرُبَ نَهَارِهِ»

118 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zāʾidatu bnu qudāmata, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan khaythamata qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: «lā ʾulfiyanna ʾaḥadakum jīfata laylihi quṭruba nahārihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Zāʾida ibn Qudāma reported from Sulaymān, from Khaythama, who said ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said: ‘Let me never find one of you a corpse by night and a quṭrub by day.’

١١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: كَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ «إِذَا قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ كَأَنَّهُ ثَوْبٌ مُلْقًى»

119 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna qāla: kāna ʿabdu Allāhi «ʾidhā qāma ʾilā al-ṣalāti kaʾannahu thawbun mulqan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Sulaymān that when ʿAbd Allāh stood for prayer, he was like a cloth laid down, utterly still.

١٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مِجْلَزٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، «أَنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ يَغُضُّ بَصَرَهُ، وَصَوْتَهُ، وَيَدَهُ»

120 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾabī mijlazin, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi, «ʾannahu kāna ʾidhā qāma ʾilā al-ṣalāti yaghuḍḍu baṣarahu, waṣawtahu, wayadahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Masʿūdī reported from Qatāda, from Abū Mijlaz, from Abū ʿUbayda, from ʿAbd Allāh: ‘When he stood for prayer, he lowered his gaze, his voice, and his hands.’

١٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمِنْهَالُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ تَمَّامٍ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ قَالَ: «مَنْ أَنْصَتَ فِي صَلَاتِهِ، نُصِتَ لَهُ، وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ، أُعْرِضَ عَنْهُ»

121 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-minhālu bnu khalīfata, ʿan salamata bni tammāmin, ʿan dāwūda bni ʾabī ṣāliḥin qāla: «man ʾanṣata fī ṣalātihi, nuṣita lahu, waman ʾaʿraḍa, ʾuʿriḍa ʿanhu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Minhāl ibn Khalīfa reported from Salama ibn Tammām, from Dāwūd ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, who said: ‘Whoever listens attentively in prayer will be listened to; whoever turns away will be turned away from.’

١٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي لَبِيدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ السَّلُولِيِّ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: «إِذَا قَامَ الْعَبْدُ فِي صَلَاتِهِ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهَا، أَقْبَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، وَإِذَا اِنْفَتَلَ، اِنْصَرَفَ عَنْهُ»

122 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī labīdin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḍamrata al-salūliyyi, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: «ʾidhā qāma al-ʿabdu fī ṣalātihi faʾaqbala ʿalayhā, ʾaqbala Allāhu ʿalayhi, waʾidhā infatala, inṣarafa ʿanhu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Labīd, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḍamra al-Salūlī, from Kaʿb, who said: ‘When a servant stands in prayer and gives himself to it, God turns toward him. When he turns away, God turns away from him.’

بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي الْحُزْنِ وَالْبُكَاءِ

bābu mā jāʾa fī al-ḥuzni wa-l-bukāʾi

Chapter on grief and weeping.

١٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ»

123 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «al-dunyā sijnu al-muʾmini wajannatu al-kāfiri»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mubārak ibn Faḍāla reported from al-Ḥasan, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘This world is a prison for the believer and a garden for the unbeliever.’

قَالَ: وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: «وَاللَّهِ إِنْ أَصْبَحَ فِيهَا مُؤْمِنٌ إِلَّا حَزِينًا،

qāla: waqāla al-ḥasanu: «wa-llāhi ʾin ʾaṣbaḥa fīhā muʾminun ʾillā ḥazīnan,

He said: Al-Ḥasan also said, ‘By God, no believer wakes in this world without grief.

وَكَيْفَ لَا يَحْزَنُ الْمُؤْمِنُ وَقَدْ حُدِّثَ عَنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَعَنْ أَنَّهُ وَارِدٌ جَهَنَّمَ، وَلَمْ يَأْتِهِ أَنَّهُ صَادِرٌ عَنْهَا،

wakayfa lā yaḥzanu al-muʾminu waqad ḥudditha ʿani Allāhi ʿazza wajalla, waʿan ʾannahu wāridun jahannama, walam yaʾtihi ʾannahu ṣādirun ʿanhā,

How could a believer be free of grief when he has been told about God Almighty and told that he will come to Hell, but has not been told that he will leave it?

وَاللَّهِ لَيَلْقَيَنَّ أَمْرَاضًا، وَمُصِيبَاتٍ وَأُمُورًا تَغِيظُهُ، وَلَيُظْلَمَنَّ فَمَا يَنْتَصِرُ، يَبْتَغِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ الثَّوَابَ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،

wa-llāhi layalqayanna ʾamrāḍan, wamuṣībātin waʾumūran taghīẓuhu, walayuẓlamanna famā yantaṣiru, yabtaghī min dhālika al-thawāba mina Allāhi ʿazza wajalla,

By God, he will meet with illness, misfortune, and things that anger him. He will be wronged and not avenge himself, hoping for God Almighty’s reward through it.

وَمَا يَزَالُ فِيهَا حَزِينًا خَائِفًا حَتَّى يُفَارِقَهَا، فَإِذَا فَارَقَهَا أَفْضَى إِلَى الرَّاحَةِ وَالْكَرَامَةِ»

wamā yazālu fīhā ḥazīnan khāʾifan ḥattā yufāriqahā, faʾidhā fāraqahā ʾafḍā ʾilā al-rāḥati wa-l-karāmati»

He remains grieved and fearful here until he departs this world. Once he leaves it, he comes to rest and honor.’

١٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ: قَالَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: طُوبَى لِمَنْ خَزَنَ لِسَانَهُ، وَوَسِعَهُ بَيْتُهُ، وَبَكَى عَلَى خَطِيئَتِهِ

124 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi: qāla ʿīsā ibnu maryama ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: ṭūbā liman khazana lisānahu, wawasiʿahu baytuhu, wabakā ʿalā khaṭīʾatihi

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd: Jesus son of Mary, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘Blessed is the one who guards his tongue, finds his home spacious enough for him, and weeps over his sin.’

١٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى التَّيْمِيِّ قَالَ: “ مَنْ أُوتِيَ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ مَا لَا يُبْكِيهِ لَخَلِيقٌ أَلَّا يَكُونَ أُوتِيَ عِلْمًا يَنْفَعُ،

125 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun, ʿan ʿabdi al-ʾaʿlā al-taymiyyi qāla: “ man ʾūtiya mina al-ʿilmi mā lā yubkīhi lakhalīqun ʾallā yakūna ʾūtiya ʿilman yanfaʿu,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar reported from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Taymī, who said: ‘Whoever receives knowledge that does not move him to tears may well have received no knowledge that benefits him.

لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى نَعَتَ الْعُلَمَاءَ، فَقَالَ: {إِنَّ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ إِذَا يُتْلَى عَلَيْهِمْ} [الْإِسْرَاءِ: ١٠٧] إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: يَخِرُّونَ لِلْأَذْقَانِ يَبْكُونَ ”،

liʾanna Allāha taʿālā naʿata al-ʿulamāʾa, faqāla: {ʾinna al-ladhīna ʾūtū al-ʿilma min qablihi ʾidhā yutlā ʿalayhim} [al-ʾisrāʾi: 107] ʾilā qawlihi: yakhirrūna lilʾadhqāni yabkūna ”,

For God Most High describes those with knowledge: ‘Those who were given knowledge before it, when it is recited to them...’ [al-Isrāʾ 17:107], through to His words, ‘They fall upon their faces weeping’ [17:109].’

قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ: وَحَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ مِسْعَرٍ مِثْلَهُ

qāla al-ḥusaynu: waḥaddathanā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan misʿarin mithlahu

Al-Ḥusayn said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna also related the same thing to us from Misʿar.

١٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «مَا عُبِدَ اللَّهُ بِمِثْلِ طُولِ الْحُزْنِ»

126 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʿan māliki bni mighwalin, ʿan rajulin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: «mā ʿubida Allāhu bimithli ṭūli al-ḥuzni»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: From Mālik ibn Mighwal, through an unnamed man, from al-Ḥasan: ‘God has not been worshipped with anything like lasting grief.’

١٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّهُ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {أَفَمِنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلَا تَبْكُونَ} [النَّجْمِ: ٦٠] ،

127 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾannahu qaraʾa hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {ʾafamin hādhā al-ḥadīthi taʿjabūna wataḍḥakūna walā tabkūna} [al-najmi: 60] ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mubārak ibn Faḍāla reported from al-Ḥasan, who recited the verse, ‘Do you marvel at this discourse, laugh, and not weep?’ [al-Najm 53:59–60].

قَالَ: «وَاللَّهِ إِنْ كَانَ أَكْيَسَ الْقَوْمِ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ لَمَنْ بَكَى،

qāla: «wa-llāhi ʾin kāna ʾakyasa al-qawmi fī hādhā al-ʾamri laman bakā,

He said, ‘By God, the wisest person in this matter is the one who weeps.

فَأَبْكُوا هَذِهِ الْقُلُوبَ، وَابْكُوا هَذِهِ الْأَعْمَالَ، فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَتَبْكِي عَيْنَاهُ، وَإِنَّهُ لَقَاسِي الْقَلْبِ»

faʾabkū hādhihi al-qulūba, wabkū hādhihi al-ʾaʿmāla, faʾinna al-rajula latabkī ʿaynāhu, waʾinnahu laqāsī al-qalbi»

So move these hearts to tears, and weep over these deeds. A man’s eyes may weep while his heart remains hard.’

١٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: «إِنَّمَا الْحُزْنُ عَلَى قَدْرِ الْبَصَرِ»

128 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: «ʾinnamā al-ḥuznu ʿalā qadri al-baṣari»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān said: ‘Grief comes in proportion to one’s insight.’

١٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَمْعَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ وَهْرَامَ، عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ الْجُبَّائِيِّ قَالَ: «إِذَا كَمُلَ فُجُورُ الْإِنْسَانِ، مَلَكَ عَيْنَيْهِ، فَمَتَى شَاءَ أَنْ يَبْكِيَ بَكَى»

129 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zamʿatu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿan salamata bni wahrāma, ʿan shuʿaybin al-jubbāʾiyyi qāla: «ʾidhā kamula fujūru al-ʾinsāni, malaka ʿaynayhi, famatā shāʾa ʾan yabkiya bakā»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Zamʿa ibn Ṣāliḥ reported from Salama ibn Wahrām, from Shuʿayb al-Jubbāʾī, who said: ‘When a person’s wrongdoing has reached its fullness, he gains command of his eyes: he weeps whenever he wants.’

١٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِاِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، أَوْصِنِي، قَالَ: «لِيَسَعْكَ بَيْتُكَ، وَابْكِ مِنْ ذِكْرِ خَطِيئَتِكَ، وَكُفَّ لِسَانَكَ»

130 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni qāla: qāla rajulun libni masʿūdin: yā ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʾawṣinī, qāla: «liyasaʿka baytuka, wabki min dhikri khaṭīʾatika, wakuffa lisānaka»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Masʿūdī reported from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: A man asked Ibn Masʿūd, ‘Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, advise me.’ He replied, ‘Let your home suffice you; weep when you remember your sin; and restrain your tongue.’

١٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ مِسْعَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَوْنٍ الثَّقَفِيِّ، عَنْ عَرْفَجَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: «مَنِ اِسْتَطَاعَ مِنْكُمْ أَنْ يَبْكِيَ فَلْيَبْكِ، وَمَنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَلْيَتَبَاكَ»

131 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, ʿan misʿarin, ʿan ʾabī ʿawnin al-thaqafiyyi, ʿan ʿarfajata qāla: qāla ʾabū bakrin al-ṣiddīqu raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu: «mani istaṭāʿa minkum ʾan yabkiya falyabki, waman lam yastaṭiʿ falyatabāka»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Misʿar, from Abū ʿAwn al-Thaqafī, from ʿArfaja, who said that Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, may God be pleased with him, said: ‘Whoever among you can weep, let him weep; and whoever cannot, let him try to bring himself to tears.’

١٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَوْنًا يَقُولُ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: «اِجْلِسُوا إِلَى التَّوَّابِينَ؛ فَإِنَّهُمْ أَرَقُّ شَيْءٍ أَفْئِدَةً»

132 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun qāla: samiʿtu ʿawnan yaqūlu: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu: «ijlisū ʾilā al-tawwābīna; faʾinnahum ʾaraqqu shayʾin ʾafʾidatan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar said: I heard ʿAwn say that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, said: ‘Sit with those who turn back to God, for their hearts are the most tender.’

١٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَائِدَةُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: كَانَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ شَجَرَةَ مِمَّنْ يُذَكِّرُنَا فَيَبْكِي، وَكَانَ يُصَدِّقُ بُكَاءَهُ بِفِعْلِهِ، وَكَانَ يَقُولُ: “

133 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zāʾidatu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: kāna yazīdu bnu shajarata mimman yudhakkirunā fayabkī, wakāna yuṣaddiqu bukāʾahu bifiʿlihi, wakāna yaqūlu: “

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Zāʾida reported from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said: Yazīd ibn Shajara was one of those who reminded us and wept. His actions bore out his tears. He used to say:

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، اُذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ، مَا أَحْسَنَ أَثَرَ نِعْمَةِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ، لَوْ تَرَوْنَ مَا أَرَى مِنْ بَيْنَ أَحْمَرَ وَأَصْفَرَ وَأَبْيَضَ وَأَسْوَدَ، وَفِي الرِّحَالِ مَا فِيهَا،

yā ʾayyuhā al-nāsu, udhkurū niʿmata Allāhi ʿalaykum, mā ʾaḥsana ʾathara niʿmati Allāhi ʿalaykum, law tarawna mā ʾarā min bayna ʾaḥmara waʾaṣfara waʾabyaḍa waʾaswada, wafī al-riḥāli mā fīhā,

‘People, remember God’s blessing upon you. How beautifully its effects show in you! If you could see what I see among red, yellow, white, and black, and what the travel gear contains!

إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ إِذَا أُقِيمَتْ فُتِّحَتْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ، وَأَبْوَابُ الْجَنَّةِ، وَأَبْوَابُ النَّارِ، وَإِذَا اِلْتَقَى الصَّفَّانِ فُتِّحَتْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ، وَأَبْوَابُ الْجَنَّةِ، وَأَبْوَابُ النَّارِ،

ʾinna al-ṣalāta ʾidhā ʾuqīmat futtiḥat ʾabwābu al-samāʾi, waʾabwābu al-jannati, waʾabwābu al-nāri, waʾidhā iltaqā al-ṣaffāni futtiḥat ʾabwābu al-samāʾi, waʾabwābu al-jannati, waʾabwābu al-nāri,

When prayer is begun, the gates of heaven, Paradise, and the Fire are opened. When the two battle lines meet, the gates of heaven, Paradise, and the Fire are opened too.

وَزُيِّنَ الْحُورُ الْعِينُ فَاطَّلَعْنَ، فَإِذَا أَقْبَلَ الرَّجُلُ بِوَجْهِهِ قُلْنَ: اللَّهُمَّ أَعِنْهُ، اللَّهُمَّ ثَبِّتْهُ، وَإِذَا أَدْبَرَ اِحْتَجَبْنَ مِنْهُ، وَقُلْنَ: اللَّهُمَّ اِغْفِرْ لَهُ،

wazuyyina al-ḥūru al-ʿīnu faṭṭalaʿna, faʾidhā ʾaqbala al-rajulu biwajhihi qulna: Allāhumma ʾaʿinhu, Allāhumma thabbithu, waʾidhā ʾadbara iḥtajabna minhu, waqulna: Allāhumma ighfir lahu,

The wide-eyed maidens of Paradise are adorned and look out. When a man turns his face forward, they say, “God, help him! God, make him steadfast!” When he turns back, they withdraw from him and say, “God, forgive him!”

فَأَنْهِكُوا وُجُوهَ الْقَوْمِ فِدًا لَكُمْ أَبِي وَأُمِّي، وَلَا تُخْزُوا الْحُورَ الْعِينَ،

faʾanhikū wujūha al-qawmi fidan lakum ʾabī waʾummī, walā tukhzū al-ḥūra al-ʿīna,

So press the attack against the opposing men—may my father and mother be given for you—and do not shame the maidens of Paradise.

فَإِذَا قُتِلَ كَانَ أَوَّلُ نَفْحَةٍ مِنْ دَمِهِ تَحُطُّ عَنْهُ خَطَايَاهُ كَمَا يُحَطُّ الْوَرَقُ عَنِ الشَّجَرَةِ،

faʾidhā qutila kāna ʾawwalu nafḥatin min damihi taḥuṭṭu ʿanhu khaṭāyāhu kamā yuḥaṭṭu al-waraqu ʿani al-shajarati,

If a man is killed, the first spurt of his blood removes his sins, as leaves are shaken from a tree.

وَتَنْزِلُ إِلَيْهِ اِثْنَتَانِ فَتَمْسَحَانِ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ التُّرَابَ، وَقُلْنَ: قَدْ أَنَى لَكَ، وَقَالَ لَهُمَا: لَقَدْ أَنَى لَكُمَا،

watanzilu ʾilayhi ithnatāni fatamsaḥāni ʿan wajhihi al-turāba, waqulna: qad ʾanā laka, waqāla lahumā: laqad ʾanā lakumā,

Two [of the maidens] descend to him and wipe the dust from his face. They say, “It is time for you.” He says to them, “It is indeed time for you two.”

ثُمَّ كُسِيَ مِائَةَ حُلَّةٍ، لَوْ جُعِلَ بَيْنَ أُصْبُعَيْهِ لَوَسِعَتْهُ، لَيْسَ مِنْ نَسْجِ بَنِي آدَمَ، وَلَكِنْ مِنْ نَبْتِ الْجَنَّةِ ”

thumma kusiya miʾata ḥullatin, law juʿila bayna ʾuṣbuʿayhi lawasiʿathu, laysa min nasji banī ʾādama, walākin min nabti al-jannati ”

Then he is clothed in a hundred robes. Even if [a robe] were placed between his two fingers, it would be roomy enough for him. They are not woven by human beings, but grown in Paradise.’

١٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا النَّجَاةُ؟ قَالَ: «أَمْلِكْ عَلَيْكَ لِسَانَكَ، وَلْيَسَعْكَ بَيْتُكَ، وَابْكِ عَلَى خَطِيئَتِكَ»

134 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni yazīda, ʿani al-qāsimi, ʿan ʾabī ʾumāmata, ʿan ʿuqbata bni ʿāmirin al-juhaniyyi qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā al-najātu? qāla: «ʾamlik ʿalayka lisānaka, walyasaʿka baytuka, wabki ʿalā khaṭīʾatika»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb reported from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from Abū Umāma, from ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, who said: I asked, ‘Messenger of God, how can one be saved?’ He replied, ‘Keep control of your tongue, let your home suffice you, and weep over your sin.’

١٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي، أَنَّ عِيسَى اِبْنَ مَرْيَمَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ: «لَا تُكْثِرُوا الْكَلَامَ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى فَتَقْسُوَ قُلُوبُكُمْ، فَإِنَّ الْقَلْبَ الْقَاسِيَ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ، وَلَكِنْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ،

135 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin qāla: balaghanī, ʾanna ʿīsā ibna maryama ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi qāla liqawmihi: «lā tukthirū al-kalāma bighayri dhikri Allāhi taʿālā fataqsuwa qulūbukum, faʾinna al-qalba al-qāsiya baʿīdun mina Allāhi, walākin lā taʿlamūna,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mālik ibn Anas said: It reached me that Jesus son of Mary, God’s blessings be upon him, said to his people: ‘Do not speak much without remembering God Most High, or your hearts will harden. A hard heart is far from God, though you do not realize it.

وَلَا تَنْظُرُوا فِي ذُنُوبِ النَّاسِ كَأَنَّكُمْ أَرْبَابٌ، وَانْظُرُوا فِيهَا كَأَنَّكُمْ عَبِيدٌ،

walā tanẓurū fī dhunūbi al-nāsi kaʾannakum ʾarbābun, wanẓurū fīhā kaʾannakum ʿabīdun,

Do not look at people’s sins as though you were their lords; look at them as servants yourselves.

إِنَّمَا النَّاسُ رَجُلَانِ مُبْتَلًى وَمُعَافًى، فَارْحَمُوا أَهْلَ الْبَلَاءِ، وَاحْمَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَى الْعَافِيَةِ»

ʾinnamā al-nāsu rajulāni mubtalan wamuʿāfan, farḥamū ʾahla al-balāʾi, waḥmadū Allāha ʿalā al-ʿāfiyati»

People are of two kinds: the afflicted and those spared affliction. Show mercy to those who suffer, and praise God for being spared.’

١٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُجَالِدٌ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ: «مَا مِنْ خَطِيبٍ يَخْطُبُ إِلَّا عُرِضَتْ عَلَيْهِ خُطْبَتُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

136 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mujālidun, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi qāla: «mā min khaṭībin yakhṭubu ʾillā ʿuriḍat ʿalayhi khuṭbatuhu yawma al-qiyāmati»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mujālid reported from al-Shaʿbī, who said: ‘Every speaker who delivers a sermon will have that sermon presented to him on the Day of Resurrection.’

١٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ رَجَاءٍ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الرَّمْلَةِ، عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ - كَاتِبِ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ -، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ: «إِنَّهُ لَيَمْنَعُنِي مِنْ كَثِيرٍ مِنَ الْكَلَامِ مَخَافَةُ الْمُبَاهَاةِ»

137 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan rajāʾin ʾabī al-miqdāmi min ʾahli al-ramlati, ʿan nuʿaymi bni ʿabdi Allāhi - kātibi ʿumara bni ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi -, ʾanna ʿumara bna ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi qāla: «ʾinnahu layamnaʿunī min kathīrin mina al-kalāmi makhāfatu al-mubāhāti»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥammād ibn Salama reported from Rajāʾ Abū al-Miqdām of Ramla, from Nuʿaym ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the secretary of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: ‘Fear of boasting keeps me from saying much.’

١٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ، يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «لَقَدْ صَحِبْتُ أَقْوَامًا إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ لَتَعْرِضُ لَهُ الْحِكْمَةُ لَوْ نَطَقَ بِهَا نَفَعَتْهُ وَنَفَعَتْ أَصْحَابَهُ، فَمَا يَمْنَعُهُ مِنْهَا إِلَّا مَخَافَةُ الشُّهْرَةِ،

138 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: samiʿtu rajulan min ʾahli al-baṣrati, yuḥaddithu ʾannahu balaghahu, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qāla: «laqad ṣaḥibtu ʾaqwāman ʾin kāna ʾaḥaduhum lataʿriḍu lahu al-ḥikmatu law naṭaqa bihā nafaʿathu wanafaʿat ʾaṣḥābahu, famā yamnaʿuhu minhā ʾillā makhāfatu al-shuhrati,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: I heard a man from Basra relate that a saying of al-Ḥasan had reached him: ‘I have kept company with people who, when a piece of wisdom came to one of them, could have spoken it to the benefit of himself and his companions. Only fear of becoming known held him back.

وَإِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ لَيَمُرُّ فَيَرَى الْأَذَى عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ، فَمَا يَمْنَعُهُ أَنْ يُنَحِّيَهُ إِلَّا مَخَافَةُ الشُّهْرَةِ»

waʾin kāna ʾaḥaduhum layamurru fayarā al-ʾadhā ʿalā al-ṭarīqi, famā yamnaʿuhu ʾan yunaḥḥiyahu ʾillā makhāfatu al-shuhrati»

One of them might walk past something harmful on the road and notice it, yet only fear of becoming known would keep him from removing it.’

بَابُ الْعَمَلِ وَالذِّكْرِ الْخَفِيِّ

bābu al-ʿamali wa-l-dhikri al-khafiyyi

Chapter on private action and remembrance.

١٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: «إِنْ كَانُوا لَيَكْرَهُونَ إِذَا اِجْتَمَعُوا أَنْ يُخْرِجَ الرَّجُلُ أَحْسَنَ حَدِيثِهِ، أَوْ أَحْسَنَ مَا عِنْدَهُ»

139 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu ḥarbin al-marwaziyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu ʿawnin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: «ʾin kānū layakrahūna ʾidhā ijtamaʿū ʾan yukhrija al-rajulu ʾaḥsana ḥadīthihi, ʾaw ʾaḥsana mā ʿindahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥarb al-Marwazī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ibn ʿAwn reported from Ibrāhīm: ‘When they gathered together, they disliked a man bringing out his finest story or the best thing he had to offer.’

١٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: “ إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَقَدْ جَمَعَ الْقُرْآنَ وَمَا يَشْعُرُ بِهِ جَارُهُ،

140 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: “ ʾin kāna al-rajulu laqad jamaʿa al-qurʾāna wamā yashʿuru bihi jāruhu,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla reported from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘A man might have memorized the whole Qurʾān without his neighbor knowing it.

وَإِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَقَدْ فَقِهَ الْفِقْهَ الْكَثِيرَ وَمَا يَشْعُرُ بِهِ النَّاسُ،

waʾin kāna al-rajulu laqad faqiha al-fiqha al-kathīra wamā yashʿuru bihi al-nāsu,

A man might have gained a great deal of understanding of the law without people knowing it.

وَإِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيُصَلِّي الصَّلَاةَ الطَّوِيلَةَ فِي بَيْتِهِ وَعِنْدَهُ الزُّوَّرُ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ بِهِ،

waʾin kāna al-rajulu layuṣallī al-ṣalāta al-ṭawīlata fī baytihi waʿindahu al-zuwwaru wamā yashʿurūna bihi,

A man might pray at length in his house while visitors were there, and they would not know it.

وَلَقَدْ أَدْرَكْنَا أَقْوَامًا مَا كَانَ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْأَرْضِ مِنْ عَمَلٍ يَقْدُرُونَ عَلَى أَنْ يَعْمَلُوهُ فِي سِرٍّ فَيَكُونَ عَلَانِيَةً أَبَدًا،

walaqad ʾadraknā ʾaqwāman mā kāna ʿalā ẓahri al-ʾarḍi min ʿamalin yaqdurūna ʿalā ʾan yaʿmalūhu fī sirrin fayakūna ʿalāniyatan ʾabadan,

We knew people who would never perform openly any deed on earth that they could perform in secret.

وَلَقَدْ كَانَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ يَجْتَهِدُونَ فِي الدُّعَاءِ وَمَا يُسْمَعُ لَهُمْ صَوْتٌ، إِنْ كَانَ إِلَّا هَمْسًا بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ رَبِّهِمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،

walaqad kāna al-muslimūna yajtahidūna fī al-duʿāʾi wamā yusmaʿu lahum ṣawtun, ʾin kāna ʾillā hamsan baynahum wabayna rabbihim ʿazza wajalla,

The Muslims would devote themselves to supplication without letting their voices be heard; it was only a whisper between them and their Lord, Mighty and Majestic.

ذَلِكَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَقُولُ: {اُدْعُوا رَبَّكُمْ تَضَرُّعًا وَخُفْيَةً} [الْأَعْرَافِ: ٥٥] ،

dhālika ʾanna Allāha taʿālā ʿazza wajalla yaqūlu: {udʿū rabbakum taḍarruʿan wakhufyatan} [al-ʾaʿrāfi: 55] ,

For God Most High, Mighty and Majestic, says, “Call upon your Lord humbly and privately” [al-Aʿrāf 7:55].

وَذَلِكَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى ذَكَرَ عَبْدًا صَالِحًا وَرَضِيَ قَوْلَهُ، فَقَالَ: {إِذْ نَادَى رَبَّهُ نِدَاءً خَفِيًّا} [مَرْيَمَ: ٣] ”

wadhālika ʾanna Allāha taʿālā dhakara ʿabdan ṣāliḥan waraḍiya qawlahu, faqāla: {ʾidh nādā rabbahu nidāʾan khafiyyan} [maryama: 3] ”

And God Most High mentions a righteous servant and approves his words: “When he called upon his Lord with a quiet call” [Maryam 19:3].’

١٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا رَجُلٌ فِي بَيْتِ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو، يُحَدِّثُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ سَمَّعَ النَّاسَ بِعَمَلِهِ، سَمَّعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ سَامِعَ خَلْقِهِ، وَحَقَّرَهُ وَصَغَّرَهُ» ،

141 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu bnu al-ḥajjāji, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata qāla: ḥaddathanā rajulun fī bayti ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʾannahu samiʿa ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿamrin, yuḥaddithu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿumara, ʾannahu samiʿa rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: «man sammaʿa al-nāsa biʿamalihi, sammaʿa Allāhu bihi sāmiʿa khalqihi, waḥaqqarahu waṣaghgharahu» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj reported from ʿAmr ibn Murra, who said: An unnamed man related to us in Abū ʿUbayda’s house that he heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr tell ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar that he heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: ‘Whoever makes people hear of his deeds, God will make him known to all who can hear among His creatures, and will belittle and diminish him.’

قَالَ: فَذَرِفَتْ عَيْنَا اِبْنِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ

qāla: fadharifat ʿaynā ibni ʿumara raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu

He said: Tears flowed from Ibn ʿUmar’s eyes, may God be pleased with him.

١٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنِ السُّدِّيِّ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: ذُكِرَ عِنْدَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَوْمٌ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَى مَا تَذْهَبُونَ وَتَرَوْنَ،

142 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿani al-suddiyyi, ʿan murrata qāla: dhukira ʿinda ʿabdi Allāhi qawmun qutilū fī sabīli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla, faqāla: «ʾinnahu laysa ʿalā mā tadhhabūna watarawna,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from al-Suddī, from Murra, who said: When some people killed in God’s cause were mentioned in ʿAbd Allāh’s presence, he said, ‘It is not simply as you think or suppose.

إِنَّهُ إِذَا اِلْتَقَى الرَّجْفَانِ نَزَلَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ، فَكَتَبَتِ النَّاسَ عَلَى مَنَازِلِهِمْ، فُلَانٌ يُقَاتِلُ لِلدُّنْيَا، وَفُلَانٌ يُقَاتِلُ لِلْمُلْكِ، وَفُلَانٌ يُقَاتِلُ لِلذِّكْرِ، وَنَحْوَ هَذَا، وَفُلَانٌ يُقَاتِلُ يُرِيدُ وَجْهَ اللَّهِ،

ʾinnahu ʾidhā iltaqā al-rajfāni nazalati al-malāʾikatu, fakatabati al-nāsa ʿalā manāzilihim, fulānun yuqātilu li-l-dunyā, wafulānun yuqātilu li-l-mulki, wafulānun yuqātilu li-l-dhikri, wanaḥwa hādhā, wafulānun yuqātilu yurīdu wajha Allāhi,

When the two battle lines meet, the angels descend and record people according to their standing: one fights for worldly gain, another for power, another for renown, and so on; another fights seeking God’s face.

فَمَنْ قُتِلَ يُرِيدُ وَجْهَ اللَّهِ فَذَلِكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ»

faman qutila yurīdu wajha Allāhi fadhālika fī al-jannati»

Whoever is killed seeking God’s face is the one who will be in Paradise.’

١٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ، أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ أَوْ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: «تَعَوَّذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنْ خُشُوعِ النِّفَاقِ» ، قِيلَ: وَمَا هُوَ؟ قَالَ: «أَنْ يُرَى الْجَسَدُ بِهِ خَاشِعًا، وَالْقَلْبُ لَيْسَ بِخَاشِعٍ»

143 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā ʾannahu balaghahu, ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi ʾaw ʾabā hurayrata qāla: «taʿawwadhū bi-llāhi min khushūʿi al-nifāqi» , qīla: wamā huwa? qāla: «ʾan yurā al-jasadu bihi khāshiʿan, wa-l-qalbu laysa bikhāshiʿin»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Abū Yaḥyā that it had reached him that either Abū al-Dardāʾ or Abū Hurayra said, ‘Seek God’s protection against hypocritical humility.’ Someone asked, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘For the body to appear humble while the heart is not.’

١٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ بِلَالِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: «أَدْرَكْتُهُمْ يَشْتَدُّونَ بَيْنَ الْأَغْرَاضِ، وَيَضْحَكُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ، فَإِذَا كَانَ اللَّيْلُ كَانُوا رُهْبَانًا»

144 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan bilāli bni saʿdin qāla: «ʾadraktuhum yashtaddūna bayna al-ʾaghrāḍi, wayaḍḥaku baʿḍuhum ʾilā baʿḍin, faʾidhā kāna al-laylu kānū ruhbānan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī reported from Bilāl ibn Saʿd, who said: ‘I knew them running between archery targets and laughing with one another; when night came, they were devoted to worship like monks.’

١٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جَزْءٍ يَقُولُ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ أَحَدًا أَكْثَرَ تَبَسُّمًا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ»

145 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu lahīʿata, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni al-mughīrati qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna al-ḥārithi bni jazʾin yaqūlu: «mā raʾaytu ʾaḥadan ʾakthara tabassuman min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿa reported from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Mughīra, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Jazʾ say, ‘I have never seen anyone smile more often than the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him.’

١٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَوْنٍ، «أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ لَا يَضْحَكُ إِلَّا تَبَسُّمًا، وَلَا يَلْتَفِتُ إِلَّا جَمِيعًا»

146 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿawnin, «ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna lā yaḍḥaku ʾillā tabassuman, walā yaltafitu ʾillā jamīʿan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar said: ʿAwn related to me that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would laugh only by smiling, and whenever he turned, he turned fully.

١٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شَيْخٌ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، أَوِ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ: «كَانَ فِي كَلَامِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَرْتِيلٌ، أَوْ تَرْسِيلٌ»

147 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun qāla: ḥaddathanā shaykhun, ʾannahu samiʿa jābira bna ʿabdi Allāhi, ʾawi ibna ʿumara yaqūlu: «kāna fī kalāmi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama tartīlun, ʾaw tarsīlun»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar said: An unnamed elder related to us that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh—or Ibn ʿUmar—say, ‘The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, spoke with tartīl, measured articulation—or tarsīl, unhurried delivery.’

١٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: «مَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُسْتَجْمِعًا ضَاحِكًا حَتَّى أَرَى لَهَوَاتِهِ، إِنَّمَا كَانَ تَبَسُّمًا»

148 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʾabī al-naḍri, ʿan sulaymāna bni yasārin, ʾanna ʿāʾishata raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā qālat: «mā raʾaytu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mustajmiʿan ḍāḥikan ḥattā ʾarā lahawātihi, ʾinnamā kāna tabassuman»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd reported from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from Abū al-Naḍr, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, that ʿĀʾisha, may God be pleased with her, said, ‘I never saw the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, laugh so heartily that I could see the back of his mouth. He would only smile.’

١٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ وَثَّابٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: «إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ صَوْمِ أَحَدِكُمْ فَلْيُصْبِحْ مُتَرَجِّلًا»

149 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā qaysu bnu al-rabīʿi, ʿan ʾabī ḥuṣaynin, ʿan yaḥyā bni waththābin, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla: «ʾidhā kāna yawmu ṣawmi ʾaḥadikum falyuṣbiḥ mutarajjilan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ reported from Abū Ḥuṣayn, from Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: ‘When any of you is fasting, let him begin the day with his hair combed.’

١٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ قَدْ سَمَّاهُ، قَالَ يَحْيَى بْنُ صَاعِدٍ: ذَهَبَ عَلَيَّ وَأُرَاهُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَنْصُورٌ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍ قَالَ: “ قَالَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ:

150 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun qad sammāhu, qāla yaḥyā bnu ṣāʿidin: dhahaba ʿalayya waʾurāhu sufyāna qāla: ʾakhbaranā manṣūrun, ʿan hilāli bni yasāfin qāla: “ qāla ʿīsā ibnu maryama:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: An unnamed man, whom Ibn al-Mubārak had named, reported to us. Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘His name has escaped me; I think he was Sufyān.’ He said: Manṣūr reported from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, who said: Jesus son of Mary said:

إِذَا كَانَ صَوْمُ يَوْمِ أَحَدِكُمْ فَلْيُدْهِنْ رَأْسَهُ وَلِحْيَتَهُ، وَيَمْسَحْ شَفَتَيْهِ، لِئَلَّا يَرَى النَّاسُ أَنَّهُ صَائِمٌ ،

ʾidhā kāna ṣawmu yawmi ʾaḥadikum falyudhin raʾsahu waliḥyatahu, wayamsaḥ shafatayhi, liʾallā yarā al-nāsu ʾannahu ṣāʾimun ,

‘When any of you fasts for a day, let him oil his head and beard and wipe his lips, so that people will not see that he is fasting.

فَإِذَا أَعْطَى بِيَمِينِهِ فَلْيُخْفِ مِنْ شِمَالِهِ، وَإِذَا صَلَّى فَلْيُرْخِ سِتْرَ بَابِهِ،

faʾidhā ʾaʿṭā biyamīnihi falyukhfi min shimālihi, waʾidhā ṣallā falyurkhi sitra bābihi,

When he gives with his right hand, let him keep it hidden from his left; and when he prays, let him draw the curtain across his doorway.

فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُقَسِّمُ الثَّنَاءَ كَمَا يُقَسِّمُ الرِّزْقَ ”

faʾinna Allāha taʿālā yuqassimu al-thanāʾa kamā yuqassimu al-rizqa ”

For God Most High apportions praise just as He apportions provision.’

١٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا طَلْحَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْقَاسِمَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ النَّافِلَةَ تَفْضُلُ فِي السِّرِّ عَلَى الْعَلَانِيَةِ، كَفَضْلِ الْفَرِيضَةِ فِي الْجَمَاعَةِ»

151 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ṭalḥatu bnu ʾabī saʿīdin, ʿan khālidi bni muhājirin qāla: samiʿtu al-qāsima bna muḥammadin yaqūlu: «ʾinna al-ṣalāta al-nāfilata tafḍulu fī al-sirri ʿalā al-ʿalāniyati, kafaḍli al-farīḍati fī al-jamāʿati»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ṭalḥa ibn Abī Saʿīd reported from Khālid ibn Muhājir, who said: I heard al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad say, ‘Voluntary prayer in private has an advantage over voluntary prayer in public comparable to the advantage of obligatory prayer in congregation.’

١٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ وَلِيدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ثَابِتَ بْنَ عَجْلَانَ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْقَاسِمَ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا أَجْرَ لِمَنْ لَا حِسْبَةَ لَهُ»

152 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā baqiyyatu bnu walīdin qāla: samiʿtu thābita bna ʿajlāna yaqūlu: samiʿtu al-qāsima ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «lā ʾajra liman lā ḥisbata lahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Baqiyya ibn Walīd said: I heard Thābit ibn ʿAjlān say: I heard al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘There is no reward for one who does not seek God’s reward.’

١٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ أَبِي أَنَسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا أَفْطَرْتُ مُنْذُ أَرْبَعِ سِنِينَ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا صُمْتَ، وَلَا أَفْطَرْتَ» ،

153 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿimrāna bni ʾabī ʾanasin, ʿan ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni , ʾanna rajulan qāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā ʾafṭartu mundhu ʾarbaʿi sinīna, faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «mā ṣumta, walā ʾafṭarta» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda reported from ʿImrān ibn Abī Anas, from Abū Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, that a man said, ‘Messenger of God, I have not broken my fast for four years.’ The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, replied, ‘You have neither fasted nor broken your fast.’

لِأَنَّهُ تَحَدَّثَ بِهِ "، قَالَ اِبْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ: يُحَدِّثُ بِهِ

liʾannahu taḥaddatha bihi ", qāla ibnu ḥayawayhi: yuḥaddithu bihi

The report adds, ‘Because he spoke about it.’ Ibn Ḥayawayh gives the alternative wording, ‘He speaks about it.’

١٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي ضَمْرَةُ بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ صُهَيْبٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا تَقَرَّبَ الْعَبْدُ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى بِشَيْءٍ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ سُجُودٍ خَفِيٍّ»

154 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanī ḍamratu bnu ḥabībi bni ṣuhaybin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «mā taqarraba al-ʿabdu ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā bishayʾin ʾafḍala min sujūdin khafiyyin»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī said: Ḍamra ibn Ḥabīb ibn Ṣuhayb related to me that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘A servant draws near to God Most High through nothing better than a prostration offered in private.’

١٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اُذْكُرُوا اللَّهَ تَعَالَى ذِكْرًا خَامِلًا» قَالَ: فَقِيلَ: وَمَا الذِّكْرُ الْخَامِلُ؟ قَالَ: «الذِّكْرُ الْخَفِيُّ»

155 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama, ʿan ḍamrata bni ḥabībin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «udhkurū Allāha taʿālā dhikran khāmilan» qāla: faqīla: wamā al-dhikru al-khāmilu? qāla: «al-dhikru al-khafiyyu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam also reported from Ḍamra ibn Ḥabīb, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘Remember God Most High with remembrance that attracts no notice.’ Someone asked, ‘What is such unnoticed remembrance?’ He replied, ‘Private remembrance.’

١٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ أَبَا أُمَامَةَ أَتَى عَلَى رَجُلٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَهُوَ سَاجِدٌ يَبْكِي فِي سُجُودِهِ، وَيَدْعُو رَبَّهُ، فَقَالَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ: «أَنْتَ، أَنْتَ، لَوْ كَانَ هَذَا فِي بَيْتِكَ»

156 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī muḥammadu bnu ziyādin qāla: raʾaytu ʾabā ʾumāmata ʾatā ʿalā rajulin fī al-masjidi wahuwa sājidun yabkī fī sujūdihi, wayadʿū rabbahu, faqāla ʾabū ʾumāmata: «ʾanta, ʾanta, law kāna hādhā fī baytika»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh said: Muḥammad ibn Ziyād related to me: I saw Abū Umāma come upon a man in the mosque who was prostrate, weeping in his prostration and praying to his Lord. Abū Umāma said, ‘You there, you there! If only you did this at home.’

بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي الْخُشُوعِ وَالْخَوْفِ

bābu mā jāʾa fī al-khushūʿi wa-l-khawfi

Chapter on reverent humility and fear.

١٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: وَعِزَّتِي لَا أَجْمَعُ عَلَى عَبْدِي خَوْفَيْنِ، وَلَا أَجْمَعُ لَهُ أَمْنَيْنِ، إِذَا أَمِنَنِي فِي الدُّنْيَا أَخَفْتُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ،

157 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿawfun, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ yaqūlu Allāhu ʿazza wajalla: waʿizzatī lā ʾajmaʿu ʿalā ʿabdī khawfayni, walā ʾajmaʿu lahu ʾamnayni, ʾidhā ʾaminanī fī al-dunyā ʾakhaftuhu yawma al-qiyāmati,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAwf reported from al-Ḥasan, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘God, Mighty and Majestic, says: By My might, I will not combine two fears for My servant, nor will I combine two securities for him. If he feels safe from Me in this world, I will make him afraid on the Day of Resurrection.

وَإِذَا خَافَنِي فِي الدُّنْيَا أَمَّنْتُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ”

waʾidhā khāfanī fī al-dunyā ʾammantuhu yawma al-qiyāmati ”

But if he fears Me in this world, I will grant him safety on the Day of Resurrection.’

١٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ بِالْبَصْرَةِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَحْوَهُ

158 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā ibnu ṣāʿidin qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu yaḥyā bni maymūnin bi-l-baṣrati, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-wahhābi bnu ʿaṭāʾin qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ʾabī salamata, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama naḥwahu

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Ibn Ṣāʿid, who said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Maymūn related to us in Basra, from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salama, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, a similar report.

١٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: «لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا كَانَ لَهُ مِثْلُ عَمَلِ سَبْعِينَ نَبِيًّا، لَخَشِيَ أَنْ لَا يَنْجُوَ مِنْ شَرِّ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ»

159 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan sālimi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: «law ʾanna rajulan kāna lahu mithlu ʿamali sabʿīna nabiyyan, lakhashiya ʾan lā yanjuwa min sharri yawmi al-qiyāmati»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Kaʿb, who said: ‘If a man had deeds equal to those of seventy prophets, he would still fear that he might not escape the terrors of the Day of Resurrection.’

١٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «لَقَدْ مَضَى بَيْنَ يَدَيْكُمْ أَقْوَامٌ، لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ أَنْفَقَ عَدَدَ هَذَا الْحَصَى، لَخَشِيَ أَنْ لَا يَنْجُوَ مِنْ عِظَمِ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ»

160 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: «laqad maḍā bayna yadaykum ʾaqwāmun, law ʾanna ʾaḥadahum ʾanfaqa ʿadada hādhā al-ḥaṣā, lakhashiya ʾan lā yanjuwa min ʿiẓami dhālika al-yawmi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla reported from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘People have passed before you who, even if one of them had spent wealth as numerous as these pebbles, would still have feared that he might not survive the enormity of that Day.’

١٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، قَالَ اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: “ تُعْرَضُ عَلَيْهِ ذُنُوبُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيَمُرُّ بِالذَّنْبِ مِنْ ذُنُوبِهِ يَقُولُ: أَمَا إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنْكَ مُشْفِقًا، فَيُغْفَرُ لَهُ ”

161 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, waʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin, qāla ibnu al-mubāraki: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan ʿurwata bni ʿāmirin qāla: “ tuʿraḍu ʿalayhi dhunūbuhu yawma al-qiyāmati, fayamurru bi-l-dhanbi min dhunūbihi yaqūlu: ʾamā ʾinnī kuntu minka mushfiqan, fayughfaru lahu ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from both Ibn al-Mubārak and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī. Ibn al-Mubārak said: Sufyān reported from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from ʿUrwa ibn ʿĀmir: ‘A person’s sins will be shown to him on the Day of Resurrection. As he passes one of them, he will say, “I was indeed afraid of you.” Then he will be forgiven.’

١٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيُذْنِبُ الذَّنْبَ فَيَدْخُلُ بِهِ الْجَنَّةَ» ، قِيلَ: كَيْفَ؟ قَالَ: «يَكُونُ نُصْبَ عَيْنَيْهِ ثَابِتًا، قَارًّا، حَتَّى يَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ»

162 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾinna al-ʿabda layudhnibu al-dhanba fayadkhulu bihi al-jannata» , qīla: kayfa? qāla: «yakūnu nuṣba ʿaynayhi thābitan, qārran, ḥattā yadkhula al-jannata»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla reported from al-Ḥasan, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘A servant may commit a sin and enter Paradise because of it.’ Someone asked, ‘How?’ He replied, ‘It remains before his eyes, fixed and abiding, until he enters Paradise.’

١٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ يَقُولُ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عِمْرَانَ التُّجِيبِيُّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَعْمَلُ الْحَسَنَةَ فَيَتَّكِلُ عَلَيْهَا، وَيَعْمَلُ الْمُحَقَّرَاتِ، حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهَ وَقَدْ حُظِرَ بِهِ» ،

163 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: samiʿtu yazīda bna ʾabī ḥabībin yaqūlu: ḥaddathanī ʾabū ʿimrāna al-tujībiyyu, ʾannahu samiʿa ʾabā ʾayyūba al-ʾanṣāriyya yaqūlu: «ʾinna al-rajula layaʿmalu al-ḥasanata fayattakilu ʿalayhā, wayaʿmalu al-muḥaqqarāti, ḥattā yaʾtiya Allāha waqad ḥuẓira bihi» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ said: I heard Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb say: Abū ʿImrān al-Tujībī related to me that he heard Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī say, ‘A man may do a good deed and rely on it, while committing sins he treats as small, until he comes before God hemmed in by it.’

كَذَا قَالَ: «وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَعْمَلُ السَّيِّئَةَ فَيَفْرَقُ مِنْهَا، حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهَ آمِنًا»

kadhā qāla: «waʾinna al-rajula layaʿmalu al-sayyiʾata fayafraqu minhā, ḥattā yaʾtiya Allāha ʾāminan»

The transmitter added, ‘That is how he worded it.’ He continued: ‘Another man may do a bad deed and remain afraid of it, until he comes before God in safety.’

١٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ» ، وَقَالَ اِبْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُذْنِبُ الذَّنْبَ، فَمَا يَزَالُ بِهِ كَئِيبًا حَتَّى يَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ»

164 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʾisrāʾīla ʾabī mūsā qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu: «ʾinna al-ʿabda» , waqāla ibnu ḥayawayhi: «ʾinna al-rajula layudhnibu al-dhanba, famā yazālu bihi kaʾīban ḥattā yadkhula al-jannata»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna reported from Isrāʾīl Abū Mūsā, who said: I heard al-Ḥasan say, ‘The servant...’ Ibn Ḥayawayh gives: ‘A man may commit a sin and remain sorrowful over it until he enters Paradise.’

وَقَالَ أَبُو حَازِمٍ: «إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَعْمَلُ السَّيِّئَةَ إِنْ عَمِلَ حَسَنَةً لَهُ قَطُّ أَنْفَعَ لَهُ مِنْهَا،

waqāla ʾabū ḥāzimin: «ʾinna al-rajula layaʿmalu al-sayyiʾata ʾin ʿamila ḥasanatan lahu qaṭṭu ʾanfaʿa lahu minhā,

Abū Ḥāzim said: ‘A man may do a bad deed that benefits him more than any good deed he has ever done.

وَإِنَّهُ لَيَعْمَلُ الْحَسَنَةَ إِنْ عَمِلَ سَيِّئَةً قَطُّ أَضَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مِنْهَا»

waʾinnahu layaʿmalu al-ḥasanata ʾin ʿamila sayyiʾatan qaṭṭu ʾaḍarra ʿalayhi minhā»

And a man may do a good deed that harms him more than any bad deed he has ever done.’

١٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ قَالَ: “ يَسْتُرُ اللَّهُ الْعَبْدَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَيَقُولُ: أَتَعْرِفُ أَتَعْرِفُ؟ فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ، فَيَقُولُ: قَدْ غَفَرْتُ لَكَ ”

165 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī sinānin al-shaybāniyyi, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin qāla: “ yasturu Allāhu al-ʿabda yawma al-qiyāmati, fayaqūlu: ʾataʿrifu ʾataʿrifu? fayaqūlu: naʿam, fayaqūlu: qad ghafartu laka ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Abū Sinān al-Shaybānī, from Abū Wāʾil, who said: ‘God will cover the servant on the Day of Resurrection and ask, “Do you recognize [your sins]? Do you recognize [them]?” He will say, “Yes.” God will say, “I have forgiven you.”’

١٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ مُحْرِزٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: بَيْنَا أَنَا أَمْشِي مَعَهُ إِذْ جَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: يَا اِبْنَ عُمَرَ، كَيْفَ سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَذْكُرُ فِي النَّجْوَى؟ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: «يَدْنُو الْمُؤْمِنُ مِنْ رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ حَتَّى يَضَعَ عَلَيْهِ كَنَفَهُ، فَذَكَرَ صَحِيفَتَهُ» ،

166 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu yasārin, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ṣafwāna bni muḥrizin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara, qāla: baynā ʾanā ʾamshī maʿahu ʾidh jāʾahu rajulun, faqāla: yā ibna ʿumara, kayfa samiʿta rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yadhkuru fī al-najwā? qāla: samiʿtuhu yaqūlu: «yadnū al-muʾminu min rabbihi ʿazza wajalla ḥattā yaḍaʿa ʿalayhi kanafahu, fadhakara ṣaḥīfatahu» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Muḥammad ibn Yasār reported from Qatāda, from Ṣafwān ibn Muḥriz, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar. He said: While I was walking with him, a man came up and asked, ‘Ibn ʿUmar, what did you hear the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say about the private audience?’ He replied, ‘I heard him say: “The believer draws near to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, until He places His covering over him.”’ The account then mentions his record.

قَالَ: “ فَيُقَرِّرُهُ ذُنُوبَهُ، هَلْ تَعْرِفُ؟ فَيَقُولُ: رَبِّ أَعْرِفُ، فَيَقُولُ: هَلْ تَعْرِفُ؟ فَيَقُولُ: نَعَمْ، رَبِّ أَعْرِفُ، حَتَّى يَبْلُغَهُ بِهِ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَبْلُغَ،

qāla: “ fayuqarriruhu dhunūbahu, hal taʿrifu? fayaqūlu: rabbi ʾaʿrifu, fayaqūlu: hal taʿrifu? fayaqūlu: naʿam, rabbi ʾaʿrifu, ḥattā yablughahu bihi mā shāʾa Allāhu ʾan yablugha,

He said: God makes him acknowledge his sins. ‘Do you recognize them?’ He replies, ‘My Lord, I do.’ He asks again, ‘Do you recognize them?’ He replies, ‘Yes, my Lord, I do,’ until God brings him as far through them as He wills.

ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: إِنِّي سَتَرْتُهَا عَلَيْكَ، وَأَنَا أَغْفِرُهَا لَكَ الْيَوْمَ ”،

thumma yaqūlu: ʾinnī satartuhā ʿalayka, waʾanā ʾaghfiruhā laka al-yawma ”,

Then He says, ‘I concealed them for you, and today I forgive them for you.’

قَالَ: “ فَيُعْطَى كِتَابَ حَسَنَاتِهِ، وَأَمَّا الْكَافِرُ فَيُنَادَى عَلَى رُءُوسِ الْأَشْهَادِ، قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {وَيَقُولُ الْأَشْهَادُ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ كَذَبُوا عَلَى رَبِّهِمْ أَلَا لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الظَّالِمِينَ} [هُودٍ: ١٨] ”

qāla: “ fayuʿṭā kitāba ḥasanātihi, waʾammā al-kāfiru fayunādā ʿalā ruʾūsi al-ʾashhādi, qāla Allāhu taʿālā: {wayaqūlu al-ʾashhādu hāʾulāʾi al-ladhīna kadhabū ʿalā rabbihim ʾalā laʿnatu Allāhi ʿalā al-ẓālimīna} [hūdin: 18] ”

He said: The believer is then given his record of good deeds. As for the unbeliever, a call goes out before all the witnesses. God Most High says: ‘The witnesses will say, “These are the ones who lied against their Lord.” Surely God’s curse is upon the wrongdoers’ [Hūd 11:18].

١٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانُ، يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {لَا يَحْزُنُهُمُ الْفَزَعُ الْأَكْبَرُ} [الْأَنْبِيَاءِ: ١٠٣] ، قَالَ: «حِينَ تُطْبِقُ عَلَيْهِمْ جَهَنَّمُ»

167 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: samiʿtu sufyānu, yaqūlu fī qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla: {lā yaḥzunuhumu al-fazaʿu al-ʾakbaru} [al-ʾanbiyāʾi: 103] , qāla: «ḥīna tuṭbiqu ʿalayhim jahannamu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: I heard Sufyān explain God’s words, Mighty and Majestic, ‘The greatest terror will not grieve them’ [al-Anbiyāʾ 21:103]. He said, ‘When Hell closes over them.’

١٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {وَيَدْعُونَنَا رَغَبًا وَرَهَبًا وَكَانُوا لَنَا خَاشِعِينَ} [الْأَنْبِيَاءِ: ٩٠] قَالَ: «الْخَوْفُ الدَّائِمُ فِي الْقَلْبِ»

168 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿani al-ḥasani fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {wayadʿūnanā raghaban warahaban wakānū lanā khāshiʿīna} [al-ʾanbiyāʾi: 90] qāla: «al-khawfu al-dāʾimu fī al-qalbi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported through an unnamed man from al-Ḥasan on God Most High’s words, ‘They called upon Us in hope and fear, and were humble before Us’ [al-Anbiyāʾ 21:90]. He said: ‘Constant fear in the heart.’

١٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ} [الْمُؤْمِنُونَ: ٢] ، قَالَ: «السُّكُونُ»

169 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, fī qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla: {al-ladhīna hum fī ṣalātihim khāshiʿūna} [al-muʾminūna: 2] , qāla: «al-sukūnu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, on God’s words, Mighty and Majestic, ‘Those who are humble in their prayer’ [al-Muʾminūn 23:2]. He said: ‘Stillness.’

١٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قِرَاءَةً، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنِ اللَّغْوِ مُعْرِضُونَ} [الْمُؤْمِنُونَ: ٣] ، قَالَ: «أَتَاهُمْ وَاللَّهِ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ مَا وَقَذَهُمْ عَنِ الْبَاطِلِ»

170 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qirāʾatan, ʿan saʿīdin, ʿan qatādata, fī qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla: {wa-l-ladhīna hum ʿani al-laghwi muʿriḍūna} [al-muʾminūna: 3] , qāla: «ʾatāhum wa-llāhi min ʾamri Allāhi mā waqadhahum ʿani al-bāṭili»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, who received Ibn al-Mubārak’s account by a reading, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda, on God’s words, Mighty and Majestic, ‘And those who turn away from idle talk’ [al-Muʾminūn 23:3]. He said: ‘By God, something of God’s command came to them and struck them away from falsehood.’

١٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ، عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، عَنْ شَدَّادِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْكَيِّسُ مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ وَعَمِلَ لِمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ، وَالْعَاجِزُ مَنْ أَتْبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَاهَا، وَتَمَنَّى عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

171 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu, ʿan ḍamrata bni ḥabībin, ʿan shaddādi bni ʾawsin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «al-kayyisu man dāna nafsahu waʿamila limā baʿda al-mawti, wa-l-ʿājizu man ʾatbaʿa nafsahu hawāhā, watamannā ʿalā Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī reported from Ḍamra ibn Ḥabīb, from Shaddād ibn Aws, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘The wise person takes himself to account and works for what comes after death. The helpless person follows his desires and indulges in wishful hopes of God, Mighty and Majestic.’

١٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا يَعْنِي أَبَا بَكْرٍ، عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ أَوَّلَ شَيْءٍ يُرْفَعُ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ الْأَمَانَةُ وَالْخُشُوعُ، حَتَّى لَا تَكَادَ تَرَى خَاشِعًا»

172 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan yaʿnī ʾabā bakrin, ʿan ḍamrata bni ḥabībin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «ʾinna ʾawwala shayʾin yurfaʿu min hādhihi al-ʾummati al-ʾamānatu wa-l-khushūʿu, ḥattā lā takāda tarā khāshiʿan»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ibn al-Mubārak also reported—from Abū Bakr [ibn Abī Maryam], as the source clarifies—from Ḍamra ibn Ḥabīb, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘The first things to be taken from this community will be trustworthiness and reverent humility, until you will hardly see anyone truly humble.’

١٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، وَزَائِدَةُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: سِيمَاهُمْ فِي وُجُوهِهِمْ مِنْ أَثَرِ السُّجُودِ، قَالَ: «هُوَ الْخُشُوعُ»

173 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, wazāʾidatu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, fī qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla tabāraka wataʿālā: sīmāhum fī wujūhihim min ʾathari al-sujūdi, qāla: «huwa al-khushūʿu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān and Zāʾida reported from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, on God’s words, Mighty and Majestic, Blessed and Exalted, ‘Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration’ [al-Fatḥ 48:29]. He said: ‘It is reverent humility.’

١٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: «الْخُشُوعُ وَالتَّوَاضُعُ»

174 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ḥumaydin al-ʾaʿraji, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: «al-khushūʿu wa-l-tawāḍuʿu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj, from Mujāhid, who said: ‘Reverent humility and a humble bearing.’

١٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا يَزِيدَ الْمَدَنِيَّ يَقُولُ: “ كَانَ يُقَالُ: إِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَا يُرْفَعُ عَنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ الْخُشُوعُ ”

175 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā yazīda al-madaniyya yaqūlu: “ kāna yuqālu: ʾinna ʾawwala mā yurfaʿu ʿan hādhihi al-ʾummati al-khushūʿu ”

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: I heard Abū Yazīd al-Madanī say: ‘It used to be said that the first thing taken from this community would be reverent humility.’

١٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ كَانَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ إِذَا رَأَى الرَّبِيعَ بْنَ خُثَيْمٍ قَالَ: «وَبَشِّرِ الْمُخْبِتِينَ»

176 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu ʿawnin, ʿan muslimin ʾabī ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla kāna ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin ʾidhā raʾā al-rabīʿa bna khuthaymin qāla: «wabashshiri al-mukhbitīna»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ibn ʿAwn reported from Muslim Abū ʿAbd Allāh, who said: Whenever ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd saw al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, he would say, ‘Give good news to the humble-hearted’ [al-Ḥajj 22:34].

أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زَائِدَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: «وَاللَّهِ، لَقَدْ أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا مَا كَانُوا يَشْبَعُونَ ذَلِكَ الشِّبَعَ، يَأْكُلُ أَحَدُهُمْ حَتَّى إِذَا رَدَّ نَفَسَهُ، أَمْسَكَ ذَائِبًا نَاحِلًا مُقْبِلًا عَلَيْهِ فَمُهُ»

ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā zāʾidatu, ʿan hishāmi bni ḥassāna, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: «wa-llāhi, laqad ʾadraktu ʾaqwāman mā kānū yashbaʿūna dhālika al-shibaʿa, yaʾkulu ʾaḥaduhum ḥattā ʾidhā radda nafasahu, ʾamsaka dhāʾiban nāḥilan muqbilan ʿalayhi famuhu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Zāʾida reported from Hishām ibn Ḥassān, from al-Ḥasan, who said: ‘By God, I knew people who never ate themselves that full. One of them would eat, then stop as soon as he caught his breath, worn and gaunt, though his mouth was still turned toward [the food].’

قَالَ: وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: «أَدْرَكْتُهُمْ وَاللَّهِ، لَقَدْ كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ يَعِيشُ عُمْرَهُ كُلَّهُ مَا طُوِيَ لَهُ ثَوْبٌ قَطُّ، وَلَا أَمَرَ أَهْلَهُ بِصَنْعَةِ طَعَامٍ لَهُ، وَلَا جَعَلَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْأَرْضِ شَيْئًا قَطُّ»

qāla: waqāla al-ḥasanu: «ʾadraktuhum wa-llāhi, laqad kāna ʾaḥaduhum yaʿīshu ʿumrahu kullahu mā ṭuwiya lahu thawbun qaṭṭu, walā ʾamara ʾahlahu biṣanʿati ṭaʿāmin lahu, walā jaʿala baynahu wabayna al-ʾarḍi shayʾan qaṭṭu»

He said: Al-Ḥasan also said, ‘By God, I knew them. A man might live his entire life without ever having a garment folded away for him, without asking his family to prepare food for him, and without ever putting anything between himself and the ground.’

١٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ، عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيَّ يَقُولُ: «مَا تَقَلَّدَ اِمْرُؤٌ قِلَادَةً أَفْضَلَ مِنْ سَكِينَةٍ»

178 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿan jaʿfari bni rabīʿata, ʿan rabīʿata bni yazīda, ʾannahu samiʿa ʾabā ʾidrīsa al-khawlāniyya yaqūlu: «mā taqallada imruʾun qilādatan ʾafḍala min sakīnatin»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ibn Lahīʿa reported from Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿa, from Rabīʿa ibn Yazīd, who heard Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī say: ‘No one has worn a finer necklace than tranquil composure.’

