كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ وَالرَّقَائِقِ
Kitāb al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqāʾiq
Guarding the Tongue, Humility, and Repentance
Chapters 20–26
بَابُ حِفْظِ اللِّسَانِ
bābu ḥifẓi al-lisāni
Chapter on guarding the tongue.
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 عُمَرُ بْنُ ذَرٍّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿumaru bnu dharrin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
ʿUmar ibn Dharr informed us, from his father, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى عِنْدَ لِسَانِ كُلِّ قَائِلٍ
«ʾinna Allāha taʿālā ʿinda lisāni kulli qāʾilin
‘God Most High is by the tongue of everyone who speaks.
فَاتَّقَى اللَّهَ اِمْرُؤٌ عَلِمَ مَا يَقُولُ»
fattaqā Allāha imruʾun ʿalima mā yaqūlu»
So let a person be mindful of God and know what he is saying.’
٣٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
368 - 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 الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him:
«مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ، فَلَا يُؤْذِ جَارَهُ،
«man kāna yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ʾākhiri, falā yuʾdhi jārahu,
‘Whoever believes in God and the Last Day must not harm his neighbor.
مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ فَلْيُكْرِمْ ضَيْفَهُ،
man kāna yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ʾākhiri falyukrim ḍayfahu,
Whoever believes in God and the Last Day should honor his guest.
مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ فَلْيَقُلْ خَيْرًا أَوْ لِيَصْمُتْ»
man kāna yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ʾākhiri falyaqul khayran ʾaw liyaṣmut»
Whoever believes in God and the Last Day should speak good words or remain silent.’
٣٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
369 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabda 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:
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ بِلِسَانِهِ:
ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan zaydi bni ʾaslama, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī bakrin al-ṣiddīqi, ʾannahu qāla bilisānihi:
Sufyān related to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father, from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, who said of his tongue:
«هَذَا أَوْرَدَنِي الْمَوَارِدَ»
«hādhā ʾawradanī al-mawārida»
‘This has brought me into many predicaments.’
٣٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
370 - 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 إِيَاسٍ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾiyāsin al-jurayriyyu, ʿan rajulin qāla:
Saʿīd ibn Iyās al-Jurayrī informed us, from an unnamed man, who said:
رَأَيْتُ اِبْنَ عَبَّاسٍ قَائِمًا بَيْنَ الرُّكْنِ وَالْبَابِ، آخِذًا بِثَمَرَةِ لِسَانِهِ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ:
raʾaytu ibna ʿabbāsin qāʾiman bayna al-rukni wa-l-bābi, ʾākhidhan bithamarati lisānihi, wahuwa yaqūlu:
I saw Ibn ʿAbbās standing between the Corner and the door, holding the tip of his tongue. He was saying:
«وَيْحَكَ، قُلْ بِرًّا تَغْنَمْ،
«wayḥaka, qul birran taghnam,
‘Take care! Speak what is good and you will gain,
أَوِ اُسْكُتْ عَنْ شَرٍّ تَسْلَمْ»،
ʾawi uskut ʿan sharrin taslam»,
or keep silent about evil and you will be safe.’
وَقِيلَ لَهُ: يَا اِبْنَ عَبَّاسٍ، مَا لَكَ آخِذًا بِثَمَرَةِ لِسَانِكَ؟
waqīla lahu: yā ibna ʿabbāsin, mā laka ʾākhidhan bithamarati lisānika?
Someone asked him: ‘Ibn ʿAbbās, why are you holding the tip of your tongue?’
قَالَ: «بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ
qāla: «balaghanī ʾanna
He replied: ‘Word reached me that
الْعَبْدَ لَيْسَ عَلَى شَيْءٍ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ بِأَحْنَقَ مِنْهُ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»
al-ʿabda laysa ʿalā shayʾin min jasadihi biʾaḥnaqa minhu ʿalā lisānihi yawma al-qiyāmati»
on the Day of Resurrection, a servant will resent his tongue more than any other part of his body.’
٣٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
371 - 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 أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ مَاعِزٍ،
ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu ʾabī ʾisḥāqa qāla: ʾakhbaranā bakru bnu māʿizin,
Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq informed us; Bakr ibn Māʿiz informed us that
أَنَّ الرَّبِيعَ بْنَ خُثَيْمٍ، أَتَتْهُ اِبْنَةٌ لَهُ،
ʾanna al-rabīʿa bna khuthaymin, ʾatathu ibnatun lahu,
al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym's daughter came to him.
فَقَالَتْ: يَا أَبَتَاهُ، أَذْهَبُ أَلْعَبُ؟
faqālat: yā ʾabatāhu, ʾadhhabu ʾalʿabu?
She asked: ‘Father, may I go and play?’
فَلَمَّا أَكْثَرَتْ عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ جُلَسَائِهِ:
falammā ʾaktharat ʿalayhi, qāla lahu baʿḍu julasāʾihi:
When she kept asking, one of those sitting with him said:
لَوْ أَمَرْتَهَا فَذَهَبَتْ،
law ʾamartahā fadhahabat,
‘Why not tell her she may go?’
قَالَ: «لَا يُكْتَبُ عَلَيَّ الْيَوْمَ أَنِّي آمُرُهَا تَلْعَبُ»
qāla: «lā yuktabu ʿalayya al-yawma ʾannī ʾāmuruhā talʿabu»
He answered: ‘I do not want it written against me today that I told her to play.’
٣٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
372 - 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 عَجْلَانَ، عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʿajlāna, ʿani al-maqburiyyi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān informed us, from al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ، فَلَا يُؤْذِ جَارَهُ،
«man kāna yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ʾākhiri, falā yuʾdhi jārahu,
‘Whoever believes in God and the Last Day must not harm his neighbor.
مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ، فَلْيُكْرِمْ ضَيْفَهُ،
man kāna yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ʾākhiri, falyukrim ḍayfahu,
Whoever believes in God and the Last Day should honor his guest.
مَنْ كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ، فَلْيَقُلْ خَيْرًا أَوْ لِيَصْمُتْ»
man kāna yuʾminu bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi al-ʾākhiri, falyaqul khayran ʾaw liyaṣmut»
Whoever believes in God and the Last Day should speak good words or remain silent.’
٣٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
373 - 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، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan khaythamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʿadiyyi bni ḥātimin qāla:
Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us, from Sulaymān, from Khaythama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, who said:
«إِنَّ أَيْمَنَ اِمْرِئٍ وَأَشْأَمَهُ بَيْنَ لَحْيَيْهِ»
«ʾinna ʾaymana imriʾin waʾashʾamahu bayna laḥyayhi»
‘A person's good fortune and bad fortune lie between his jaws’—
يَعْنِي لِسَانَهُ
yaʿnī lisānahu
meaning his tongue.
٣٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
374 - 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، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ،
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā, ʿan masrūqin,
Sufyān informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq.
أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنْ بَيْتٍ مِنْ شِعْرٍ،
ʾannahu suʾila ʿan baytin min shiʿrin,
Someone asked Masrūq about a line of poetry.
فَكَرِهَهُ،
fakarihahu,
He disliked it.
فَقِيلَ لَهُ: فَقَالَ:
faqīla lahu: faqāla:
Something more was said to him, and he replied:
«إِنِّي أَكْرَهُ مَا أَجِدُهُ فِي صَحِيفَتِي شِعْرًا»
«ʾinnī ʾakrahu mā ʾajiduhu fī ṣaḥīfatī shiʿran»
‘I would not like to find poetry written in my record of deeds.’
٣٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
375 - 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 لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā laythu bnu saʿdin, ʿan ʿuqaylin, ʿani ibni shihābin, ʾanna ʾabā hurayrata qāla:
Layth ibn Saʿd informed us, from ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb, that Abū Hurayra said:
«مَنْ قَالَ لِابْنِهِ
«man qāla libnihi
‘If someone says to his son—
- أَوْ قَالَ لِصَبِيَّتِهِ -
- ʾaw qāla liṣabiyyatihi -
or, in the alternative wording, to his little daughter—
هَاهْ، يُرِيهِ أَنَّهُ يُعْطِيهِ شَيْئًا
hāh, yurīhi ʾannahu yuʿṭīhi shayʾan
“Here,” making the child think he will give something,
فَلَمْ يُعْطِهِ، كُتِبَتْ كِذْبَةً»
falam yuʿṭihi, kutibat kidhbatan»
but gives nothing, it is recorded as a lie.’
