كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ وَالرَّقَائِقِ
Kitāb al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqāʾiq
Remembrance, Mortality, and Reflection
Chapters 10–19
بَابُ تَعْظِيمِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
bābu taʿẓīmi dhikri Allāhi ʿazza wajalla
Chapter on honoring the remembrance of God, Mighty and Majestic.
٢١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ، عَنْ خُنَاسِ بْنِ سُحَيْمٍ أَوْ قَالَ: جَبَلَةَ بْنِ سُحَيْمٍ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ شَكَّ،
213 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sharīku bnu ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa al-shaybāniyyi, ʿan khunāsi bni suḥaymin ʾaw qāla: jabalata bni suḥaymin ʾabū muḥammadin shakka,
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh reported from Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, from Khunās ibn Suḥaym—or, he said, Jabala ibn Suḥaym; Abū Muḥammad was unsure.
قَالَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ: «وَالصَّوَابُ جَبَلَةُ»
qāla ʾabū muḥammadin: «wa-l-ṣawābu jabalatu»
Abū Muḥammad said: ‘Jabala is the correct name.’
قَالَ: أَقْبَلْتُ مَعَ زِيَادِ بْنِ حُدَيْرٍ الْأَسَدِيِّ مِنِ الْكُنَاسَةِ، فَقُلْتُ فِي كَلَامِي: لَا وَالْأَمَانَةِ، فَجَعَلَ زِيَادٌ يَبْكِي وَيَبْكِي، فَظَنَنْتُ أَنِّي أَتَيْتُ أَمْرًا عَظِيمًا،
qāla: ʾaqbaltu maʿa ziyādi bni ḥudayrin al-ʾasadiyyi mini al-kunāsati, faqultu fī kalāmī: lā wa-l-ʾamānati, fajaʿala ziyādun yabkī wayabkī, faẓanantu ʾannī ʾataytu ʾamran ʿaẓīman,
The latter said: ‘I was returning from al-Kunāsa with Ziyād ibn Ḥudayr al-Asadī. In the course of speaking I said, “No, by the trust!” Ziyād began to weep and kept weeping. I thought I had done something grave.
فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: أَكَانَ يُكْرَهُ هَذَا؟ قَالَ : «نَعَمْ، كَانَ يُنْهَى عَنِ الْحَلِفِ بِالْأَمَانَةِ أَشَدَّ النَّهْيِ»
faqultu lahu: ʾakāna yukrahu hādhā? qāla : «naʿam, kāna yunhā ʿani al-ḥalifi bi-l-ʾamānati ʾashadda al-nahyi»
I asked him, “Was that disapproved of?” He replied, “Yes. Swearing by the trust was forbidden in the strongest terms.”’
٢١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ قَالَ:
214 - 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 thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan muṭarrifin qāla:
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 Thābit al-Bunānī, from Muṭarrif, who said:
“ لِيَعْظُمْ جَلَالُ اللَّهِ فِي صُدُورِكُمْ، فَلَا تَذْكُرُوهُ عِنْدَ مِثْلِ هَذَا: قَوْلُ أَحَدِكُمْ لِلْكَلْبِ، اللَّهُمَّ أَخْزِهِ، وَلِلْحِمَارِ وَالشَّاةِ ”
“ liyaʿẓum jalālu Allāhi fī ṣudūrikum, falā tadhkurūhu ʿinda mithli hādhā: qawlu ʾaḥadikum li-l-kalbi, Allāhumma ʾakhzihi, wali-l-ḥimāri wa-l-shāti ”
‘Let God's majesty be great in your hearts. Do not invoke Him over things such as one of you saying to a dog, “O God, disgrace it!”—or saying it of a donkey or a sheep.’
٢١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
215 - 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 jābirin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from Jābir, from ʿAṭāʾ, concerning the words of God Most High:
{وَمَنْ يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ} [الْحَجِّ: ٣٢] اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ، قَالَ: «الْمَعَاصِي»
{waman yuʿaẓẓim shaʿāʾira} [al-ḥajji: 32] Allāhi faʾinnahā min taqwā al-qulūbi, qāla: «al-maʿāṣī»
‘Whoever honors the rites of God, that is among the piety of hearts’ [al-Ḥajj 22:32]. He said: ‘Acts of disobedience.’
٢١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ، قَالَ:
216 - 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 rajulin min qurayshin, 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 a man of Quraysh, who said:
“ قَالَ مُوسَى صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: يَا رَبِّ، أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ أَهْلِكَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ أَهْلُكَ، قَالَ: هُمُ الْمُتَحَابُّونَ فِيَّ، الَّذِينَ يَعْمُرُونَ مَسَاجِدِي، وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونِي بِالْأَسْحَارِ،
“ qāla mūsā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: yā rabbi, ʾakhbirnī ʿan ʾahlika al-ladhīna hum ʾahluka, qāla: humu al-mutaḥābbūna fiyya, al-ladhīna yaʿmurūna masājidī, wayastaghfirūnī bi-l-ʾasḥāri,
‘Moses, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “My Lord, tell me about those who are Yours—those who truly belong to You.” He replied: “Those who love one another for My sake, who fill My places of worship, and who seek My forgiveness in the hours before dawn.
الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرْتُ ذُكِرُوا بِي، وَإِذَا ذُكِرُوا ذُكِرْتُ بِهِمْ،
al-ladhīna ʾidhā dhukirtu dhukirū bī, waʾidhā dhukirū dhukirtu bihim,
When I am mentioned, they are recalled through Me; and when they are mentioned, I am recalled through them.
هُمُ الَّذِينَ يُنِيبُونَ إِلَى طَاعَتِي كَمَا تُنِيبُ النُّسُورُ إِلَى وُكُورِهَا، الَّذِينَ إِذَا اُسْتُحِلَّتْ مَحَارِمِي غَضِبُوا كَمَا يَغْضَبُ النَّمِرُ إِذَا حَرِبَ ”
humu al-ladhīna yunībūna ʾilā ṭāʿatī kamā tunību al-nusūru ʾilā wukūrihā, al-ladhīna ʾidhā ustuḥillat maḥārimī ghaḍibū kamā yaghḍabu al-namiru ʾidhā ḥariba ”
They return to obedience to Me as eagles return to their nests. When what I have made sacred is treated as lawful, they grow angry, as a leopard does when it has been robbed.”’
٢١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، وَمِسْعَرُ بْنُ كِدَامٍ، عَنْ أَبِي أَسَدٍ، وَقَالَ: اِبْنُ حَيْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي أَنَسٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، قَالَ: سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
217 - 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 mighwalin, wamisʿaru bnu kidāmin, ʿan ʾabī ʾasadin, waqāla: ibnu ḥaywata, ʿan ʾabī ʾanasin, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, qāla: suʾila 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: Mālik ibn Mighwal and Misʿar ibn Kidām reported from Abū Asad; Ibn Ḥaywa's wording says Abū Anas. He reported from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who said that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked:
مَنْ أَوْلِيَاءُ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «الَّذِينَ إِذَا رُؤُوا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
man ʾawliyāʾu Allāhi? qāla: «al-ladhīna ʾidhā ruʾū dhukira Allāhu ʿazza wajalla»
‘Who are the friends of God?’ He replied: ‘Those whose sight calls God, Mighty and Majestic, to mind.’
٢١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ شِهَابِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ الْقَزْوِينِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سَابِقٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ يَعْنِي الْقُمِّيُّ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
218 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā kathīru bnu shihābi bni ʿāṣimin al-qazwīniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu saʿīdi bni sābiqin qāla: ḥaddathanā yaʿqūbu al-ʾashʿariyyu yaʿnī al-qummiyyu, ʿan jaʿfari bni ʾabī al-mughīrati, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from Kathīr ibn Shihāb ibn ʿĀṣim al-Qazwīnī, from Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Sābiq, from Yaʿqūb al-Ashʿarī—that is, al-Qummī—from Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīra, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
قَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَنْ أَوْلِيَاءُ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «الَّذِينَ إِذَا رُؤُوا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى»
qāla rajulun: yā rasūla Allāhi, man ʾawliyāʾu Allāhi? qāla: «al-ladhīna ʾidhā ruʾū dhukira Allāhu taʿālā»
A man asked: ‘Messenger of God, who are the friends of God?’ He replied: ‘Those whose sight calls God Most High to mind.’
٢١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَهْرَبٍ، وَغَيْرُهُ، أَنَّهُمْ سَمِعُوا وَهْبَ بْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ يَقُولُ: “ قَالَ حَكِيمٌ مِنَ الْحُكَمَاءِ:
219 - 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 ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni mahrabin, waghayruhu, ʾannahum samiʿū wahba bna munabbihin yaqūlu: “ qāla ḥakīmun mina al-ḥukamāʾi:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahrab and others reported that they heard Wahb ibn Munabbih say: A wise man said:
إِنِّي لَأَسْتَحْيِي مِنْ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ أَعْبُدَهُ رَجَاءَ ثَوَابِ الْجَنَّةِ، فَأَكُونَ كَالْأَجِيرِ إِنْ أُعْطِيَ أَجْرًا عَمِلَ، وَإِلَّا لَمْ يَعْمَلْ،
ʾinnī laʾastaḥyī min rabbī ʿazza wajalla ʾan ʾaʿbudahu rajāʾa thawābi al-jannati, faʾakūna ka-l-ʾajīri ʾin ʾuʿṭiya ʾajran ʿamila, waʾillā lam yaʿmal,
‘I would be ashamed before my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, to worship Him for the reward of Paradise. Then I would be like a hired worker who works if given wages and stops if not.
وَإِنِّي لَأَسْتَحْيِي مِنْ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ أَعْبُدَهُ مَخَافَةَ النَّارِ، فَأَكُونَ كَعَبْدِ السُّوءِ، إِنْ رَهِبَ عَمِلَ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَرْهَبْ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ،
waʾinnī laʾastaḥyī min rabbī ʿazza wajalla ʾan ʾaʿbudahu makhāfata al-nāri, faʾakūna kaʿabdi al-sūʾi, ʾin rahiba ʿamila, waʾin lam yarhab lam yaʿmal,
I would also be ashamed before my Lord to worship Him from fear of the Fire. Then I would be like a bad servant who works when he is afraid but stops when he is not.
وَلَكِنِّي - وَقَالَ: اِبْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ وَلَكِنْ - أَعْبُدُهُ كَمَا هُوَ لَهُ أَهْلٌ ”،
walākinnī - waqāla: ibnu ḥayawayhi walākin - ʾaʿbuduhu kamā huwa lahu ʾahlun ”,
Instead I worship Him as He deserves.’ Ibn Ḥayawayh transmitted ‘but’ in place of ‘instead I’ at this point.
قَالَ: وَقَالَ: عُمَرُ، عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ: وَلَكِنْ يَسْتَخْرِجُ مِنِّي حُبُّ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، مَا لَمْ يَسْتَخْرِجْ مِنِّي غَيْرُهُ
qāla: waqāla: ʿumaru, ʿan wahbi bni munabbihin: walākin yastakhriju minnī ḥubbu rabbī ʿazza wajalla, mā lam yastakhrij minnī ghayruhu
He also said: ʿUmar reported from Wahb ibn Munabbih: ‘Rather, love of my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, draws from me what nothing else can draw.’
٢٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرِ بْنِ عُطَارِدَ بْنِ حَاجِبٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ فِي مَلَأٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ، فَنَكَتَ فِي ظَهْرِهِ، قَالَ:
220 - 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 ʾabī ʿimrāna al-jawniyyi, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿumayri bni ʿuṭārida bni ḥājibin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna fī malaʾin min ʾaṣḥābihi, faʾatāhu jabraʾīlu, fanakata fī ẓahrihi, qāla:
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 Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from Muḥammad ibn ʿUmayr ibn ʿUṭārid ibn Ḥājib: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was among a group of his Companions when Gabriel came and prodded him in the back. He said:
“ فَذَهَبَ بِي إِلَى شَجَرَةٍ فِيهَا مِثْلُ وَكْرَيِ الطَّيْرِ، فَقَعَدَ فِي إِحْدَاهُمَا، وَقَعَدْتُ فِي أُخْرَى،
“ fadhahaba bī ʾilā shajaratin fīhā mithlu wakrayi al-ṭayri, faqaʿada fī ʾiḥdāhumā, waqaʿadtu fī ʾukhrā,
‘He took me to a tree that had two places like birds' nests. He sat in one and I sat in the other.
فَنَشَأَتْ بِنَا حَتَّى مَلَأَتِ الْأُفُقَ، فَلَوْ بَسَطْتُ يَدِي إِلَى السَّمَاءِ لَنِلْتُهَا،
fanashaʾat binā ḥattā malaʾati al-ʾufuqa, falaw basaṭtu yadī ʾilā al-samāʾi laniltuhā,
The tree rose with us until it filled the horizon. Had I stretched out my hand toward the sky, I could have reached it.
ثُمَّ دُلِّيَ بِسَبَبٍ فَهَبَطَ النُّورُ، فَوَقَعَ جَبْرَئِيلُ مَغْشِيًّا عَلَيْهِ، كَأَنَّهُ حِلْسٌ، فَعَرَفْتُ فَضْلَ خَشْيَتِهِ عَلَى خَشْيَتِي،
thumma dulliya bisababin fahabaṭa al-nūru, fawaqaʿa jabraʾīlu maghshiyyan ʿalayhi, kaʾannahu ḥilsun, faʿaraftu faḍla khashyatihi ʿalā khashyatī,
Then a cord was lowered, and the light came down. Gabriel fell unconscious, like a felt mat spread on the ground. I realized that his awe of God surpassed mine.
فَأُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ: أَنَبِيًّا عَبْدًا أَمْ نَبِيًّا مَلِكًا؟ فَإِلَى الْجَنَّةِ مَا أَنْتَ،
faʾūḥiya ʾilayya: ʾanabiyyan ʿabdan ʾam nabiyyan malikan? faʾilā al-jannati mā ʾanta,
A revelation came to me: “A servant who is a prophet, or a king who is a prophet? And Paradise is yours, whichever you are.”
فَأَوْمَأَ جَبْرَئِيلُ وَهُوَ مُضْطَجِعٌ: بَلْ نَبِيٌّ عَبْدٌ ”
faʾawmaʾa jabraʾīlu wahuwa muḍṭajiʿun: bal nabiyyun ʿabdun ”
As Gabriel lay there, he signaled: “Choose a servant who is a prophet.”’
٢٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَأَلَ جَبْرَئِيلَ أَنْ يَتَرَاءَى لَهُ فِي صُورَتِهِ، فَقَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ: إِنَّكَ لَنْ تُطِيقَ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: «إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ» ،
221 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-laythu bnu saʿdin, ʿan ʿuqaylin, ʿani ibni shihābin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama saʾala jabraʾīla ʾan yatarāʾā lahu fī ṣūratihi, faqāla jabraʾīlu: ʾinnaka lan tuṭīqa dhālika, faqāla: «ʾinnī ʾuḥibbu ʾan tafʿala» ,
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: al-Layth ibn Saʿd reported from ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, asked Gabriel to appear to him in his own form. Gabriel said that he would not be able to bear it. The Prophet replied, ‘I would like you to do so.’
فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى الْمُصَلَّى فِي لَيْلَةٍ مُقْمِرَةٍ، فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ فِي صُورَتِهِ، فَغُشِيَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حِينَ رَآهُ،
fakharaja rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾilā al-muṣallā fī laylatin muqmiratin, faʾatāhu jabraʾīlu fī ṣūratihi, faghushiya ʿalā rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥīna raʾāhu,
On a moonlit night the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, went out to the place of prayer. Gabriel came to him in his own form, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, fainted when he saw him.
ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ وَجَبْرَئِيلُ مُسْنِدُهُ، وَوَاضِعٌ إِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ وَالْأُخْرَى بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ مَا كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنَّ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْخَلْقِ هَكَذَا» ،
thumma ʾafāqa wajabraʾīlu musniduhu, wawāḍiʿun ʾiḥdā yadayhi ʿalā ṣadrihi wa-l-ʾukhrā bayna katifayhi, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «subḥāna Allāhi mā kuntu ʾarā ʾanna shayʾan mina al-khalqi hākadhā» ,
When he came to, Gabriel was supporting him, with one hand on his chest and the other between his shoulders. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘Glory be to God! I had not imagined that any created being could be like this.’
فَقَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ: كَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَيْتَ إِسْرَافِيلَ؟ إِنَّ لَهُ اِثْنَيْ عَشَرَ جَنَاحًا، جَنَاحٌ مِنْهَا فِي الْمَشْرِقِ، وَجَنَاحٌ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ،
faqāla jabraʾīlu: kayfa law raʾayta ʾisrāfīla? ʾinna lahu ithnay ʿashara janāḥan, janāḥun minhā fī al-mashriqi, wajanāḥun fī al-maghribi,
Gabriel replied: ‘What if you saw Isrāfīl? He has twelve wings: one stretches to the east and another to the west.
وَإِنَّ الْعَرْشَ لَعَلَى كَاهِلِهِ، وَإِنَّهُ لَيَتَضَاءَلُ الْأَحْيَانَ لِعَظَمَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى حَتَّى يَصِيرَ مِثْلَ الْوَصَعِ، وَالْوَصَعُ: عُصْفُورٌ صَغِيرٌ، حَتَّى مَا تَحْمِلُ عَرْشَهُ إِلَّا عَظَمَتُهُ
waʾinna al-ʿarsha laʿalā kāhilihi, waʾinnahu layataḍāʾalu al-ʾaḥyāna liʿaẓamati Allāhi taʿālā ḥattā yaṣīra mithla al-waṣaʿi, wa-l-waṣaʿu: ʿuṣfūrun ṣaghīrun, ḥattā mā taḥmilu ʿarshahu ʾillā ʿaẓamatuhu
The Throne rests upon his shoulder. At times, in awe of God's greatness, he grows so small that he becomes like a waṣaʿ—a tiny sparrow—until nothing but His greatness bears His Throne.’
٢٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ قَالَ:
222 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī rawwādin qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported: Yaḥyā related to us, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād said:
“ إِنَّ مِنْ دُعَاءِ الْمَلَائِكَةِ: مَا لَمْ يَبْلُغْهُ قُلُوبُنَا مِنْ خَشْيَتِكَ يَوْمَ نِقْمَتِكَ مِنْ أَعْدَائِكَ، فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا ” أَوْ نَحْوَ هَذَا
“ ʾinna min duʿāʾi al-malāʾikati: mā lam yablughhu qulūbunā min khashyatika yawma niqmatika min ʾaʿdāʾika, faghfir lanā ” ʾaw naḥwa hādhā
‘Among the angels' prayers is: “Forgive us for what our hearts have not attained of awe of You on the day You punish Your enemies.”’ Or words to that effect.
٢٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ قَالَ: اِبْنُ الْوَرَّاقِ بْنُ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ:
223 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿuthmānu bnu al-ʾaswadi qāla: ibnu al-warrāqi bnu ʾabī al-ʾaswadi, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿUthmān ibn al-Aswad related to us—Ibn al-Warrāq says ‘ibn Abī al-Aswad’—from ʿAṭāʾ, who said:
“ قَالَ مُوسَى: أَيْ رَبِّ، أَيُّ عِبَادِكَ أَخْشَى لَكَ؟ قَالَ: أَعْلَمُهُمْ بِي ”
“ qāla mūsā: ʾay rabbi, ʾayyu ʿibādika ʾakhshā laka? qāla: ʾaʿlamuhum bī ”
‘Moses asked, “My Lord, which of Your servants is most in awe of You?” He replied, “The one who knows Me best.”’
٢٢٤ - 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، عَنْ أَبِي عِيسَى - شَيْخٍ قَدِيمٍ -
224 - 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, ʿan ʾabī ʿīsā - shaykhin qadīmin -
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 Abū ʿĪsā, an elder of long standing:
“ أَنَّ مَلَكًا لَمَّا اِسْتَوَى الرَّبُّ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى عَلَى كُرْسِيِّهِ سَجَدَ، فَلَمْ يَرْفَعْ رَأْسَهُ، وَلَا يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ حَتَّى تَقُومَ السَّاعَةُ،
“ ʾanna malakan lammā istawā al-rabbu subḥānahu wataʿālā ʿalā kursiyyihi sajada, falam yarfaʿ raʾsahu, walā yarfaʿu raʾsahu ḥattā taqūma al-sāʿatu,
‘When the Lord, glorified and exalted, established Himself upon His Seat, an angel prostrated. He did not lift his head and will not lift it until the Hour arrives.
فَيَقُولُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ: يَا رَبِّ، لَمْ أَعْبُدْكَ حَقَّ عِبَادَتِكَ، إِلَّا أَنِّي لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِكَ شَيْئًا، وَلَمْ أَتَّخِذْ مِنْ دُونِكَ وَلِيًّا ”
fayaqūlu yawma al-qiyāmati: yā rabbi, lam ʾaʿbudka ḥaqqa ʿibādatika, ʾillā ʾannī lam ʾushrik bika shayʾan, walam ʾattakhidh min dūnika waliyyan ”
On the Day of Resurrection he will say: “My Lord, I have not worshipped You as You truly deserve. Yet I did not associate anything with You, nor take a protector besides You.”’
٢٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شُرَيْحُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْحَضَرِيُّ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ لِكَعْبٍ: خَوِّفْنَا يَا كَعْبُ، فَقَالَ:
225 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ṣafwānu bnu ʿamrin qāla: ḥaddathanī shurayḥu bnu ʿubaydin al-ḥaḍariyyu qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi likaʿbin: khawwifnā yā kaʿbu, faqāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr said: Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd al-Ḥaḍarī told me that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said to Kaʿb, ‘Make us feel the fear of God, Kaʿb.’ Kaʿb said:
“ وَاللَّهِ إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَلَائِكَةً قِيَامًا مُنْذُ خَلَقَهُمُ اللَّهُ، مَا ثَنَوْا أَصْلَابَهُمْ، وَآخَرِينَ رُكُوعًا، مَا رَفَعُوا أَصْلَابَهُمْ، وَآخَرِينَ سُجُودًا، مَا رَفَعُوا رُءُوسَهُمْ حَتَّى يُنْفَخَ فِي الصُّورِ النَّفْخَةَ الْآخِرَةَ،
“ wa-llāhi ʾinna li-llāhi malāʾikatan qiyāman mundhu khalaqahumu Allāhu, mā thanaw ʾaṣlābahum, waʾākharīna rukūʿan, mā rafaʿū ʾaṣlābahum, waʾākharīna sujūdan, mā rafaʿū ruʾūsahum ḥattā yunfakha fī al-ṣūri al-nafkhata al-ʾākhirata,
‘By God, some angels have stood since God created them and have never bent their backs. Others have remained bowed and never straightened their backs. Still others have remained prostrate and never raised their heads until the last blast of the Trumpet.
فَيَقُولُونَ جَمِيعًا: سُبْحَانَكَ وَبِحَمْدِكَ، مَا عَبَدْنَاكَ كَكُنْهِ مَا يَنْبَغِي لَكَ أَنْ تُعْبَدَ ”،
fayaqūlūna jamīʿan: subḥānaka wabiḥamdika, mā ʿabadnāka kakunhi mā yanbaghī laka ʾan tuʿbada ”,
Together they will say: “Glory and praise be to You. We have not worshipped You as fully as You deserve.”’
ثُمَّ قَالَ: “ وَاللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ لِرَجُلٍ يَوْمَئِذٍ كَعَمَلِ سَبْعِينَ نَبِيًّا، لَاسْتَقَلَّ عَمَلَهُ مِنْ شِدَّةِ مَا يُرَى يَوْمَئِذٍ،
thumma qāla: “ wa-llāhi law ʾanna lirajulin yawmaʾidhin kaʿamali sabʿīna nabiyyan, lastaqalla ʿamalahu min shiddati mā yurā yawmaʾidhin,
Then he said: ‘By God, if a person on that day had deeds equal to those of seventy prophets, they would still consider those deeds little in the face of what they would see.
وَاللَّهِ لَوْ دُلِّيَ مِنْ غِسْلِينَ دَلْوٌ وَاحِدٌ فِي مَطْلَعِ الشَّمْسِ، لَفُلَّتْ مِنْهُ جَمَاجِمُ قَوْمٍ فِي مَغْرِبِهَا،
wa-llāhi law dulliya min ghislīna dalwun wāḥidun fī maṭlaʿi al-shamsi, lafullat minhu jamājimu qawmin fī maghribihā,
By God, if a single bucket of ghislīn were lowered where the sun rises, it would crack the skulls of people where the sun sets.
وَاللَّهِ لَتَزْفُرَنَّ جَهَنَّمُ زَفْرَةً لَا يَبْقَى مَلَكٌ مُقَرَّبٌ، وَلَا غَيْرُهُ إِلَّا خَرَّ جَاذِيًا - أَوْ جَاثِيًا - عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ يَقُولُ: نَفْسِي نَفْسِي، وَحَتَّى نَبِيِّنَا وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَإِسْحَاقَ، يَقُولُ: رَبِّ أَنَا خَلِيلُكَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ”،
wa-llāhi latazfuranna jahannamu zafratan lā yabqā malakun muqarrabun, walā ghayruhu ʾillā kharra jādhiyan - ʾaw jāthiyan - ʿalā rukbatayhi yaqūlu: nafsī nafsī, waḥattā nabiyyinā waʾibrāhīma, waʾisḥāqa, yaqūlu: rabbi ʾanā khalīluka ʾibrāhīma ”,
By God, Hell will roar so fiercely that every angel close to God and everyone else will fall to their knees—jādhiyan or jāthiyan—crying, “Myself, myself!” Even our Prophet, Abraham, and Isaac [would be overcome]; Abraham would say, “My Lord, I am Your intimate friend, Abraham.”’