بَابُ الِاجْتِهَادِ فِي الْعِبَادَةِ

bābu al-ijtihādi fī al-ʿibādati

Chapter on striving in worship.

١٧٩ - أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ الْعَالِمُ الزَّاهِدُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدُّلَفِيُّ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ،

179 - ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu al-jalīlu al-ʿālimu al-zāhidu ʾabū ʿaliyyin al-ḥusaynu bnu muḥammadi bni al-ḥusayni bni ʾibrāhīma al-dulafiyyu al-maqdisiyyu ghafara Allāhu lahu,

The venerable shaykh, learned ascetic Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dulafī al-Maqdisī—may God forgive him—reported to us.

قَالَ: قَرَأَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، عَلَى الشَّيْخِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ الْعَزِيزَةِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ

qāla: qaraʾa ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu, ʿalā al-shaykhi ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadi bni al-ḥasani al-jawhariyyi bibaghdāda bibābi al-marātibi al-ʿazīzati ḥarasahā Allāhu

He said: Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī read before Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jawharī in Baghdad, at Bāb al-Marātib al-ʿAzīza—may God guard it.

غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ خَامِسَ عَشْرَةَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ وَأَنَا حَاضِرٌ أَسْمَعُ وَالشَّيْخُ يَسْمَعُ، أَقَرَّ بِهِ:

ghadāta yawmi al-ʾithnayni khāmisa ʿashrata jumādā al-ʾūlā sanata ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿimiʾatin waʾanā ḥāḍirun ʾasmaʿu wa-l-shaykhu yasmaʿu, ʾaqarra bihi:

This was on the morning of Monday, the fifteenth of Jumādā I in the year 454 AH. I was there listening, and the shaykh listened too; he confirmed the reading.

قَالَ لَهُ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْوَرَّاقُ قِرَاءَةً عَلَى كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ

qāla lahu: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi, waʾabū bakrin muḥammadu bnu ʾismāʿīla al-warrāqu qirāʾatan ʿalā kulli wāḥidin minhumā waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu

He said to him: ‘Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq informed you, each through a reading made before him while you were present and listening.’

قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ. . . عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ الْوَرَّاقُ يَوْمَ الْخَمِيسِ لِسِتٍّ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ خَمْسَ عَشَرَةَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ عِنْدَ بَابِ دَارِاهِ،

qālā: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin. . . ʿabdu al-ḥamīdi al-warrāqu yawma al-khamīsi lisittin khalawna min rabīʿin al-ʾawwali sanata khamsa ʿasharata wathalāthimiʾatin ʿinda bābi dāriahi,

The two said: ‘Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid informed us ...’ The text then resumes with ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Warrāq, on Thursday, six days into Rabīʿ I in the year 315 AH, at the door of his house.

قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ،

qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu ʾabū ʿabdi Allāhi sanata khamsin waʾarbaʿīna wamiʾatayni,

He said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī related to us in the year 245 AH.

قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: «مَا الْمُجْتَهِدُ فِيكُمُ الْيَوْمَ إِلَّا كَاللَّاعِبِ فِيهِمْ»

qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: «mā al-mujtahidu fīkumu al-yawma ʾillā ka-l-lāʿibi fīhim»

He said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak reported to us, saying: Sufyān reported from Layth, from Mujāhid, who said: ‘Even one who strives hard among you today is like someone at play among them.’

١٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ بِلَالَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ يَقُولُ: «زَاهِدُكُمْ رَاغِبٌ، وَمُجْتَهِدُكُمْ مُقَصِّرٌ، وَعَالِمُكُمْ جَاهِلٌ، وَجَاهِلُكُمْ مُغْتَرٌّ»

180 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu qāla: samiʿtu bilāla bna saʿdin yaqūlu: «zāhidukum rāghibun, wamujtahidukum muqaṣṣirun, waʿālimukum jāhilun, wajāhilukum mughtarrun»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī said: I heard Bilāl ibn Saʿd say: ‘Your ascetic still longs for more; your diligent worshiper falls short; your scholar lacks knowledge; and your ignorant person is deluded.’

١٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ

181 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said:

قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عُبَادَةُ يَعْنِي اِبْنَ قُرْصٍ اللَّيْثِيَّ:

qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin, ʿan ʾabī qatādata qāla: qāla ʿubādatu yaʿnī ibna qurṣin al-laythiyya:

Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra reported from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Abū Qatāda, who said: ʿUbāda—that is, Ibn Qurṣ al-Laythī—said:

«إِنَّكُمْ لَتَعْمَلُونَ الْيَوْمَ أَعْمَالًا هِيَ أَدَقُّ فِي أَعْيُنِكُمْ مِنَ الشَّعْرِ، كُنَّا لَنَعُدُّهَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَ الْمُوبِقَاتِ» ،

«ʾinnakum lataʿmalūna al-yawma ʾaʿmālan hiya ʾadaqqu fī ʾaʿyunikum mina al-shaʿri, kunnā lanaʿudduhā ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mina al-mūbiqāti» ,

‘Today you do things that seem finer than a hair in your eyes, yet in the time of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, we counted them among the deeds that bring ruin.’

قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لِأَبِي قَتَادَةَ: فَكَيْفَ لَوْ أَدْرَكَ زَمَانَنَا هَذَا؟ قَالَ: «هُوَ إِذًا كَانَ لِذَلِكَ أَقْوَلَ»

qāla: faqultu liʾabī qatādata: fakayfa law ʾadraka zamānanā hādhā? qāla: «huwa ʾidhan kāna lidhālika ʾaqwala»

Then I said to Abū Qatāda: ‘What if he had lived to see our time?’ He replied: ‘He would have had even more reason to say that then.’

١٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ: قَالَ مِسْوَرُ بْنُ مَخْرَمَةَ: «لَقَدْ وَارَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَقْوَامًا لَوْ رَأَوْنِي جَالِسًا مَعَكُمْ لَاسْتَحْيَيْتُ مِنْهُمْ»

182 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ʿurwata bni al-zubayri qāla: qāla miswaru bnu makhramata: «laqad wārati al-ʾarḍu ʾaqwāman law raʾawnī jālisan maʿakum lastaḥyaytu minhum»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Al-Awzāʿī reported from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr, who said that al-Miswar ibn Makhrama said: ‘The earth has covered people before us who would have made me ashamed to be seen sitting here with you.’

١٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَائِشَةَ تَقُولُ: قَالَ لَبِيدُ:

183 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ʿurwata qāla: samiʿtu ʿāʾishata taqūlu: qāla labīdu:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwa, who said: I heard ʿĀʾisha say: ‘Labīd said:’

[الْبَحْرُ الْكَامِلُ]

[al-baḥru al-kāmilu]

[In the Kāmil meter.]

ذَهَبَ الَّذِينَ يُعَاشُ فِي أَكْنَافِهِمْ ... وَبَقِيَتُ فِي نَسْلٍ كَجِلْدِ الْأَجْرَبِ

dhahaba al-ladhīna yuʿāshu fī ʾaknāfihim ... wabaqiyatu fī naslin kajildi al-ʾajrabi

Those under whose protection one could live have gone ... and I remain among a generation like the skin of a mangy beast.

يَتَحَدَّثُونَ مَخَافَةً وَمَلَاذَةً ... وَيُعَابُ قَائِلُهُمْ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَشْغَبِ

yataḥaddathūna makhāfatan wamalādhatan ... wayuʿābu qāʾiluhum waʾin lam yashghabi

They speak out of fear and for pleasure ... and a speaker among them is faulted even if he causes no quarrel.

قَالَتْ: «فَكَيْفَ لَوْ أَدْرَكَ لَبِيدٌ قَوْمًا نَحْنُ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانِيهِمْ؟» ، قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ: «وَكَيْفَ لَوْ أَدْرَكَتْ عَائِشَةُ مَنْ نَحْنُ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانِيهِمُ الْيَوْمَ؟»

qālat: «fakayfa law ʾadraka labīdun qawman naḥnu bayna ẓahrānīhim?» , qāla al-zuhriyyu: «wakayfa law ʾadrakat ʿāʾishatu man naḥnu bayna ẓahrānīhimu al-yawma?»

She said: ‘What if Labīd had seen the people among whom we now live?’ Al-Zuhrī said: ‘And what if ʿĀʾisha had seen those among whom we live today?’

١٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:

184 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan saʿdi bni masʿūdin qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb reported from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, who said:

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو: «لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلَيْنِ مِنْ أَوَائِلِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ خَلَوَا بِمُصْحَفَيْهِمَا فِي بَعْضِ هَذِهِ الْأَوْدِيَةِ، لَأَتَيَا النَّاسَ الْيَوْمَ وَلَا يَعْرِفَانِ شَيْئًا مِمَّا كَانَا عَلَيْهِ»

qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿamrin: «law ʾanna rajulayni min ʾawāʾili hādhihi al-ʾummati khalawā bimuṣḥafayhimā fī baʿḍi hādhihi al-ʾawdiyati, laʾatayā al-nāsa al-yawma walā yaʿrifāni shayʾan mimmā kānā ʿalayhi»

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr said: ‘If two men from the early days of this community had withdrawn with their copies of the Qurʾān into one of these valleys, they would emerge among people today and recognize nothing of the way they had followed.’

١٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: «وَجَدْتُ النَّاسَ أُخْبِرْ تَقْلَهُ»

185 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: «wajadtu al-nāsa ʾukhbir taqlahu»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān said that Abū al-Dardāʾ said: ‘I have found people to be such that, when you get to know them well, you come to dislike them.’

١٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الزُّهْرِيَّ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ:

186 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun qāla: samiʿtu al-zuhriyya, yuḥaddithu ʿan sālimi bni ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿani ibni ʿumara qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar said: I heard al-Zuhrī relate from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّمَا النَّاسُ كَالْإِبِلِ الْمِائَةِ، لَا تَجِدُ فِيهَا رَاحِلَةً»

qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾinnamā al-nāsu ka-l-ʾibili al-miʾati, lā tajidu fīhā rāḥilatan»

The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘People are like a hundred camels: you would not find a camel fit to ride among them.’

١٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شُرَحْبِيلُ بْنُ شَرِيكٍ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ يَزِيدَ الْمَعَافِرِيَّ، حَدَّثَهُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ

187 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba qāla: ḥaddathanā shuraḥbīlu bnu sharīkin, ʾanna ʿabda Allāhi bna yazīda al-maʿāfiriyya, ḥaddathahu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb said: Shuraḥbīl ibn Sharīk related to us that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Maʿāfirī related to him, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ.

قَالَ: «لَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ الْيَوْمَ عَمَلًا أُقِيمُ عَلَيْهِ، أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ ضِعْفِهِ فِيمَا مَضَى،

qāla: «laʾan ʾaʿmala al-yawma ʿamalan ʾuqīmu ʿalayhi, ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ḍiʿfihi fīmā maḍā,

He said: ‘For me to do a deed today and stay with it is dearer than doing twice as much in times past.

لِأَنَّا حِينَ أَسْلَمْنَا وَقَعْنَا فِي عَمَلِ الْآخِرَةِ، فَأَمَّا الْيَوْمَ فَقَدْ خَلَّبَتْنَا الدُّنْيَا»

liʾannā ḥīna ʾaslamnā waqaʿnā fī ʿamali al-ʾākhirati, faʾammā al-yawma faqad khallabatnā al-dunyā»

For when we embraced Islam, we threw ourselves into deeds for the Hereafter; now the world has beguiled us.’

بَابُ الْإِخْلَاصِ وَالنِّيَّةِ

bābu al-ʾikhlāṣi wa-l-niyyati

Chapter on sincerity and intention.

أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَقَّاصٍ اللَّيْثِيِّ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin al-ʾanṣāriyyu, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʿan ʿalqamata bni waqqāṣin al-laythiyyi, ʿan ʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī reported from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from ʿAlqama ibn Waqqāṣ al-Laythī, from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

«إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ، وَإِنَّمَا لِامْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى،

«ʾinnamā al-ʾaʿmālu bi-l-niyyāti, waʾinnamā li-mriʾin mā nawā,

‘Actions are judged by intentions, and each person receives only what they intended.

فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ، فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ،

faman kānat hijratuhu ʾilā Allāhi warasūlihi , fahijratuhu ʾilā Allāhi warasūlihi,

Whoever's migration was to God and His Messenger, that migration was to God and His Messenger.

وَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى دُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا، أَوِ اِمْرَأَةٍ يَنْكِحُهَا، فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ»

waman kānat hijratuhu ʾilā dunyā yuṣībuhā, ʾawi imraʾatin yankiḥuhā, fahijratuhu ʾilā mā hājara ʾilayhi»

And whoever migrated for some worldly gain to obtain, or for a woman to marry, their migration was for what they migrated for.’

١٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جَعْفَرَ بْنَ حَيَّانَ يَقُولُ: «مِلَاكُ هَذِهِ الْأَعْمَالِ النِّيَّاتُ؛ فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ يَبْلُغُ بِنِيَّتِهِ مَا لَا يَبْلُغُ بِعَمَلِهِ»

189 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: samiʿtu jaʿfara bna ḥayyāna yaqūlu: «milāku hādhihi al-ʾaʿmāli al-niyyātu; faʾinna al-rajula yablughu biniyyatihi mā lā yablughu biʿamalihi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: I heard Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān say: ‘The governing principle of these deeds is intention. A person can attain through intention what they do not attain through deeds.’

١٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، أَخْبَرَنِي تَوْبَةُ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ قَالَ: أَرْسَلَنِي صَالِحُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ إِلَى سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ،

190 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʾakhbaranī tawbatu al-ʿanbariyyu qāla: ʾarsalanī ṣāliḥu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni ʾilā sulaymāna bni ʿabdi al-maliki,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān related to us: Tawba al-ʿAnbarī told me: Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān sent me to Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.

فَقَدِمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ لِعُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، هَلْ لَكَ حَاجَةٌ إِلَى صَالِحٍ؟ فَقَالَ: قُلْ لَهُ: «عَلَيْكَ بِالَّذِي يَبْقَى لَكَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ،

faqadimtu ʿalayhi faqultu liʿumara bni ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi, hal laka ḥājatun ʾilā ṣāliḥin? faqāla: qul lahu: «ʿalayka bi-l-ladhī yabqā laka ʿinda Allāhi,

When I arrived, I asked ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz: ‘Do you have a message for Ṣāliḥ?’ He said: ‘Tell him to attend to what will endure for him with God.

فَإِنَّ مَا بَقِيَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ بَقِيَ عِنْدَ النَّاسِ، وَمَا لَمْ يَبْقَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ لَمْ يَبْقَ عِنْدَ النَّاسِ»

faʾinna mā baqiya ʿinda Allāhi baqiya ʿinda al-nāsi, wamā lam yabqa ʿinda Allāhi lam yabqa ʿinda al-nāsi»

For what endures with God endures among people; what does not endure with God does not endure among people.’

١٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ قَالَ: كَتَبَتْ عَائِشَةُ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا،

191 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿurwata qāla: katabat ʿāʾishatu ʾilā muʿāwiyata riḍwānu Allāhi ʿalayhimā,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Hishām ibn ʿUrwa reported through an unnamed man from ʿUrwa, who said that ʿĀʾisha wrote to Muʿāwiya—may God be pleased with them both.

أَمَّا بَعْدُ: «فَاتَّقِ اللَّهَ؛ فَإِنَّكَ إِذَا اِتَّقَيْتَ اللَّهَ كَفَاكَ النَّاسَ، وَإِذَا اِتَّقَيْتَ النَّاسَ لَمْ يُغْنُوا عَنْكَ مِنَ اللَّهِ شَيْئًا»

ʾammā baʿdu: «fattaqi Allāha; faʾinnaka ʾidhā ittaqayta Allāha kafāka al-nāsa, waʾidhā ittaqayta al-nāsa lam yughnū ʿanka mina Allāhi shayʾan»

‘To proceed: Be mindful of God. If you are mindful of God, He will be enough for you against people; if you fear people, they will be of no use to you against God.’

١٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ وَاسِعٍ قَالَ: “ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِاِبْنِهِ:

192 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿan muḥammadi bni wāsiʿin qāla: “ qāla luqmānu libnihi:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān reported from Muḥammad ibn Wāsiʿ, who said: Luqmān said to his son:

يَا بُنَيَّ، اِتَّقِ اللَّهَ، وَلَا تُرِ النَّاسَ أَنَّكَ تَخْشَاهُ لِيُكْرِمُوكَ، وَقَلْبُكَ فَاجِرٌ ”

yā bunayya, ittaqi Allāha, walā turi al-nāsa ʾannaka takhshāhu liyukrimūka, waqalbuka fājirun ”

‘My son, be mindful of God. Do not make people think that you fear Him so that they will honor you while your heart is corrupt.’

١٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ غَزِيَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ: «أَشْكُو إِلَى اللَّهِ عَيْبِي مَا لَا أَتْرُكُ، وَنَعْتِي مَا لَا آتِي» ،

193 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿumārata bni ghaziyyata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿurwata bni al-zubayri qāla: «ʾashkū ʾilā Allāhi ʿaybī mā lā ʾatruku, wanaʿtī mā lā ʾātī» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb reported from ʿUmāra ibn Ghaziyya, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr, who said: ‘I complain to God that I fault what I do not give up and describe virtues I do not practice.’

وَقَالَ: «إِنَّمَا نَبْكِي بِالدِّينِ لِلدُّنْيَا»

waqāla: «ʾinnamā nabkī bi-l-dīni li-l-dunyā»

He also said: ‘We shed tears in the name of religion for the sake of worldly life.’

١٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ أُسَيْدٍ أَوْ أُسَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ مُقْبِلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ قَالَ: أَكْثَرَ النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ يَسْأَلُونَهُ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ أَكْثَرْتُمْ فِي أَرَأَيْتَ، أَرَأَيْتَ،

194 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin, ʿan ʾusaydin ʾaw ʾusaydi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan muqbili bni ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni yazīda al-laythiyyi qāla: ʾakthara al-nāsu ʿalayhi dhāta yawmin yasʾalūnahu, faqāla: «ʾinnakum qad ʾakthartum fī ʾaraʾayta, ʾaraʾayta,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh reported from Usayd—or Usayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—from Muqbil ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yazīd al-Laythī, who said: One day people crowded around him with questions. He said: ‘You have asked “What if? What if?” far too often.

لَا تَعْمَلُونَ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ تَرْجُونَ الثَّوَابَ مِنَ اللَّهِ،

lā taʿmalūna lighayri Allāhi tarjūna al-thawāba mina Allāhi,

Do not work for anyone other than God while expecting reward from God.

وَلَا يُعْجِبَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ عَمَلُهُ، وَإِنْ كَثُرَ، فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَبْلُغُ عَبْدٌ مِنْ عَظَمَةِ اللَّهِ كَقَائِمَةٍ مِنْ قَوَائِمَ ذُبَابٍ»

walā yuʿjibanna ʾaḥadakum ʿamaluhu, waʾin kathura, faʾinnahu lā yablughu ʿabdun min ʿaẓamati Allāhi kaqāʾimatin min qawāʾima dhubābin»

Let none of you admire his work, however abundant it may be. For no servant can attain even a fly's leg's worth of God's greatness.’

١٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ قَالَ: «يَسُرُّنِي أَنْ يَكُونَ لِي فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ نِيَّةٌ حَتَّى فِي الْأَكْلِ وَالنَّوْمِ»

195 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan zubaydin qāla: «yasurrunī ʾan yakūna lī fī kulli shayʾin niyyatun ḥattā fī al-ʾakli wa-l-nawmi»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Zubayd, who said: ‘I would like to have an intention in everything I do, even in eating and sleeping.’

١٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: دَخَلْنَا عَلَى الْحَسَنِ يَوْمًا فَمَلَأْنَا عَلَيْهِ سَطْحَهُ، فَنَظَرَ فِي وُجُوهِ الْقَوْمِ، فَقَالَ:

196 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: dakhalnā ʿalā al-ḥasani yawman famalaʾnā ʿalayhi saṭḥahu, fanaẓara fī wujūhi al-qawmi, faqāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: We visited al-Ḥasan one day and filled the rooftop around him. He looked over the faces of the people and said:

«أَرَى عَيْنًا، وَلَا أَرَى أُنْسًا مَعْرِفَةً، وَلَا صِدْقَ قَوْلٍ، وَلَا فِعْلَ، صُورَةً تَلْبَسُ الثِّيَابَ»

«ʾarā ʿaynan, walā ʾarā ʾunsan maʿrifatan, walā ṣidqa qawlin, walā fiʿla, ṣūratan talbasu al-thiyāba»

‘I see eyes, yet find no fellowship born of understanding, no truthfulness in speech and no deeds—only forms clothed in garments.’

١٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:

197 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni al-mukhtāri, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from Yaḥyā ibn al-Mukhtār, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

«إِذَا شِئْتَ لَقِيتَهُ أَبْيَضَ بَضًّا حَدِيدَ اللِّسَانِ، حَدِيدَ النُّطْقِ، مَيِّتَ الْقَلْبِ وَالْعَمَلِ، أَنْتَ أَبْصَرُ بِهِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ،

«ʾidhā shiʾta laqītahu ʾabyaḍa baḍḍan ḥadīda al-lisāni, ḥadīda al-nuṭqi, mayyita al-qalbi wa-l-ʿamali, ʾanta ʾabṣaru bihi min nafsihi,

‘Whenever you wish, you can find someone fair and fresh-faced, sharp-tongued and quick to speak, yet dead in heart and deed. You can see through him more clearly than he sees himself.

تَرَى أَبْدَانًا وَلَا تَرَى قُلُوبًا، وَتَسْمَعُ الصَّوْتَ وَلَا أَنِيسَ، أَخْصَبَ أَلْسِنَةٍ، وَأَجْدَبَ قُلُوبًا»

tarā ʾabdānan walā tarā qulūban, watasmaʿu al-ṣawta walā ʾanīsa, ʾakhṣaba ʾalsinatin, waʾajdaba qulūban»

You see bodies but no hearts, and hear voices but find no companion: tongues rich and flourishing, hearts dry and barren.’

١٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ شَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ:

198 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan sulaymāna al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan shaqīqi bni salamata qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, from Shaqīq ibn Salama, who said:

“ مَثَلُ قُرَّاءِ هَذَا الزَّمَانِ كَغَنَمٍ ضَوَائِنَ، ذَاتِ صُوفٍ، عِجَافٍ، أَكَلَتْ مِنَ الْحَمْضِ، وَشَرِبَتْ مِنَ الْمَاءِ، حَتَّى اِنْتَفَخَتْ خَوَاصِرُهَا،

“ mathalu qurrāʾi hādhā al-zamāni kaghanamin ḍawāʾina, dhāti ṣūfin, ʿijāfin, ʾakalat mina al-ḥamḍi, washaribat mina al-māʾi, ḥattā intafakhat khawāṣiruhā,

‘The Qurʾān reciters of this age are like woolly sheep, gaunt beneath their fleece. They ate salt plants and drank water until their flanks swelled.

فَمَرَّتْ بِرَجُلٍ فَأَعْجَبَتْهُ، فَقَامَ إِلَيْهَا فَعَبَطَ شَاةً مِنْهَا، فَإِذَا هِيَ لَا تُنْقِي، ثُمَّ عَبَطَ أُخْرَى فَهِيَ كَذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: أُفٍّ لَكِ سَائِرَ الْيَوْمَ ”

famarrat birajulin faʾaʿjabathu, faqāma ʾilayhā faʿabaṭa shātan minhā, faʾidhā hiya lā tunqī, thumma ʿabaṭa ʾukhrā fahiya kadhālika, faqāla: ʾuffin laki sāʾira al-yawma ”

As they passed a man, he liked the look of them. He went up and slaughtered one sheep, only to find it had no marrow. He slaughtered another and found the same. He said, “Away with you for the rest of today!”’

١٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ الْوَرْدِ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ، قَالَ: كَتَبَ مُعَاوِيَةُ إِلَى عَائِشَةَ: أَنِ اُكْتُبِي إِلَيَّ بِكِتَابٍ تُوصِينِي فِيهِ، وَلَا تُكْثِرِي عَلَيَّ،

199 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-wahhābi bnu al-wardi, ʿan rajulin min ʾahli al-madīnati, qāla: kataba muʿāwiyatu ʾilā ʿāʾishata: ʾani uktubī ʾilayya bikitābin tūṣīnī fīhi, walā tukthirī ʿalayya,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ward reported from an unnamed man of Medina, who said: Muʿāwiya wrote to ʿĀʾisha, asking her to send him a letter of advice and keep it brief.

فَكَتَبَتْ: عَنْ عَائِشَةَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ: سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ، أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

fakatabat: ʿan ʿāʾishata ʾilā muʿāwiyata: salāmun ʿalayka, ʾammā baʿdu, faʾinnī samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

She wrote: ‘From ʿĀʾisha to Muʿāwiya: Peace be upon you. To proceed, I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say:

«مَنِ اِلْتَمَسَ رِضَا اللَّهِ بِسَخَطِ النَّاسِ كَفَاهُ اللَّهُ مُؤْنَةَ النَّاسِ،

«mani iltamasa riḍā Allāhi bisakhaṭi al-nāsi kafāhu Allāhu muʾnata al-nāsi,

“Whoever seeks God's approval despite people's displeasure, God will spare him the trouble they can cause.