٣٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
376 - 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 أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ:
ʾakhbaranā misʿarun, ʿan ʾabī ḥuṣaynin qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi:
Misʿar informed us, from Abū Ḥuṣayn, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said:
«أَنْذَرْتُكُمْ فُضُولَ الْكَلَامِ،
«ʾandhartukum fuḍūla al-kalāmi,
‘I warn you against needless talk.
بِحَسْبِ أَحَدِكُمْ مَا بَلَغَ حَاجَتَهُ»
biḥasbi ʾaḥadikum mā balagha ḥājatahu»
It is enough for any of you to say what conveys what he needs.’
٣٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
377 - 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 يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قِيلَ لَهُ:
ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan ʾabī qilābata, ʿan ʾabī masʿūdin qāla: qīla lahu:
Al-Awzāʿī informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Qilāba, from Abū Masʿūd. He was asked:
مَا سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ فِي زَعَمُوا؟
mā samiʿta rasūla Allāhi yaqūlu fī zaʿamū?
‘What did you hear the Messenger of God say about the expression “They claim”?’
قَالَ: «بِئْسَ مَطِيَّةُ الرَّجُلِ»
qāla: «biʾsa maṭiyyatu al-rajuli»
He answered: ‘What a wretched mount it is for a man!’
٣٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
378 - 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 عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبْجَرَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan ʿabdi al-maliki bni ʾabjara qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin:
Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abjar, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:
«أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ خَطَايَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَكْثَرُهُمْ خَوْضًا فِي الْبَاطِلِ»
«ʾaktharu al-nāsi khaṭāyā yawma al-qiyāmati ʾaktharuhum khawḍan fī al-bāṭili»
‘Those who have the most sins on the Day of Resurrection are those who speak most freely of falsehood.’
٣٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
379 - 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 أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said:
«كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ كَذِبًا أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ»
«kafā bi-l-marʾi kadhiban ʾan yuḥadditha bikulli mā samiʿa»
‘Telling everything one hears is enough to make a person a liar.’
٣٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
380 - 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: حَدَّثَنِي خَالِدُ بْنُ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ،
ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī khālidu bnu ʾabī ʿimrāna,
Ibn Lahīʿa informed us and said: Khālid ibn Abī ʿImrān related to me that
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَمْسَكَ لِسَانَهُ طَوِيلًا،
ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾamsaka lisānahu ṭawīlan,
the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, held his tongue for a long time,
ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَهُ،
thumma ʾarsalahu,
then let it go.
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «أَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَيْكُمْ هَذَا،
thumma qāla: «ʾatakhawwafu ʿalaykum hādhā,
Then he said: ‘This is what I fear for you.
رَحِمَ اللَّهُ عَبْدًا قَالَ خَيْرًا وَغَنِمَ،
raḥima Allāhu ʿabdan qāla khayran waghanima,
May God have mercy on a servant who says something good and gains by it,
أَوْ سَكَتْ عَنْ سُوءٍ فَسَلِمَ»
ʾaw sakat ʿan sūʾin fasalima»
or who keeps silent about something bad and stays safe.’
٣٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
381 - 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: جَاءَ قَوْمٌ إِلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ لِيَشْفَعَ لَهُمْ
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: jāʾa qawmun ʾilā ʿumara bni ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi liyashfaʿa lahum
Sufyān informed us and said: Some people came to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, asking him to intercede for them.
فَذَكَرُوا قَرَابَتَهُمْ،
fadhakarū qarābatahum,
They mentioned their family ties,
وَقَالَ عُمَرُ: «إِيهٍ»،
waqāla ʿumaru: «ʾīhin»,
and ʿUmar said: ‘Go on.’
ثُمَّ ذَكَرُوا حَاجَتَهُمْ،
thumma dhakarū ḥājatahum,
Then they told him what they needed,
فَقَالَ: «لَعَلَّ» - أَوْ قَالَ: «لَعَلَّهُ» -
faqāla: «laʿalla» - ʾaw qāla: «laʿallahu» -
and he said: ‘Perhaps’—or, in the other wording, ‘Perhaps it will be so.’
فَذَهَبُوا كَأَنَّهُمْ وَجَدُوا فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ
fadhahabū kaʾannahum wajadū fī ʾanfusihim
They left looking as though they felt slighted,
فَقَضَى حَاجَتَهُمْ "
faqaḍā ḥājatahum "
but he fulfilled their request.
٣٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
382 - 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 قَيْسِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan qaysi bni muslimin, ʿan ṭāriqi bni shihābin, ʿani ibni masʿūdin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Qays ibn Muslim, from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said:
“ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ وَمَعَهُ دِينُهُ،
“ ʾinna al-rajula layakhruju min baytihi wamaʿahu dīnuhu,
‘A man may leave home with his faith intact,
ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ وَمَا مَعَهُ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ،
thumma yarjiʿu wamā maʿahu minhu shayʾun,
then return with none of it left.
يَأْتِي الرَّجُلَ لَا يَمْلِكُ لَهُ وَلَا لِنَفْسِهِ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا،
yaʾtī al-rajula lā yamliku lahu walā linafsihi ḍarran walā nafʿan,
He goes to someone who can neither harm nor benefit him or himself,
وَيَقُولُ لَهُ: إِنَّكَ لَذَيْتَ وَذَيْتَ،
wayaqūlu lahu: ʾinnaka ladhayta wadhayta,
and says to him: “You are this and that!”
فَيَرْجِعُ وَمَا حَلِيَ مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ بِشَيْءٍ،
fayarjiʿu wamā ḥaliya min ḥājatihi bishayʾin,
He comes back without getting anything he wanted,
وَقَدْ أَسْخَطَ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ ”
waqad ʾaskhaṭa Allāha ʿalayhi ”
but has brought God's displeasure upon himself.’
٣٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
383 - 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 وُهَيْبٌ، أَوْ غَيْرُهُ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā wuhaybun, ʾaw ghayruhu, ʿan ʿumara bni ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi qāla:
Wuhayb—or someone else—informed us, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who said:
«مَنْ عَدَّ كَلَامَهُ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ، قَلَّ كَلَامُهُ»
«man ʿadda kalāmahu min ʿamalihi, qalla kalāmuhu»
‘Whoever counts his words among his deeds will speak less.’
٣٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
384 - 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 يَزِيدَ بْنِ حَيَّانَ، عَنْ عَنْبَسِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan yazīda bni ḥayyāna, ʿan ʿanbasi bni ʿuqbata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Yazīd ibn Ḥayyān, from ʿAnbas ibn ʿUqba, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said:
«مَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ أَحَقُّ بِطُولِ السِّجْنِ مِنَ اللِّسَانِ»
«mā min shayʾin ʾaḥaqqu biṭūli al-sijni mina al-lisāni»
‘Nothing deserves to be confined longer than the tongue.’
٣٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
385 - 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 اللَّهِ بْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْمَعَافِرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī yazīdu bnu ʿamrin al-maʿāfiriyyu, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-ḥubuliyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi qāla:
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿa informed us and said: Yazīd ibn ʿAmr al-Maʿāfirī related to me, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubulī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«مَنْ صَمَتَ نَجَا»
«man ṣamata najā»
‘Whoever keeps silent is saved.’
٣٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
386 - 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: بَلَغَنَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ مِنْ دُعَاءِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: balaghanā ʾannahu kāna min duʿāʾi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Sufyān informed us and said: Word reached us that among the Prophet's supplications, peace and blessings be upon him, was:
«اللَّهُمَّ سَلِّمْ سَلِّمْ»
«Allāhumma sallim sallim»
‘O God, grant safety; grant safety.’