قَالَ: فَأَبْكَى الْقَوْمَ حَتَّى نَشَجُوا، فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ عُمَرُ، قَالَ: يَا كَعْبُ، بَشِّرْنَا، فَقَالَ:
qāla: faʾabkā al-qawma ḥattā nashajū, falammā raʾā dhālika ʿumaru, qāla: yā kaʿbu, bashshirnā, faqāla:
The people began to weep until they sobbed. Seeing this, ʿUmar said, ‘Kaʿb, give us some good news.’ Kaʿb replied:
«أَبْشِرُوا، فَإِنَّ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى ثَلَاثَمِائَةٍ وَأَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ شَرِيعَةً، لَا يَأْتِي أَحَدٌ بِوَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ مَعَ كَلِمَةِ الْإِخْلَاصِ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ الْجَنَّةَ بِفَضْلِ رَحْمَتِهِ،
«ʾabshirū, faʾinna li-llāhi taʿālā thalāthamiʾatin waʾarbaʿa ʿashrata sharīʿatan, lā yaʾtī ʾaḥadun biwāḥidatin minhunna maʿa kalimati al-ʾikhlāṣi ʾillā ʾadkhalahu Allāhu al-jannata bifaḍli raḥmatihi,
‘Be glad. God Most High has three hundred and fourteen prescribed ways. Whoever brings even one of them together with the word of sincere faith, God will admit that person to Paradise by the grace of His mercy.
وَاللَّهِ لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ كُلَّ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى لَأَبْطَأْتُمْ فِي الْعَمَلِ،
wa-llāhi law taʿlamūna kulla raḥmati Allāhi taʿālā laʾabṭaʾtum fī al-ʿamali,
By God, if you knew the full extent of God's mercy, you would be slower to act.
وَاللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ اِمْرَأَةً مِنْ نِسَاءِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ اِطَّلَعَتْ مِنْ هَذِهِ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فِي لَيْلَةٍ ظَلْمَاءَ مُغْدِرَةٍ، لَأَضَاءَتْ لَهَا الْأَرْضُ أَفْضَلَ مِمَّا يُضِيءُ الْقَمَرُ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ، وَلَوَجَدَ رِيحَ نَشْرِهَا جَمِيعُ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ،
wa-llāhi law ʾanna imraʾatan min nisāʾi ʾahli al-jannati iṭṭalaʿat min hādhihi al-samāʾi al-dunyā fī laylatin ẓalmāʾa mughdiratin, laʾaḍāʾat lahā al-ʾarḍu ʾafḍala mimmā yuḍīʾu al-qamaru laylata al-badri, walawajada rīḥa nashrihā jamīʿu ʾahli al-ʾarḍi,
By God, if a woman of Paradise looked down from this nearest heaven on a pitch-dark night, she would light the earth more brilliantly than the full moon. Everyone on earth would smell her fragrance.
وَاللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ ثَوْبًا مِنْ ثِيَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ نُشِرَ الْيَوْمَ فِي الدُّنْيَا، لَصَعِقَ مَنْ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ، وَمَا حَمَلَتْهُ أَبْصَارُهُمْ»
wa-llāhi law ʾanna thawban min thiyābi ʾahli al-jannati nushira al-yawma fī al-dunyā, laṣaʿiqa man yanẓuru ʾilayhi, wamā ḥamalathu ʾabṣāruhum»
By God, if a garment worn by the people of Paradise were spread out in this world today, its sight would overwhelm those who looked at it; their eyes could not bear it.’
٢٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَنْبَسَةَ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَيَّارُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ نَبْهَانَ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَامِرِ بْنِ حُذَيْمٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:
226 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu al-ḥasani bni ʿanbasata al-warrāqu qāla: ḥaddathanā sayyāru bnu ḥātimin qāla: ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu sulaymāna, wa-l-ḥārithu bnu nabhāna, ʿan māliki bni dīnārin, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʿāmiri bni ḥudhaymin, qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported: Ibn Ṣāʿid said: Ḥammād ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAnbasa al-Warrāq related to us, from Sayyār ibn Ḥātim, from Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān and al-Ḥārith ibn Nabhān, from Mālik ibn Dīnār, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, from Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir ibn Ḥudhaym, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say:
«لَوْ أَنَّ اِمْرَأَةً مِنْ نِسَاءِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ أَشْرَفَتْ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ، لَمَلَأَتِ الْأَرْضَ رِيحَ مِسْكٍ، وَلَأَذْهَبَتْ ضَوْءَ الشَّمْسِ وَالْقَمَرِ، وَإِنِّي وَاللَّهِ مَا كُنْتُ لِأَخْتَارَكَ عَلَيْهِنَّ»
«law ʾanna imraʾatan min nisāʾi ʾahli al-jannati ʾashrafat ʾilā ʾahli al-ʾarḍi, lamalaʾati al-ʾarḍa rīḥa miskin, walaʾadhhabat ḍawʾa al-shamsi wa-l-qamari, waʾinnī wa-llāhi mā kuntu liʾakhtāraka ʿalayhinna»
‘If a woman of Paradise looked out upon the people of earth, she would fill the earth with the scent of musk and eclipse the light of the sun and moon. By God, I would not choose you over them.’
٢٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ، يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى:
227 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: samiʿtu sufyāna, yaqūlu fī qawlihi taʿālā:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: I heard Sufyān comment on the words of God Most High:
{فَلَمَّا تَجَلَّى رَبُّهُ لِلْجَبَلِ جَعَلَهُ دَكًّا} [الْأَعْرَافِ: ١٤٣] ، قَالَ: «سَاخَ الْجَبَلُ فِي الْأَرْضِ حَتَّى وَقَعَ فِي الْبَحْرِ فَهُوَ يَذْهَبُ بَعْدُ»
{falammā tajallā rabbuhu li-l-jabali jaʿalahu dakkan} [al-ʾaʿrāfi: 143] , qāla: «sākha al-jabalu fī al-ʾarḍi ḥattā waqaʿa fī al-baḥri fahuwa yadhhabu baʿdu»
‘When his Lord revealed Himself to the mountain, He made it crumble’ [al-Aʿrāf 7:143]. He said: ‘The mountain sank into the earth until it reached the sea, and it is still descending.’
٢٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ رَجَاءٍ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ:
228 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin qāla: samiʿtu ʾismāʿīla bna rajāʾin, yuḥaddithu ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Mālik ibn Mighwal said: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Rajāʾ relate from al-Shaʿbī, who said:
“ لَقِيَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عِيسَى اِبْنَ مَرْيَمَ، فَقَالَ: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رُوحَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: وَعَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ يَا رُوحَ اللَّهِ،
“ laqiya jabraʾīlu ʿīsā ibna maryama, faqāla: al-salāmu ʿalayka yā rūḥa Allāhi, qāla: waʿalayka al-salāmu yā rūḥa Allāhi,
‘Gabriel met Jesus son of Mary and said, “Peace be upon you, Spirit of God.” Jesus answered, “And upon you be peace, Spirit of God.”
قَالَ: يَا جَبْرَئِيلَ، مَتَى السَّاعَةُ؟ قَالَ: فَانْتَفَضَ جَبْرَئِيلُ فِي أَجْنِحَتِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا الْمَسْئُولُ عَنْهَا بِأَعْلَمَ مِنَ السَّائِلِ، {ثَقُلَتْ فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَا تَأْتِيكُمْ إِلَّا بَغْتَةً} ”،
qāla: yā jabraʾīla, matā al-sāʿatu? qāla: fantafaḍa jabraʾīlu fī ʾajniḥatihi, thumma qāla: mā al-masʾūlu ʿanhā biʾaʿlama mina al-sāʾili, {thaqulat fī al-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi lā taʾtīkum ʾillā baghtatan} ”,
Jesus asked, “Gabriel, when will the Hour come?” Gabriel shuddered in his wings and then replied, “The one asked knows no more about it than the one asking. It weighs heavily on the heavens and the earth; it will come upon you only suddenly.”’
أَوْ قَالَ: «لَا يُجَلِّيهَا لِوَقْتِهَا إِلَّا هُوَ»
ʾaw qāla: «lā yujallīhā liwaqtihā ʾillā huwa»
Or he said: ‘None but He will disclose it at its appointed time.’
٢٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرٌ، عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ:
229 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfarun, ʿani al-mughīrati, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Jaʿfar reported from al-Mughīra, from al-Shaʿbī, who said:
“ كَانَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ عِنْدَهُ السَّاعَةُ صَاحَ وَيَقُولُ: لَا يَنْبَغِي لِاِبْنِ مَرْيَمَ أَنْ تُذْكَرَ عِنْدَهُ السَّاعَةُ فَيَسْكُتَ ”
“ kāna ʿīsā ibnu maryama ʾidhā dhukira ʿindahu al-sāʿatu ṣāḥa wayaqūlu: lā yanbaghī libni maryama ʾan tudhkara ʿindahu al-sāʿatu fayaskuta ”
‘Whenever the Hour was mentioned in the presence of Jesus son of Mary, he cried out and said, “The Hour must not be mentioned before the son of Mary while he remains silent.”’
٢٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الرِّفَاعِيُّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّهُ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ:
230 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿaliyyu bnu ʿaliyyin al-rifāʿiyyu, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾannahu qaraʾa hādhihi al-ʾāyata:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī reported from al-Ḥasan, who recited this verse:
{لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ} [الْبَلَدِ: ٤] ، قَالَ: «لَا أَعْلَمُ خَلِيقَةً يُكَابِدُ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مَا يُكَابِدُ هَذَا الْإِنْسَانُ»
{laqad khalaqnā al-ʾinsāna fī kabadin} [al-baladi: 4] , qāla: «lā ʾaʿlamu khalīqatan yukābidu mina al-ʾamri mā yukābidu hādhā al-ʾinsānu»
‘We have certainly created the human being amid toil’ [al-Balad 90:4]. He said: ‘I know no creature that endures the struggles this human being endures.’
٢٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّهُ قَرَأَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ يَوْمًا، فَقَالَ:
231 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿaliyyu bnu ʿaliyyin, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʾabī al-ḥasani, ʾannahu qaraʾa hādhihi al-ʾāyata yawman, faqāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī reported from Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, who recited this verse one day and said:
«يُكَابِدُ مَضَائِقَ الدُّنْيَا، وَشَدَائِدَ الْآخِرَةِ»
«yukābidu maḍāʾiqa al-dunyā, washadāʾida al-ʾākhirati»
‘A person struggles through the constraints of this world and the hardships of the next.’
٢٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ رِيَابٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَسْعَسَ بْنَ سَلَامَةَ يَقُولُ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: سَأُحَدِّثُكُمْ بِبَيْتٍ مِنْ شِعْرٍ، فَجَعَلُوا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِ، وَيَقُولُونَ: مَا تَصْنَعُ بِالشِّعْرِ؟ فَقَالَ لَهُ:
232 - 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 thābitin al-ʿabdiyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā hārūnu bnu riyābin qāla: samiʿtu ʿasʿasa bna salāmata yaqūlu liʾaṣḥābihi: saʾuḥaddithukum bibaytin min shiʿrin, fajaʿalū yanẓurūna ʾilayhi, wayaqūlūna: mā taṣnaʿu bi-l-shiʿri? faqāla lahu:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Muḥammad ibn Thābit al-ʿAbdī said: Hārūn ibn Riyāb told us: I heard ʿAsʿas ibn Salāma tell his companions, ‘I will recite a line of poetry to you.’ They looked at him and asked, ‘What do you want with poetry?’ He replied:
[الْبَحْرُ الطَّوِيلُ]
[al-baḥru al-ṭawīlu]
[In the long metre.]
إِنْ تَنْجُ مِنْهَا تَنْجُ مِنْ ذِي عَظِيمَةٍ ... وَإِنْ لَا فَإِنِّي لَا أَخَالُكَ نَاجِيًا،
ʾin tanju minhā tanju min dhī ʿaẓīmatin ... waʾin lā faʾinnī lā ʾakhāluka nājiyan,
‘If you escape it, you escape a mighty trial ... And if you do not, I cannot think that you will be saved.’
فَأَخَذَ الْقَوْمُ يَبْكُونَ بُكَاءً، مَا رَأَيْتُهُمْ بَكَوْا مِنْ شَيْءٍ، مَا بَكَوْا يَوْمَئِذٍ
faʾakhadha al-qawmu yabkūna bukāʾan, mā raʾaytuhum bakaw min shayʾin, mā bakaw yawmaʾidhin
The company began to weep. I had never seen them weep over anything as they wept that day.
٢٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُدَيْرٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ عَنَزَةَ، قَدْ سَمَّاهُ قَالَ:
233 - 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 ʿimrāna bni ḥudayrin, ʿan rajulin min ʿanazata, qad sammāhu qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from ʿImrān ibn Ḥudayr, from a man of the ʿAnaza tribe whose name he had given, who said:
«لَمْ أَرَ مِثْلَنَا , لَمْ يَمْشِ الْعَصَائِبُ إِلَى الْعَصَائِبِ يَبْكُونَ»
«lam ʾara mithlanā , lam yamshi al-ʿaṣāʾibu ʾilā al-ʿaṣāʾibi yabkūna»
‘I have seen no one like us: groups have not gone to other groups in tears as we do.’
٢٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَامِرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، أَخَذَ تِبْنَةً مِنَ الْأَرْضِ، فَقَالَ:
234 - 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 ʿāṣimi bni ʿubaydi Allāhi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿāmiri bni rabīʿata qāla: raʾaytu ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu, ʾakhadha tibnatan mina al-ʾarḍi, faqāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Shuʿba reported from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿa, who said: I saw ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, pick up a piece of straw from the ground. He said:
«يَا لَيْتَنِي هَذِهِ التِّبْنَةُ، لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَكُ شَيْئًا، لَيْتَ أُمِّي لَمْ تَلِدْنِي، لَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ نَسْيًا مَنْسِيًّا»
«yā laytanī hādhihi al-tibnatu, laytanī lam ʾaku shayʾan, layta ʾummī lam talidnī, laytanī kuntu nasyan mansiyyan»
‘If only I were this straw! If only I had never been anything; if only my mother had not borne me; if only I had been something forgotten, wholly forgotten.’
٢٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عُمَرَ زِيَادُ بْنُ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِ، أَوْ قَالَ: عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ مِخْرَاقٍ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، سَمِعَ رَجُلًا يَقْرَأُ:
235 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū ʿumara ziyādu bnu ʾabī muslimin, ʿan ʾabī al-khalīli, ʾaw qāla: ʿan ziyādi bni mikhrāqin, ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi, samiʿa rajulan yaqraʾu:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Abū ʿUmar Ziyād ibn Abī Muslim reported from Abū al-Khalīl—or, he said, from Ziyād ibn Mikhrāq—that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb heard a man recite:
{هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الْإِنْسَانِ حِينٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْئًا مَذْكُورًا} [الْإِنْسَانِ: ١] ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: «يَا لَيْتَهَا تَمَّتْ»
{hal ʾatā ʿalā al-ʾinsāni ḥīnun mina al-dahri lam yakun shayʾan madhkūran} [al-ʾinsāni: 1] , faqāla ʿumaru: «yā laytahā tammat»
‘Has there not come upon the human being a span of time when he was nothing worth mentioning?’ [al-Insān 76:1]. ʿUmar said, ‘If only it had ended there.’
٢٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ عُمَرَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي أَبَانُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ، حِينَ حُضِرَ:
236 - 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 ʿāṣimi bni ʿubaydi Allāhi bni ʿāṣimin qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu ʿumara qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʾabānu bnu ʿuthmāna bni ʿaffāna qāla: qāla ʿumaru, ḥīna ḥuḍira:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Sufyān reported from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿĀṣim, who said: Ibn ʿUmar related to us that Abān ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān had told him: When ʿUmar was close to death, he said:
«وَيْلِي، وَوَيْلُ أُمِّي إِنْ لَمْ يُغْفَرْ لِي، فَقُضِيَ مَا بَيْنَهُمَا كَلَامٌ»
«waylī, wawaylu ʾummī ʾin lam yughfar lī, faquḍiya mā baynahumā kalāmun»
‘Woe to me, and woe to my mother, if I am not forgiven.’ Then some words passed between them.
٢٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ هِلَالٍ قَالَ: خَرَجَ هَرِمُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، فَبَيْنَا هُمَا يَسِيرَانِ عَلَى رَاحِلَتَيْهِمَا، عَرَضَتْ لَهُمَا صِلِّيَانَةٌ، فَابْتَدَرَتْهَا النَّاقَتَانِ فَأَكَلَتْهَا إِحْدَاهُمَا،
237 - 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: ʾakhbaranā ḥumaydu bnu hilālin qāla: kharaja harimu bnu ḥayyāna waʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿāmirin, fabaynā humā yasīrāni ʿalā rāḥilatayhimā, ʿaraḍat lahumā ṣilliyānatun, fabtadarathā al-nāqatāni faʾakalathā ʾiḥdāhumā,
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: Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl told us: Harim ibn Ḥayyān and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir went out riding. A single stalk of ṣilliyān grass appeared before them. Their two she-camels rushed for it, and one ate it.
فَقَالَ لَهُ هَرِمٌ: «أَتُحِبُّ أَنْ تَكُونَ هَذِهِ الصِّلِّيَانَةَ فَأَكَلَتْكَ هَذِهِ النَّاقَةُ , فَذَهَبْتَ؟» ،
faqāla lahu harimun: «ʾatuḥibbu ʾan takūna hādhihi al-ṣilliyānata faʾakalatka hādhihi al-nāqatu , fadhahabta?» ,
Harim asked him: ‘Would you like to be this stalk of grass, eaten by this she-camel, and then be gone?’
فَقَالَ اِبْنُ عَامِرٍ: وَاللَّهِ مَا أُحِبُّ ذَلِكَ، وَإِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ يُدْخِلَنِي اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الْجَنَّةَ، وَإِنِّي لَأَرْجُو، وَإِنِّي لَأَرْجُو،
faqāla ibnu ʿāmirin: wa-llāhi mā ʾuḥibbu dhālika, waʾinnī laʾarjū ʾan yudkhilanī Allāhu ʿazza wajalla al-jannata, waʾinnī laʾarjū, waʾinnī laʾarjū,
Ibn ʿĀmir replied: ‘By God, I would not. I hope that God, Mighty and Majestic, will admit me to Paradise. I do hope so; I do hope so.’
فَقَالَ هَرِمٌ: «وَاللَّهِ لَوْ عَلِمْتُ أَنِّي أُطَاعُ فِي نَفْسِي، لَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ هَذِهِ الصِّلِّيَانَةَ، فَأَكَلَتْنِي هَذِهِ النَّاقَةُ , فَذَهَبْتُ»
faqāla harimun: «wa-llāhi law ʿalimtu ʾannī ʾuṭāʿu fī nafsī, laʾaḥbabtu ʾan ʾakūna hādhihi al-ṣilliyānata, faʾakalatnī hādhihi al-nāqatu , fadhahabtu»
Harim said: ‘By God, if I knew that my wish about myself would be granted, I would love to be this stalk of grass, eaten by this she-camel, and then be gone.’
٢٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ مِخْرَاقٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ:
238 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ziyādu bnu ʾabī muslimin, ʿan ziyādi bni mikhrāqin qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Ziyād ibn Abī Muslim reported from Ziyād ibn Mikhrāq, who said that Abū al-Dardāʾ said:
“ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كَبْشُ أَهْلِي فَمَرَّ بِهِمْ - وَقَالَ اِبْنُ الْوَرَّاقِ: فَمَرَّ عَلَيْهِمْ - ضَيْفٌ، فَأَمَرُّوا عَلَى أَوْدَاجِي، فَأَكَلُوا وَأَطْعَمُوا ”
“ lawadidtu ʾannī kabshu ʾahlī famarra bihim - waqāla ibnu al-warrāqi: famarra ʿalayhim - ḍayfun, faʾamarrū ʿalā ʾawdājī, faʾakalū waʾaṭʿamū ”
‘I wish I were my family's ram. A guest would pass by them—or, in Ibn al-Warrāq's wording, would come to them—and they would draw [the knife] across my throat, eat, and feed others.’
٢٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ مَرَّتْ بِشَجَرَةٍ فَقَالَتْ: «يَا لَيْتَنِي وَرَقَةٌ مِنْ هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةِ»
239 - 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 ḥammādin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʾanna ʿāʾishata marrat bishajaratin faqālat: «yā laytanī waraqatun min hādhihi al-shajarati»
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 Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm: ʿĀʾisha passed a tree and said, ‘If only I were a leaf of this tree.’
يَا لَيْتَنِي وَرَقَةٌ " كَذَا فِي الْأَصْلِ، وَفِي الزُّهْدِ لِأَحْمَدَ يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ وَرَقَةً
yā laytanī waraqatun " kadhā fī al-ʾaṣli, wafī al-zuhdi liʾaḥmada yā laytanī kuntu waraqatan
The source repeats ‘If only I were a leaf’ and notes: ‘This is what appears in the original; Aḥmad's al-Zuhd reads: “If only I had been a leaf.”’
٢٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: أَبْصَرَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ طَائِرًا عَلَى شَجَرَةٍ، فَقَالَ:
240 - 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 rajulin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: ʾabṣara ʾabū bakrin ṭāʾiran ʿalā shajaratin, faqāla:
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 through an unnamed man from al-Ḥasan, who said: Abū Bakr saw a bird on a tree and said:
«طُوبَى لَكَ يَا طَائِرُ , تَأْكُلُ الثَّمَرَ، وَتَقَعُ عَلَى الشَّجَرِ، لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي ثَمَرَةٌ يَنْقُرُهَا الطَّيْرُ»
«ṭūbā laka yā ṭāʾiru , taʾkulu al-thamara, wataqaʿu ʿalā al-shajari, lawadidtu ʾannī thamaratun yanquruhā al-ṭayru»
‘How fortunate you are, bird! You eat fruit and perch in trees. I wish I were a piece of fruit that birds could peck.’
٢٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ: «لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كَبْشٌ فَذَبَحَنِي أَهْلِي يَأْكُلُونَ لَحْمِي، وَيَحْسُونَ مَرَقِي»
241 - 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 qatādata qāla: qāla ʾabū ʿubaydata bnu al-jarrāḥi: «lawadidtu ʾannī kabshun fadhabaḥanī ʾahlī yaʾkulūna laḥmī, wayaḥsūna maraqī»
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: Maʿmar reported from Qatāda, who said that Abū ʿUbayda ibn al-Jarrāḥ said: ‘I wish I were a ram; my family would slaughter me, eat my flesh, and sip my broth.’
قَالَ: وَقَالَ عِمْرَانُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ: «لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ رَمَادًا تُسْفِينِي الرِّيحُ فِي يَوْمٍ عَاصِفٍ خَبِيثٍ»
qāla: waqāla ʿimrānu bnu ḥuṣaynin: «lawadidtu ʾannī kuntu ramādan tusfīnī al-rīḥu fī yawmin ʿāṣifin khabīthin»
He also said that ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn said: ‘I wish I were ashes swept away by the wind on a harsh, stormy day.’
٢٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «تَمَنَّوْا وَتَمَنَّوْا، فَلَمَّا فَاتَهُمْ ذَلِكَ جَدُّوا»
242 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: balaghanā ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qāla: «tamannaw watamannaw, falammā fātahum dhālika jaddū»
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported through Yaḥyā, from al-Ḥusayn, from Ibn al-Mubārak, who said: It reached us from al-Ḥasan that he said: ‘They wished and wished; when what they wished for eluded them, they strove in earnest.’
بَابُ التَّفَكُّرِ فِي اِتِّبَاعِ الْجَنَائِزِ
bābu al-tafakkuri fī ittibāʿi al-janāʾizi
Chapter on reflection while following funeral processions.
٢٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
243 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ غَزِيَّةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ، عَنْ أُمِّهِ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ حُسَيْنٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا، أَنَّهَا كَانَتْ تَقُولُ: كَانَ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ مِنْ أَفَاضِلِ النَّاسِ، وَكَانَ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿumārata bni ghaziyyata, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni ʿuthmāna, ʿan ʾummihi fāṭimata binti ḥusaynin, ʿan ʿāʾishata raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā, ʾannahā kānat taqūlu: kāna ʾusaydu bnu ḥuḍayrin min ʾafāḍili al-nāsi, wakāna yaqūlu:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUmāra ibn Ghaziyya, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān, from his mother Fāṭima daughter of Ḥusayn, from ʿĀʾisha, may God be pleased with her. She used to say: Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr was among the finest people, and he would say:
«لَوْ أَنِّي أَكُونُ كَمَا أَكُونُ عَلَى أَحْوَالٍ ثَلَاثٍ مِنْ أَحْوَالِي، لَكُنْتُ حِينَ أَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ، وَحِينَ أَسْمَعُهُ يُقْرَأُ، وَإِذَا سَمِعْتُ خُطْبَةً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَإِذَا شَهِدْتُ جِنَازَةً،
«law ʾannī ʾakūnu kamā ʾakūnu ʿalā ʾaḥwālin thalāthin min ʾaḥwālī, lakuntu ḥīna ʾaqraʾu al-qurʾāna, waḥīna ʾasmaʿuhu yuqraʾu, waʾidhā samiʿtu khuṭbatan lirasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, waʾidhā shahidtu jināzatan,
‘If I could stay as I am in any of three settings, it would be when I recite the Qurʾān or hear it recited, when I hear a sermon by the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, or when I attend a funeral.
وَمَا شَهِدْتُ جِنَازَةً قَطُّ فَحَدَّثْتُ نَفْسِي بِسِوَى مَا هُوَ مَفْعُولٌ بِهَا، وَمَا هِيَ صَائِرَةٌ إِلَيْهِ»
wamā shahidtu jināzatan qaṭṭu faḥaddathtu nafsī bisiwā mā huwa mafʿūlun bihā, wamā hiya ṣāʾiratun ʾilayhi»
Whenever I attended a funeral, my thoughts never strayed from what would be done to the deceased and where that person was going.’