وَمَنِ اِلْتَمَسَ رِضَا النَّاسِ بِسَخَطِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَكَّلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى النَّاسِ» ،

wamani iltamasa riḍā al-nāsi bisakhaṭi Allāhi ʿazza wajalla wakkalahu Allāhu ʿazza wajalla ʾilā al-nāsi» ,

Whoever seeks people's approval at the cost of God's displeasure, God, Mighty and Majestic, will leave him to those people.”

وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ

wa-l-salāmu ʿalayka

Peace be upon you.’

٢٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَنْبَسَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ ذَرِيحٍ قَالَ: كَتَبَتْ عَائِشَةُ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا:

200 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿanbasatu bnu saʿīdin, ʿan ʿabbāsi bni dharīḥin qāla: katabat ʿāʾishatu ʾilā muʿāwiyata raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhumā:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAnbasa ibn Saʿīd reported from ʿAbbās ibn Dharīḥ, who said that ʿĀʾisha wrote to Muʿāwiya—may God be pleased with them both:

«أَنَّهُ مَنْ يَعْمَلُ بِمَعَاصِي اللَّهِ يَصِيرُ حَامِدُهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ ذَامًّا»

«ʾannahu man yaʿmalu bimaʿāṣī Allāhi yaṣīru ḥāmiduhu mina al-nāsi dhāmman»

‘The one who acts in disobedience to God will find that people who used to praise him become his critics.’

٢٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ رَجَاءٍ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ الشَّامِيِّ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ وَعُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا، دُعِيَا إِلَى الطَّعَامِ فَأَجَابَا،

201 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan rajāʾin ʾabī al-miqdāmi al-shāmiyyi, ʿan ḥumaydi bni nuʿaymin, ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi waʿuthmāna bna ʿaffāna riḍwānu Allāhi ʿalayhimā, duʿiyā ʾilā al-ṭaʿāmi faʾajābā,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ḥammād ibn Salama reported from Rajāʾ Abū al-Miqdām al-Shāmī, from Ḥumayd ibn Nuʿaym: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān—may God be pleased with them both—were invited to a meal and accepted.

فَلَمَّا خَرَجَا قَالَ عُمَرُ لِعُثْمَانَ: «لَقَدْ شَهِدْتُ طَعَامًا وَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي لَمْ أَشْهَدْهُ» ،

falammā kharajā qāla ʿumaru liʿuthmāna: «laqad shahidtu ṭaʿāman wawadidtu ʾannī lam ʾashhadhu» ,

As they were leaving, ʿUmar said to ʿUthmān: ‘I attended a meal today and wish I had not.’

قَالَ: وَمَا ذَاكَ؟ قَالَ: «خَشِيتُ أَنْ يَكُونَ جُعِلَ مُبَاهَاةً»

qāla: wamā dhāka? qāla: «khashītu ʾan yakūna juʿila mubāhātan»

He asked: ‘Why?’ ʿUmar replied: ‘I feared it had been prepared for display.’

ذَكَرَهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ مِنْ طَرِيقِ ضَمْرَةَ، عَنْ رَجَاءَ فِي تَرْجَمَةِ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍ

dhakarahu al-bukhāriyyu min ṭarīqi ḍamrata, ʿan rajāʾa fī tarjamati ḥumaydi bni nuʿaymin

Al-Bukhārī mentioned it through Ḍamra, from Rajāʾ, in his biographical entry on Ḥumayd ibn Nuʿaym.

٢٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، أَوْ قَالَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ - وَكَانَ أَحَدَ الْحُكَمَاءِ - يَقُولُ فِي بَعْضِ قَوْلِهِ:

202 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥajjāju bnu shaddādin, ʾannahu samiʿa ʿubayda Allāhi bna ʾabī jaʿfarin, ʾaw qāla ʿabda Allāhi - wakāna ʾaḥada al-ḥukamāʾi - yaqūlu fī baʿḍi qawlihi:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Rishdīn ibn Saʿd said: Ḥajjāj ibn Shaddād reported to us that he heard ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar—or, he said, ʿAbd Allāh, one of the wise—say among his sayings:

«إِذَا كَانَ الْمَرْءُ يُحَدِّثُ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ فَأَعْجَبَهُ الْحَدِيثُ فَلْيَسْكُتْ،

«ʾidhā kāna al-marʾu yuḥaddithu fī al-majlisi faʾaʿjabahu al-ḥadīthu falyaskut,

‘If a person is speaking in a gathering and begins to admire his own words, let him fall silent.

وَإِذَا كَانَ سَاكِتًا فَأَعْجَبَهُ السُّكُوتُ فَلْيُحَدِّثْ»

waʾidhā kāna sākitan faʾaʿjabahu al-sukūtu falyuḥaddith»

And if he is silent and begins to admire his silence, let him speak.’

٢٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ إِيَاسٍ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ قَالَ: ذُكِرَ لِي،

203 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾiyāsin al-jurayriyyu, ʿan ʾabī al-ʿalāʾi qāla: dhukira lī,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Saʿīd ibn Iyās al-Jurayrī reported from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, who said: ‘It was mentioned to me:

“ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَبْدٌ يُصَلِّي فِي أَرْضٍ قِيٍّ، فَيُحْسِنُ الصَّلَاةَ،

“ ʾannahu laysa ʿabdun yuṣallī fī ʾarḍin qiyyin, fayuḥsinu al-ṣalāta,

There is no servant who prays in a lonely stretch of land and prays well

إِلَّا قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: هَذِهِ الصَّلَاةُ لِي، هَذَا يُصَلِّي وَلَا يَرَاهُ أَحَدٌ، وَلَا يُرَائِي أَحَدًا ”

ʾillā qāla Allāhu taʿālā: hādhihi al-ṣalātu lī, hādhā yuṣallī walā yarāhu ʾaḥadun, walā yurāʾī ʾaḥadan ”

without God Most High saying: “This prayer is for Me. He is praying where no one sees him and showing off to no one.”’

٢٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

204 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni yazīda, ʿani al-qāsimi, ʿan ʾabī ʾumāmata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb reported from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from Abū Umāma, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:

“ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: أَحَبُّ مَا تَعَبَّدَنِي بِهِ عَبْدِيَ إِلَيَّ النُّصْحُ ”

“ qāla Allāhu taʿālā: ʾaḥabbu mā taʿabbadanī bihi ʿabdiya ʾilayya al-nuṣḥu ”

‘God Most High said: “The worship of My servant dearest to Me is devoted sincerity.”’

٢٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، سَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ، فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ،

205 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan ʾisḥāqa bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī ṭalḥata, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: samiʿtu ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu, sallama ʿalayhi rajulun, faradda ʿalayhi al-salāma,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mālik ibn Anas reported from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥa, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: I heard ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, when a man greeted him. He returned the greeting.

وَقَالَ لِلرَّجُلِ: «كَيْفَ أَنْتَ؟» قَالَ الرَّجُلُ: أَحْمَدُ اللَّهَ إِلَيْكَ،

waqāla li-l-rajuli: «kayfa ʾanta?» qāla al-rajulu: ʾaḥmadu Allāha ʾilayka,

He asked the man: ‘How are you?’ The man replied: ‘I praise God to you.’

قَالَ عُمَرُ: «هَذِهِ أَرَدْتُ مِنْكَ»

qāla ʿumaru: «hādhihi ʾaradtu minka»

ʿUmar said: ‘That is what I wanted to hear from you.’

٢٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ: «إِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَنْ يُدْعَى إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ، الَّذِينَ يَحْمَدُونَ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ» ،

206 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿarun, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin qāla: «ʾinna ʾawwala man yudʿā ʾilā al-jannati, al-ladhīna yaḥmadūna Allāha ʿalā kulli ḥālin» ,

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Misʿar reported from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who said: ‘The first people called to Paradise will be those who praise God in every circumstance.’

أَوْ قَالَ: «فِي السَّرَّاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ»

ʾaw qāla: «fī al-sarrāʾi wa-l-ḍarrāʾi»

Or he said: ‘In prosperity and hardship.’

٢٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ:

207 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun, ʿan ʿalqamata bni marthadin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: An unnamed man reported from ʿAlqama ibn Marthad, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said:

«إِنْ كُنَّا لَعَلَّنَا أَنْ نَلْتَقِيَ فِي الْيَوْمِ مِرَارًا يَسْأَلُ بَعْضُنَا بِبَعْضٍ، وَأَنْ نَقْرُبَ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا لِنَحْمَدَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»

«ʾin kunnā laʿallanā ʾan naltaqiya fī al-yawmi mirāran yasʾalu baʿḍunā bibaʿḍin, waʾan naqruba dhālika ʾillā linaḥmada Allāha ʿazza wajalla»

‘We might meet several times in a day and ask after one another, even making a point of doing so only to praise God, Mighty and Majestic.’

٢٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: كَانَ أَبُو الْبَخْتَرِيِّ يَقُولُ: «لَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُطَاعُ، وَأَنِّي عَبْدٌ مَمْلُوكٌ»

208 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: kāna ʾabū al-bakhtariyyi yaqūlu: «lawadidtu ʾanna Allāha taʿālā yuṭāʿu, waʾannī ʿabdun mamlūkun»

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān said: Abū al-Bakhtarī used to say: ‘I would love God to be obeyed, even if I myself were an enslaved servant.’

٢٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الْفُرَافِصَةِ قَالَ: قَالَ بُدَيْلٌ:

209 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: kataba ʾilayya ḥajjāju bnu al-furāfiṣati qāla: qāla budaylun:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān said: Ḥajjāj ibn al-Furāfiṣa wrote to me that Budayl said:

«مَنْ عَرَفَ رَبَّهُ أَحَبَّهُ، وَمَنْ عَرَفَ الدُّنْيَا زَهِدَ فِيهَا، وَالْمُؤْمِنُ لَا يَلْهُو حَتَّى يَغْفُلَ، وَإِنْ تَفَكَّرَ حَزِنَ»

«man ʿarafa rabbahu ʾaḥabbahu, waman ʿarafa al-dunyā zahida fīhā, wa-l-muʾminu lā yalhū ḥattā yaghfula, waʾin tafakkara ḥazina»

‘Whoever knows his Lord loves Him, and whoever knows the world turns away from it. A believer does not play until he loses awareness; when he reflects, he grieves.’

٢١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:

210 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān reported from al-Ḥasan, who said:

«إِنَّ فِي بَعْضِ الْكُتُبِ اِبْنَ آدَمَ، تَدْعُو إِلَيَّ وَتَفِرُّ مِنِّي، وَتَذْكُرُنِي وَتَنْسَانِي»

«ʾinna fī baʿḍi al-kutubi ibna ʾādama, tadʿū ʾilayya watafirru minnī, watadhkurunī watansānī»

‘Some writings say: “Child of Adam, you call [others] toward Me yet flee from Me; you mention Me and forget Me.”’

٢١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:

211 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʿan jaʿfari bni ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: From Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

«اِبْنَ آدَمَ ، تُبْصِرُ الْقَذَى فِي عَيْنِ أَخِيكَ، وَتَدَعُ الْجِذْلَ الْمُعْتَرِضَ فِي عَيْنَيْكَ»

«ibna ʾādama , tubṣiru al-qadhā fī ʿayni ʾakhīka, watadaʿu al-jidhla al-muʿtariḍa fī ʿaynayka»

‘Child of Adam, you see the speck in your brother's eye but leave the great piece of timber lying across your own eyes.’

٢١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الرَّازِيُّ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ رَوْحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حِمْيَرٍ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الْأَصَمِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

212 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿawfin al-ḥimṣiyyu, wamuḥammadu bnu ʾidrīsa al-rāziyyu ʾabū ḥātimin, qālā: ḥaddathanā al-rabīʿu bnu rawḥin qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ḥimyarin, ʿan jaʿfari bni burqāna, ʿan yazīda al-ʾaṣammi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported: Ibn Ṣāʿid said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ḥimṣī and Abū Ḥātim Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Rāzī related to us. Both said: al-Rabīʿ ibn Rawḥ related to us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥimyar related to us, from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, from Yazīd al-Aṣamm, from Abū Hurayra, who said that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“ يُبْصِرُ أَحَدُكُمُ الْقَذَى فِي عَيْنِ أَخِيهِ، وَيَنْسَى الْجِذْعَ أَوْ قَالَ: الْجِذْلَ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ ”

“ yubṣiru ʾaḥadukumu al-qadhā fī ʿayni ʾakhīhi, wayansā al-jidhʿa ʾaw qāla: al-jidhla fī ʿaynayhi ”

‘One of you sees a speck in his brother's eye but forgets the beam—or, he said, the stout piece of wood—in his own two eyes.’