٣٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
387 - 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 عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi, ʿan makḥūlin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz informed us, from Makḥūl, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«الْمُؤْمِنُونَ هَيِّنُونَ لَيِّنُونَ،
«al-muʾminūna hayyinūna layyinūna,
‘Believers are gentle and yielding,
كَالْجَمَلِ الْأَنِفِ،
ka-l-jamali al-ʾanifi,
like a camel with a sensitive nose:
الَّذِي إِنْ قِيدَ اِنْقَادَ،
al-ladhī ʾin qīda inqāda,
when led, it follows,
وَإِذَا أُنِيخَ عَلَى صَخْرَةٍ اِسْتَنَاخَ»
waʾidhā ʾunīkha ʿalā ṣakhratin istanākha»
and when made to kneel on a rock, it kneels.’
٣٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
388 - 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 زِيَادِ بْنِ مِخْرَاقٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو كِنَانَةَ، عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿawfun, ʿan ziyādi bni mikhrāqin qāla: qāla ʾabū kinānata, ʿani al-ʾashʿariyyi qāla:
ʿAwf informed us, from Ziyād ibn Mikhrāq, who said: Abū Kināna said, from al-Ashʿarī:
«إِنَّ مِنْ إِجْلَالِ اللَّهِ إِكْرَامَ ذِي الشَّيْبَةِ الْمُسْلِمِ،
«ʾinna min ʾijlāli Allāhi ʾikrāma dhī al-shaybati al-muslimi,
‘Honoring an elderly Muslim is a way of honoring God,
وَحَامِلِ الْقُرْآنِ غَيْرِ الْغَالِي فِيهِ،
waḥāmili al-qurʾāni ghayri al-ghālī fīhi,
as is honoring someone who carries the Qurʾān without going to extremes over it
وَلَا الْجَافِي عَنْهُ،
walā al-jāfī ʿanhu,
or neglecting it,
وَإِكْرَامَ ذِي السُّلْطَانِ الْمُقْسِطِ»
waʾikrāma dhī al-sulṭāni al-muqsiṭi»
and honoring a just person in authority.’
وَرَفَعَهُ غَيْرُهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
warafaʿahu ghayruhu ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
Someone else attributed this report directly to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
٣٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
389 - 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 إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الصَّوَّافُ بِالْبَصْرَةِ،
ʾakhbaranā ʾisḥāqu bnu ʾibrāhīma al-ṣawwāfu bi-l-baṣrati,
Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣawwāf informed us in Basra.
قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ حُمْرَانَ الْحُمْرَانِيُّ
qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ḥumrāna al-ḥumrāniyyu
He said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥumrān al-Ḥumrānī related to us.
قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ مِخْرَاقٍ، عَنْ أَبِي كِنَانَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ،
qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿawfun, ʿan ziyādi bni mikhrāqin, ʿan ʾabī kinānata, ʿan ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi,
He said: ʿAwf related to us, from Ziyād ibn Mikhrāq, from Abū Kināna, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī,
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«مِنْ إِجْلَالِ اللَّهِ إِكْرَامُ ذِي الشَّيْبَةِ الْمُسْلِمِ،
«min ʾijlāli Allāhi ʾikrāmu dhī al-shaybati al-muslimi,
‘Honoring an elderly Muslim is a way of honoring God,
وَحَامِلِ الْقُرْآنِ غَيْرِ الْغَالِي فِيهِ،
waḥāmili al-qurʾāni ghayri al-ghālī fīhi,
as is honoring someone who carries the Qurʾān without going to extremes over it
وَلَا الْجَافِي عَنْهُ،
walā al-jāfī ʿanhu,
or neglecting it,
وَذِي السُّلْطَانِ الْمُقْسِطِ»
wadhī al-sulṭāni al-muqsiṭi»
and honoring a just person in authority.’
٣٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
390 - 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 الْأَشْهَبِ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾabū al-ʾashhabi jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: kānū yaqūlūna:
Abū al-Ashhab Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: They used to say:
«إِنَّ لِسَانَ الْحَكِيمِ مِنْ وَرَاءِ قَلْبِهِ،
«ʾinna lisāna al-ḥakīmi min warāʾi qalbihi,
‘A wise person's tongue is behind his heart.
فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَقُولَ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى قَلْبِهِ،
faʾidhā ʾarāda ʾan yaqūla yarjiʿu ʾilā qalbihi,
When he wants to speak, he consults his heart.
فَإِنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَالَ،
faʾin kāna lahu qāla,
If what he wants to say will benefit him, he says it;
وَإِنْ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ أَمْسَكَ،
waʾin kāna ʿalayhi ʾamsaka,
if it will count against him, he holds back.
وَإِنَّ الْجَاهِلَ قَلْبُهُ فِي طَرَفِ لِسَانِهِ،
waʾinna al-jāhila qalbuhu fī ṭarafi lisānihi,
But an ignorant person's heart is at the tip of his tongue.
لَا يَرْجِعُ إِلَى الْقَلْبِ،
lā yarjiʿu ʾilā al-qalbi,
He does not consult his heart,
فَمَا أَتَى عَلَى لِسَانِهِ تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ»،
famā ʾatā ʿalā lisānihi takallama bihi»,
and says whatever comes onto his tongue.’
وَقَالَ أَبُو الْأَشْهَبِ: كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ:
waqāla ʾabū al-ʾashhabi: kānū yaqūlūna:
Abū al-Ashhab also said: They used to say:
«مَا عَقَلَ دِينَهُ مَنْ لَمْ يَحْفَظْ لِسَانَهُ»
«mā ʿaqala dīnahu man lam yaḥfaẓ lisānahu»
‘A person who does not guard his tongue has not truly understood his religion.’
بَابٌ فِي التَّوَاضُعِ
bābun fī al-tawāḍuʿi
Chapter on humility.
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 عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي مُحْرِزٌ أَبُو رَجَاءٍ، مَوْلَى هِشَامٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مَكْحُولًا يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ʾakhbaranī muḥrizun ʾabū rajāʾin, mawlā hishāmin, ʾannahu samiʿa makḥūlan yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us and said: Muḥriz Abū Rajāʾ, the freedman of Hishām, told me that he heard Makḥūl say: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«لَا تَكُونُوا عَيَّابِينَ، وَلَا مَدَّاحِينَ، وَلَا طَعَّانِينَ، وَلَا مُتَمَاوِتِينَ»
«lā takūnū ʿayyābīna, walā maddāḥīna, walā ṭaʿʿānīna, walā mutamāwitīna»
‘Do not constantly find fault, heap praise on people, disparage them, or affect a show of frailty.’
٣٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
392 - 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 عِمْرَانُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ التَّغْلِبِيُّ، عَنْ زَيْدٍ الْعَمِّيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿimrānu bnu zaydin al-taghlibiyyu, ʿan zaydin al-ʿammiyyi, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:
ʿImrān ibn Zayd al-Taghlibī informed us, from Zayd al-ʿAmmī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
«كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا اِسْتَقْبَلَهُ الرَّجُلُ فَصَافَحَهُ،
«kāna al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾidhā istaqbalahu al-rajulu faṣāfaḥahu,
‘When a man approached the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and shook his hand,
لَا يَنْزِعُ يَدَهُ عَنْ يَدِهِ حَتَّى يَكُونَ الرَّجُلُ هُوَ الَّذِي يَنْزِعُ،
lā yanziʿu yadahu ʿan yadihi ḥattā yakūna al-rajulu huwa al-ladhī yanziʿu,
he would not withdraw his hand until the other man withdrew his,
وَلَا يَصْرِفُ وَجْهَهُ حَتَّى يَكُونَ الرَّجُلُ هُوَ الَّذِي يَصْرِفُهُ،
walā yaṣrifu wajhahu ḥattā yakūna al-rajulu huwa al-ladhī yaṣrifuhu,
nor would he turn his face away until the other man turned his away.