٢٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
244 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ، قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī rawwādin, qāla:
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād informed us and said:
«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا اِتَّبَعَ الْجِنَازَةَ أَكْثَرَ الصُّمَاتَ، وَأَكْثَرَ حَدِيثَ نَفْسِهِ، وَكَانُوا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا يُحَدِّثُ نَفْسَهُ بِأَمْرِ الْمَيِّتِ، وَمَا يَرِدُ عَلَيْهِ، وَمَا هُوَ مَسْئُولٌ عَنْهُ»
«kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾidhā ittabaʿa al-jināzata ʾakthara al-ṣumāta, waʾakthara ḥadītha nafsihi, wakānū yarawna ʾannahu ʾinnamā yuḥaddithu nafsahu biʾamri al-mayyiti, wamā yaridu ʿalayhi, wamā huwa masʾūlun ʿanhu»
‘When the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, followed a funeral procession, he was mostly silent and spent much time reflecting. They believed he was thinking about what lay ahead for the deceased, what that person would face, and what questions that person would have to answer.’
٢٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
245 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ، عَنْ بُدَيْلٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ṣāliḥun al-murriyyu, ʿan budaylin qāla:
Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī informed us, from Budayl, who said:
«كَانَ مُطَرِّفٌ يَلْقَى الرَّجُلَ مِنْ خَاصَّةِ إِخْوَانِهِ فِي الْجِنَازَةِ فَعَسَى أَنْ يَكُونَ غَائِبًا، فَمَا يَزِيدُهُ عَلَى التَّسْلِيمِ، ثُمَّ يُعْرِضُ عَنْهُ اِشْتِغَالًا بِمَا هُوَ فِيهِ»
«kāna muṭarrifun yalqā al-rajula min khāṣṣati ʾikhwānihi fī al-jināzati faʿasā ʾan yakūna ghāʾiban, famā yazīduhu ʿalā al-taslīmi, thumma yuʿriḍu ʿanhu ishtighālan bimā huwa fīhi»
‘At a funeral, Muṭarrif might meet a close friend who had been away. He would do no more than greet him, then turn away, absorbed in what he was attending to.’
٢٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
246 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُوقَةَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan muḥammadi bni sūqata, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Sūqa, from Ibrāhīm, who said:
«إِنْ كَانُوا يَشْهَدُونَ الْجِنَازَةَ فَيَظَلُّونَ الْأَيَّامَ مَحْزُونِينَ يُعْرَفُ ذَلِكَ فِيهِمْ»
«ʾin kānū yashhadūna al-jināzata fayaẓallūna al-ʾayyāma maḥzūnīna yuʿrafu dhālika fīhim»
‘When they attended a funeral, they remained sorrowful for days; you could see it in them.’
٢٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
247 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ:
ḥaddathanā hammāmun, ʿan qatādata, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan qaysi bni ʿubādata qāla:
Hammām related to us, from Qatāda, from al-Ḥasan, from Qays ibn ʿUbāda, who said:
«كَانَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْتَحِبُّونَ خَفْضَ الصَّوْتِ عِنْدَ الْقِتَالِ، وَعِنْدَ الْقُرْآنِ، وَعِنْدَ الْجَنَائِزِ»
«kāna ʾaṣḥābu rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yastaḥibbūna khafḍa al-ṣawti ʿinda al-qitāli, waʿinda al-qurʾāni, waʿinda al-janāʾizi»
‘The Companions of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, considered it fitting to lower their voices in battle, during Qurʾān recitation, and at funerals.’
٢٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
248 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا هَمَّامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عِيسَى الْأُسْوَارِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā hammāmun, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾabī ʿīsā al-ʾuswāriyyi, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Hammām informed us, from Qatāda, from Abū ʿĪsā al-Uswārī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«عُودُوا الْمَرْضَى، وَاتَّبِعُوا الْجَنَائِزَ يُذَكِّرْكُمُ الْآخِرَةَ»
«ʿūdū al-marḍā, wattabiʿū al-janāʾiza yudhakkirkumu al-ʾākhirata»
‘Visit the sick and follow funeral processions; it will remind you of the Hereafter.’
٢٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
249 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ:
ʾakhbaranā ghayru wāḥidin ʿan muʿāwiyata bni qurrata qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi:
More than one person informed us, from Muʿāwiya ibn Qurra, who said: Abū al-Dardāʾ said:
“ أَضْحَكَنِي ثَلَاثٌ، وَأَبْكَانِي ثَلَاثٌ: أَضْحَكَنِي مُؤَمِّلُ دُنْيَا وَالْمَوْتُ يَطْلُبُهُ، وَغَافِلٌ وَلَيْسَ بِمَغْفُولٍ عَنْهُ، وَضَاحِكٌ بِمِلْءِ فِيهِ، وَلَا يَدْرِي، أَرْضَى اللَّهَ أُمْ أَسْخَطَهُ؟
“ ʾaḍḥakanī thalāthun, waʾabkānī thalāthun: ʾaḍḥakanī muʾammilu dunyā wa-l-mawtu yaṭlubuhu, waghāfilun walaysa bimaghfūlin ʿanhu, waḍāḥikun bimilʾi fīhi, walā yadrī, ʾarḍā Allāha ʾum ʾaskhaṭahu?
‘Three things make me laugh and three make me weep. I laugh at someone who has hopes for this world while death pursues him; someone heedless, though he is never overlooked; and someone laughing with his mouth wide open, unaware whether he has pleased God or angered Him.
وَأَبْكَانِي فِرَاقُ الْأَحِبَّةِ، مُحَمَّدٍ وَحِزْبِهِ، وَهَوْلُ الْمَطْلَعِ عِنْدَ غَمَرَاتِ الْمَوْتِ،
waʾabkānī firāqu al-ʾaḥibbati, muḥammadin waḥizbihi, wahawlu al-maṭlaʿi ʿinda ghamarāti al-mawti,
What makes me weep is parting from those I love—Muḥammad and his company—and the terror of what first confronts us amid the throes of death;
وَالْوُقُوفُ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَوْمَ تَبْدُوَ السَّرِيرَةُ عَلَانِيَةً، ثُمَّ لَا أَدْرِي إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ أَمْ إِلَى النَّارِ؟ ”
wa-l-wuqūfu bayna yadayi Allāhi ʿazza wajalla yawma tabduwa al-sarīratu ʿalāniyatan, thumma lā ʾadrī ʾilā al-jannati ʾam ʾilā al-nāri? ”
and standing before God, Mighty and Majestic, on the day when what was hidden becomes plain, without knowing whether [I will go] to Paradise or the Fire.’
٢٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
250 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ، بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ سَوْدَةَ زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَتْ:
ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni nawfalin, balaghahu ʾanna sawdata zawja al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qālat:
Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nawfal, to whom it had reached that Sawda, the Prophet’s wife, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إِذَا مِتْنَا صَلَّى لَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مَظْعُونٍ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَنَا أَنْتَ، فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
yā rasūla Allāhi, ʾidhā mitnā ṣallā lanā ʿuthmānu bnu maẓʿūnin ḥattā taʾtiyanā ʾanta, faqāla lahā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
‘Messenger of God, when we die, ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn will pray for us until you come to us.’ The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, replied to her:
«لَوْ تَعْلَمِينَ عِلْمَ الْمَوْتِ يَا بِنْتَ زَمْعَةَ، لَعَلِمْتِ أَنَّهُ أَشَدُّ مِمَّا تَقْدِرِينَ عَلَيْهِ»
«law taʿlamīna ʿilma al-mawti yā binta zamʿata, laʿalimti ʾannahu ʾashaddu mimmā taqdirīna ʿalayhi»
‘If you truly knew death, daughter of Zamʿa, you would know it is harder than you can bear.’
٢٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
251 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا يَعْنِي يُونُسَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُقَرِّنٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، قَالَ:
waʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan yaʿnī yūnusa bna yazīda, ʿan ʾabī muqarrinin qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿurwata, qāla:
‘He also informed us’—meaning Yūnus ibn Yazīd—from Abū Muqarrin, who said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUrwa related to us, saying:
تُوُفِّيَتِ اِمْرَأَةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَضْحَكُونَ مِنْهَا، فَقَالَ بِلَالٌ: وَيْحَهَا قَدِ اِسْتَرَاحَتْ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ:
tuwuffiyati imraʾatun min ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaḍḥakūna minhā, faqāla bilālun: wayḥahā qadi istarāḥat, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi:
A woman among the Prophet’s Companions, peace and blessings be upon him, whom they used to laugh at, died. Bilāl said: ‘Alas for her; she has found rest.’ Then the Messenger of God said:
«إِنَّمَا يَسْتَرِيحُ مَنْ غُفِرَ لَهُ»
«ʾinnamā yastarīḥu man ghufira lahu»
‘Only one who has been forgiven finds rest.’
بَابُ النَّهْيِ عَنْ طُولِ الْأَمَلِ
bābu al-nahyi ʿan ṭūli al-ʾamali
Chapter on the prohibition of long hopes.
٢٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
252 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni ʾabī bakrin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Ḥammād ibn Salama informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
“ هَذَا اِبْنُ آدَمَ، وَهَذَا أَجَلُهُ - وَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عِنْدَ قَفَاهُ،
“ hādhā ibnu ʾādama, wahādhā ʾajaluhu - wawaḍaʿa yadahu ʿinda qafāhu,
‘Here is a human being, and here is his appointed term.’ He placed his hand at the back of his neck.
ثُمَّ بَسَطَ يَدَهُ، فَقَالَ: - ثَمَّ أَجَلُهُ، وَثَمَّ أَمَلُهُ ”
thumma basaṭa yadahu, faqāla: - thamma ʾajaluhu, wathamma ʾamaluhu ”
Then he stretched out his hand and said: ‘There is his appointed term, and there is his hope.’
٢٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
253 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
“ اِجْتَمَعَ ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ، فَسَأَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا عَنْ أَمَلِهِ، فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمْ: لَمْ يَأْتِ عَلَيَّ شَهْرٌ إِلَّا ظَنَنْتُ أَنِّي أَمُوتُ فِيهِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ هَذَا لَأَمَلًا،
“ ijtamaʿa thalāthatu nafarin, fasaʾala baʿḍuhum baʿḍan ʿan ʾamalihi, faqāla ʾaḥaduhum: lam yaʾti ʿalayya shahrun ʾillā ẓanantu ʾannī ʾamūtu fīhi, faqāla: ʾinna hādhā laʾamalan,
‘Three people gathered and asked one another how far ahead they hoped to live. One said, “No month has passed without my thinking I might die during it.” Someone replied, “Even that is a long hope!”
وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ: يَوْمٌ، فَقَالَ: هَذَا أَمَلٌ، فَقِيلَ لِلْآخَرِ، فَقَالَ: يَأْمَلُ مَنْ أَجَلُهُ بِيَدِ غَيْرِهِ ”
waqāla al-ʾākharu: yawmun, faqāla: hādhā ʾamalun, faqīla li-l-ʾākhari, faqāla: yaʾmalu man ʾajaluhu biyadi ghayrihi ”
The second said, “A day.” The reply came: “That too is a hope.” When the third was asked, he said, “What hope can someone have when his appointed term is in another’s hand?”’
٢٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
254 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُتَوَكِّلِ النَّاجِيِّ، قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿaliyyu bnu ʿaliyyin, ʿan ʾabī al-mutawakkili al-nājiyyi, qāla:
ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī informed us, from Abū al-Mutawakkil al-Nājī, who said:
أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَعْوَادٍ، فَغَرَزَ عُودًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، وَالْآخَرَ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ، فَأَمَّا الثَّالِثُ فَأَبْعَدَهُ، فَقَالَ: «أَتَدْرُونَ مَا هَذَا؟»
ʾakhadha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama thalāthata ʾaʿwādin, fagharaza ʿūdan bayna yadayhi, wa-l-ʾākhara ʾilā janbihi, faʾammā al-thālithu faʾabʿadahu, faqāla: «ʾatadrūna mā hādhā?»
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, took three sticks. He planted one in front of himself, another beside himself, and placed the third farther away. He asked, ‘Do you know what this is?’
قَالُوا: اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ، قَالَ:
qālū: Allāhu warasūluhu ʾaʿlamu, qāla:
They replied, ‘God and His Messenger know best.’ He said:
«فَإِنَّ هَذَا الْإِنْسَانُ، وَذَاكَ الْأَجَلُ، وَذَلِكَ الْأَمَلُ يَتَعَاطَاهُ اِبْنُ آدَمَ، وَيَخْتَلِجُهُ الْأَجَلُ دُونَ ذَلِكَ»
«faʾinna hādhā al-ʾinsānu, wadhāka al-ʾajalu, wadhālika al-ʾamalu yataʿāṭāhu ibnu ʾādama, wayakhtalijuhu al-ʾajalu dūna dhālika»
‘This one is the human being; that one is his appointed term; and the one over there is the hope he reaches for. His appointed term snatches him away before he reaches it.’
٢٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
255 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ الْيَامِيِّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي عَامِرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan zubaydin al-yāmiyyi, ʿan rajulin min banī ʿāmirin, qāla: qāla ʿaliyyu bnu ʾabī ṭālibin:
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from Zubayd al-Yāmī, from a man of Banū ʿĀmir, who said: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib said:
“ إِنَّمَا أَخْشَى عَلَيْكُمُ اِثْنَيْنِ: طُولَ الْأَمَلِ، وَاتِّبَاعَ الْهَوَى، فَإِنَّ طُولَ الْأَمَلِ يُنْسِي الْآخِرَةَ، وَإِنَّ اِتِّبَاعَ الْهَوَى يَصُدُّ عَنِ الْحَقِّ،
“ ʾinnamā ʾakhshā ʿalaykumu ithnayni: ṭūla al-ʾamali, wattibāʿa al-hawā, faʾinna ṭūla al-ʾamali yunsī al-ʾākhirata, waʾinna ittibāʿa al-hawā yaṣuddu ʿani al-ḥaqqi,
‘I fear two things for you: far-reaching hopes and following desire. Long hopes make you forget the Hereafter, and following desire turns you away from the truth.
وَإِنَّ الدُّنْيَا قَدِ اِرْتَحَلَتْ مُدْبِرَةً، وَالْآخِرَةُ مُقْبِلَةٌ، وَلِكُلِّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا بَنُونَ،
waʾinna al-dunyā qadi irtaḥalat mudbiratan, wa-l-ʾākhiratu muqbilatun, walikulli wāḥidatin minhumā banūna,
The present world has set off, turning away, while the Hereafter is approaching. Each of them has its children.
فَكُونُوا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ، وَلَا تَكُونُوا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِنَّ الْيَوْمَ عَمَلٌ وَلَا حِسَابٌ، وَغَدًا حِسَابٌ وَلَا عَمَلٌ ”
fakūnū min ʾabnāʾi al-ʾākhirati, walā takūnū min ʾabnāʾi al-dunyā, faʾinna al-yawma ʿamalun walā ḥisābun, waghadan ḥisābun walā ʿamalun ”
So be children of the Hereafter, not children of this world. Today there is work and no reckoning; tomorrow there will be reckoning and no work.’
٢٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
256 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Shuʿba informed us, from Qatāda, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
“ يَهْلَكُ اِبْنُ آدَمَ - أَوْ قَالَ: يَهْرَمُ اِبْنُ آدَمَ - وَيَبْقَى مِنْهُ اِثْنَتَانِ: الْحِرْصُ وَالْأَمَلُ ”
“ yahlaku ibnu ʾādama - ʾaw qāla: yahramu ibnu ʾādama - wayabqā minhu ithnatāni: al-ḥirṣu wa-l-ʾamalu ”
‘A human being perishes—or he said, grows old—while two things remain in him: greed and hope.’
٢٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
257 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾabū ʿubaydi Allāhi, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir informed us. He said: Abū ʿUbayd Allāh related to me, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said:
«لَا يَزَالُ نَفْسُ أَحَدِكُمْ شَابَّةً فِي حُبِّ الشَّيْءِ وَلَوِ اِلْتَقَتْ تُرْقُوَتَاهُ مِنَ الْكِبَرِ، إِلَّا الَّذِينَ اِمْتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ لِلْآخِرَةِ، وَقَلِيلٌ مَا هُمْ»
«lā yazālu nafsu ʾaḥadikum shābbatan fī ḥubbi al-shayʾi walawi iltaqat turquwatāhu mina al-kibari, ʾillā al-ladhīna imtaḥana Allāhu qulūbahum li-l-ʾākhirati, waqalīlun mā hum»
‘The soul of one of you remains young in its love of things, even if his collarbones have drawn together with old age—except those whose hearts God has tested for the Hereafter, and how few they are.’
٢٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
258 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ اِبْنِ أَبِي نُجَيْحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، أَوْ غَيْرِهِ،
ʾakhbaranā ʾibrāhīmu bnu nāfiʿin, ʿan ibni ʾabī nujayḥin, ʿan mujāhidin, ʾaw ghayrihi,
Ibrāhīm ibn Nāfiʿ informed us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid—or someone else:
“ لَمَّا هَبَطَ آدَمُ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ قَالَ لَهُ رَبُّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: اِبْنِ لِلْخَرَابِ وَلِدْ لِلْفَنَاءِ ”
“ lammā habaṭa ʾādamu ʾilā al-ʾarḍi qāla lahu rabbuhu ʿazza wajalla: ibni li-l-kharābi walid li-l-fanāʾi ”
‘When Adam came down to earth, his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, said to him: “Build for ruin, and bring forth children who will pass away.”’
٢٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
259 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سِنَانٍ الشَّيْبَانِيَّ يَقُولُ:
samiʿtu ʾabā sinānin al-shaybāniyya yaqūlu:
I heard Abū Sinān al-Shaybānī say:
“ فَرَغَ اللَّهُ مِنْ خَلْقِ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ إِلَى ثَلَاثِ سَاعَاتٍ بَقِينَ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ،
“ faragha Allāhu min khalqi al-samāwāti wa-l-malāʾikati ʾilā thalāthi sāʿātin baqīna min yawmi al-jumuʿati,
‘God had finished creating the heavens and the angels when three hours remained of Friday.
فَخَلَقَ الْآفَةَ فِي سَاعَةٍ، وَالْأَجَلَ فِي سَاعَةٍ، فَلَا أَدْرِي بِأَيَّتِهِمَا بَدَأَ؟ وَخَلَقَ آدَمَ فِي السَّاعَةِ الْآخِرَةِ،
fakhalaqa al-ʾāfata fī sāʿatin, wa-l-ʾajala fī sāʿatin, falā ʾadrī biʾayyatihimā badaʾa? wakhalaqa ʾādama fī al-sāʿati al-ʾākhirati,
He created affliction in one hour and the appointed term in another—I do not know which He created first—and created Adam in the final hour.
فَقَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ: فَجَلَسَ هَكَذَا: يَوْمَ السَّبْتِ، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى:
faqālati al-yahūdu: fajalasa hākadhā: yawma al-sabti, faʾanzala Allāhu taʿālā:
The Jews said, “Then He sat like this on Saturday.” So God Most High revealed:
{وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ وَمَا مَسَّنَا مِنْ لُغُوبٍ} ”
{walaqad khalaqnā al-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wamā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin wamā massanā min lughūbin} ”
“We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and no weariness touched Us” [Qurʾān 50:38].’
٢٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَحْدَهُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
260 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ʾismāʿīla waḥdahu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl alone reported to you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
قَالَ صَالِحٌ يَعْنِي الْمُرِّيَّ: «إِنَّ ذِكْرَ الْمَوْتِ إِذَا فَارَقَنِي سَاعَةً فَسَدَ عَلَيَّ قَلْبِي»،
qāla ṣāliḥun yaʿnī al-murriyya: «ʾinna dhikra al-mawti ʾidhā fāraqanī sāʿatan fasada ʿalayya qalbī»,
Ṣāliḥ—meaning al-Murrī—said: ‘If I go even an hour without remembering death, my heart falls into disorder.’
قَالَ مَالِكٌ: «وَلَمْ أَرَ رَجُلًا أَظْهَرَ حُزْنًا مِنْهُ»
qāla mālikun: «walam ʾara rajulan ʾaẓhara ḥuznan minhu»
Mālik said: ‘I have never seen anyone show more sorrow than he did.’
٢٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
261 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
قَالَ صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ:
qāla ṣāliḥun al-murriyyu:
Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī said:
{اِعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُحْيِي الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الْآيَاتِ} [الْحَدِيدِ: ١٧]،
{iʿlamū ʾanna Allāha yuḥyī al-ʾarḍa baʿda mawtihā qad bayyannā lakumu al-ʾāyāti} [al-ḥadīdi: 17],
‘Know that God gives the earth life after its death. We have made the signs clear to you’ [al-Ḥadīd 57:17].
قَالَ: «يَعْنِي أَنَّهُ يُلِينُ الْقُلُوبَ بَعْدَ قَسْوَتِهَا»
qāla: «yaʿnī ʾannahu yulīnu al-qulūba baʿda qaswatihā»
He said: ‘That is, He softens hearts after they have grown hard.’
٢٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
262 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ حِبَّانَ بْنِ أَبِي جَبَلَةَ، أَنَّ أَبَا ذَرٍّ، أَوْ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan ḥibbāna bni ʾabī jabalata, ʾanna ʾabā dharrin, ʾaw ʾabā al-dardāʾi qāla:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from Ḥibbān ibn Abī Jabala, who reported that Abū Dharr—or Abū al-Dardāʾ—said:
“ تَلِدُونَ لِلْمَوْتِ، وَتُعَمِّرُونَ لِلْخَرَابِ، وَتَحْرِصُونَ عَلَى مَا يَفْنَى، وَتَذَرُونَ مَا يَبْقَى،
“ talidūna li-l-mawti, watuʿammirūna li-l-kharābi, wataḥriṣūna ʿalā mā yafnā, watadharūna mā yabqā,
‘You beget children destined for death and build things destined for ruin. You pursue what passes away and leave what endures.
أَلَا حَبَّذَا الْمَكْرُوهَاتُ الثَّلَاثُ: الْمَرَضُ، وَالْمَوْتُ، وَالْفَقْرُ ”
ʾalā ḥabbadhā al-makrūhātu al-thalāthu: al-maraḍu, wa-l-mawtu, wa-l-faqru ”
How welcome are the three things people dislike: illness, death, and poverty!’
٢٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
263 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿikrimatu bnu ʿammārin, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
ʿIkrima ibn ʿAmmār informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ، مَا اِمْتَلَأَتْ دَارٌ حَبْرَةً إِلَّا اِمْتَلَأَتْ عَبْرَةً، وَمَا كَانَتْ فَرْحَةٌ إِلَّا تَبِعَتْهَا تَرْحَةٌ»
«wa-l-ladhī nafsu muḥammadin biyadihi, mā imtalaʾat dārun ḥabratan ʾillā imtalaʾat ʿabratan, wamā kānat farḥatun ʾillā tabiʿathā tarḥatun»
‘By the One in whose hand Muḥammad’s soul rests, no house has filled with joy without also filling with tears, and no moment of gladness has come without sorrow following it.’
٢٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
264 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from al-Aʿmash, who said:
“ لَمَّا قَدِمَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْمَدِينَةَ، أَصَابُوا مِنَ الْعَيْشِ مَا أَصَابُوا بَعْدَمَا كَانَ بِهِمْ مِنَ الْجَهْدِ، فَكَأَنَّهُمْ فَتَرُوا عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا, فَنَزَلَتْ:
“ lammā qadima ʾaṣḥābu rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-madīnata, ʾaṣābū mina al-ʿayshi mā ʾaṣābū baʿdamā kāna bihim mina al-jahdi, fakaʾannahum fatarū ʿan baʿḍi mā, fanazalat:
‘When the Companions of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, arrived in Medina, they enjoyed some ease in living after their earlier hardship. It seemed they slackened in some of what … Then the following was revealed:
{أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنْ تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ} [الْحَدِيدِ: ١٦] ”
{ʾalam yaʾni lilladhīna ʾāmanū ʾan takhshaʿa qulūbuhum lidhikri Allāhi} [al-ḥadīdi: 16] ”
“Has the time not come for those who believe to let their hearts grow humble at the remembrance of God?” [al-Ḥadīd 57:16]’
الْآيَةُ
al-ʾāyatu
The verse [continues].
بَابُ ذِكْرِ الْمَوْتِ
bābu dhikri al-mawti
Chapter on the remembrance of death.
أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَجُلًا أُثْنِيَ عَلَيْهِ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin qāla: balaghanā ʾanna rajulan ʾuthniya ʿalayhi ʿinda al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us and said: It reached us that a man was praised in the presence of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
فَقَالَ: «كَيْفَ ذِكْرُهُ لِلْمَوْتِ؟»
faqāla: «kayfa dhikruhu li-l-mawti?»
He asked, ‘How often does he remember death?’
فَقَالُوا: مَا سَمِعْنَاهُ يَذْكُرُهُ - أَوْ يُكْثِرُ ذِكْرَهُ -
faqālū: mā samiʿnāhu yadhkuruhu - ʾaw yukthiru dhikrahu -
They replied, ‘We have not heard him mention it—or mention it often.’
فَقَالَ: «كَيْفَ تَرْكُهُ لِمَا يَشْتَهِي؟»
faqāla: «kayfa tarkuhu limā yashtahī?»
He asked, ‘How well does he give up what he desires?’
قَالُوا: إِنَّهُ لَيُصِيبُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا،
qālū: ʾinnahu layuṣību mina al-dunyā,
They replied, ‘He does take his share of this world.’
قَالَ: «لَيْسَ صَاحِبُكُمْ هُنَاكَ»
qāla: «laysa ṣāḥibukum hunāka»
He said, ‘Your companion has not reached that rank.’
٢٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
266 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan māliku bnu mighwalin qāla:
Mālik ibn Mighwal also informed us and said:
قِيلَ لِلرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَبِي رَاشِدٍ: أَلَا تَجْلِسُ فَتُحَدِّثُ،
qīla li-l-rabīʿi bni ʾabī rāshidin: ʾalā tajlisu fatuḥaddithu,
Someone asked al-Rabīʿ ibn Abī Rāshid, ‘Will you not sit down and converse with us?’
قَالَ: «إِنَّ ذِكْرَ الْمَوْتِ إِذَا فَارَقَ قَلْبِي سَاعَةً فَسَدَ عَلَيَّ قَلْبِي»
qāla: «ʾinna dhikra al-mawti ʾidhā fāraqa qalbī sāʿatan fasada ʿalayya qalbī»
He replied, ‘If the remembrance of death leaves my heart for even an hour, my heart falls into disorder.’