وَلَمْ يُرَ مُقَدِّمًا رُكْبَتَيْهِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ جَلِيسٍ لَهُ»
walam yura muqaddiman rukbatayhi bayna yaday jalīsin lahu»
He was never seen pushing his knees forward in front of someone sitting with him.’
٣٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
393 - 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 مِسْعَرُ بْنُ كِدَامٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا، قَالَتْ:
ʾakhbaranā misʿaru bnu kidāmin, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʾabī burdata, ʿani al-ʾaswadi bni yazīda, ʿan ʿāʾishata raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā, qālat:
Misʿar ibn Kidām informed us, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Burda, from al-Aswad ibn Yazīd, from ʿĀʾisha, may God be pleased with her, who said:
“ إِنَّكُمْ لَتُغْفِلُونَ أَفْضَلَ الْعِبَادَةِ: التَّوَاضُعَ ”
“ ʾinnakum latughfilūna ʾafḍala al-ʿibādati: al-tawāḍuʿa ”
‘You overlook the finest act of worship: humility.’
٣٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
394 - 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، عَنِ الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿani al-haythami bni khālidin qāla:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from al-Haytham ibn Khālid, who said:
كُنْتُ خَلْفَ عَمِّي سُلَيْمِ بْنِ عِتْرٍ،
kuntu khalfa ʿammī sulaymi bni ʿitrin,
I was behind my uncle Sulaym ibn ʿItr.
فَمَرَّ عَلَيْهِ كُرَيْبُ بْنُ أَبْرَهَةَ رَاكِبًا وَوَرَاءَهُ عِلْجٌ يَتْبَعُهُ،
famarra ʿalayhi kuraybu bnu ʾabrahata rākiban wawarāʾahu ʿiljun yatbaʿuhu,
Kurayb ibn Abraha passed him on horseback, with a non-Arab man walking behind him.
فَقَالَ لَهُ سُلَيْمٌ: يَا أَبَا رِشْدِينَ، أَلَا حَمَلْتَهُ وَرَاءَكَ،
faqāla lahu sulaymun: yā ʾabā rishdīna, ʾalā ḥamaltahu warāʾaka,
Sulaym asked him, ‘Abū Rishdīn, why did you not let him ride behind you?’
قَالَ: أَحْمِلُ عِلْجًا مِثْلَ هَذَا وَرَائِي؟
qāla: ʾaḥmilu ʿiljan mithla hādhā warāʾī?
He replied, ‘Take a man like that behind me?’
قَالَ: فَهَلَّا قَدَّمْتَهُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ إِلَى بَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ،
qāla: fahallā qaddamtahu bayna yadayka ʾilā bābi al-masjidi,
Sulaym said, ‘Then why did you not place him in front of you as far as the mosque door?’
قَالَ: وَلِمَ أَفْعَلُ؟
qāla: walima ʾafʿalu?
He asked, ‘Why should I?’
قَالَ: أَفَلَا نَظَرْتَ غُلَامًا صَغِيرًا فَحَمَلْتَهُ وَرَاءَكَ؟
qāla: ʾafalā naẓarta ghulāman ṣaghīran faḥamaltahu warāʾaka?
Sulaym said, ‘Could you not at least have found a small boy and let him ride behind you?’
قَالَ: وَلِمَ أَفْعَلُ؟
qāla: walima ʾafʿalu?
He asked again, ‘Why should I?’
قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ يَقُولُ:
qāla sulaymun: samiʿtu ʾabā al-dardāʾi yaqūlu:
Sulaym said, ‘I heard Abū al-Dardāʾ say:
«لَا يَزَالُ الْعَبْدُ يَزْدَادُ مِنَ اللَّهِ بُعْدًا مَا مُشِيَ خَلْفَهُ»
«lā yazālu al-ʿabdu yazdādu mina Allāhi buʿdan mā mushiya khalfahu»
“A servant grows ever farther from God as long as someone walks behind him.”’
٣٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
395 - 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 أَبِي الْمُهَزِّمِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ،
ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʾabī al-muhazzimi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata,
Ḥammād ibn Salama informed us, from Abū al-Muhazzim, from Abū Hurayra,
أَنَّهُ رَأَى رَجُلًا عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ وَغُلَامًا يَسْعَى خَلْفَهُ،
ʾannahu raʾā rajulan ʿalā dābbatihi waghulāman yasʿā khalfahu,
who saw a man riding an animal while a young servant ran behind him.
فَقَالَ: «يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ، اِحْمِلْهُ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ أَخُوكَ، رُوحُهُ مِثْلُ رُوحِكَ،
faqāla: «yā ʿabda Allāhi, iḥmilhu faʾinnamā huwa ʾakhūka, rūḥuhu mithlu rūḥika,
He said, ‘Servant of God, let him ride. He is your brother; he has a soul just like yours.’
فَحَمَلَهُ»
faḥamalahu»
So the man let him ride.
٣٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
396 - 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 فُلَيْحُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā fulayḥu bnu sulaymāna, ʿan hilāli bni ʿaliyyin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:
Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān informed us, from Hilāl ibn ʿAlī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
لَمْ يَكُنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَبَّابًا، وَلَا فَحَّاشًا،
lam yakun rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama sabbāban, walā faḥḥāshan,
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, did not revile people or speak obscenely.
وَقَالَ اِبْنُ حَيْوَةَ: «فَاحِشًا»،
waqāla ibnu ḥaywata: «fāḥishan»,
Ibn Ḥaywa’s wording has “indecent” instead of “given to obscene speech.”
وَكَانَ يَقُولُ لِأَحَدِنَا عِنْدَ الْمُعَاتَبَةِ: «مَا لَهُ تَرِبَتْ جَبِينُهُ»
wakāna yaqūlu liʾaḥadinā ʿinda al-muʿātabati: «mā lahu taribat jabīnuhu»
When correcting one of us, he would say, ‘What is the matter with him? May dust settle on his brow!’
٣٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
397 - 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،
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni al-mukhtāri, ʿani al-ḥasani,
Maʿmar informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn al-Mukhtār, from al-Ḥasan,
أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا} [الْفُرْقَانِ: ٦٣]،
ʾannahu dhakara hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {al-ladhīna yamshūna ʿalā al-ʾarḍi hawnan} [al-furqāni: 63],
who mentioned this verse: “Those who walk gently upon the earth” (al-Furqān 25:63).
قَالَ: “ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ قَوْمٌ ذُلُلٌ،
qāla: “ al-muʾminūna qawmun dhululun,
He said, ‘Believers are humble people.
ذَلَّتْ وَاللَّهِ الْأَسْمَاعُ وَالْأَبْصَارُ وَالْجَوَارِحُ،
dhallat wa-llāhi al-ʾasmāʿu wa-l-ʾabṣāru wa-l-jawāriḥu,
By God, their ears, eyes and limbs have yielded,
حَتَّى يَحْسَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُ مَرْضَى،
ḥattā yaḥsabahumu al-jāhilu marḍā,
so that someone who does not understand them might think they are ill.
وَاللَّهِ مَا بِالْقَوْمِ مِنْ مَرَضٍ،
wa-llāhi mā bi-l-qawmi min maraḍin,
By God, there is no illness among them.
وَإِنَّهُمْ لَأَصِحَّاءُ الْقُلُوبِ،
waʾinnahum laʾaṣiḥḥāʾu al-qulūbi,
Their hearts are, in fact, sound.
وَلَكِنْ دَخَلَهُمْ مِنَ الْخَوْفِ مَا لَمْ يَدْخُلْ غَيْرَهُمْ،
walākin dakhalahum mina al-khawfi mā lam yadkhul ghayrahum,
But a fear has entered them that has not entered others,
وَمَنَعَهُمْ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا عِلْمُهُمْ بِالْآخِرَةِ،
wamanaʿahum mina al-dunyā ʿilmuhum bi-l-ʾākhirati,
and their knowledge of the Hereafter keeps them from worldly pursuits.
وَقَالُوا: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَذْهَبَ عَنَّا الْحَزَنَ
waqālū: al-ḥamdu li-llāhi al-ladhī ʾadhhaba ʿannā al-ḥazana
They say, “Praise belongs to God, who has taken sorrow away from us.”
وَاللَّهِ مَا أَحْزَنَهُمْ حُزْنُ النَّاسِ،
wa-llāhi mā ʾaḥzanahum ḥuznu al-nāsi,
By God, it is not the sorrow that troubles other people that has grieved them.
وَلَا تَعَاظَمَ فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ مَا طَلَبُوا بِهِ الْجَنَّةَ،
walā taʿāẓama fī ʾanfusihim mā ṭalabū bihi al-jannata,
Nor do they think highly of the deeds by which they seek the Garden.
أَبْكَاهُمُ الْخَوْفُ مِنَ النَّارِ،
ʾabkāhumu al-khawfu mina al-nāri,
Fear of the Fire has made them weep.
وَإِنَّهُ مَنْ لَمْ يَتَعَزَّ بِعَزَاءِ اللَّهِ، تَقَطَّعَتْ نَفْسُهُ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا حَسَرَاتٍ،
waʾinnahu man lam yataʿazza biʿazāʾi Allāhi, taqaṭṭaʿat nafsuhu ʿalā al-dunyā ḥasarātin,
Whoever takes no comfort in the consolation God gives will be torn apart by regrets over this world.
وَمَنْ لَمْ يَرَ لِلَّهِ عَلَيْهِ نِعْمَةً إِلَّا فِي مَطْعَمٍ، أَوْ مَشْرَبٍ فَقَدْ قَلَّ عِلْمُهُ وَحَضَرَ عَذَابُهُ ”
waman lam yara li-llāhi ʿalayhi niʿmatan ʾillā fī maṭʿamin, ʾaw mashrabin faqad qalla ʿilmuhu waḥaḍara ʿadhābuhu ”
And whoever sees God’s blessings to him only in food and drink has little understanding, and his punishment is at hand.’
٣٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
398 - 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 زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: "
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu zaydi bni ʾaslama, ʾannahu balaghahu, ʿan ʿāʾishata, ʾannahā qālat: "
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam informed us that a report had reached him from ʿĀʾisha, who said:
لَبِسْتُ دِرْعًا جَدِيدًا، فَجَعَلْتُ - أَيْ - أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ،
labistu dirʿan jadīdan, fajaʿaltu - ʾay - ʾanẓuru ʾilayhi,
‘I put on a new tunic and began—that is—looking at it.
فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: «أَمَا تَعْلَمِينَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ يَرَاكِ»
faqāla ʾabū bakrin: «ʾamā taʿlamīna ʾanna Allāha qad yarāki»
Abū Bakr said, “Do you not know that God sees you?”’
٣٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
399 - 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 سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عَزْرَةَ، قَالَ:
ʿan sufyāna, ʿan dāwūda, ʿan ʿazrata, qāla:
from Sufyān, from Dāwūd, from ʿAzra, who said:
دَخَلَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى عَائِشَةَ فَرَأَى عَلَى بَابِهَا سِتْرًا فِيهِ تَمَاثِيلُ،
dakhala al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā ʿāʾishata faraʾā ʿalā bābihā sitran fīhi tamāthīlu,
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, visited ʿĀʾisha and saw a curtain with images hanging over her door.
فَقَالَ: «يَا عَائِشَةُ، أَخِّرِيهِ فَإِنِّي إِذَا رَأَيْتُهُ ذَكَرْتُ الدُّنْيَا»
faqāla: «yā ʿāʾishatu, ʾakhkhirīhi faʾinnī ʾidhā raʾaytuhu dhakartu al-dunyā»
He said, ‘ʿĀʾisha, move it away. Whenever I see it, I remember this world.’
٤٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ:
400 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us and said:
حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي هِنْدَ، عَنْ عَزْرَةَ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ:
ḥaddathanā ʿamru bnu ʿaliyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu zurayʿin qāla: ḥaddathanā dāwūdu bnu ʾabī hinda, ʿan ʿazrata, ʿan ḥumaydi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan saʿdi bni hishāmin, ʿan ʿāʾishata, qālat:
ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī related to us and said: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ related to us and said: Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind related to us, from ʿAzra, from Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Saʿd ibn Hishām, from ʿĀʾisha, who said:
كَانَ لَنَا سِتْرٌ فِيهِ تِمْثَالُ طَيْرٍ مُسْتَقْبِلٌ بَابَ الْبَيْتِ إِذَا دَخَلَ الدَّاخِلُ،
kāna lanā sitrun fīhi timthālu ṭayrin mustaqbilun bāba al-bayti ʾidhā dakhala al-dākhilu,
We had a curtain bearing the image of a bird facing the house’s entrance when someone came in.
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَا عَائِشَةُ، حَوِّلِيهِ
faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «yā ʿāʾishatu, ḥawwilīhi
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘ʿĀʾisha, move it.
إِنِّي كُلَّمَا دَخَلْتُ فَرَأَيْتُهُ ذَكَرْتُ الدُّنْيَا»،
ʾinnī kullamā dakhaltu faraʾaytuhu dhakartu al-dunyā»,
Every time I come in and see it, I am reminded of this world.’
وَكَانَتْ لَنَا قَطِيفَةٌ فِيهَا عَلَمٌ،
wakānat lanā qaṭīfatun fīhā ʿalamun,
We also had a plush wrap with an ornamental stripe.
تَقُولُ: حَرِيرٌ,
taqūlu: ḥarīrun,
She says the stripe was silk.
فَكُنَّا نَلْبَسُهَا، وَلَمْ نَقْطَعْهُ،
fakunnā nalbasuhā, walam naqṭaʿhu,
We used to wear the wrap, and we did not cut the stripe off.
٤٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ:
401 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us and said:
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ اِبْنُ عُلَيَّةَ، وَإِسْحَاقُ الْأَزْرَقُ،
ḥaddathanā yaʿqūbu bnu ʾibrāhīma al-dawraqiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu ibnu ʿulayyata, waʾisḥāqu al-ʾazraqu,
Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī related to us and said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayya and Isḥāq al-Azraq related to us,
عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدَ، عَنْ عَزْرَةَ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ،
ʿan dāwūda bni ʾabī hinda, ʿan ʿazrata, ʿan ḥumaydi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-ḥimyariyyi, ʿan saʿdi bni hishāmin, ʿan ʿāʾishata,
from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from ʿAzra, from Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥimyarī, from Saʿd ibn Hishām, from ʿĀʾisha,
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِنَحْوِهِ
ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama binaḥwihi
from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with wording similar to the preceding report.
٤٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
402 - 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 أَنَسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ، قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan ʾabī al-naḍri, qāla:
Mālik ibn Anas informed us, from Abū al-Naḍr, who said:
اِنْقَطَعَ شِرَاكُ نَعْلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
inqaṭaʿa shirāku naʿli rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
The strap of the Messenger of God’s sandal, peace and blessings be upon him, broke.
فَوَصَلَهُ بِشَيْءٍ جَدِيدٍ،
fawaṣalahu bishayʾin jadīdin,
He repaired it with a new piece,
فَجَعَلَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي،
fajaʿala yanẓuru ʾilayhi wahuwa yuṣallī,
and found himself looking at it while he prayed.
فَلَمَّا قَضَى صَلَاتَهُ
falammā qaḍā ṣalātahu
When he had finished his prayer,
قَالَ لَهُمْ: «اِنْزَعُوا هَذَا، وَاِجْعَلُوا الْأَوَّلَ مَكَانَهُ»
qāla lahum: «inzaʿū hādhā, waijʿalū al-ʾawwala makānahu»
he told them, ‘Remove this and put the old piece back in its place.’
فَقِيلَ: كَيْفَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟
faqīla: kayfa yā rasūla Allāhi?
Someone asked, ‘Why, Messenger of God?’
قَالَ: «إِنِّي كُنْتُ أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَأَنَا أُصَلِّي»
qāla: «ʾinnī kuntu ʾanẓuru ʾilayhi waʾanā ʾuṣallī»
He answered, ‘I was looking at it while I prayed.’