قَالَ مَالِكٌ: «وَلَمْ أَرَ رَجُلًا أَظْهَرَ حُزْنًا مِنْهُ»
qāla mālikun: «walam ʾara rajulan ʾaẓhara ḥuznan minhu»
Mālik said: ‘I have never seen a man who showed more sorrow than he did.’
٢٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
267 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ الشَّهِيدِ، عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ أَبِي بِشْرٍ، عَنْ سَهْمِ بْنِ شَفِيقٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan ḥabībi bni al-shahīdi, ʿani al-walīdi ʾabī bishrin, ʿan sahmi bni shafīqin qāla:
Shuʿba informed us, from Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, from al-Walīd Abū Bishr, from Sahm ibn Shafīq, who said:
" أَتَيْتُ عَامِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، فَخَرَجَ عَلَيَّ وَقَدِ اِغْتَسَلَ، فَقُلْتُ: كَأَنَّكَ يُعْجِبُكَ الْغُسْلُ،
" ʾataytu ʿāmira bna ʿabdi Allāhi, fakharaja ʿalayya waqadi ightasala, faqultu: kaʾannaka yuʿjibuka al-ghuslu,
‘I visited ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh. He came out to me after bathing, so I said, “You seem to enjoy bathing.”
قَالَ: «رُبَّمَا فَعَلْتُ»، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا جَاءَ بِكَ؟ قُلْتُ: الْحَدِيثُ، قَالَ:
qāla: «rubbamā faʿaltu», thumma qāla: mā jāʾa bika? qultu: al-ḥadīthu, qāla:
He said, “Sometimes I do.” Then he asked, “What brings you here?” I said, “Conversation.” He replied:
«وَعَهْدُكَ بِي أُحِبُّ الْحَدِيثَ يَعْنِي الْمُسَامَرَةَ»،
«waʿahduka bī ʾuḥibbu al-ḥadītha yaʿnī al-musāmarata»,
“Have you ever known me to enjoy conversation?”—meaning an evening chat.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ الْوَرَّاقِ: قَالَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ: لَا أَعْلَمُ رَوَاهُ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ غَيْرَ اِبْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ،
qāla ibnu al-warrāqi: qāla ʾabū muḥammadin: lā ʾaʿlamu rawāhu ʿan shuʿbata ghayra ibni al-mubāraki,
Ibn al-Warrāq said: Abū Muḥammad said, ‘I know of no one besides Ibn al-Mubārak who transmitted this from Shuʿba.’
يَعْنِي الْمُسَامَرَةَ مِنْ قَوْلِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ
yaʿnī al-musāmarata min qawli ʾabī muḥammadin
The gloss ‘meaning an evening chat’ is from Abū Muḥammad.
٢٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
268 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾannahu qāla:
Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
«حَادِثُوا هَذِهِ الْقُلُوبَ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّهَا سَرِيعَةُ الدُّثُورِ،
«ḥādithū hādhihi al-qulūba bidhikri Allāhi, faʾinnahā sarīʿatu al-duthūri,
‘Renew these hearts through the remembrance of God, for they quickly grow worn.
وَاقْدَعُوا هَذِهِ الْأَنْفُسَ فَإِنَّهَا طُلَعَةٌ، وَإِنَّمَا تَنْزِعُ إِلَى شَرِّ غَايَةٍ،
waqdaʿū hādhihi al-ʾanfusa faʾinnahā ṭulaʿatun, waʾinnamā tanziʿu ʾilā sharri ghāyatin,
Rein in these souls, for they are always reaching for more and pull toward a wretched end.
وَإِنَّكُمْ إِنْ تُطِيعُوهَا فِي كُلِّ مَا تَنْزِعُ إِلَيْهِ، لَا تُبْقِي لَكُمْ شَيْئًا»
waʾinnakum ʾin tuṭīʿūhā fī kulli mā tanziʿu ʾilayhi, lā tubqī lakum shayʾan»
If you obey them in everything they reach for, they will leave you with nothing.’
٢٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
269 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla:
Sufyān informed us and said:
“ كَانَ يُقَالُ: إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْبِطْنَةَ، فَإِنَّهَا تُقَسِّي الْقَلْبَ،
“ kāna yuqālu: ʾiyyākum wa-l-biṭnata, faʾinnahā tuqassī al-qalba,
‘It used to be said: Beware of overeating, for it hardens the heart.
وَاكْظِمُوا الْعِلْمَ، وَلَا تُكْثِرُوا الضَّحِكَ، فَتَمَجَّهُ الْقُلُوبُ ”
wakẓimū al-ʿilma, walā tukthirū al-ḍaḥika, fatamajjahu al-qulūbu ”
Hold knowledge close, and do not laugh excessively, lest hearts come to reject it.’
٢٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
270 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ الْيَامِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan zubaydin al-yāmiyyi qāla:
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us, from Zubayd al-Yāmī, who said:
كَانَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ مَا إِذَا لَقِيَنَا قَالَ:
kāna ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu al-ʾaswadi mā ʾidhā laqiyanā qāla:
Whenever ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad met us, he would say:
«تَيَسَّرُوا لِلِقَاءِ رَبِّكُمْ»
«tayassarū li-liqāʾi rabbikum»
‘Prepare yourselves to meet your Lord.’
٢٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
271 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
«الْمُسْلِمُ لَا يَأْكُلُ فِي كُلِّ بَطْنِهِ، وَلَا تَزَالُ وَصِيَّتُهُ تَحْتَ جَنْبِهِ»
«al-muslimu lā yaʾkulu fī kulli baṭnihi, walā tazālu waṣiyyatuhu taḥta janbihi»
‘A Muslim does not eat until his stomach is full, and always keeps his will close by.’
٢٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
272 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سُئِلَ أَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَفْضَلُ؟
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan saʿdi bni masʿūdin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama suʾila ʾayyu al-muʾminīna ʾafḍalu?
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked, ‘Which believers are best?’
قَالَ: «أَحْسَنُكُمْ خُلُقًا»،
qāla: «ʾaḥsanukum khuluqan»,
He said, ‘Those of you with the best character.’
قِيلَ: أَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَكْيَسُ؟
qīla: ʾayyu al-muʾminīna ʾakyasu?
He was asked, ‘Which believers are wisest?’
قَالَ: «أَكْثَرُهُمْ لِلْمَوْتِ ذِكْرًا، وَأَحْسَنُهُمْ لَهَا اِسْتِعْدَادًا»
qāla: «ʾaktharuhum li-l-mawti dhikran, waʾaḥsanuhum lahā istiʿdādan»
‘Those who remember death most often and prepare best for it.’
٢٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
273 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ مُنْذِرٍ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنْ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan mundhirin al-thawriyyi, ʿan al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from his father, from Mundhir al-Thawrī, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, who said:
«مَا غَائِبٌ يَنْتَظِرُهُ الْمُؤْمِنُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ»
«mā ghāʾibun yantaẓiruhu al-muʾminu khayrun lahu mina al-mawti»
‘Of all the unseen things a believer awaits, none is better for him than death.’
٢٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
274 - 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 to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us,
عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ وَائِلِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ:
ʿan rajulin, ʿan wāʾili bni dāwūda, ʿan rajulin, ʿan masrūqin qāla:
from an unnamed man, from Wāʾil ibn Dāwūd, from another unnamed man, from Masrūq, who said:
«مَا غَبَطْتُ شَيْئًا بِشَيْءٍ كَمُؤْمِنٍ فِي لَحْدِهِ قَدْ أَمِنَ مِنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ، وَاسْتَرَاحَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا»
«mā ghabaṭtu shayʾan bishayʾin kamuʾminin fī laḥdihi qad ʾamina min ʿadhābi Allāhi, wastarāḥa mina al-dunyā»
‘I have never envied anyone as I envy a believer in his burial niche, secure from God's punishment and at rest from this world.’
٢٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
275 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هَيْثَمُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā haythamu bnu mālikin qāla:
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī informed us and said: Haytham ibn Mālik related to us and said:
كُنَّا نَتَحَدَّثُ عِنْدَ أَيْفَعَ بْنِ عَبْدٍ، وَعِنْدَهُ أَبُو عَطِيَّةَ الْمَذْبُوحُ،
kunnā nataḥaddathu ʿinda ʾayfaʿa bni ʿabdin, waʿindahu ʾabū ʿaṭiyyata al-madhbūḥu,
We were talking with Ayfaʿ ibn ʿAbd while Abū ʿAṭiyya al-Madhbūḥ was with him.
فَتَذَاكَرُوا النَّعِيمَ، فَقَالُوا: مَنْ أَنْعَمُ النَّاسِ؟ فَقَالُوا: فُلَانٌ وَفُلَانٌ،
fatadhākarū al-naʿīma, faqālū: man ʾanʿamu al-nāsi? faqālū: fulānun wafulānun,
They began discussing comfort and asked, ‘Who enjoys the greatest ease?’ They named one person and then another.
فَقَالَ أَيْفَعُ: مَا تَقُولُ يَا أَبَا عَطِيَّةَ؟
faqāla ʾayfaʿu: mā taqūlu yā ʾabā ʿaṭiyyata?
Ayfaʿ asked, ‘What do you say, Abū ʿAṭiyya?’
قَالَ: «أَنَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِمَنْ هُوَ أَنْعَمُ مِنْهُ، جَسَدٌ فِي لَحْدٍ قَدْ أَمِنَ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ»
qāla: «ʾanā ʾukhbirukum biman huwa ʾanʿamu minhu, jasadun fī laḥdin qad ʾamina mina al-ʿadhābi»
He replied, ‘I will tell you of someone better off than he is: a body in its burial niche, safe from punishment.’
٢٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
276 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، أَنَّ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ زَحْرٍ حَدَّثَهُ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: قَالَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ: قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʾanna ʿubayda Allāhi bna zaḥrin ḥaddathahu, ʿan khālidi bni ʾabī ʿimrāna, ʿan ʾabī ʿayyāshin qāla: qāla muʿādhu bnu jabalin: qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us that ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr related to him, from Khālid ibn Abī ʿImrān, from Abū ʿAyyāsh, who said: Muʿādh ibn Jabal said—he said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«إِنْ شِئْتُمْ أَنْبَأْتُكُمْ مَا أَوَّلُ مَا يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَمَا أَوَّلُ مَا تَقُولُونَ لَهُ؟»
«ʾin shiʾtum ʾanbaʾtukum mā ʾawwalu mā yaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā li-l-muʾminīna yawma al-qiyāmati, wamā ʾawwalu mā taqūlūna lahu?»
‘Would you like me to tell you the first thing God Most High will say to the believers on the Day of Resurrection, and the first thing you will say to Him?’
قُلْنَا: نَعَمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ:
qulnā: naʿam yā rasūla Allāhi, qāla:
We said, ‘Yes, Messenger of God.’ He said:
“ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ: هَلْ أَحْبَبْتُمْ لِقَائِي؟
“ faʾinna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu li-l-muʾminīna: hal ʾaḥbabtum liqāʾī?
‘God Most High will ask the believers, “Did you look forward to meeting Me?”
فَيَقُولُونَ: نَعَمْ يَا رَبَّنَا، فَيَقُولُ: لِمَ؟
fayaqūlūna: naʿam yā rabbanā, fayaqūlu: lima?
They will answer, “Yes, our Lord.” He will ask, “Why?”
فَيَقُولُونَ: رَجَوْنَا عَفْوَكَ وَمَغْفِرَتَكَ،
fayaqūlūna: rajawnā ʿafwaka wamaghfirataka,
They will reply, “We hoped for Your pardon and forgiveness.”
فَيَقُولُ: قَدْ وَجَبَتْ لَكُمْ مَغْفِرَتِي ”
fayaqūlu: qad wajabat lakum maghfiratī ”
He will say, “My forgiveness is now assured for you.”’
بَابُ الَّذِي يَجْزَعُ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ لِمُفَارَقَةِ أَنْوَاعِ الْعِبَادَةِ
bābu al-ladhī yajzaʿu mina al-mawti limufāraqati ʾanwāʿi al-ʿibādati
Chapter on grieving at death because it means parting from forms of worship.
٢٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
277 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنَ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bna ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan saʿdi bni masʿūdin, ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi qāla:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, that Abū al-Dardāʾ said:
“ لَوْلَا ثَلَاثٌ مَا أَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَعِيشَ يَوْمًا وَاحِدًا:
“ lawlā thalāthun mā ʾaḥbabtu ʾan ʾaʿīsha yawman wāḥidan:
‘Were it not for three things, I would not wish to live a single day:
الظَّمَأُ لِلَّهِ بِالْهَوَاجِرِ،
al-ẓamaʾu li-llāhi bi-l-hawājiri,
thirsting for God's sake in the midday heat,
وَالسُّجُودُ فِي جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ،
wa-l-sujūdu fī jawfi al-layli,
prostrating in the depth of night,
وَمُجَالَسَةُ قَوْمٍ يَنْتَقُونَ مِنْ خِيَارِ الْكَلَامِ،
wamujālasatu qawmin yantaqūna min khiyāri al-kalāmi,
and sitting with people who select the finest words,
كَمَا يُنْتَقَى أَطَائِبُ التَّمْرِ ”
kamā yuntaqā ʾaṭāʾibu al-tamri ”
as one picks out the finest dates.’
٢٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
278 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ الْكَلَاعِيِّ، عَنْ بِلَالِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ مِعْضَدٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi al-kalāʿiyyi, ʿan bilāli bni saʿdin, ʿan miʿḍadin qāla:
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh al-Kalāʿī, from Bilāl ibn Saʿd, from Miʿḍad, who said:
«لَوْلَا ظَمَأُ الْهَوَاجِرِ، وَطُولُ لَيْلِ الشِّتَاءِ،
«lawlā ẓamaʾu al-hawājiri, waṭūlu layli al-shitāʾi,
‘If it were not for the thirst of hot afternoons and the long winter nights,
وَلَذَاذَةُ التَّهَجُّدِ بِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
waladhādhatu al-tahajjudi bikitābi Allāhi ʿazza wajalla,
and for the sweetness of keeping night vigil with the Book of God, Mighty and Majestic,
مَا بَالَيْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ يَعْسُوبَا»
mā bālaytu ʾan ʾakūna yaʿsūbā»
I would not mind being a butterfly.’
٢٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
279 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ اِبْنَ مُسْلِمٍ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: samiʿtu ibna muslimin yaqūlu:
Ibn Lahīʿa informed us and said: I heard Ibn Muslim say:
«مَا مِنْ خَصْلَةٍ فِي الْعَبْدِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى مِنْ أَنْ يُحِبَّ لِقَاءَهُ،
«mā min khaṣlatin fī al-ʿabdi ʾaḥabbu ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā min ʾan yuḥibba liqāʾahu,
‘No quality in a servant is more beloved to God Most High than loving to meet Him,
وَمَا مِنْ سَاعَةٍ الْعَبْدُ فِيهَا أَقْرَبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى مِنْهُ حَيْثُ يَخِرُّ سَاجِدًا»
wamā min sāʿatin al-ʿabdu fīhā ʾaqrabu ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā minhu ḥaythu yakhirru sājidan»
and there is no moment when a servant is nearer to God Most High than when he falls down in prostration.’
٢٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
280 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، أَنَّ عَامِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ قَيْسٍ،
ʾakhbaranā hishāmu bnu ʾabī ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan qatādata, ʾanna ʿāmira bna ʿabdi qaysin,
Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh informed us, from Qatāda, who reported concerning ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Qays:
لَمَّا حُضِرَ جَعَلَ يَبْكِي، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: مَا يُبْكِيكَ؟
lammā ḥuḍira jaʿala yabkī, faqīla lahu: mā yubkīka?
When death drew near him, he began to weep. Someone asked, ‘What makes you weep?’
قَالَ: «مَا أَبْكِي جَزَعًا مِنَ الْمَوْتِ، وَلَا حِرْصًا عَلَى الدُّنْيَا،
qāla: «mā ʾabkī jazaʿan mina al-mawti, walā ḥirṣan ʿalā al-dunyā,
He said, ‘I do not weep out of distress at death or desire for this world.
وَلَكِنْ أَبْكِي عَلَى ظَمَأِ الْهَوَاجِرِ، وَعَلَى قِيَامِ لَيَالِي الشِّتَاءِ»
walākin ʾabkī ʿalā ẓamaʾi al-hawājiri, waʿalā qiyāmi layālī al-shitāʾi»
I weep for the thirst of the hot afternoons and for standing in prayer on winter nights.’
بَابُ الِاعْتِبَارِ وَالتَّفَكُّرِ
bābu al-iʿtibāri wa-l-tafakkuri
Chapter on taking lessons and reflection.
أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ طَارِقَ بْنَ شِهَابٍ يَقُولُ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin qāla: samiʿtu ṭāriqa bna shihābin yaqūlu: qāla ʾabū bakrin:
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us and said: I heard Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb say: Abū Bakr said:
«طُوبَى لِمَنْ مَاتَ فِي النَّأْنَأَةِ»،
«ṭūbā liman māta fī al-naʾnaʾati»,
‘Blessed is one who dies in the naʾnaʾa.’
فَسَأَلْتُ طِارِقًا عَنِ النَّأْنَأَةِ، قَالَ: «أُرَاهُ عَنَى فِي جِدَّةِ الْإِسْلَامِ»،
fasaʾaltu ṭiāriqan ʿani al-naʾnaʾati, qāla: «ʾurāhu ʿanā fī jiddati al-ʾislāmi»,
I asked Ṭāriq about the naʾnaʾa. He said, ‘I think he meant when Islam was still new’—
أَوْ قَالَ: «بَدْءِ الْإِسْلَامِ»
ʾaw qāla: «badʾi al-ʾislāmi»
or he said, ‘At the beginning of Islam.’
٢٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
282 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā mūsā bna ʿubaydata, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi qāla:
Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, who said:
“ إِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا، جَعَلَ فِيهِ ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ:
“ ʾidhā ʾarāda Allāhu biʿabdin khayran, jaʿala fīhi thalātha khiṣālin:
‘When God intends good for a servant, He gives that person three qualities:
فِقْهًا فِي الدِّينِ، وَزَهَادَةً فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَبَصَرًا بِعُيُوبِهِ ”
fiqhan fī al-dīni, wazahādatan fī al-dunyā, wabaṣaran biʿuyūbihi ”
understanding of religion, detachment from this world, and insight into one's own faults.’
٢٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
283 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ الْكُوفِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿimrāna al-kūfiyyi qāla:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from ʿImrān of Kufa, who said:
“ قَالَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ لِلْحَوَارِيِّينَ: لَا تَأْخُذُوا مِمَّنْ تُعَلِّمُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْرِ إِلَّا مِثْلَ الَّذِي أَعْطَيْتُمُونِي،
“ qāla ʿīsā ibnu maryama li-l-ḥawāriyyīna: lā taʾkhudhū mimman tuʿallimūna mina al-ʾajri ʾillā mithla al-ladhī ʾaʿṭaytumūnī,
‘Jesus son of Mary said to the disciples: “Take no payment from those you teach beyond what you have given me.
وَيَا مِلْحَ الْأَرْضِ، لَا تَفْسُدُوا، فَإِنَّ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ إِذَا فَسَدَ فَإِنَّهُ يُدَاوَى بِالْمِلْحِ، وَإِنَّ الْمِلْحَ إِذَا فَسَدَ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ دَوَاءٌ،
wayā milḥa al-ʾarḍi, lā tafsudū, faʾinna kulla shayʾin ʾidhā fasada faʾinnahu yudāwā bi-l-milḥi, waʾinna al-milḥa ʾidhā fasada falaysa lahu dawāʾun,
You salt of the earth, do not become corrupted. When anything spoils, it can be treated with salt; but if salt itself spoils, there is nothing to cure it.
وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فِيكُمْ خَصْلَتَيْنِ مِنَ الْجَهْلِ:
waʿlamū ʾanna fīkum khaṣlatayni mina al-jahli:
Know that two marks of ignorance are among you:
الضَّحِكُ مِنْ غَيْرِ عَجَبٍ، وَالصُّبْحَةُ مِنْ غَيْرِ سَهَرٍ ”
al-ḍaḥiku min ghayri ʿajabin, wa-l-ṣubḥatu min ghayri saharin ”
laughing when nothing is amusing, and sleeping in the morning without having spent the night awake.”’
٢٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
284 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ خَلَفِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan khalafi bni ḥawshabin qāla:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Khalaf ibn Ḥawshab, who said:
“ قَالَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ لِلْحَوَارِيِّينَ: كَمَا تَرَكَ لَكُمُ الْمُلُوكُ الْحِكْمَةَ، فَكَذَلِكَ فَدَعُوا لَهُمُ الدُّنْيَا ”
“ qāla ʿīsā ibnu maryama li-l-ḥawāriyyīna: kamā taraka lakumu al-mulūku al-ḥikmata, fakadhālika fadaʿū lahumu al-dunyā ”
‘Jesus son of Mary said to the disciples: “Just as kings have left wisdom to you, leave this world to them.”’
٢٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
285 - 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 to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us,
عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
ʿani al-rabīʿi bni ṣubayḥin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
from al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
«إِنَّ مِنْ أَفْضَلِ الْعَمَلِ الْوَرَعَ وَالتَّفَكُّرَ»
«ʾinna min ʾafḍali al-ʿamali al-waraʿa wa-l-tafakkura»
‘Among the finest deeds are scrupulous restraint and reflection.’
٢٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
286 - 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 to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us,
عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ:
ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿajlāna, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla:
from Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
قُلْتُ لِأُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ: أَيُّ عِبَادَةِ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ كَانَ أَكْثَرَ؟
qultu liʾummi al-dardāʾi: ʾayyu ʿibādati ʾabī al-dardāʾi kāna ʾakthara?
I asked Umm al-Dardāʾ, ‘Which kind of worship did Abū al-Dardāʾ practise most?’
قَالَتْ: «التَّفَكُّرُ وَالِاعْتِبَارُ»
qālat: «al-tafakkuru wa-l-iʿtibāru»
She replied, ‘Reflection and taking heed.’
٢٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
287 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَوْهِبٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيَّ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni mawhibin qāla: samiʿtu muḥammada bna kaʿbin al-quraẓiyya yaqūlu:
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mawhib informed us and said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī say:
«لَأَنْ أَقْرَأَ فِي لَيْلَتِي حَتَّى أُصْبِحَ بِإِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ، وَالْقَارِعَةُ لَا أَزِيدُ عَلَيْهِمَا،
«laʾan ʾaqraʾa fī laylatī ḥattā ʾuṣbiḥa biʾidhā zulzilati, wa-l-qāriʿatu lā ʾazīdu ʿalayhimā,
‘For me to read through the night until morning, reciting “When the Earth Is Shaken” and “The Striking Calamity” and going no further than those two,
وَأَتَرَدَّدُ فِيهِمَا وَأَتَفَكَّرُ،
waʾataraddadu fīhimā waʾatafakkaru,
returning to them and reflecting on them,
أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَهُذَّ الْقُرْآنَ لَيْلَتِي هَذًّا»
ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾahudhdha al-qurʾāna laylatī hadhdhan»
would be dearer to me than rushing through the Qurʾān all night.’
أَوْ قَالَ: «أَنْثُرَهُ نَثْرًا»
ʾaw qāla: «ʾanthurahu nathran»
Or he said, ‘scattering it in a rush.’
٢٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
288 - 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 to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us,
عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿikrimata, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
from an unnamed man, from ʿIkrima, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
«رَكْعَتَانِ مُقْتَصِدَتَانِ فِي تَفَكُّرٍ، خَيْرٌ مِنْ قِيَامِ لَيْلَةٍ وَالْقَلْبُ سَاهٍ»
«rakʿatāni muqtaṣidatāni fī tafakkurin, khayrun min qiyāmi laylatin wa-l-qalbu sāhin»
‘Two moderate units of prayer with reflection are better than praying through the night while the heart is heedless.’
٢٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
289 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ الْبَصْرِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ غُطَيْفًا أَبَا عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ، يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu zaydin al-baṣriyyu qāla: samiʿtu rajulan min ʾahli al-shāmi, yaqūlu: samiʿtu ghuṭayfan ʾabā ʿabdi al-karīmi, yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi qāla:
Saʿīd ibn Zayd al-Baṣrī informed us and said: I heard an unnamed man from Syria say: I heard Ghuṭayf Abū ʿAbd al-Karīm relate from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said:
«ثَلَاثٌ صَاحِبُهُنَّ جَوَادٌ مُقْتَصِدٌ
«thalāthun ṣāḥibuhunna jawādun muqtaṣidun
‘Three traits make their possessor generous and measured:
فَرَائِضُ اللَّهِ يُقِيمُهَا، وَيَتَّقِي السُّوءَ، وَيُقِلُّ الْغَفْلَةَ،
farāʾiḍu Allāhi yuqīmuhā, wayattaqī al-sūʾa, wayuqillu al-ghaflata,
he fulfills God's obligations, avoids wrongdoing, and seldom falls into heedlessness.
وَثَلَاثٌ لَا تَحْقِرَنَّ خَيْرًا تَبْتَغِيهِ، وَلَا شَرًّا تَتَّقِيهِ،
wathalāthun lā taḥqiranna khayran tabtaghīhi, walā sharran tattaqīhi,
And three more: Never belittle a good you seek or an evil you avoid,
وَلَا يَكْبُرَنَّ عَلَيْكَ ذَنْبٌ أَنْ تَسْتَغْفِرَهُ،
walā yakburanna ʿalayka dhanbun ʾan tastaghfirahu,
and never think a sin too great to ask forgiveness for.