بَابُ فَضْلِ الْمَشْيِ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ وَالْجُلُوسِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ
bābu faḍli al-mashyi ʾilā al-ṣalāti wa-l-julūsi fī al-masjidi waghayri dhālika
Chapter on the merit of walking to prayer, sitting in the mosque, and other matters.
٤٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
403 - 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 هَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan hammāmi bni munabbihin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Maʿmar informed us, from Hammām ibn Munabbih, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«الْكَلِمَةُ الطَّيِّبَةُ صَدَقَةٌ،
«al-kalimatu al-ṭayyibatu ṣadaqatun,
‘A kind word is an act of charity,
وَكُلُّ خُطْوَةٍ تَخْطُوهَا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ صَدَقَةٌ»
wakullu khuṭwatin takhṭūhā ʾilā al-ṣalāti ṣadaqatun»
and every step you take toward prayer is an act of charity.’
٤٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
404 - 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 حَيَّانَ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾabū ḥayyāna al-taymiyyu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin qāla:
Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī informed us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, who said:
“ كَانَ يُقَالُ: اِئْتُوا اللَّهَ فِي بَيْتِهِ،
“ kāna yuqālu: iʾtū Allāha fī baytihi,
‘People used to say: Come to God in His house,
فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يُؤْتَ مِثْلُهُ فِي بَيْتِهِ،
faʾinnahu lam yuʾta mithluhu fī baytihi,
for no one like Him has ever been visited in his own house;
وَإِنَّهُ لَا أَحَدَ أَعْرَفُ بِحَقٍّ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ”
waʾinnahu lā ʾaḥada ʾaʿrafu biḥaqqin mina Allāhi ʿazza wajalla ”
and no one knows better than God, Mighty and Majestic, what is due.’
٤٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
405 - 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 بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu bnu al-ḥajjāji, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʾannahu qāla:
Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj informed us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from his father, who said:
سَمِعَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ صَوْتَ رَجُلٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ،
samiʿa ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi ṣawta rajulin fī al-masjidi,
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb heard a man’s voice in the mosque.
فَقَالَ: «تَدْرِي أَيْنَ أَنْتَ»
faqāla: «tadrī ʾayna ʾanta»
He said, ‘Do you know where you are?’
٤٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
406 - 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 أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾabī ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni ʾabī jaʿfarin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«مَنْ أَجَابَ دَاعِيَ اللَّهِ، وَأَحْسَنَ عِمَارَةَ مَسَاجِدِ اللَّهِ،
«man ʾajāba dāʿiya Allāhi, waʾaḥsana ʿimārata masājidi Allāhi,
‘Whoever responds to God’s caller and tends His mosques well
كَانَتْ تُحْفَتُهُ بِذَلِكَ مِنَ اللَّهِ الْجَنَّةَ»،
kānat tuḥfatuhu bidhālika mina Allāhi al-jannata»,
will receive the Garden from God as a gift for it.’
فَقِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا حُسْنُ عِمَارَةِ مَسَاجِدِ اللَّهِ؟
faqīla: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā ḥusnu ʿimārati masājidi Allāhi?
Someone asked, ‘Messenger of God, what does tending God’s mosques well mean?’
قَالَ:
qāla:
He answered:
«لَا يُرْفَعُ فِيهَا صَوْتٌ،
«lā yurfaʿu fīhā ṣawtun,
‘Voices are not raised in them,
وَلَا يُتَكَلَّمُ فِيهَا بِالرَّفَثِ»
walā yutakallamu fīhā bi-l-rafathi»
nor is indecent talk spoken in them.’
٤٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
407 - 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 مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ الْكَلْبِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu muṭarrifin, ʿan suhayli bni ḥassāna al-kalbiyyi qāla:
Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif informed us, from Suhayl ibn Ḥassān al-Kalbī, who said:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيُعْطِي الْعَبْدَ مَا دَامَ جَالِسًا فِي الْمَسْجِدِ بِحُضْرِ الْفَرَسِ السَّرِيعِ مَلْءَ كَشْحِهِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ،
«ʾinna Allāha layuʿṭī al-ʿabda mā dāma jālisan fī al-masjidi biḥuḍri al-farasi al-sarīʿi malʾa kashḥihi fī al-jannati,
‘As long as a servant sits in the mosque, God grants him a gift in the Garden, described through the swift horse’s gallop and the breadth of its flank.
وَتُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ،
watuṣallī ʿalayhi al-malāʾikatu,
The angels pray for him,
وَيُكْتَبُ لَهُ فِي الرِّبَاطِ الْأَكْبَرِ»
wayuktabu lahu fī al-ribāṭi al-ʾakbari»
and he is recorded among those keeping the greater vigil.’
٤٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
408 - 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 مُصْعَبُ بْنُ ثَابِتِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ بْنِ الْعَوَّامِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي دَاوُدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ:
ʾakhbaranā muṣʿabu bnu thābiti bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-zubayri bni al-ʿawwāmi qāla: ḥaddathanī dāwūdu bnu ṣāliḥin qāla: qāla lī ʾabū salamata bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni:
Muṣʿab ibn Thābit ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām informed us and said: Dāwūd ibn Ṣāliḥ related to me and said: Abū Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said to me:
" يَا اِبْنَ أَخِي، هَلْ تَدْرِي فِي أَيِّ شَيْءٍ أُنْزِلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ:
" yā ibna ʾakhī, hal tadrī fī ʾayyi shayʾin ʾunzilat hādhihi al-ʾāyatu:
‘Nephew, do you know in what connection this verse was revealed:
{اِصْبِرُوا وَصَابِرُوا وَرَابِطُوا} [آلِ عِمْرَانَ: ٢٠٠] ؟
{iṣbirū waṣābirū warābiṭū} [ʾāli ʿimrāna: 200] ?
“Be steadfast, encourage one another to persevere, and stand guard” (Āl ʿImrān 3:200)?’
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا،
qāla: qultu: lā,
I said, ‘No.’
قَالَ: «إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَا اِبْنَ أَخِي عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ غَزْوٌ يُرَابَطُ فِيهِ،
qāla: «ʾinnahu lam yakun yā ibna ʾakhī ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ghazwun yurābaṭu fīhi,
He said, ‘Nephew, in the time of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, there was no campaign in which people stood guard on a frontier;
وَلَكِنَّهُ اِنْتِظَارُ الصَّلَاةِ خَلْفَ الصَّلَاةِ»
walākinnahu intiẓāru al-ṣalāti khalfa al-ṣalāti»
rather, it means waiting for one prayer after another.’
٤٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
409 - 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 مُطَرِّفٌ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā muṭarrifun, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Muṭarrif informed us, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«إِسْبَاغُ الْوُضُوءِ عِنْدَ الْمَكَارِهِ مِنَ الْكَفَّارَاتِ،
«ʾisbāghu al-wuḍūʾi ʿinda al-makārihi mina al-kaffārāti,
‘Completing ablution thoroughly despite hardship is among the deeds that make amends for sins;
وَكَثْرَةُ الْخُطَا إِلَى الْمَسَاجِدِ مِنَ الْكَفَّارَاتِ،
wakathratu al-khuṭā ʾilā al-masājidi mina al-kaffārāti,
so are taking many steps to the mosques;
وَانْتِظَارُ الصَّلَاةِ بَعْدَ الصَّلَاةِ مِنَ الْكَفَّارَاتِ،
wantiẓāru al-ṣalāti baʿda al-ṣalāti mina al-kaffārāti,
and so is waiting for one prayer after another.
وَذَلِكَ الرِّبَاطُ، وَذَلِكَ الرِّبَاطُ»،
wadhālika al-ribāṭu, wadhālika al-ribāṭu»,
That is the vigil; that is the vigil.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: “ هَكَذَا وَجَدْتُهُ فِي كِتَابٍ لَيْسَ فِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: “ hākadhā wajadtuhu fī kitābin laysa fīhi, ʿan ʾabīhi
Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘This is how I found it in a book: the words “from his father” are absent.
وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، وَشُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجُ،
waqad rawāhu māliku bnu ʾanasin, washuʿbatu bnu al-ḥajjāju,
But Mālik ibn Anas and Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj transmitted it,
وَرَوْحُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ، وَإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، وَشِبْلُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ، وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ،
warawḥu bnu al-qāsimi, waʾismāʿīlu bnu jaʿfarin, washiblu bnu al-ʿalāʾi, waʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu ʾibrāhīma,
as did Rawḥ ibn al-Qāsim, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Shibl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm,
وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ أَبِي الْحُسَامِ، وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ،
wasaʿīdu bnu salamata bni ʾabī al-ḥusāmi, wazuhayru bnu muḥammadin,
Saʿīd ibn Salama ibn Abī al-Ḥusām and Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad,
وَيُوسُفُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَدَنِيُّ مَوْلَى سُكَّرَةَ
wayūsufu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-madaniyyu mawlā sukkarata
and Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Madanī, the freedman of Sukkara.
قَالَ اِبْنُ حَيْوَةَ: «يُقَالُ لَهُ مَوْلَى سُكَّرَةَ» -
qāla ibnu ḥaywata: «yuqālu lahu mawlā sukkarata» -
Ibn Ḥaywa said: “He is called the freedman of Sukkara.”
وَالدَّرَاوَرْدِيُّ،
wa-l-darāwardiyyu,
Al-Darāwardī also transmitted it.
فَقَالُوا جَمِيعًا: عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ”،
faqālū jamīʿan: ʿani al-ʿalāʾi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ”,
All of them said: from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «وَكَذَلِكَ رَأَيْتُهُ فِي كِتَابٍ غَيْرِ كِتَابِ الْحُسَيْنِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَلَيْسَ فِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ»
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «wakadhālika raʾaytuhu fī kitābin ghayri kitābi al-ḥusayni, ʿani ibni al-mubāraki, walaysa fīhi, ʿan ʾabīhi»
Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘I found it likewise in a book other than al-Ḥusayn’s book, from Ibn al-Mubārak, without “from his father.”’
٤١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
410 - 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: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو قَبِيلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُشَّانَةَ الْمَعَافِرِيِّ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾabū qabīlin, ʿan ʾabī ʿushshānata al-maʿāfiriyyi, ʿan ʿuqbata bni ʿāmirin al-juhaniyyi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Ibn Lahīʿa informed us and said: Abū Qabīl related to me, from Abū ʿUshshāna al-Maʿāfirī, from ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
«مَنْ خَرَجَ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ،
«man kharaja min baytihi ʾilā al-masjidi,
‘When someone leaves home for the mosque,
كَتَبَ لَهُ كَاتِبَاهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ يَخْطُوهَا عَشْرَ حَسَنَاتٍ،
kataba lahu kātibāhu bikulli khuṭwatin yakhṭūhā ʿashra ḥasanātin,
his two recording angels write ten good deeds for every step he takes.
وَالْقَاعِدُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ يَنْتَظِرُ الصَّلَاةَ كَالْقَانِتِ،
wa-l-qāʿidu fī al-masjidi yantaẓiru al-ṣalāta ka-l-qāniti,
A person sitting in the mosque waiting for prayer is like someone standing devoutly in worship,
وَيُكْتَبُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ»
wayuktabu mina al-muṣallīna ḥattā yarjiʿa ʾilā baytihi»
and is counted among those praying until he returns home.’
٤١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
411 - 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 عَجْلَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʿajlāna, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydin, ʿan muʿādhi bni jabalin qāla:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān informed us, from Abū ʿUbayd, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, who said:
«مَنْ رَأَى أَنَّ مَنْ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ لَيْسَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ إِلَّا مَنْ كَانَ قَائِمًا يُصَلِّي، فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَفْقَهْ»
«man raʾā ʾanna man fī al-masjidi laysa fī al-ṣalāti ʾillā man kāna qāʾiman yuṣallī, faʾinnahu lam yafqah»
‘Whoever thinks that only the person standing in prayer is at prayer among those in the mosque has not understood.’
٤١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
412 - 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 قَالَ: قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى:
ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan khālidi bni maʿdāna qāla: qāla Allāhu taʿālā:
Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, who said: God Most High said:
«إِنَّ أَحَبَّ عِبَادِي إِلَيَّ الْمُتَحَابُّونَ بِحُبِّي،
«ʾinna ʾaḥabba ʿibādī ʾilayya al-mutaḥābbūna biḥubbī,
‘The servants dearest to Me are those who love one another for My sake,
وَالْمُعَلَّقَةُ قُلُوبُهُمْ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ، وَالْمُسْتَغْفِرُونَ بِالْأَسْحَارِ،
wa-l-muʿallaqatu qulūbuhum fī al-masājidi, wa-l-mustaghfirūna bi-l-ʾasḥāri,
those whose hearts are attached to the mosques, and those who seek forgiveness before dawn.
أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَرَدْتُ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ بِعُقُوبَتِهِمْ ذَكَرْتُهُمْ،
ʾūlāʾika al-ladhīna ʾidhā ʾaradtu ʾahla al-ʾarḍi biʿuqūbatihim dhakartuhum,
When I intend punishment for the people of the earth, I remember those servants
فَصَرَفْتُ الْعُقُوبَةَ عَنْهُمْ بِهِمْ»
faṣaraftu al-ʿuqūbata ʿanhum bihim»
and turn the punishment away from the others because of them.’
٤١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
413 - 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 مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi, ʿan muʿādhi bni jabalin qāla:
Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, who said:
“ إِنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ طَهُرَتْ مِنْ خَمْسٍ:
“ ʾinna al-masājida ṭahurat min khamsin:
‘Mosques have been kept free of five things:
مِنْ أَنْ تُقَامَ فِيهَا الْحُدُودُ،
min ʾan tuqāma fīhā al-ḥudūdu,
carrying out prescribed penalties in them,
وَأَنْ يُقْتَصَّ فِيهَا الْجِرَاحُ،
waʾan yuqtaṣṣa fīhā al-jirāḥu,
exacting retaliation for injuries in them,
وَأَنْ يَنْطِقَ فِيهَا بِالْأَشْعَارِ،
waʾan yanṭiqa fīhā bi-l-ʾashʿāri,
speaking verse in them,
أَوْ يُنْشَدَ فِيهَا الضَّالَةُ،
ʾaw yunshada fīhā al-ḍālatu,
calling out about lost property in them,
أَوْ تُتَّخَذَ سُوقًا ”
ʾaw tuttakhadha sūqan ”
and turning them into marketplaces.’
٤١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
414 - 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 اللَّهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَعْقَلٍ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-walīdi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni maʿqalin, ʿan mūsā bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni yazīda al-ʾanṣāriyyi qāla:
ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿqil informed us, from Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Anṣārī, who said:
«رُبَّمَا رَأَيْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ يَزِيدَ، وَيَزِيدَ بْنَ شُرَحْبِيلَ الْعَامِرِيَّ
«rubbamā raʾaytu ʿabda Allāhi bna yazīda, wayazīda bna shuraḥbīla al-ʿāmiriyya
‘I would sometimes see ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd and Yazīd ibn Shuraḥbīl al-ʿĀmirī;
وَكَانَ عِدَادُهُ فِي الْأَنْصَارِ
wakāna ʿidāduhu fī al-ʾanṣāri
the latter was counted among the Anṣār.
يَجْلِسُ أَحَدُهُمَا إِلَى جَنْبِ صَاحِبِهِ بَعْدَ الْعَصْرِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ،
yajlisu ʾaḥaduhumā ʾilā janbi ṣāḥibihi baʿda al-ʿaṣri fī al-masjidi,
They would sit beside each other in the mosque after the afternoon prayer,
ثَمَّ لَعَلَّهُمَا لَا يَتَكَلَّمَانِ - أَوْ لَا يُكَلِّمُ أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ - حَتَّى تَغْرُبَ الشَّمْسُ»
thamma laʿallahumā lā yatakallamāni - ʾaw lā yukallimu ʾaḥaduhumā ṣāḥibahu - ḥattā taghruba al-shamsu»
and sometimes neither would speak—or neither would speak to the other—until sunset.’