وَإِيَّاكَ وَاللَّعِبَ فَإِنَّكَ لَنْ تُصِيبَ بِهِ دُنْيَا، وَلَنْ تُدْرِكَ بِهِ آخِرَةً،
waʾiyyāka wa-l-laʿiba faʾinnaka lan tuṣība bihi dunyā, walan tudrika bihi ʾākhiratan,
Beware of idle play: it will gain you neither this world nor the Hereafter,
وَلَنْ تُرْضِيَ بِهِ الْمَلِيكَ، وَإِنَّمَا خُلِقَتِ النَّارُ لِلسُّخْطَةِ وَإِنِّي أُحَذِّرُكَ سَخَطَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
walan turḍiya bihi al-malīka, waʾinnamā khuliqati al-nāru li-l-sukhṭati waʾinnī ʾuḥadhdhiruka sakhaṭa Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
and it will not please the Sovereign. The Fire was created for wrath; I warn you against the wrath of God, Mighty and Majestic.’
٢٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
290 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan ʾabī ʿamrin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla:
Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda informed us, from Abū ʿAmr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said:
«الْحَقُّ ثَقِيلٌ مَرِيءٌ، وَالْبَاطِلُ خَفِيفٌ وَبِيءٌ،
«al-ḥaqqu thaqīlun marīʾun, wa-l-bāṭilu khafīfun wabīʾun,
‘Truth is weighty but wholesome; falsehood is light but harmful.
وَرُبَّ شَهْوَةِ سَاعَةٍ، تُورِثُ حُزْنًا طَوِيلًا»
warubba shahwati sāʿatin, tūrithu ḥuznan ṭawīlan»
A moment's desire may leave lasting sorrow.’
٢٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
291 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي نَافِعٌ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin qāla: ʾakhbaranī nāfiʿun:
Usāma ibn Zayd informed us and said: Nāfiʿ informed me:
«أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَرَ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ قَطُّ جَالِسًا إِلَّا طَاهِرًا»
«ʾannahu lam yara ibna ʿumara qaṭṭu jālisan ʾillā ṭāhiran»
‘He had never seen Ibn ʿUmar seated unless he was in a state of ritual purity.’
٢٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
292 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ، عَنْ حَنَشٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni hubayrata, ʿan ḥanashin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Ibn Lahīʿa informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hubayra, from Ḥanash, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who reported concerning the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him:
كَانَ يَخْرُجُ يُهْرِيقُ الْمَاءَ، فَيَتَمَسَّحُ بِالتُّرَابِ،
kāna yakhruju yuhrīqu al-māʾa, fayatamassaḥu bi-l-turābi,
He would go out to relieve himself, then perform dry ablution with earth.
فَأَقُولُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إِنَّ الْمَاءَ مِنْكَ قَرِيبٌ، فَيَقُولُ:
faʾaqūlu: yā rasūla Allāhi, ʾinna al-māʾa minka qarībun, fayaqūlu:
I would say, ‘Messenger of God, water is close at hand.’ He would reply:
«وَمَا يُدْرِينِي؟ لَعَلِّي لَا أَبْلُغُهُ»
«wamā yudrīnī? laʿallī lā ʾablughuhu»
‘How can I know? Perhaps I shall not reach it.’
٢٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ:
293 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
«كَانَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ يَقْرَبُونَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ،
«kāna man kāna qablakum yaqrabūna hādhā al-ʾamra,
‘Those before you kept this matter close in mind.
كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ يَأْخُذُ مَاءً لِوُضُوئِهِ، ثُمَّ يَتَنَحَّى لِحَاجَتِهِ
kāna ʾaḥaduhum yaʾkhudhu māʾan liwuḍūʾihi, thumma yatanaḥḥā liḥājatihi
One of them would take water for his ablution and then go aside to relieve himself,
مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ وَهُوَ عَلَى غَيْرِ طَهَارَةٍ،
makhāfata ʾan yaʾtiyahu ʾamru Allāhi wahuwa ʿalā ghayri ṭahāratin,
for fear that God's command might come to him while he was not in a state of ritual purity.
فَإِذَا فَرَغَ تَوَضَّأَ»
faʾidhā faragha tawaḍḍaʾa»
When he finished, he performed ablution.’
٢٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
294 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: حُدِّثْتُ،
ʾakhbaranā al-ḥasanu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma qāla: ḥuddithtu,
Al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ informed us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, who said: I was told:
«أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَمْ يُرَ خَارِجًا مِنَ الْغَائِطِ قَطُّ إِلَّا تَوَضَّأَ»
«ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama lam yura khārijan mina al-ghāʾiṭi qaṭṭu ʾillā tawaḍḍaʾa»
‘The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was never seen coming out of the privy without performing ablution.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ الْوَرَّاقِ: «إِلَّا مُتَوَضِّئًا»
qāla ibnu al-warrāqi: «ʾillā mutawaḍḍiʾan»
Ibn al-Warrāq gave the wording: ‘except in a state of ablution.’
٢٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
295 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ:
ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan khālidi bni maʿdāna:
Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān:
«لَا يَفْقَهُ الرَّجُلُ كُلَّ الْفِقْهِ حَتَّى يَرَى النَّاسَ فِي جَنْبِ اللَّهِ أَمْثَالَ الْأَبَاعِرِ،
«lā yafqahu al-rajulu kulla al-fiqhi ḥattā yarā al-nāsa fī janbi Allāhi ʾamthāla al-ʾabāʿiri,
‘A man does not attain full understanding until he sees people, in comparison with God, as no more than camels,
ثُمَّ يَرْجِعَ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ فَتَكُونَ هِيَ أَحْقَرَ حَاقِرٍ»
thumma yarjiʿa ʾilā nafsihi fatakūna hiya ʾaḥqara ḥāqirin»
then turns to himself and sees himself as the lowliest of the low.’
٢٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
296 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
ʿan sufyāna, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi, ʿani ibni ʿumara qāla:
From Sufyān, from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
«لَنْ يُصِيبَ الرَّجُلُ حَقِيقَةَ الْإِيمَانِ حَتَّى يَرَى النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ حَمْقَى فِي دِينِهِمْ»
«lan yuṣība al-rajulu ḥaqīqata al-ʾīmāni ḥattā yarā al-nāsa kaʾannahum ḥamqā fī dīnihim»
‘A man will not grasp the reality of faith until he sees people as though they were foolish in their religion.’
٢٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
297 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي غَيْلَانُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: ḥaddathanī ghaylānu bnu jarīrin qāla:
Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us and said: Ghaylān ibn Jarīr related to me and said:
أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا يَوْمًا مُطَرِّفٌ، فَقَالَ:
ʾaqbala ʿalaynā yawman muṭarrifun, faqāla:
One day Muṭarrif came toward us and said:
«لَوْ كُنْتُ رَاضِيًا عَنْ نَفْسِي لَقَلَيْتُكُمْ، وَلَكِنِّي لَسْتُ عَنْهَا بِرَاضٍ»
«law kuntu rāḍiyan ʿan nafsī laqalaytukum, walākinnī lastu ʿanhā birāḍin»
‘If I were pleased with myself, I would shun you; but I am not pleased with myself.’
٢٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
298 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ هِلَالٍ قَالَ: قَالَ مُطَرِّفٌ:
ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥumaydu bnu hilālin qāla: qāla muṭarrifun:
Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us and said: Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl related to us and said: Muṭarrif said:
“ إِنَّمَا وَجَدْتُ الْعَبْدَ مُلْقًى بَيْنَ رَبِّهِ تَعَالَى وَبَيْنَ الشَّيْطَانِ،
“ ʾinnamā wajadtu al-ʿabda mulqan bayna rabbihi taʿālā wabayna al-shayṭāni,
‘I have found a servant cast between his Lord Most High and Satan.
فَإِنِ اِسْتَشْلَاهُ رَبُّهُ - أَوْ قَالَ: اِسْتَنْقَذَهُ - نَجَا،
faʾini istashlāhu rabbuhu - ʾaw qāla: istanqadhahu - najā,
If his Lord drew him to safety—or, he said, rescued him—he would be saved.
وَإِنْ تَرَكَهُ لِلشَّيْطَانِ ذَهَبَ بِهِ ”
waʾin tarakahu li-l-shayṭāni dhahaba bihi ”
If He left him to Satan, Satan would carry him off.’
بَابُ الْهَرَبِ مِنَ الْخَطَايَا وَالذُّنُوبِ
bābu al-harabi mina al-khaṭāyā wa-l-dhunūbi
Chapter on fleeing from misdeeds and sins.
٢٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
299 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿamri bni dīnārin, ʿan ṭāwūsin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara qāla:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Ṭāwūs, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said:
«اِبْنُ آدَمَ خُلِقَ خَطَّاءً، إِلَّا مَا رَحِمَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
«ibnu ʾādama khuliqa khaṭṭāʾan, ʾillā mā raḥima Allāhu ʿazza wajalla»
‘The child of Adam was created prone to sin, except those on whom God, Mighty and Majestic, has mercy.’
٣٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
300 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ شَقِيقَ بْنَ سَلَمَةَ، يَقُولُ وَهُوَ سَاجِدٌ:
ʾakhbaranā qaysu bnu al-rabīʿi, ʿan ʿāṣimin qāla: samiʿtu shaqīqa bna salamata, yaqūlu wahuwa sājidun:
Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ informed us, from ʿĀṣim, who said: I heard Shaqīq ibn Salama say while prostrating:
«رَبِّ اِغْفِرْ لِي، رَبِّ اِغْفِرْ لِي،
«rabbi ighfir lī, rabbi ighfir lī,
‘My Lord, forgive me! My Lord, forgive me!
إِنْ تَعْفُ عَنِّي فَطَوْلٌ مِنْ قِبَلِكَ،
ʾin taʿfu ʿannī faṭawlun min qibalika,
If You pardon me, it is a bounty from You;
وَإِنْ تُعَذِّبْنِي تُعَذِّبْنِي غَيْرَ ظَالِمٍ، وَلَا مَسْبُوقٍ»،
waʾin tuʿadhdhibnī tuʿadhdhibnī ghayra ẓālimin, walā masbūqin»,
if You punish me, You do so neither unjustly nor as one who can be thwarted.’
قَالَ: ثُمَّ يَبْكِي حَتَّى أَسْمَعَ نَحِيبَهُ مِنْ وَرَاءِ الْمَسْجِدِ
qāla: thumma yabkī ḥattā ʾasmaʿa naḥībahu min warāʾi al-masjidi
Then he wept until I could hear his sobbing from behind the mosque.
٣٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
301 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ
ʾakhbaranā rajulun, ʿan mūsā bni ʿubaydata, ʿani al-maqburiyyi, ʾannahu balaghahu
An unnamed man informed us, from Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda, from al-Maqburī, to whom word had reached
“ أَنَّ عِيسَى اِبْنَ مَرْيَمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ:
“ ʾanna ʿīsā ibna maryama kāna yaqūlu:
that Jesus son of Mary used to say:
يَا اِبْنَ آدَمَ، إِذَا عَمِلْتَ الْحَسَنَةَ فَالْهُ عَنْهَا، فَإِنَّهَا عِنْدَ مَنْ لَا يُضَيِّعُهَا،
yā ibna ʾādama, ʾidhā ʿamilta al-ḥasanata falhu ʿanhā, faʾinnahā ʿinda man lā yuḍayyiʿuhā,
‘Child of Adam, when you do a good deed, turn your attention away from it. It is with One who will never let it go to waste.’
ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {إِنَّا لَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ مَنْ أَحْسَنَ عَمَلًا} [الْكَهْفِ: ٣٠]،
thumma talā hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {ʾinnā lā nuḍīʿu ʾajra man ʾaḥsana ʿamalan} [al-kahfi: 30],
Then he recited this verse: ‘We do not let the reward of those who do good go to waste’ (al-Kahf 18:30).
وَإِذَا عَمِلْتَ سَيِّئَةً فَاجْعَلْهَا نُصْبَ عَيْنَيْكَ ”،
waʾidhā ʿamilta sayyiʾatan fajʿalhā nuṣba ʿaynayka ”,
‘And when you do a bad deed, keep it before your eyes.’
وَقَالَ اِبْنُ الْوَرَّاقِ: «عِنْدَ عَيْنَيْكَ»
waqāla ibnu al-warrāqi: «ʿinda ʿaynayka»
Ibn al-Warrāq's wording was: ‘by your eyes.’
٣٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
302 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
عَنْ مِسْعَرٍ قَالَ: وَلَمْ أَسْمَعْهُ مِنْهُ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ طَلْقِ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ قَالَ:
ʿan misʿarin qāla: walam ʾasmaʿhu minhu, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ṭalqi bni ḥabībin qāla:
From Misʿar—though I did not hear it from him directly—from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb, who said:
«إِنَّ حُقُوقَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَنْ يَقُومَ بِهَا الْعِبَادُ،
«ʾinna ḥuqūqa Allāhi taʿālā ʾaʿẓamu min ʾan yaqūma bihā al-ʿibādu,
‘God Most High has rights too great for His servants to fulfill,
وَإِنَّ نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَنْ تُحْصَى،
waʾinna niʿmata Allāhi ʾaktharu min ʾan tuḥṣā,
and God's blessings are too many to count.
وَلَكِنْ أَصْبِحُوا تَائِبِينَ، وَأَمْسُوا تَائِبِينَ»
walākin ʾaṣbiḥū tāʾibīna, waʾamsū tāʾibīna»
But begin each morning in repentance, and enter each evening in repentance.’
٣٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
303 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُعَلَّى بْنَ زِيَادٍ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu zaydin qāla: samiʿtu muʿallā bna ziyādin yaqūlu:
Saʿīd ibn Zayd informed us and said: I heard Muʿallā ibn Ziyād say:
سَأَلَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ مُخَادِشٍ الْحَسَنَ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ، كَيْفَ نَصْنَعُ بِمُجَالَسَةِ أَقْوَامٍ هَاهُنَا يُحَدِّثُونَنَا حَتَّى تَكَادَ قُلُوبُنَا أَنْ تَطِيرَ؟
saʾala al-mughīratu bnu mukhādishin al-ḥasana, faqāla: yā ʾabā saʿīdin, kayfa naṣnaʿu bimujālasati ʾaqwāmin hāhunā yuḥaddithūnanā ḥattā takāda qulūbunā ʾan taṭīra?
Al-Mughīra ibn Mukhādish asked al-Ḥasan: ‘Abū Saʿīd, what are we to do about sitting with people here whose words almost make our hearts take flight?’
قَالَ: «أَيُّهَا الشَّيْخُ، إِنَّكَ وَاللَّهِ لَأَنْ تَصْحَبَ أَقْوَامًا يُخَوِّفُونَكَ حَتَّى تُدْرِكَ أَمْنًا،
qāla: «ʾayyuhā al-shaykhu, ʾinnaka wa-llāhi laʾan taṣḥaba ʾaqwāman yukhawwifūnaka ḥattā tudrika ʾamnan,
He answered: ‘Old man, by God, keeping company with people who make you afraid until you reach safety
خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ أَنْ تَصْحَبَ أَقْوَامًا يُؤَمِّنُونَكَ حَتَّى تَلْحَقَكَ الْمَخَاوِفُ»
khayrun laka min ʾan taṣḥaba ʾaqwāman yuʾamminūnaka ḥattā talḥaqaka al-makhāwifu»
is better for you than keeping company with people who make you feel safe until dangers overtake you.’
٣٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
304 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
balaghanī ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Word has reached me that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«الْمُؤْمِنُ عَبْدٌ بَيْنَ مَخَافَتَيْنِ،
«al-muʾminu ʿabdun bayna makhāfatayni,
‘A believer is a servant caught between two fears:
مِنْ ذَنْبٍ قَدْ مَضَى لَا يَدْرِي مَا يَصْنَعُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ،
min dhanbin qad maḍā lā yadrī mā yaṣnaʿu Allāhu fīhi,
a past sin, not knowing what God will do concerning it,
وَمِنْ عُمْرٍ قَدْ بَقِيَ لَا يَدْرِي مَاذَا يُصِيبُ فِيهِ مِنَ الْهَلَكَاتِ»
wamin ʿumrin qad baqiya lā yadrī mādhā yuṣību fīhi mina al-halakāti»
and a life yet to come, not knowing what forms of ruin may befall him in it.’
٣٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
305 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، أَنَّهُ سَجَدَ سَجْدَةً فَوَقَعَتْ ثَنِيَّتَاهُ،
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan muslimi bni yasārin, ʾannahu sajada sajdatan fawaqaʿat thaniyyatāhu,
Sufyān informed us, from an unnamed man, from Muslim ibn Yasār, who once prostrated and lost his two front teeth.
فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ أَبُو إِيَاسٍ، فَأَخَذَ يُعَزِّيهِ وَيُهَوِّنُ عَلَيْهِ،
fadakhala ʿalayhi ʾabū ʾiyāsin, faʾakhadha yuʿazzīhi wayuhawwinu ʿalayhi,
Abū Iyās came to him and began to console him and make light of what had happened.
فَذَكَرَ مُسْلِمٌ مِنْ تَعْظِيمِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، فَقَالَ مُسْلِمٌ:
fadhakara muslimun min taʿẓīmi Allāhi taʿālā, faqāla muslimun:
Muslim spoke of God's greatness, then said:
«مَنْ رَجَا شَيْئًا طَلَبَهُ، وَمَنْ خَافَ شَيْئًا هَرَبَ مِنْهُ،
«man rajā shayʾan ṭalabahu, waman khāfa shayʾan haraba minhu,
‘Whoever hopes for something pursues it; whoever fears something flees from it.
مَا أَدْرِي مَا حَسْبُ رَجَاءِ اِمْرِئٍ عَرَضَ لَهُ بَلَاءٌ لَمْ يَصْبِرْ عَلَيْهِ لِمَا يَرْجُو،
mā ʾadrī mā ḥasbu rajāʾi imriʾin ʿaraḍa lahu balāʾun lam yaṣbir ʿalayhi limā yarjū,
I do not see what claim to hope someone has if hardship comes and they will not bear it for what they hope to gain.
وَمَا أَدْرِي مَا حَسْبُ خَوْفِ اِمْرِئٍ عَرَضَتْ لَهُ شَهْوَةٌ لَمْ يَتْرُكْهَا لِمَا يَخْشَى»
wamā ʾadrī mā ḥasbu khawfi imriʾin ʿaraḍat lahu shahwatun lam yatruk-hā limā yakhshā»
Nor do I see what claim to fear someone has if a desire arises and they will not give it up for fear of what may follow.’
٣٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
306 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin ʾannahu balaghahu, ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi qāla:
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us that word had reached him that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:
“ حَاسِبُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُحَاسَبُوا، فَإِنَّهُ أَهْوَنُ - أَوْ قَالَ: أَيْسَرُ - لِحِسَابِكُمْ،
“ ḥāsibū ʾanfusakum qabla ʾan tuḥāsabū, faʾinnahu ʾahwanu - ʾaw qāla: ʾaysaru - liḥisābikum,
‘Take account of yourselves before you are called to account; that makes your reckoning lighter—or, he said, easier.
وَزِنُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُوزَنُوا،
wazinū ʾanfusakum qabla ʾan tūzanū,
Weigh yourselves before you are weighed.
وَتَجَهَّزُوا لِلْعَرْضِ الْأَكْبَرِ: {يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَى مِنْكُمْ خَافِيَةٌ} [الْحَاقَّةِ: ١٨] ”
watajahhazū li-l-ʿarḍi al-ʾakbari: {yawmaʾidhin tuʿraḍūna lā takhfā minkum khāfiyatun} [al-ḥāqqati: 18] ”
And prepare for the great presentation: “That day you will be presented; nothing about you will remain hidden” (al-Ḥāqqa 69:18).’
٣٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
307 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni al-mukhtāri, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
Maʿmar informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn al-Mukhtār, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
“ إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ قَوَّامٌ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ، يُحَاسِبُ نَفْسَهُ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
“ ʾinna al-muʾmina qawwāmun ʿalā nafsihi, yuḥāsibu nafsahu li-llāhi ʿazza wajalla,
‘A believer keeps watch over himself and calls himself to account for God’s sake, Mighty and Majestic.
وَإِنَّمَا خَفَّ الْحِسَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى قَوْمٍ حَاسَبُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا،
waʾinnamā khaffa al-ḥisābu yawma al-qiyāmati ʿalā qawmin ḥāsabū ʾanfusahum fī al-dunyā,
The reckoning on the Day of Resurrection is light for people who called themselves to account in this world,
وَإِنَّمَا شَقَّ الْحِسَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى قَوْمٍ أَخَذُوا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنْ غَيْرِ مُحَاسَبَةٍ،
waʾinnamā shaqqa al-ḥisābu yawma al-qiyāmati ʿalā qawmin ʾakhadhū hādhā al-ʾamra min ghayri muḥāsabatin,
and it is hard for people who went through this matter without examining themselves.
إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ يَفْجَأُهُ الشَّيْءُ يُعْجِبُهُ،
ʾinna al-muʾmina yafjaʾuhu al-shayʾu yuʿjibuhu,
Something that pleases a believer may suddenly catch his attention,
فَيَقُولُ: وَاللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأَشْتَهِيكَ، وَإِنَّكَ لَمِنْ حَاجَتِي،
fayaqūlu: wa-llāhi ʾinnī laʾashtahīka, waʾinnaka lamin ḥājatī,
and he says: “By God, I desire you, and I do have need of you;
وَلَكِنْ وَاللَّهِ مَا مِنْ صِلَةٍ إِلَيْكَ، هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ، حِيلَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ،
walākin wa-llāhi mā min ṣilatin ʾilayka, hayhāta hayhāta, ḥīla baynī wabaynaka,
but by God, there is no way for me to reach you. Far from it, far from it! A barrier stands between you and me.”
وَيَفْرُطُ مِنْهُ الشَّيْءُ فَيَرْجِعُ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ،
wayafruṭu minhu al-shayʾu fayarjiʿu ʾilā nafsihi,
When something slips from him, he turns back to himself
فَيَقُولُ: مَا أَرَدْتُ إِلَى هَذَا، مَا لِي وَلِهَذَا، وَاللَّهِ لَا أَعُودُ إِلَى هَذَا أَبَدًا إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ،
fayaqūlu: mā ʾaradtu ʾilā hādhā, mā lī walihādhā, wa-llāhi lā ʾaʿūdu ʾilā hādhā ʾabadan ʾin shāʾa Allāhu,
and says: “Why did I do that? What have I to do with it? By God, I will never return to it, God willing.”
إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قَوْمٌ أَوْثَقَهُمُ الْقُرْآنُ، وَحَالَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ هَلَكَتِهِمْ،
ʾinna al-muʾminīna qawmun ʾawthaqahumu al-qurʾānu, waḥāla baynahum wabayna halakatihim,
The believers are people held fast by the Qurʾān, which has kept them from ruin.
إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ أَسِيرٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا يَسْعَى فِي فِكَاكِ رَقَبَتِهِ،
ʾinna al-muʾmina ʾasīrun fī al-dunyā yasʿā fī fikāki raqabatihi,
A believer is a captive in this world, striving to free himself.
لَا يَأْمَنُ شَيْئًا حَتَّى يَلْقَى اللَّهَ، يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ مَأْخُوذٌ عَلَيْهِ فِي سَمْعِهِ، فِي بَصَرِهِ، فِي لِسَانِهِ، فِي جَوَارِحِهِ،
lā yaʾmanu shayʾan ḥattā yalqā Allāha, yaʿlamu ʾannahu maʾkhūdhun ʿalayhi fī samʿihi, fī baṣarihi, fī lisānihi, fī jawāriḥihi,
He feels secure in nothing until he meets God. He knows he will be held to account for his hearing, his sight, his tongue and his limbs;
يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ مَأْخُوذٌ عَلَيْهِ فِي ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ ”
yaʿlamu ʾannahu maʾkhūdhun ʿalayhi fī dhālika kullihi ”
he knows he will be held to account for all of it.’
٣٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
308 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni yasārin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from an unnamed man, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, who said:
“ تَبَدَّى إِبْلِيسُ لِرَجُلٍ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ، فَقَالَ: نَجَوْتَ مِنِّي،
“ tabaddā ʾiblīsu lirajulin ʿinda al-mawti, faqāla: najawta minnī,
Satan appeared to a man at the time of his death and said, ‘You have escaped me.’
قَالَ: مَا أَمِنْتُكَ بَعْدُ ”
qāla: mā ʾamintuka baʿdu ”
The man replied, ‘I am not yet safe from you.’
٣٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
309 - 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 to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us,
عَنْ عَبَّادٍ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيُّ قَالَ:
ʿan ʿabbādin al-minqariyyi qāla: ḥaddathanā bakru bnu ʿabdi Allāhi al-muzaniyyu qāla:
from ʿAbbād al-Minqarī, who said: Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī related to us and said:
نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ: {وَإِنْ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَا} [مَرْيَمَ: ٧١]
nazalat hādhihi al-ʾāyatu: {waʾin minkum ʾillā wāriduhā} [maryama: 71]
This verse was revealed: ‘There is none among you who will not come to it’ (Maryam 19:71).
ذَهَبَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ رَوَاحَةَ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ فَبَكَى،
dhahaba ʿabdu Allāhi bnu rawāḥata ʾilā baytihi fabakā,
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥa went home and wept.
فَجَاءَتِ اِمْرَأَتُهُ فَبَكَتْ، فَجَاءَتِ الْخَادِمُ فَبَكَتْ، وَجَاءَ أَهْلُ الْبَيْتِ فَجَعَلُوا يَبْكُونَ،
fajāʾati imraʾatuhu fabakat, fajāʾati al-khādimu fabakat, wajāʾa ʾahlu al-bayti fajaʿalū yabkūna,
His wife came and wept, the servant came and wept, and the rest of the household came and began to weep.
فَلَمَّا اِنْقَطَعَتْ عَبْرَتُهُ، قَالَ: «يَا أَهْلَاهُ، مَا الَّذِي أَبْكَاكُمْ؟»
falammā inqaṭaʿat ʿabratuhu, qāla: «yā ʾahlāhu, mā al-ladhī ʾabkākum?»
When his tears subsided he asked, ‘My family, why are you crying?’
قَالُوا: لَا نَدْرِي، وَلَكِنْ رَأَيْنَاكَ بَكَيْتَ فَبَكَيْنَا،
qālū: lā nadrī, walākin raʾaynāka bakayta fabakaynā,
They answered, ‘We do not know. We saw you crying, so we cried too.’
قَالَ: «إِنَّهُ أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ آيَةٌ يُنَبِّئُنِي فِيهَا رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنِّي وَارِدٌ النَّارَ،
qāla: «ʾinnahu ʾunzilat ʿalā rasūli Allāhi ʾāyatun yunabbiʾunī fīhā rabbī ʿazza wajalla ʾannī wāridun al-nāra,
He said, ‘A verse was revealed to the Messenger of God in which my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, tells me I will come to the Fire,
وَلَمْ يُنَبِّئْنِي أَنِّي صَادِرٌ عَنْهَا، فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي أَبْكَانِي»
walam yunabbiʾnī ʾannī ṣādirun ʿanhā, fadhālika al-ladhī ʾabkānī»
but He did not tell me I will come away from it. That is why I wept.’
٣١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
310 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: بَكَى اِبْنُ رَوَاحَةَ، وَبَكَتِ اِمْرَأَتُهُ،
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: bakā ibnu rawāḥata, wabakati imraʾatuhu,
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: Ibn Rawāḥa wept, and his wife wept too.
فَقَالَ لَهَا اِبْنُ رَوَاحَةَ: «مَا يُبْكِيكِ؟»
faqāla lahā ibnu rawāḥata: «mā yubkīki?»
Ibn Rawāḥa asked her, ‘Why are you crying?’
قَالَتْ: بَكَيْنَا حِينَ رَأَيْنَاكَ تَبْكِي،
qālat: bakaynā ḥīna raʾaynāka tabkī,
She said, ‘We wept when we saw you weeping.’
فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنِّي وَارِدٌ النَّارَ، فَلَا أَدْرِي أَنَاجٍ مِنْهَا أَمْ لَا؟»
faqāla ʿabdu Allāhi: «qad ʿalimtu ʾannī wāridun al-nāra, falā ʾadrī ʾanājin minhā ʾam lā?»
ʿAbd Allāh said, ‘I know I shall come to the Fire, but I do not know whether I shall escape from it.’
٣١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
311 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan rajulin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from an unnamed man, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِأَخِيهِ: «يَا أَخِي، هَلْ أَتَاكَ أَنَّكَ وَارِدٌ النَّارَ؟»
qāla rajulun liʾakhīhi: «yā ʾakhī, hal ʾatāka ʾannaka wāridun al-nāra?»
A man said to his brother, ‘Brother, have you heard that you will come to the Fire?’
قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «فَهَلْ أَتَاكَ أَنَّكَ خَارِجٌ مِنْهَا؟»
qāla: naʿam, qāla: «fahal ʾatāka ʾannaka khārijun minhā?»
He answered, ‘Yes.’ The man asked, ‘And have you heard that you will come out of it?’
قَالَ: لَا، قَالَ: «فَفِيمَا الضَّحِكُ؟»
qāla: lā, qāla: «fafīmā al-ḍaḥiku?»
He answered, ‘No.’ The man asked, ‘Then why the laughter?’
قَالَ: فَمَا رُئِيَ ضَاحِكًا حَتَّى مَاتَ
qāla: famā ruʾiya ḍāḥikan ḥattā māta
He was never seen laughing again before his death.
٣١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
312 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي مَيْسَرَةَ، أَنَّهُ أَوَى إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ،
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī maysarata, ʾannahu ʾawā ʾilā firāshihi,
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Maysara, who lay down on his bed
فَقَالَ: «يَا لَيْتَ أُمِّي لَمْ تَلِدْنِي»،
faqāla: «yā layta ʾummī lam talidnī»,
and said, ‘If only my mother had never given birth to me!’
فَقَالَتِ اِمْرَأَتُهُ: يَا أَبَا مَيْسَرَةَ، إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَحْسَنَ إِلَيْكَ، هَدَاكَ لِلْإِسْلَامِ،
faqālati imraʾatuhu: yā ʾabā maysarata, ʾinna Allāha qad ʾaḥsana ʾilayka, hadāka li-l-ʾislāmi,
His wife said, ‘Abū Maysara, God has been good to you. He guided you to Islam.’
فَقَالَ: «أَجَلْ، وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ بَيَّنَ لَنَا أَنَّا وَارِدُو النَّارِ،
faqāla: «ʾajal, walākinna Allāha qad bayyana lanā ʾannā wāridū al-nāri,
He replied, ‘Yes, but God has made clear that we shall come to the Fire,
وَلَمْ يُنَبِّئْنَا أَنَّا صَادِرُونَ عَنْهَا»
walam yunabbiʾnā ʾannā ṣādirūna ʿanhā»
and He has not told us that we shall come away from it.’
٣١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
313 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan wahbi bni munabbihin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from an unnamed man, from Wahb ibn Munabbih, who said:
“ إِنَّ فِي حِكْمَةِ آلِ دَاوُدَ: حَقٌّ عَلَى الْعَاقِلِ أَنْ لَا يَغْفَلَ عَنْ أَرْبَعِ سَاعَاتٍ،
“ ʾinna fī ḥikmati ʾāli dāwūda: ḥaqqun ʿalā al-ʿāqili ʾan lā yaghfala ʿan ʾarbaʿi sāʿātin,
‘The wisdom of David's house says that a thoughtful person should not neglect four periods:
سَاعَةٍ يُنَاجِي فِيهَا رَبَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
sāʿatin yunājī fīhā rabbahu ʿazza wajalla,
a period spent in intimate prayer to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic;
وَسَاعَةٍ يُحَاسِبُ فِيهَا نَفْسَهُ،
wasāʿatin yuḥāsibu fīhā nafsahu,
a period in which he calls himself to account;
وَسَاعَةٍ يُفْضِي فِيهَا إِلَى إِخْوَانِهِ الَّذِينَ يُخْبِرُونَهُ بِعُيُوبِهِ، وَيَصْدُقُونَهُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ،
wasāʿatin yufḍī fīhā ʾilā ʾikhwānihi al-ladhīna yukhbirūnahu biʿuyūbihi, wayaṣduqūnahu ʿan nafsihi,
a period in which he confides in friends who tell him his faults and speak honestly to him about himself;
وَسَاعَةٍ يُخَلِّي بَيْنَ نَفْسِهِ وَبَيْنَ لَذَّاتِهَا فِيمَا يَحِلُّ وَيَجْمُلُ،
wasāʿatin yukhallī bayna nafsihi wabayna ladhdhātihā fīmā yaḥillu wayajmulu,
and a period in which he allows himself wholesome pleasures that are lawful and seemly.
فَإِنَّ هَذِهِ السَّاعَةَ عَوْنٌ عَلَى هَذِهِ السَّاعَاتِ، وَإِجْمَامٌ لِلْقُلُوبِ،
faʾinna hādhihi al-sāʿata ʿawnun ʿalā hādhihi al-sāʿāti, waʾijmāmun li-l-qulūbi,
This last period supports the others and refreshes the heart.
وَحَقٌّ عَلَى الْعَاقِلِ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ زَمَانَهُ، وَيَحْفَظَ لِسَانَهُ، وَيُقْبِلَ عَلَى شَأْنِهِ،
waḥaqqun ʿalā al-ʿāqili ʾan yaʿrifa zamānahu, wayaḥfaẓa lisānahu, wayuqbila ʿalā shaʾnihi,
A thoughtful person should also know his own time, guard his tongue, and attend to his own concerns.
وَحَقٌّ عَلَى الْعَاقِلِ أَنْ لَا يَظْعَنَ إِلَّا فِي إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ:
waḥaqqun ʿalā al-ʿāqili ʾan lā yaẓʿana ʾillā fī ʾiḥdā thalāthin:
A thoughtful person should set out only for one of three purposes:
زَادٍ لِمِعَادِهِ، وَمَرَّمَةٍ لِمَعَاشِهِ، وَلَذَّةٍ فِي غَيْرِ مُحَرَّمٍ ”
zādin limiʿādihi, wamarramatin limaʿāshihi, waladhdhatin fī ghayri muḥarramin ”
provision for the life to come, repair of his livelihood, or enjoyment of a lawful pleasure.’
٣١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
314 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ مِسْمَارٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ لِحَارِثِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan ṣāliḥi bni mismārin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla liḥārithi bni mālikin:
Maʿmar informed us, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, asked Ḥārith ibn Mālik:
«كَيْفَ أَنْتَ؟ - أَوْ مَا أَنْتَ يَا حَارِثُ -»،
«kayfa ʾanta? - ʾaw mā ʾanta yā ḥārithu -»,
‘How are you?’—or, according to another wording, ‘What are you, Ḥārith?’
قَالَ: مُؤْمِنٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: «مُؤْمِنٌ حَقًّا؟»، قَالَ: مُؤْمِنٌ حَقًّا،
qāla: muʾminun yā rasūla Allāhi, qāla: «muʾminun ḥaqqan?», qāla: muʾminun ḥaqqan,
He said, ‘A believer, Messenger of God.’ The Prophet asked, ‘Truly a believer?’ He answered, ‘Truly a believer.’
قَالَ: «فَإِنَّ لِكُلِّ حَقٍّ حَقِيقَةً، فَمَا حَقِيقَةُ ذَلِكَ؟»
qāla: «faʾinna likulli ḥaqqin ḥaqīqatan, famā ḥaqīqatu dhālika?»
The Prophet said, ‘Every truth has a reality. What is the reality of that claim?’
قَالَ: عَزَفَتْ نَفْسِي عَنِ الدُّنْيَا، فَأَسْهَرْتُ لَيْلِي، وَأَظْمَأْتُ نَهَارِي، وَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى عَرْشِ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
qāla: ʿazafat nafsī ʿani al-dunyā, faʾas-hartu laylī, waʾaẓmaʾtu nahārī, wakaʾannī ʾanẓuru ʾilā ʿarshi rabbī ʿazza wajalla,
He said, ‘My soul has turned away from this world, so I spend my nights awake and my days thirsty. It is as though I see the Throne of my Lord, Mighty and Majestic,
وَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ يَتَزَاوَرُونَ فِيهَا،
wakaʾannī ʾanẓuru ʾilā ʾahli al-jannati yatazāwarūna fīhā,
and as though I see the people of the Garden visiting one another there,
وَكَأَنِّي أَسْمَعُ عُوَاءَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ،
wakaʾannī ʾasmaʿu ʿuwāʾa ʾahli al-nāri,
and as though I hear the howling of the people of the Fire.’
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مُؤْمِنٌ نَوَّرَ اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ»
faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «muʾminun nawwara Allāhu qalbahu»
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘A believer whose heart God has illumined.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ الْوَرَّاقِ: قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «وَلَا أَعْلَمُ صَالِحَ بْنَ مِسْمَارٍ أَسْنَدَ إِلَّا حَدِيثًا وَاحِدًا»
qāla ibnu al-warrāqi: qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «walā ʾaʿlamu ṣāliḥa bna mismārin ʾasnada ʾillā ḥadīthan wāḥidan»
Ibn al-Warrāq said: Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘I do not know of Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār giving a connected chain for any but one report.’
٣١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
315 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ - رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ، وَلَيْسَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ - قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin - rajulin min banī hāshimin, walaysa muḥammada bna ʿaliyyin - qāla:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī informed us, from ʿAmr ibn Murra, from Abū Jaʿfar—a man of Banū Hāshim, not Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī—who said:
تَلَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {أَفَمَنْ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ} [الزُّمَرِ: ٢٢]
talā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {ʾafaman sharaḥa Allāhu ṣadrahu li-l-ʾislāmi} [al-zumari: 22]
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, recited this verse: ‘What of one whose breast God has opened to Islam?’ (al-Zumar 39:22).
قَالَ: «إِذَا دَخَلَ النُّورُ الصَّدْرَ اِنْشَرَحَ وَانْفَسَحَ»،
qāla: «ʾidhā dakhala al-nūru al-ṣadra insharaḥa wanfasaḥa»,
He said, ‘When light enters the breast, it opens and grows spacious.’
قِيلَ: هَلْ لِذَلِكَ مِنْ آيَةٍ تُعْرَفُ بِهَا؟
qīla: hal lidhālika min ʾāyatin tuʿrafu bihā?
Someone asked, ‘Is there a sign by which that can be recognized?’
قَالَ: «نَعَمْ، التَّجَافِي عَنْ دَارِ الْغُرُورِ، وَالْإِنَابَةُ إِلَى دَارِ الْخُلُودِ، وَالِاسْتِعْدَادُ لِلْمَوْتِ قَبْلَ الْمَوْتِ»
qāla: «naʿam, al-tajāfī ʿan dāri al-ghurūri, wa-l-ʾinābatu ʾilā dāri al-khulūdi, wa-l-istiʿdādu li-l-mawti qabla al-mawti»
He said, ‘Yes: drawing away from the abode of delusion, turning toward the everlasting abode, and preparing for death before death comes.’
٣١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
316 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُ وَهُوَ يَخْطُبُ النَّاسَ:
ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʿurwatu bnu al-zubayri, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla ʾabū bakrin al-ṣiddīqu wahuwa yakhṭubu al-nāsa:
Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who said: ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr informed me, from his father, who said: Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq addressed the people and said:
«يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، اِسْتَحْيُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ،
«yā maʿshara al-muslimīna, istaḥyū mina Allāhi,
‘Muslims, feel modesty before God.
فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنِّي لَأَظَلُّ حِينَ أَذْهَبُ إِلَى الْغَائِطِ فِي الْفَضَاءِ مُتَقَنِّعًا بِثَوْبِي اِسْتِحْيَاءً مِنْ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
fa-walladhī nafsī biyadihi ʾinnī laʾaẓallu ḥīna ʾadhhabu ʾilā al-ghāʾiṭi fī al-faḍāʾi mutaqanniʿan bithawbī istiḥyāʾan min rabbī ʿazza wajalla»
By the One who holds my soul in His hand, whenever I go out into the open to relieve myself, I cover myself with my cloak out of modesty before my Lord, Mighty and Majestic.’
٣١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
317 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا رَبِيعَةَ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā rabīʿata, yuḥaddithu ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us and said: I heard Abū Rabīʿa relate from al-Ḥasan that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«كُلُّكُمْ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ؟»
«kullukum yuḥibbu ʾan yadkhula al-jannata?»
‘Do all of you wish to enter the Garden?’
قَالُوا: نَعَمْ، يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ،
qālū: naʿam, yā rasūla Allāhi,
They answered, ‘Yes, Messenger of God.’
قَالَ: «فَاقْصُرُوا مِنَ الْأَمَلِ، وَثَبِّتُوا آجَالَكُمْ بَيْنَ أَبْصَارِكُمْ، وَاسْتَحْيُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ حَقَّ الْحَيَاءِ»،
qāla: «faqṣurū mina al-ʾamali, wathabbitū ʾājālakum bayna ʾabṣārikum, wastaḥyū mina Allāhi ḥaqqa al-ḥayāʾi»,
He said, ‘Limit your hopes for a long life, keep the end of your lives before your eyes, and feel true modesty before God.’
قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، كُلُّنَا نَسْتَحْيِي مِنَ اللَّهِ،
qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi, kullunā nastaḥyī mina Allāhi,
They said, ‘Messenger of God, all of us feel modesty before God.’
قَالَ: «لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ الْحَيَاءُ مِنَ اللَّهِ،
qāla: «laysa kadhālika al-ḥayāʾu mina Allāhi,
He replied, ‘That is not what modesty before God means.
وَلَكِنَّ الْحَيَاءَ مِنَ اللَّهِ أَنْ لَا تَنْسُوا الْمَقَابِرَ وَالْبِلَى، وَأَنْ لَا تَنْسُوا الْجَوْفَ وَمَا وَعَى، وَأَنْ لَا تَنْسُوا الرَّأْسَ وَمَا اِحْتَوَى،
walākinna al-ḥayāʾa mina Allāhi ʾan lā tansū al-maqābira wa-l-bilā, waʾan lā tansū al-jawfa wamā waʿā, waʾan lā tansū al-raʾsa wamā iḥtawā,
Rather, it means remembering the graves and decay, the belly and what it holds, and the head and what it holds.
وَمَنْ يَشْتَهِ كَرَامَةَ الْآخِرَةِ يَدَعْ زِينَةَ الدُّنْيَا،
waman yashtahi karāmata al-ʾākhirati yadaʿ zīnata al-dunyā,
Whoever desires honor in the Hereafter should leave aside the adornment of this world.
هُنَالِكَ اِسْتَحْيَا الْعَبْدُ مِنَ اللَّهِ، وَهُنَالِكَ أَصَابَ وِلَايَةَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
hunālika istaḥyā al-ʿabdu mina Allāhi, wahunālika ʾaṣāba wilāyata Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
Only then does the servant show modesty before God and attain God's guardianship, Mighty and Majestic.’
٣١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
318 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبَ بْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ يَقُولُ: وَجَدْتُ فِي بَعْضِ الْكُتُبِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿamrin qāla: samiʿtu wahba bna munabbihin yaqūlu: wajadtu fī baʿḍi al-kutubi ʾanna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu:
Maʿmar informed us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, who said: I heard Wahb ibn Munabbih say: I found in some books that God Most High says:
«إِنْ عَبْدِي إِذَا أَطَاعَنِي فَإِنِّي أَسْتَجِيبُ لَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَدْعُوَنِي، وَأُعْطِيهَ مِنْ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَسْأَلَنِي،
«ʾin ʿabdī ʾidhā ʾaṭāʿanī faʾinnī ʾastajību lahu qabla ʾan yadʿuwanī, waʾuʿṭīha min qabla ʾan yasʾalanī,
‘If My servant obeys Me, I answer him before he calls on Me and give him before he asks of Me.
وَإِنَّ عَبْدِي إِذَا أَطَاعَنِي فَلَوْ أَجْلَبَ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَأَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ جَعَلْتُ لَهُ الْمَخْرَجَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ،
waʾinna ʿabdī ʾidhā ʾaṭāʿanī falaw ʾajlaba ʿalayhi ʾahlu al-samāwāti waʾahlu al-ʾarḍi jaʿaltu lahu al-makhraja min dhālika,
If My servant obeys Me, then even if the inhabitants of the heavens and earth unite against him, I make a way out for him.
وَإِنْ عَبْدِي إِذَا عَصَانِي فَإِنِّي أَقْطَعُ يَدَيْهِ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ السَّمَوَاتِ،
waʾin ʿabdī ʾidhā ʿaṣānī faʾinnī ʾaqṭaʿu yadayhi min ʾabwābi al-samāwāti,
If My servant disobeys Me, I cut off his hands from the gates of the heavens,
وَأَجْعَلُهُ فِي الْهَوَاءِ لَا يَنْتَصِرُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ مِنْ خَلْقِي»
waʾajʿaluhu fī al-hawāʾi lā yantaṣiru min shayʾin min khalqī»
and leave him suspended in the air, unable to defend himself against any of My creatures.’
٣١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
319 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «هُوَ أَخُو مُبَارِكِ بْنِ فَضَالَةَ»،
ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu al-raḥmāni bnu faḍālata, qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «huwa ʾakhū mubāriki bni faḍālata»,
ʿUbayd al-Raḥmān ibn Faḍāla informed us. Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘He is the brother of Mubārak ibn Faḍāla.’
عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ:
ʿan bakri bni ʿabdi Allāhi al-muzaniyyi qāla: qāla ʾabū dharrin:
From Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, who said: Abū Dharr said:
«يَكْفِي مِنَ الدُّعَا مَعَ الْبِرِّ، مَا يَكْفِي الطَّعَامَ مِنَ الْمِلْحِ»
«yakfī mina al-duʿā maʿa al-birri, mā yakfī al-ṭaʿāma mina al-milḥi»
‘When good conduct accompanies supplication, as little of it suffices as salt does for food.’
٣٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
320 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ صَالِحٍ، يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى : {لَئِنْ شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ} [إِبْرَاهِيمَ: ٧]
samiʿtu ʿaliyya bna ṣāliḥin, yaqūlu fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā : {laʾin shakartum laʾazīdannakum} [ʾibrāhīma: 7]
I heard ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ say, concerning God's words, ‘If you are grateful, I will surely increase you’ (Ibrāhīm 14:7):
قَالَ: «أَيْ مِنْ طَاعَتِي»
qāla: «ʾay min ṭāʿatī»
‘That is, increase you in obedience to Me.’
٣٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
321 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ مُسْلِمٍ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā ḥarmalatu bnu ʿimrāna qāla: samiʿtu ʿuqbata bna muslimin yaqūlu:
Ḥarmala ibn ʿImrān informed us and said: I heard ʿUqba ibn Muslim say:
“ إِذَا كَانَ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى مَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ - أَوْ قَالَ: عَلَى مَعَاصِي اللَّهِ -
“ ʾidhā kāna al-rajulu ʿalā maʿṣiyati Allāhi - ʾaw qāla: ʿalā maʿāṣī Allāhi -
‘If a man lives in disobedience to God—or, he said, persists in acts of disobedience—
فَأَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ مَا يُحِبُّ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، فَلْيَعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ فِي اِسْتِدْرَاجٍ مِنْهُ ”
faʾaʿṭāhu Allāhu mā yuḥibbu ʿalā dhālika, falyaʿlam ʾannahu fī istidrājin minhu ”
and God still gives him what he loves, he should know that God is drawing him on little by little.’
٣٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
322 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ فَضْلٍ، عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan simāki bni faḍlin, ʿan wahbi bni munabbihin qāla: samiʿtuhu yaqūlu:
Maʿmar informed us, from Simāk ibn Faḍl, who reported from Wahb ibn Munabbih and said, ‘I heard him say:’
«مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَدْعُو بِغَيْرِ عَمَلٍ، كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يَرْمِي بِغَيْرِ وَتَرٍ»
«mathalu al-ladhī yadʿū bighayri ʿamalin, kamathali al-ladhī yarmī bighayri watarin»
‘A person who supplicates without action is like someone who shoots without a bowstring.’
٣٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
323 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ ح
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata ḥ
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us. Ḥāʾ marks a change of transmission chain.
حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:
ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿani ibni ʾabī najīḥin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla:
Al-Ḥusayn related to us and said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from his father, who said:
«لَوْ أَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَا يَعْصِي، ثُمَّ أَقْسَمَ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يُزِيلَ لَهُ الْجَبَلَ لَأَزَالَهُ»
«law ʾanna al-muʾmina lā yaʿṣī, thumma ʾaqsama ʿalā Allāhi ʿazza wajalla ʾan yuzīla lahu al-jabala laʾazālahu»
‘If a believer never disobeyed God and then appealed to God, Mighty and Majestic, to move a mountain for him, God would move it.’
٣٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْوَرَّاقُ وَحْدَهُ، أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ:
324 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʾismāʿīla al-warrāqu waḥdahu, ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā, qāla:
Abū Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq alone reported to you. Yaḥyā informed us and said:
حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ:
ḥaddathanā ʾibrāhīmu bnu saʿīdin al-jawhariyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥajjāju bnu muḥammadin, ʿani ibni jurayjin, ʿan sufyāna al-thawriyyi, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla:
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī related to us and said: Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad related to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Abū Ḥāzim, who said:
«رَضِيَ النَّاسُ بِالْحَدِيثِ وَتَرَكُوا الْعَمَلَ»
«raḍiya al-nāsu bi-l-ḥadīthi watarakū al-ʿamala»
‘People have contented themselves with transmitting reports and abandoned putting them into practice.’
بَابُ صَلَاحِ أَهْلِ الْبَيْتِ عِنْدَ اِسْتِقَامَةِ الرَّجُلِ
bābu ṣalāḥi ʾahli al-bayti ʿinda istiqāmati al-rajuli
Chapter on the well-being of a household through a man's uprightness.
٣٢٥ - قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ عَلَى الشَّيْخِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ
325 - qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun ʿalā al-shaykhi ʾabī muḥammadin al-jawhariyyi
Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir read aloud to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī
بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ الْعَزِيزَةِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ
bibaghdāda bibābi al-marātibi al-ʿazīzati ḥarasahā Allāhu
in Baghdad at Bāb al-Marātib al-ʿAzīza—may God protect it—
غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ ثَانِي عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى مِنْ سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ،
ghadāta yawmi al-ʾithnayni thānī ʿashara jumādā al-ʾūlā min sanati ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿimiʾatin,
on Monday morning, the twelfth of Jumādā al-Ūlā in the year 454 AH.
وَأَنَا حَاضِرٌ أَسْمَعُ وَالشَّيْخُ يَسْمَعُ وَأَقَرَّ بِهِ
waʾanā ḥāḍirun ʾasmaʿu wa-l-shaykhu yasmaʿu waʾaqarra bihi
I was present and listening; the shaykh listened and affirmed what was read.
قَالَ لَهُ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا:
qāla lahu: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā:
He said to him: Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said:
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ
ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi
Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who reported that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {إِنَّ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا رَبُّنَا اللَّهُ ثُمَّ اِسْتَقَامُوا} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣٠]
talā hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {ʾinna al-ladhīna qālū rabbunā Allāhu thumma istaqāmū} [fuṣṣilat: 30]
recited this verse: ‘Those who say, “Our Lord is God,” then remain steadfast’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:30).
قَالَ: «اِسْتَقَامُوا وَاللَّهِ لِلَّهِ بِطَاعَتِهِ، وَلَمْ يَرُوغُوا رَوَغَانَ الثَّعَالِبِ»
qāla: «istaqāmū wa-llāhi li-llāhi biṭāʿatihi, walam yarūghū rawaghāna al-thaʿālibi»
He said, ‘By God, they remained steadfast for God by obeying Him, and did not twist and turn like foxes.’
٣٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
326 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ نِمْرَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿāmiri bni saʿdin, ʿan saʿīdi bni nimrāna, ʿan ʾabī bakrin al-ṣiddīqi, ʾannahu qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from Saʿīd ibn Nimrān, from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, who said:
«لَمْ يُشْرِكُوا بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا»
«lam yushrikū bi-llāhi shayʾan»
‘They did not associate anything with God.’
٣٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
327 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا هَمَّامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā hammāmun, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Hammām informed us, from Qatāda, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَظْلِمُ الْمُؤْمِنَ حَسَنَتَهُ
«ʾinna Allāha lā yaẓlimu al-muʾmina ḥasanatahu
‘God does not deprive a believer of a single good deed.
يُثَابُ عَلَيْهَا الرِّزْقَ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَيُجْزَى بِهَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ»
yuthābu ʿalayhā al-rizqa fī al-dunyā, wayujzā bihā fī al-ʾākhirati»
For it the believer is rewarded with provision in this world and recompensed in the Hereafter.’
٣٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
328 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
samiʿtu sufyāna yaqūlu fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
I heard Sufyān say, concerning God's words:
{تَتَنَزَّلُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣٠]
{tatanazzalu ʿalayhimu al-malāʾikatu} [fuṣṣilat: 30]
‘The angels descend upon them’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:30),
«أَيْ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ»
«ʾay ʿinda al-mawti»
‘that is, at the time of death’;
{أَلَّا تَخَافُوا} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣٠]
{ʾallā takhāfū} [fuṣṣilat: 30]
‘Do not fear’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:30),
«مَا أَمَامَكُمْ»
«mā ʾamāmakum»
‘what lies ahead of you’;
{وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا} [آلِ عِمْرَانَ: ١٣٩]
{walā taḥzanū} [ʾāli ʿimrāna: 139]
‘and do not grieve’ (cited here as Āl ʿImrān 3:139),
«عَلَى مَا خَلَّفْتُمْ مِنْ ضَيْعَاتِكُمْ»
«ʿalā mā khallaftum min ḍayʿātikum»
‘over the properties you have left behind’;
{وَأَبْشِرُوا بِالْجَنَّةِ الَّتِي كُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣٠]
{waʾabshirū bi-l-jannati al-latī kuntum tūʿadūna} [fuṣṣilat: 30]
‘and rejoice in the Garden that you were promised’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:30).
قَالَ: «يُبَشَّرُونَ بِثَلَاثِ تَبْشِيرَاتٍ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ، وَإِذَا خَرَجَ مِنَ الْقَبْرِ، وَإِذَا فَزِعَ»
qāla: «yubashsharūna bithalāthi tabshīrātin ʿinda al-mawti, waʾidhā kharaja mina al-qabri, waʾidhā faziʿa»
He said, ‘They receive three announcements of good news: at death, when one of them emerges from the grave, and when he is struck by fear.’
{نَحْنُ أَوْلِيَاؤُكُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣١]
{naḥnu ʾawliyāʾukum fī al-ḥayāti al-dunyā wafī al-ʾākhirati} [fuṣṣilat: 31]
‘We are your protectors in the life of this world and in the Hereafter’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:31).
«وَكَانُوا مَعَهُمْ»
«wakānū maʿahum»
‘And they were with them.’
٣٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
329 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {نَحْنُ أَوْلِيَاؤُكُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣١]
ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu shuʿaybin, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {naḥnu ʾawliyāʾukum fī al-ḥayāti al-dunyā} [fuṣṣilat: 31]
Ḥammād ibn Shuʿayb informed us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, concerning God's words: ‘We are your protectors in the life of this world’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:31).
قَالَ: “ قُرَنَاؤُهُمْ يَتَلَقَّوْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
qāla: “ quranāʾuhum yatalaqqawnahum yawma al-qiyāmati
He said, ‘Their companions meet them on the Day of Resurrection and say:
فَيَقُولُونَ: لَا نُفَارِقُكُمْ حَتَّى تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ ”
fayaqūlūna: lā nufāriqukum ḥattā tadkhulū al-jannata ”
“We will not leave you until you enter the Garden.”’
{نَحْنُ أَوْلِيَاؤُكُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ} [فُصِّلَتْ: ٣١]
{naḥnu ʾawliyāʾukum fī al-ḥayāti al-dunyā wafī al-ʾākhirati} [fuṣṣilat: 31]
‘We are your protectors in the life of this world and in the Hereafter’ (Fuṣṣilat 41:31).
٣٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
330 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُوقَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ قَالَ :
ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu sūqata, ʿan muḥammadi bni al-munkadiri qāla :
Muḥammad ibn Sūqa informed us, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, who said:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيُصْلِحَ بِصَلَاحِ الْعَبْدِ وَلَدَهُ، وَوَلَدَ وَلَدِهِ،
«ʾinna Allāha layuṣliḥa biṣalāḥi al-ʿabdi waladahu, wawalada waladihi,
‘Through the righteousness of a servant, God sets right his child and his child's child,
وَيَحْفَظُهُ فِي دُوَيْرَتِهِ، وَالدُّوَيْرَاتِ الَّتِي حَوْلَهُ مَا دَامَ فِيهِمْ»
wayaḥfaẓuhu fī duwayratihi, wa-l-duwayrāti al-latī ḥawlahu mā dāma fīhim»
and protects him in his small dwelling and the dwellings around it so long as he remains among them.’
٣٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
331 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ خَيْثَمَةَ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan ṭalḥata qāla: samiʿtu khaythamata yaqūlu:
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us, from Ṭalḥa, who said: I heard Khaythama say:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَطْرُدُ بِالرَّجُلِ الشَّيْطَانَ مِنَ الْآدُرِ»
«ʾinna Allāha layaṭrudu bi-l-rajuli al-shayṭāna mina al-ʾāduri»
‘Through one man, God drives Satan out of the dwellings.’
٣٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
332 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {وَكَانَ أَبُوهُمَا صَالِحًا} [الْكَهْفِ: ٨٢]
ʾakhbaranā misʿarun, ʿan ʿabdi al-maliki bni maysarata, ʿan saʿīdin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {wakāna ʾabūhumā ṣāliḥan} [al-kahfi: 82]
Misʿar informed us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysara, from Saʿīd, from Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning God's words: ‘Their father was righteous’ (al-Kahf 18:82).
قَالَ: «حُفِظَا بِصَلَاحِ أَبِيهِمَا، وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ عَنْهُمَا صَلَاحًا»
qāla: «ḥufiẓā biṣalāḥi ʾabīhimā, walam yadhkur ʿanhumā ṣalāḥan»
He said, ‘The two were protected because of their father's righteousness; no righteousness of their own is mentioned.’
بَابُ فَخْرِ الْأَرْضِ بَعْضُهَا عَلَى بَعْضٍ
bābu fakhri al-ʾarḍi baʿḍuhā ʿalā baʿḍin
Chapter on one part of the earth taking pride over another.
٣٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
333 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ وَاصِلٍ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:
ʾakhbaranā misʿarun, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni wāṣilin, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin:
Misʿar informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāṣil, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:
“ إِنَّ الْجَبَلَ يَقُولُ لِلْجَبَلِ:
“ ʾinna al-jabala yaqūlu li-l-jabali:
‘One mountain says to another mountain:
يَا فُلَانُ، هَلْ مَرَّ بِكَ الْيَوْمَ ذَاكِرٌ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى؟
yā fulānu, hal marra bika al-yawma dhākirun li-llāhi taʿālā?
“Neighbor, did anyone remembering God Most High pass over you today?”
فَإِنْ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، سُرَّ بِهِ ”،
faʾin qāla: naʿam, surra bihi ”,
If the other says yes, it rejoices.’
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: وَقَالُوا اِتَّخَذَ الرَّحْمَنُ وَلَدًا
thumma qaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: waqālū ittakhadha al-raḥmānu waladan
Then ʿAbd Allāh recited: ‘They said: “The Most Merciful has taken a child”’ (Maryam 19:88);
لَقَدْ جِئْتُمْ شَيْئًا إِدًّا
laqad jiʾtum shayʾan ʾiddan
‘You have brought forth a terrible thing’ (19:89),
إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: أَنْ دَعَوْا لِلرَّحْمَنِ وَلَدًا،
ʾilā qawlihi: ʾan daʿaw li-l-raḥmāni waladan,
up to His words: ‘that they ascribed a child to the Most Merciful’ (19:91).
قَالَ: «أَفَتَرَاهُنَّ يَسْمَعْنَ الزُّورَ، وَلَا يَسْمَعْنَ الْخَيْرَ؟»
qāla: «ʾafatarāhunna yasmaʿna al-zūra, walā yasmaʿna al-khayra?»
He said, ‘Do you think the mountains hear falsehood but do not hear what is good?’
٣٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
334 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا ثَوْرٌ، عَنْ مَوْلَىً لِهُذَيْلٍ، قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā thawrun, ʿan mawlan lihudhaylin, qāla:
Thawr informed us, from an unnamed client of the Hudhayl tribe, who said:
«مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَضَعُ جَبْهَتَهُ فِي بُقْعَةٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ سَاجِدًا لِلَّهِ،
«mā min ʿabdin yaḍaʿu jabhatahu fī buqʿatin mina al-ʾarḍi sājidan li-llāhi,
‘Whenever a servant places his forehead on a patch of earth in prostration to God,
إِلَّا شَهِدَتْ لَهُ بِهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ،
ʾillā shahidat lahu bihā yawma al-qiyāmati,
that patch will testify for him about it on the Day of Resurrection,
وَإِلَّا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمَ يَمُوتُ»،
waʾillā bakat ʿalayhi yawma yamūtu»,
and it will weep for him on the day he dies.’
قَالَ: «وَمَا مِنْ مَنْزِلٍ يَنْزِلُهُ قَوْمٌ
qāla: «wamā min manzilin yanziluhu qawmun
He also said, ‘Whenever people lodge in a dwelling place,
إِلَّا أَصْبَحَ ذَلِكَ الْمَنْزِلُ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِمْ، أَوْ يَلْعَنُهُمْ»
ʾillā ʾaṣbaḥa dhālika al-manzilu yuṣallī ʿalayhim, ʾaw yalʿanuhum»
that place comes to bless them—or curse them.’
٣٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
335 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ṣāliḥun al-murriyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā jaʿfaru bnu zaydin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:
Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī informed us and said: Jaʿfar ibn Zayd related to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
“ مَا مِنْ صَبَاحٍ، وَلَا رَوَاحٍ، إِلَّا تُنَادِي بِقَاعُ الْأَرْضِ بَعْضُهَا عَلَى بَعْضٍ،
“ mā min ṣabāḥin, walā rawāḥin, ʾillā tunādī biqāʿu al-ʾarḍi baʿḍuhā ʿalā baʿḍin,
‘Each morning and evening, the patches of earth call out to one another:
يَا جَارَةُ، هَلْ مَرَّ بِكِ الْيَوْمَ عَبْدٌ يُصَلِّي عَلَيْكِ لِلَّهِ؟
yā jāratu, hal marra biki al-yawma ʿabdun yuṣallī ʿalayki li-llāhi?
“Neighbor, has a servant passed over you today to pray to God upon you?
أَوْ ذَكَرَ اللَّهَ عَلَيْكِ؟
ʾaw dhakara Allāha ʿalayki?
Or remembered God upon you?”
فَمِنْ قَائِلَةٍ: لَا، وَمِنْ قَائِلَةٍ: نَعَمْ،
famin qāʾilatin: lā, wamin qāʾilatin: naʿam,
Some answer no, and others answer yes.
فَإِذَا قَالَتْ: نَعَمْ، رَأَتْ لَهَا عَلَيْهَا بِذَلِكَ فَضْلًا ”
faʾidhā qālat: naʿam, raʾat lahā ʿalayhā bidhālika faḍlan ”
When one answers yes, the other recognizes the answering patch’s greater merit on that account.’
٣٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
336 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sharīkun, ʿan ʿāṣimin, ʿani al-musayyabi bni rāfiʿin, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni ʾabī ṭālibin raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu qāla:
Sharīk informed us, from ʿĀṣim, from al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may God be pleased with him, who said:
“ إِذَا مَاتَ الْعَبْدُ الصَّالِحُ، بَكَى عَلَيْهِ مُصَلَّاهُ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ،
“ ʾidhā māta al-ʿabdu al-ṣāliḥu, bakā ʿalayhi muṣallāhu mina al-ʾarḍi,
‘When a righteous servant dies, the place on earth where he prayed weeps for him,
وَمَصْعَدُ عَمَلِهِ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ،
wamaṣʿadu ʿamalihi mina al-samāʾi wa-l-ʾarḍi,
as does the route by which his deeds ascended through heaven and earth.
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: {فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاءُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا مُنْظَرِينَ} [الدُّخَانِ: ٢٩] ”
thumma qaraʾa: {famā bakat ʿalayhimu al-samāʾu wa-l-ʾarḍu wamā kānū munẓarīna} [al-dukhāni: 29] ”
Then he recited: “Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they given respite” (al-Dukhān 44:29).’
٣٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
337 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنْ غَالِبِ بْنِ عَجْرَدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ فِي مَسْجِدِ مِنًى، قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿawfun, ʿan ghālibi bni ʿajradin qāla: ḥaddathanī rajulun min ʾahli al-shāmi fī masjidi minan, qāla:
ʿAwf informed us, from Ghālib ibn ʿAjrad, who said: An unnamed man from Syria related to me in the mosque at Minā. He said:
“ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَمَّا خَلَقَ الْأَرْضَ، وَخَلَقَ مَا فِيهَا مِنَ الشَّجَرِ،
“ ʾinna Allāha taʿālā lammā khalaqa al-ʾarḍa, wakhalaqa mā fīhā mina al-shajari,
‘When God Most High created the earth and the trees upon it,
لَمْ تَكُنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ شَجَرَةٌ يَأْتِيهَا بَنُو آدَمَ إِلَّا أَصَابُوا مِنْهَا مَنْفَعَةً،
lam takun fī al-ʾarḍi shajaratun yaʾtīhā banū ʾādama ʾillā ʾaṣābū minhā manfaʿatan,
there was no tree on earth that Adam’s descendants could approach without gaining some benefit from it,
أَوْ كَانَ لَهُمْ فِيهَا مَنْفَعَةٌ،
ʾaw kāna lahum fīhā manfaʿatun,
or having some use for it.
فَلَمْ يَزَلِ الْأَرْضُ وَالشَّجَرُ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى تَكَلَّمَ فَجَرَةُ بَنِي آدَمَ بِتِلْكَ الْكَلِمَةِ الْعَظِيمَةِ،
falam yazali al-ʾarḍu wa-l-shajaru kadhālika ḥattā takallama fajaratu banī ʾādama bitilka al-kalimati al-ʿaẓīmati,
Earth and trees remained so until wicked descendants of Adam uttered that grave claim:
قَوْلُهُمُ: اِتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ وَلَدًا،
qawluhumu: ittakhadha Allāhu waladan,
“God has taken a child.”
فَلَمَّا قَالُوهَا: اِقْشَعَرَّتِ الْأَرْضُ، وَشَاكَ الشَّجَرَةُ ”
falammā qālūhā: iqshaʿarrati al-ʾarḍu, washāka al-shajaratu ”
When they said it, the earth shuddered and the tree became thorny.’
٣٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
338 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī yaḥyā al-qattāti, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Abū Yaḥyā al-Qattāt, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
«تَبْكِي الْأَرْضُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحًا»
«tabkī al-ʾarḍu ʿalā al-muʾmini ʾarbaʿīna ṣabāḥan»
‘The earth weeps for a believer for forty mornings.’
٣٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
339 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan yazīda al-raqāshiyyi, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:
Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda informed us, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
«مَا مِنْ بُقْعَةٍ يُذْكَرُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهَا بِصَلَاةٍ، أَوْ بِذِكْرٍ،
«mā min buqʿatin yudhkaru Allāhu ʿalayhā biṣalātin, ʾaw bidhikrin,
‘Wherever God is remembered upon a patch of ground through prayer or other remembrance,
إِلَّا اِفْتَخَرَتْ عَلَى مَا حَوْلَهَا مِنَ الْبِقَاعِ،
ʾillā iftakharat ʿalā mā ḥawlahā mina al-biqāʿi,
that patch takes pride over the places around it,
وَاسْتَبْشَرَتْ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى مُنْتَهَاهَا مِنْ سَبْعِ أَرَضِينَ،
wastabsharat bidhikri Allāhi ʿazza wajalla ʾilā muntahāhā min sabʿi ʾaraḍīna,
and rejoices at the remembrance of God, mighty and majestic, down to its farthest reach through the seven earths.
وَمَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَقُومُ فَيُصَلِّي، إِلَّا تَزَخْرَفَتْ لَهُ الْأَرْضُ»
wamā min ʿabdin yaqūmu fayuṣallī, ʾillā tazakhrafat lahu al-ʾarḍu»
Whenever a servant rises to pray, the earth adorns itself for him.’
٣٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
340 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَطَاءٌ الْخُرَسَانِيُّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿaṭāʾun al-khurāsāniyyu qāla:
Al-Awzāʿī informed us and said: ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī related to us. He said:
«مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ يَسْجُدُ سَجْدَةً فِي بُقْعَةٍ مِنْ بِقَاعِ الْأَرْضِ،
«mā min ʿabdin yasjudu sajdatan fī buqʿatin min biqāʿi al-ʾarḍi,
‘Whenever a servant prostrates once on a patch of earth,
إِلَّا شَهِدَتْ لَهُ بِهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَبَكَتْ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمَ يَمُوتُ»
ʾillā shahidat lahu bihā yawma al-qiyāmati, wabakat ʿalayhi yawma yamūtu»
that patch will testify for him on the Day of Resurrection and weep for him when he dies.’
٣٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
341 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu al-taymiyyu, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʿan salmāna qāla:
Sulaymān al-Taymī informed us, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Salmān, who said:
«إِذَا كَانَ الرَّجُلُ بِأَرْضٍ قِيٍّ فَتَوَضَّأَ،
«ʾidhā kāna al-rajulu biʾarḍin qiyyin fatawaḍḍaʾa,
‘If a man is on empty, uninhabited land and performs ablution,
وَإِنْ لَمْ يَجِدِ الْمَاءَ فَتَيَمَّمَ،
waʾin lam yajidi al-māʾa fatayammama,
or, if he finds no water, performs dry ablution,
ثُمَّ يُنَادِي بِالصَّلَاةِ،
thumma yunādī bi-l-ṣalāti,
then makes the call to prayer,
ثُمَّ يُقِيمُهَا،
thumma yuqīmuhā,
then announces its commencement,
ثُمَّ يُصَلِّيهَا،
thumma yuṣallīhā,
and then prays,
إِلَّا أَمَّ مِنْ جُنُودِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ صَفًّا مَا يُرَى طَرَفُهُ
ʾillā ʾamma min junūdi Allāhi ʿazza wajalla ṣaffan mā yurā ṭarafuhu
he will lead a rank of the hosts of God, mighty and majestic, whose far end cannot be seen—
- أَوْ مَا يُرَى طَرَفَاهُ -»
- ʾaw mā yurā ṭarafāhu -»
or, in the other wording, whose two ends cannot be seen.’
٣٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
342 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
وَزَادَنِي سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ:
wazādanī sufyānu, ʿan dāwūda bni ʾabī hinda, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna, ʿan salmāna qāla:
Sufyān further related to me, from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from Abū ʿUthmān, from Salmān, who said:
«يَرْكَعُونَ بِرُكُوعِهِ،
«yarkaʿūna birukūʿihi,
‘They bow when he bows,
وَيَسْجُدُونَ بِسُجُودِهِ،
wayasjudūna bisujūdihi,
prostrate when he prostrates,
وَيُؤَمِّنُونَ عَلَى دُعَائِهِ»
wayuʾamminūna ʿalā duʿāʾihi»
and say amen to his supplication.’
٣٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
343 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنْ قَسَامَةَ بْنِ زُهَيْرٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿawfun, ʿan qasāmata bni zuhayrin qāla:
ʿAwf informed us, from Qasāma ibn Zuhayr, who said:
«إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ الْمُسْلِمَ مِنْ أُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَكُونُ بِالْقَفْرِ،
«ʾinna al-rajula al-muslima min ʾummati muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yakūnu bi-l-qafri,
‘A Muslim man from the community of Muḥammad, peace and blessings be upon him, may be out in the wilderness.
فَيُقِيمُ الصَّلَاةَ، فَيُصَفُّ خَلْفَهُ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ صَفٌّ إِلَى مُنْقَطَعِ التُّرَابِ»
fayuqīmu al-ṣalāta, fayuṣaffu khalfahu mina al-malāʾikati ṣaffun ʾilā munqaṭaʿi al-turābi»
When he performs the prayer, a line of angels forms behind him, stretching to the edge of the land.’
أَوْ قَالَ: «صُفُوفٌ إِلَى مُنْقَطَعِ التُّرَابِ»
ʾaw qāla: «ṣufūfun ʾilā munqaṭaʿi al-turābi»
Or he said, ‘lines stretching to the edge of the land.’
٣٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
344 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿaṭāʾu bnu ʾabī rabāḥin, ʿan kaʿbin, ʾannahu qāla:
Al-Awzāʿī informed us and said: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ informed us, from Kaʿb, who said:
«مَنْ أَذَّنَ فِي السَّفَرِ، وَأَقَامَ،
«man ʾadhdhana fī al-safari, waʾaqāma,
‘When someone traveling calls the adhān and then the iqāma,
صَلَّى خَلْفَهُ مَا بَيْنَ الْأُفُقِ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ،
ṣallā khalfahu mā bayna al-ʾufuqi mina al-malāʾikati,
angels filling the distance to the horizon pray behind him.
وَمَنْ أَقَامَ وَلَمْ يُؤَذِّنْ،
waman ʾaqāma walam yuʾadhdhin,
But when he makes the iqāma without calling the adhān,
لَمْ يُصَلِّ مَعَهُمْ إِلَّا مَلَكَاهُ اللَّذَانِ مَعَهُ»
lam yuṣalli maʿahum ʾillā malakāhu al-ladhāni maʿahu»
only the two angels who accompany him join them in prayer.’
٣٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
345 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ رِيَابٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:
ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan hārūna bni riyābin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin:
Al-Awzāʿī informed us, from Hārūn ibn Riyāb, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:
«إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لَتَزَّيَّنُ لِلْمُصَلِّي
«ʾinna al-ʾarḍa latazzayyanu li-l-muṣallī
‘The earth adorns itself for the person praying,
فَلَا يَمْسَحُهَا أَحَدُكُمْ،
falā yamsaḥuhā ʾaḥadukum,
so none of you should brush it aside.
فَإِنْ كَانَ مَاسِحَهَا لَا مَحَالَةَ فَمَرَّةً،
faʾin kāna māsiḥahā lā maḥālata famarratan,
If someone really must brush it, let him do so only once.
وَلَأَنْ يَدَعَهَا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ مِائَةِ نَاقَةٍ لِلنُّقْلَةِ»
walaʾan yadaʿahā khayrun lahu min miʾati nāqatin li-l-nuqlati»
Leaving it untouched would be better for him than a hundred she-camels for a move.’
٣٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
346 - 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 to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us,
عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ قَالَ:
ʿan ʾismāʿīla bni ʿayyāshin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʿadiyyin, ʿan yazīda bni maysarata qāla:
from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAdī, from Yazīd ibn Maysara, who said:
“ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ:
“ ʾinna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu:
‘God Most High says:
أَيُّهَا الشَّابُّ التَّارِكُ شَهْوَتَهُ لِي،
ʾayyuhā al-shābbu al-tāriku shahwatahu lī,
“Young man who sets aside his desires for My sake,
الْمُبْتَذِلُ شَبَابَهُ مِنْ أَجْلِي،
al-mubtadhilu shabābahu min ʾajlī,
who spends his youth for My sake:
أَنْتَ عِنْدِي كَبَعْضِ مَلَائِكَتِي ”
ʾanta ʿindī kabaʿḍi malāʾikatī ”
to Me, you are like one of My angels.”’
٣٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
347 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا يَعْنِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُكْرَمِ، عَنْ مُرِيحِ بْنِ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan yaʿnī ʾismāʿīla bna ʿayyāshin, ʿan ʾabī al-mukrami, ʿan murīḥi bni masrūqin qāla:
He also informed us—meaning Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh—from Abū al-Mukram, from Murīḥ ibn Masrūq, who said:
«مَا مِنْ شَابٍّ يَدَعُ لَذَّةَ الدُّنْيَا وَلَهْوَهَا،
«mā min shābbin yadaʿu ladhdhata al-dunyā walahwahā,
‘No young man leaves behind the pleasures and diversions of this world
وَيَعْمَلُ شَبَابَهُ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى،
wayaʿmalu shabābahu li-llāhi taʿālā,
and dedicates his youth to God Most High
إِلَّا أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى،
ʾillā ʾaʿṭāhu Allāhu taʿālā,
without God Most High granting him—
وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُرِيحٍ بِيَدِهِ، مِثْلَ أَجْرِ اِثْنَيْنِ وَسَبْعِينَ صِدِّيقًا»
wa-l-ladhī nafsu murīḥin biyadihi, mithla ʾajri ithnayni wasabʿīna ṣiddīqan»
by Him in whose hand Murīḥ’s life rests—the reward of seventy-two deeply truthful people.’
٣٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
348 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنِي أَيْضًا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ زُرْعَةَ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ، عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ عَبْدٍ السُّلَمِيِّ، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranī ʾayḍan ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin, ʿan ḍamḍami bni zurʿata al-ḥaḍramiyyi, ʿan shurayḥi bni ʿubaydin, ʿan ʿutbata bni ʿabdin al-sulamiyyi, wakāna min ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh also informed me, from Ḍamḍam ibn Zurʿa al-Ḥaḍramī, from Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd, from ʿUtba ibn ʿAbd al-Sulamī, one of the Prophet’s Companions, peace and blessings be upon him. He said:
«إِنَّ الشَّابَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَوْ يُقْسِمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لَأَبَرَّهُ»
«ʾinna al-shābba al-muʾmina law yuqsimu ʿalā Allāhi laʾabarrahu»
‘If a believing young man were to ask God under oath, God would grant what he asked.’
٣٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
349 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ أَبِي عُشَّانَةَ الْمَعَافِرِيِّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿamru bnu al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʾabī ʿushshānata al-maʿāfiriyyi, ʾannahu samiʿa ʿuqbata bna ʿāmirin yaqūlu:
Rishdīn ibn Saʿd informed us and said: ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith related to me, from Abū ʿUshshāna al-Maʿāfirī, who heard ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir say:
«يَعْجَبُ رَبُّكَ تَعَالَى لِلشَّابِّ لَيْسَتْ لَهُ صَبْوَةٌ»
«yaʿjabu rabbuka taʿālā li-l-shābbi laysat lahu ṣabwatun»
‘Your Lord Most High marvels at a young man who has no youthful waywardness.’
٣٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
350 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا بُرَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā buraydu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī burdata, ʿan jaddihi ʾabī burdata, ʿan ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Burda informed us, from his grandfather Abū Burda, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«الْمُؤْمِنُ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ كَالْبُنْيَانِ يَشُدُّ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا»،
«al-muʾminu li-l-muʾmini ka-l-bunyāni yashuddu baʿḍuhu baʿḍan»,
‘One believer is to another like a building whose parts strengthen each other.’
وَأَدْخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَصَابِعَهُ بَعْضَهَا فِي بَعْضٍ
waʾadkhala rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾaṣābiʿahu baʿḍahā fī baʿḍin
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, interlaced his fingers.
٣٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
351 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sharīkun, ʿan ʾabī sinānin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī al-hudhayli qāla:
Sharīk informed us, from Abū Sinān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Hudhayl, who said:
خَرَجَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَهُمْ يَنْتَظِرُونَهُ،
kharaja ʿammāru bnu yāsirin ʾilā ʾaṣḥābihi wahum yantaẓirūnahu,
ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir came out to his companions, who had been waiting for him.
فَقَالُوا: أَبْطَأْتَ عَلَيْنَا أَيُّهَا الْأَمِيرُ،
faqālū: ʾabṭaʾta ʿalaynā ʾayyuhā al-ʾamīru,
They said, ‘You have kept us waiting, commander.’
فَقَالَ: أَمَا إِنِّي سَأُحَدِّثُكُمْ حَدِيثًا،
faqāla: ʾamā ʾinnī saʾuḥaddithukum ḥadīthan,
He replied, ‘I will tell you a story:
“ كَانَ أَخٌ لَكُمْ مِمَّنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ وَهُوَ مُوسَى صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
“ kāna ʾakhun lakum mimman kāna qablakum wahuwa mūsā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
A brother of yours among those who lived before you—Moses, peace and blessings be upon him—
قَالَ: يَا رَبِّ، أَخْبِرْنِي بِأَحَبِّ خَلْقِكَ إِلَيْكَ،
qāla: yā rabbi, ʾakhbirnī biʾaḥabbi khalqika ʾilayka,
said, “Lord, tell me which of Your creatures is dearest to You.”
قَالَ: لِمَ؟ قَالَ: لِأُحِبَّهُ لَكَ،
qāla: lima? qāla: liʾuḥibbahu laka,
God asked, “Why?” Moses said, “So that I may love him for Your sake.”
قَالَ: سَأُحَدِّثُكَ, رَجُلٌ فِي طَرَفٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ يَعْبُدُنِي
qāla: saʾuḥaddithuka, rajulun fī ṭarafin mina al-ʾarḍi yaʿbudunī
God said, “I will tell you. A man at one end of the earth worships Me,
وَيَسْمَعُ بِهِ أَخٌ لَهُ فِي طَرَفِ الْأَرْضِ الْأُخْرَى لَا يَعْرِفُهُ،
wayasmaʿu bihi ʾakhun lahu fī ṭarafi al-ʾarḍi al-ʾukhrā lā yaʿrifuhu,
and a brother at the other end hears about him though he does not know him.
فَإِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ مُصِيبَةٌ فَكَأَنَّمَا أَصَابَتْهُ،
faʾin ʾaṣābathu muṣībatun fakaʾannamā ʾaṣābathu,
If misfortune strikes that man, the brother feels as if it had struck him.
وَإِنْ شَاكَتْهُ شَوْكَةٌ فَكَأَنَّمَا شَاكَتْهُ،
waʾin shākathu shawkatun fakaʾannamā shākathu,
If a thorn pricks him, it is as though the thorn pricked his brother.
لَا يُحِبُّهُ إِلَّا لِي، فَذَلِكَ أَحَبُّ خَلْقِي إِلَيَّ،
lā yuḥibbuhu ʾillā lī, fadhālika ʾaḥabbu khalqī ʾilayya,
He loves him only for My sake. That one is the dearest of My creatures to Me.”
ثُمَّ قَالَ مُوسَى: يَا رَبِّ، خَلَقْتَ خَلْقًا فَجَعَلْتَهُمْ فِي النَّارِ،
thumma qāla mūsā: yā rabbi, khalaqta khalqan fajaʿaltahum fī al-nāri,
Then Moses said, “Lord, You created people and placed them in the Fire.”
فَأَوْحَى اللَّهُ تَعَالَى إِلَيْهِ: أَنْ يَا مُوسَى، اِزْرَعْ زَرْعًا،
faʾawḥā Allāhu taʿālā ʾilayhi: ʾan yā mūsā, izraʿ zarʿan,
God Most High revealed to him, “Moses, sow a crop.”
فَزَرَعَهُ، وَسَقَاهُ، وَقَامَ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى حَصَدَهُ، وَدَاسَهُ،
fazaraʿahu, wasaqāhu, waqāma ʿalayhi ḥattā ḥaṣadahu, wadāsahu,
So he sowed it, watered it and tended it until he harvested and threshed it.
فَقَالَ لَهُ: مَا فَعَلَ زَرْعُكَ يَا مُوسَى؟ قَالَ: رَفَعْتُهُ،
faqāla lahu: mā faʿala zarʿuka yā mūsā? qāla: rafaʿtuhu,
God asked, “What became of your crop, Moses?” He answered, “I stored it.”
قَالَ: فَمَا تَرَكْتَ مِنْهُ؟ قَالَ: مَا لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِ،
qāla: famā tarakta minhu? qāla: mā lā khayra fīhi,
God asked, “What did you leave of it?” He replied, “What had no good in it.”
قَالَ: فَإِنِّي لَا أُدْخِلُ النَّارَ إِلَّا مَنْ لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِ ”
qāla: faʾinnī lā ʾudkhilu al-nāra ʾillā man lā khayra fīhi ”
God said, “Then I admit no one into the Fire except one in whom there is no good.”’
٣٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
352 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُحَجَّلِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sharīkun, ʿan ʾabī al-muḥajjali, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi qāla:
Sharīk informed us, from Abū al-Muḥajjal, from al-Ḥasan, that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:
“ إِنَّ مِمَّا يُصَفِّي لَكَ وُدَّ أَخِيكَ ثَلَاثًا:
“ ʾinna mimmā yuṣaffī laka wudda ʾakhīka thalāthan:
‘Three things help keep your brother’s affection clear:
إِذَا لَقِيتَهُ أَنْ تَبْدَأَهُ بِالسَّلَامِ،
ʾidhā laqītahu ʾan tabdaʾahu bi-l-salāmi,
when you meet him, greet him first with peace;
وَأَنْ تَدْعُوَهُ بِأَحَبِّ أَسْمَائِهِ إِلَيْهِ،
waʾan tadʿuwahu biʾaḥabbi ʾasmāʾihi ʾilayhi,
call him by the name he loves best;
وَأَنْ تُوَسِّعَ لَهُ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ ”
waʾan tuwassiʿa lahu fī al-majlisi ”
and make room for him in the gathering.’
بَابُ جَلِيسِ الصِّدْقِ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ
bābu jalīsi al-ṣidqi waghayri dhālika
Chapter on a truthful companion and other matters.
٣٥٣ - أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ الْعَالِمُ الزَّاهِدُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدُّلَفِيُّ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ قَالَ:
353 - 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 qāla:
353. The venerable, learned ascetic shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dulafī al-Maqdisī, may God forgive him, informed us. He said:
قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ،
qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu,
Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī recited
عَلَى الشَّيْخِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ الْعَزِيزَةِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ
ʿalā al-shaykhi ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥusayni bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadin al-jawhariyyi bibaghdāda bibābi al-marātibi al-ʿazīzati ḥarasahā Allāhu
to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jawharī in Baghdad, at Bāb al-Marātib al-ʿAzīza—may God protect it—
غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ ثَانِي عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى مِنْ سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ
ghadāta yawmi al-ʾithnayni thānī ʿashara jumādā al-ʾūlā min sanati ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿimiʾatin
on the morning of Monday, the twelfth of Jumādā al-Ūlā in the year 454 AH.
قَالَ لَهُ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَيَوَيْهِ الْخَزَّازُ،
qāla lahu: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadi bni zakariyyā bni ḥayawayhi al-khazzāzu,
He said to him: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥayawayh al-Khazzāz informed you,
وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
waʾabū bakrin muḥammadu bnu ʾismāʿīla bni al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadin al-warrāqu
as did Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Warrāq.
قِرَاءَةً عَلَى كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ
qirāʾatan ʿalā kulli wāḥidin minhumā waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu
This was read aloud to each of them while you were present and listening.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin
They both said: Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid informed us.
قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ
qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu
He said: al-Ḥusayn related to us.
قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ
qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki
He said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us.
قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ،
qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu,
He said: Sufyān informed us,
عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
from Layth, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
«أَحِبَّ لِلَّهِ، وَأَبْغِضْ لِلَّهِ،
«ʾaḥibba li-llāhi, waʾabghiḍ li-llāhi,
‘Love for God's sake and hate for God's sake.
وَعَادِ فِي اللَّهِ، وَوَالِ فِي اللَّهِ،
waʿādi fī Allāhi, wawāli fī Allāhi,
Show enmity for God's sake, and show loyalty for God's sake.
فَإِنَّهُ لَا تُنَالُ وِلَايَةُ اللَّهِ إِلَّا بِذَلِكَ،
faʾinnahu lā tunālu wilāyatu Allāhi ʾillā bidhālika,
God's friendship is attained only through this.
وَلَا يَجِدُ رَجُلٌ طَعْمَ الْإِيمَانِ وَإِنْ كَثُرَتْ صَلَاتُهُ وَصِيَامُهُ حَتَّى يَكُونَ كَذَلِكَ،
walā yajidu rajulun ṭaʿma al-ʾīmāni waʾin kathurat ṣalātuhu waṣiyāmuhu ḥattā yakūna kadhālika,
No one tastes faith, however much he prays and fasts, until he does so.
وَقَدْ صَارَتْ مُوَاخَاةُ النَّاسِ الْيَوْمَ فِي أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا،
waqad ṣārat muwākhātu al-nāsi al-yawma fī ʾamri al-dunyā,
Today people have begun to make one another brothers for worldly reasons,
وَذَلِكَ مَا لَا يُجْزِئُ عَنْ أَهْلِهِ شَيْئًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»
wadhālika mā lā yujziʾu ʿan ʾahlihi shayʾan yawma al-qiyāmati»
and on the Day of Resurrection that will be of no help to those who do it.’
٣٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
354 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: qāla rajulun mina al-ʾanṣāri:
Sufyān informed us and said: A man of the Anṣār said:
«أَحِبَّ النَّاسَ عَلَى قَدْرِ تَقْوَاهُمْ،
«ʾaḥibba al-nāsa ʿalā qadri taqwāhum,
‘Love people according to the measure of their God-consciousness.
وَاعْلَمْ أَنَّ الْقِرَاءَةَ لَا تَصْلُحُ إِلَّا بِزُهْدٍ،
waʿlam ʾanna al-qirāʾata lā taṣluḥu ʾillā bizuhdin,
Know that recitation comes to no good without renunciation of worldly things.
وَذِلَّ عِنْدَ الطَّاعَةِ،
wadhilla ʿinda al-ṭāʿati,
Humble yourself when it comes to obedience,
وَاسْتَصْعِبْ عِنْدَ الْمَعْصِيَةِ،
wastaṣʿib ʿinda al-maʿṣiyati,
and make wrongdoing hard for yourself.
وَاغْبَطِ الْأَحْيَاءَ بِمَا تَغْبِطُ بِهِ الْأَمْوَاتَ»
waghbaṭi al-ʾaḥyāʾa bimā taghbiṭu bihi al-ʾamwāta»
Admire the living for the same things you would admire in the dead.’
٣٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
355 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ عِيسَى اِبْنَ مَرْيَمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin qāla: balaghanā ʾanna ʿīsā ibna maryama qāla:
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us and said: Word reached us that Jesus son of Mary said:
“ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْحَوَارِيِّينَ، تَحَبَّبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ بِبُغْضِكُمْ أَهْلَ الْمَعَاصِي،
“ yā maʿshara al-ḥawāriyyīna, taḥabbabū ʾilā Allāhi bibughḍikum ʾahla al-maʿāṣī,
‘Disciples, seek to endear yourselves to God by hating those who commit sins.
وَتَقَرَّبُوا إِلَيْهِ بِمَا يُبَاعِدُكُمْ مِنْهُمْ،
wataqarrabū ʾilayhi bimā yubāʿidukum minhum,
Draw near to Him through what puts distance between you and them.
وَالْتَمِسُوا رِضَاهُ بِسَخَطِهِمْ
waltamisū riḍāhu bisakhaṭihim
Seek His pleasure, though it brings their displeasure.’
- قَالَ: لَا أَدْرِي بِأَيَّتِهِنَّ بَدَأَ -
- qāla: lā ʾadrī biʾayyatihinna badaʾa -
The narrator said: ‘I do not know which of these three he said first.’
قَالُوا: يَا رُوحَ اللَّهِ، فَمَنْ نُجَالِسُ؟
qālū: yā rūḥa Allāhi, faman nujālisu?
They asked: ‘Spirit of God, then whom should we sit with?’
قَالَ: جَالِسُوا مَنْ يُذَكِّرُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ رُؤْيَتُهُ،
qāla: jālisū man yudhakkirukum bi-llāhi ruʾyatuhu,
He replied: ‘Sit with someone whose very sight reminds you of God,
وَمَنْ يَزِيدُ فِي عِلْمِكُمْ مَنْطِقُهُ،
waman yazīdu fī ʿilmikum manṭiquhu,
whose words increase your knowledge,
وَمَنْ يُرَغِّبُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَمَلُهُ ”
waman yuraghghibu fī al-ʾākhirati ʿamaluhu ”
and whose actions kindle your desire for the Hereafter.’
٣٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
356 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَعْدَةَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā saʿīdu bnu ʿamri bni jaʿdata qāla:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī informed us; Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr ibn Jaʿda related to us. He said:
قَالَ غِفَارٌ:
qāla ghifārun:
‘Ghifār said’—
وَقَالَ اِبْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ: “ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ غِفَارٍ ”
waqāla ibnu ḥayawayhi: “ qāla: qāla rajulun min ghifārin ”
but Ibn Ḥayawayh's wording was: ‘He said: a man of Ghifār said’—
وَهُمْ يَذْكُرُونَ الدُّنْيَا:
wahum yadhkurūna al-dunyā:
while they were speaking about this world:
«اِقْطَعُوا هَذِهِ عَنْكُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
«iqṭaʿū hādhihi ʿankum bidhikri Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
‘Put an end to such talk among yourselves by remembering God, mighty and majestic.’
٣٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
357 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla:
Al-Masʿūdī informed us, from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
«الذَّاكِرُ اللَّهَ فِي الْغَافِلِينَ كَالْمُقَاتِلِ خَلْفَ الْفَارِّينَ»
«al-dhākiru Allāha fī al-ghāfilīna ka-l-muqātili khalfa al-fārrīna»
‘The person who remembers God among the heedless is like a fighter who stands behind fleeing soldiers.’
٣٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
358 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي سَدُوسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿāṣimu bnu sulaymāna, ʿan rajulin min banī sadūsin, ʿan ʾabī mūsā qāla:
ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān informed us, from an unnamed man of Banū Sadūs, from Abū Mūsā, who said:
«جَلِيسُ الصِّدْقِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْوَحْدَةِ،
«jalīsu al-ṣidqi khayrun mina al-waḥdati,
‘A truthful companion is better than solitude,
وَالْوَحْدَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ جَلِيسِ السُّوءِ،
wa-l-waḥdatu khayrun min jalīsi al-sūʾi,
and solitude is better than a bad companion.
وَمَثَلُ جَلِيسِ الصِّدْقِ مَثَلُ صَاحِبِ الْعِطْرِ،
wamathalu jalīsi al-ṣidqi mathalu ṣāḥibi al-ʿiṭri,
A truthful companion is like a seller of perfume:
إِنْ لَمْ يُحْذِكَ يُعْبِقْكَ مِنْ رِيحِهِ،
ʾin lam yuḥdhika yuʿbiqka min rīḥihi,
even if he gives you none, his fragrance will cling to you.
وَمَثَلُ جَلِيسِ السُّوءِ مَثَلُ الْقَيْنِ،
wamathalu jalīsi al-sūʾi mathalu al-qayni,
A bad companion is like a blacksmith:
إِنْ لَمْ يَحْرِقْكَ يُعْبِقْكَ مِنْ رِيحِهِ،
ʾin lam yaḥriqka yuʿbiqka min rīḥihi,
even if he does not burn you, his smell will cling to you.
وَإِنَّمَا سُمِّيَ الْقَلْبُ لِتَقَلُّبِهِ،
waʾinnamā summiya al-qalbu litaqallubihi,
The heart is called qalb because it turns and changes.
وَمَثَلُ الْقَلْبِ مَثَلُ رِيشَةٍ فِي فَلَاةٍ،
wamathalu al-qalbi mathalu rīshatin fī falātin,
It is like a feather in an open wasteland.
أَلْجَأَتْهُ الرِّيحُ إِلَى شَجَرَةٍ،
ʾaljaʾathu al-rīḥu ʾilā shajaratin,
The wind drives it against a tree,
فَالرِّيحُ تَصْفِقُهَا ظَهْرًا لِبَطْنٍ»
fa-l-rīḥu taṣfiquhā ẓahran libaṭnin»
and blows it back and forth, turning it over and over.’
٣٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
359 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي اِبْنُ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، وَغَيْرُهُ،
ʾakhbaranā ʿumaru bnu saʿīdi bni ʾabī ḥusaynin qāla: ʾakhbaranī ibnu ʾabī mulaykata, waghayruhu,
ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn informed us. Ibn Abī Mulayka and someone else informed me
“ أَنَّ لُقْمَانَ كَانَ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْ أَصْحَابِي الْغَافِلِينَ،
“ ʾanna luqmāna kāna yaqūlu: Allāhumma lā tajʿal ʾaṣḥābī al-ghāfilīna,
that Luqmān used to say: ‘O God, do not make my companions heedless people—
الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذَكَرْتُكَ لَمْ يُعِينُونِي،
al-ladhīna ʾidhā dhakartuka lam yuʿīnūnī,
people who do not help me when I remember You,
وَإِذَا نَسِيتُكَ لَمْ يُذَكِّرُونِي،
waʾidhā nasītuka lam yudhakkirūnī,
and do not remind me when I forget You.
وَإِذَا أَمَرْتُ لَمْ يُطِيعُونِي،
waʾidhā ʾamartu lam yuṭīʿūnī,
When I give an instruction, they do not obey me,
وَإِنْ صَمَتُّ أَحْزَنُونِي ”
waʾin ṣamattu ʾaḥzanūnī ”
and when I fall silent, they make me sad.’
٣٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
360 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ
ʾakhbaranā ʿumaru bnu saʿīdi bni ʾabī ḥusaynin, ʿani ibni ʾabī mulaykata
ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn informed us, from Ibn Abī Mulayka.
قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عُبَيْدَ بْنَ عُمَيْرٍ يَقُولُ: بَلَغَنِي،
qāla: samiʿtu ʿubayda bna ʿumayrin yaqūlu: balaghanī,
He said: I heard ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr say: ‘Word reached me
“ أَنَّ دَاوُدَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْ لِي أَهْلَ سُوءٍ،
“ ʾanna dāwūda al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yaqūlu: Allāhumma lā tajʿal lī ʾahla sūʾin,
that David the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to say: “O God, do not give me a bad family,
فَأَكُونَ رَجُلَ سُوءٍ ”
faʾakūna rajula sūʾin ”
lest I become a bad man.”’
٣٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
361 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba qāla: qāla:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us. He said: he said:
حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جُنَادَةَ أَنَّ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيَّ حَدَّثَهُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ:
ḥaddathanī ʿabdu Allāhi bnu junādata ʾanna ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-ḥubuliyya ḥaddathahu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin qāla:
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Junāda related to me that Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubulī related to him, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said:
«كُنَّا فِيمَا مَضَى إِذَا لَقِيَ الرَّجُلُ الرَّجُلَ، فَكَأَنَّمَا يَلْقَى أَخَاهُ اِبْنَ أُمِّهِ وَأَبِيهِ،
«kunnā fīmā maḍā ʾidhā laqiya al-rajulu al-rajula, fakaʾannamā yalqā ʾakhāhu ibna ʾummihi waʾabīhi,
‘In earlier times, when one man met another, it was as though he met his own brother, born of his mother and father.
وَأَمَّا الْيَوْمَ إِذَا لَقِيَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْكُمُ الرَّجُلَ، فَكَأَنَّمَا يَلْقَى عَدُوًّا»
waʾammā al-yawma ʾidhā laqiya al-rajulu minkumu al-rajula, fakaʾannamā yalqā ʿaduwwan»
Today, when one of you meets another, it is as though he meets an enemy.’
٣٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
362 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ اِبْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani ibni ṭāwūsin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
Maʿmar informed us, from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
" إِنَّ النِّعْمَةَ تُكْفَرُ،
" ʾinna al-niʿmata tukfaru,
‘Blessings go unacknowledged,
وَالرَّحِمَ تُقْطَعُ،
wa-l-raḥima tuqṭaʿu,
and family ties are severed.
وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُؤَلِّفُ بَيْنَ الْقُلُوبِ،
waʾinna Allāha taʿālā yuʾallifu bayna al-qulūbi,
Yet God Most High brings hearts together,
وَإِذَا قَارَبَ بَيْنَ الْقُلُوبِ لَمْ يُزَحْزِحْهَا شَيْءٌ أَبَدًا،
waʾidhā qāraba bayna al-qulūbi lam yuzaḥziḥhā shayʾun ʾabadan,
and when He draws them close, nothing will ever drive them apart.’
ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ:
thumma talā hādhihi al-ʾāyata:
Then he recited this verse:
{لَوْ أَنْفَقْتَ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا مَا أَلَّفْتَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِهِمْ
{law ʾanfaqta mā fī al-ʾarḍi jamīʿan mā ʾallafta bayna qulūbihim
‘Even if you had spent everything on earth, you could not have joined their hearts together;
وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ أَلَّفَ بَيْنَهُمْ} [الْأَنْفَالِ: ٦٣]
walākinna Allāha ʾallafa baynahum} [al-ʾanfāli: 63]
but God joined them together’ (al-Anfāl 8:63).
٣٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
363 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا فُضَيْلُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقِ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā fuḍaylu bnu ghazwāna, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqi, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi qāla:
Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
«هُمُ الْمُتَحَابُّونَ فِي اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
«humu al-mutaḥābbūna fī Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
‘They are those who love one another for God's sake, mighty and majestic.’
٣٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
364 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي سَالِمُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ، أَنَّ وَلِيدَ بْنَ قَيْسٍ التُّجِيبِيَّ، أَخْبَرَهُ،
ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: ʾakhbaranī sālimu bnu ghaylāna, ʾanna walīda bna qaysin al-tujībiyya, ʾakhbarahu,
Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us. Sālim ibn Ghaylān informed me that Walīd ibn Qays al-Tujībī informed him
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيَّ يَقُولُ:
ʾannahu samiʿa ʾabā saʿīdin al-khudriyya yaqūlu:
that he heard Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī say:
قَالَ سَالِمٌ أَوْ عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ،
qāla sālimun ʾaw ʿan ʾabī al-haythami, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi,
Sālim said: ‘Or [it was transmitted] from Abū al-Haytham, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī,’
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:
ʾannahu samiʿa al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:
that he heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say:
«لَا تُصَاحِبْ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنًا،
«lā tuṣāḥib ʾillā muʾminan,
‘Keep company only with a believer,
وَلَا يَأْكُلْ طَعَامَكَ إِلَّا تَقِيٌّ»
walā yaʾkul ṭaʿāmaka ʾillā taqiyyun»
and let only a God-conscious person eat your food.’
٣٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
365 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ قَالَ: اِعْتَذَرْتُ أَنَا وَشُعَيْبٌ يَعْنِي اِبْنَ الْحَبْحَابِ إِلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ،
ʾakhbaranā ibnu ʿawnin qāla: iʿtadhartu ʾanā washuʿaybun yaʿnī ibna al-ḥabḥābi ʾilā ʾibrāhīma,
Ibn ʿAwn informed us and said: Shuʿayb—that is, Ibn al-Ḥabḥāb—and I offered an apology to Ibrāhīm.
فَقَالَ: - وَذَكَرَ رَجُلٌ أَنَّهُ قَالَ -
faqāla: - wadhakara rajulun ʾannahu qāla -
He said—or, as another man mentioned, he said—
«قَدْ عَذَرْتُكَ غَيْرَ مُعْتَذِرٍ،
«qad ʿadhartuka ghayra muʿtadhirin,
‘I have excused you without your having to apologize.
إِنَّ الِاعْتِذَارَ يُخَالِطُهُ - أَوْ مُخَالِطُهُ - الْكَذِبُ»
ʾinna al-iʿtidhāra yukhāliṭuhu - ʾaw mukhāliṭuhu - al-kadhibu»
An apology has falsehood mixed into it—or, in the alternative wording, falsehood is its companion.’
٣٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
366 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جُوَيْبِرٌ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā juwaybirun, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Juwaybir informed us, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«أَضِفْ بِطَعَامِكَ مَنْ تُحِبُّ فِي اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
«ʾaḍif biṭaʿāmika man tuḥibbu fī Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
‘Share your food with someone you love for God's sake, mighty and majestic.’
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