٤١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
415 - 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 عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَيْرِيزٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan ʿabdi rabbihi bni sulaymāna, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni muḥayrīzin qāla:
Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from ʿAbd Rabbihi ibn Sulaymān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥayrīz, who said:
“ كُلُّ كَلَامٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ لَغْوٌ إِلَّا كَلَامَ ثَلَاثَةٍ:
“ kullu kalāmin fī al-masjidi laghwun ʾillā kalāma thalāthatin:
‘Every word spoken in the mosque is idle except the speech of three kinds of people:
إِلَّا الْمُصَلِّي،
ʾillā al-muṣallī,
one who is praying,
أَوْ ذَاكِرٌ لِلَّهِ،
ʾaw dhākirun li-llāhi,
one who remembers God,
أَوْ سَائِلُ حَقٍّ، أَوْ مُعْطِيهِ ”
ʾaw sāʾilu ḥaqqin, ʾaw muʿṭīhi ”
and one who asks for what is due or gives it.’
٤١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
416 - 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:
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي خَالِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ الْمُؤَذِّنُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيِّبِ يَقُولُ:
ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu muslimin qāla: ʾakhbaranī khālī ʿabdu Allāhi al-muʾadhdhinu qāla: samiʿtu saʿīda bna al-musayyibi yaqūlu:
Muḥammad ibn Muslim related to us and said: My maternal uncle ʿAbd Allāh the muezzin informed me and said: I heard Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib say:
“ مَنْ جَلَسَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ،
“ man jalasa fī al-masjidi,
‘Whoever sits in the mosque—
وَقَالَ اِبْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ: «مَنْ جَلَسَ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ»،
waqāla ibnu ḥayawayhi: «man jalasa fī al-majlisi»,
Ibn Ḥayawayh’s version says: “Whoever sits in the gathering”—
فَإِنَّمَا يُجَالِسُ رَبَّهُ ”،
faʾinnamā yujālisu rabbahu ”,
is sitting in the company of his Lord.’
قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ: «فَمَا أَحَقَّهُ أَنْ لَا يَقُولَ إِلَّا خَيْرًا»
qāla muḥammadu bnu muslimin: «famā ʾaḥaqqahu ʾan lā yaqūla ʾillā khayran»
Muḥammad ibn Muslim said, ‘How fitting, then, that he should say nothing but good!’
٤١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
417 - 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 صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقَ لَمَّا جَهَّزَ الْجُيُوشَ إِلَى الشَّامِ قَالَ لَهُمْ:
ʾakhbaranā ṣafwānu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni jubayri bni nufayrin, ʾanna ʾabā bakrin al-ṣiddīqa lammā jahhaza al-juyūsha ʾilā al-shāmi qāla lahum:
Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr informed us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, who said that when Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq equipped the armies for Syria, he told them:
«إِنَّكُمْ تَقْدُمُونَ الشَّامَ، وَهِيَ أَرْضٌ شَبِيعَةٌ،
«ʾinnakum taqdumūna al-shāma, wahiya ʾarḍun shabīʿatun,
‘You are going to Syria, a land of abundance.
وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى مُمَكِّنُكُمْ حَتَّى تَتَّخِذُوا فِيهَا مَسَاجِدَ،
waʾinna Allāha taʿālā mumakkinukum ḥattā tattakhidhū fīhā masājida,
God Most High will give you a foothold there, and you will establish mosques in it.
فَلَا يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ أَنَّكُمْ إِنَّمَا تَأْتُونَهَا تَلَهِّيًا،
falā yaʿlamu Allāhu ʾannakum ʾinnamā taʾtūnahā talahhiyan,
Do not let God find that you go to them merely for amusement,
وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْأَشَرَ»
waʾiyyākum wa-l-ʾashara»
and guard against insolent excess.’
٤١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
418 - 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 إِدْرِيسُ بْنُ أَبِي إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾidrīsu bnu ʾabī ʾidrīsa al-khawlāniyyu, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir informed us and said: Idrīs ibn Abī Idrīs al-Khawlānī related to me, from his father, who said:
«لَيَعْقُبَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ إِلَى الْمَسَاجِدِ فِي الظُّلَمِ نُورًا تَامًّا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»
«layaʿqubanna Allāhu al-ladhīna yamshūna ʾilā al-masājidi fī al-ẓulami nūran tāmman yawma al-qiyāmati»
‘On the Day of Resurrection, God will surely reward those who walk to the mosques in the darkness with a complete light.’
٤١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
419 - 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 مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ
ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan saʿdi bni ʿubaydata, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-sulamiyyi
Shuʿba informed us, from Manṣūr, from Saʿd ibn ʿUbayda, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī:
«أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَأْمُرُهُمْ أَنْ يَحْمِلُوهُ فِي الطِّينِ وَالْمَطَرِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ، وَهُوَ مَرِيضٌ»
«ʾannahu kāna yaʾmuruhum ʾan yaḥmilūhu fī al-ṭīni wa-l-maṭari ʾilā al-masjidi, wahuwa marīḍun»
‘Though ill, he would instruct people to carry him to the mosque through mud and rain.’
٤٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
420 - 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 عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi qāla:
Ḥammād ibn Salama informed us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who said:
دَخَلْنَا عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ وَهُوَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، وَهُوَ يَقْضِي - أَيْ يَنْزِعُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ -
dakhalnā ʿalā ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-sulamiyyi wahuwa ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ḥabībin, wahuwa yaqḍī - ʾay yanziʿu fī al-masjidi -
We visited Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī—ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb—as he was dying, that is, breathing his last in the mosque.
فَقُلْنَا لَهُ: لَوْ تَحَوَّلْتَ إِلَى الْفِرَاشِ فَإِنَّهُ أَوْثَرُ
faqulnā lahu: law taḥawwalta ʾilā al-firāshi faʾinnahu ʾawtharu
We said to him, ‘If you moved to a bed, it would be more comfortable.’
- قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ: أَوْثَرُ أَوْطَأُ
- qāla al-ḥusaynu: ʾawtharu ʾawṭaʾu
Al-Ḥusayn explained the word “more comfortable” as “softer.”
- قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي فُلَانٌ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
- qāla: ḥaddathanī fulānun, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
He replied, ‘Someone told me that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
«لَا يَزَالُ أَحَدُكُمْ فِي صَلَاةٍ مَا دَامَ فِي مُصَلَّاهُ يَنْتَظِرُ الصَّلَاةَ»،
«lā yazālu ʾaḥadukum fī ṣalātin mā dāma fī muṣallāhu yantaẓiru al-ṣalāta»,
“A person remains in prayer as long as he stays at his place of prayer waiting for the next prayer.”’
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَكَذَلِكَ رَوَاهُ اِبْنُ فُضَيْلٍ.
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: wakadhālika rawāhu ibnu fuḍaylin.
Ibn Ṣāʿid said: Ibn Fuḍayl transmitted it in the same way.
٤٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
421 - 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:
حَدَّثَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ،
ḥaddathanā ʿaṭāʾu bnu al-sāʾibi, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni,
ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib related to us, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān,
عَمَّنْ سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ نَحْوَهُ،
ʿamman samiʿa al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu naḥwahu,
from a man who heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say something similar.
وَسَمَّى إِسْرَائِيلُ الرَّجُلَ، فَقَالَ: عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ.
wasammā ʾisrāʾīlu al-rajula, faqāla: ʿan ʿaliyyi bni ʾabī ṭālibin.
Isrāʾīl named that man, saying: from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
٤٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ:
422 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq reported to you. They said: Yaḥyā informed us and said:
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هَاشِمَ الرِّفَاعِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنِ آدَمَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ،
ḥaddathanā ʾabū hāshima al-rifāʿiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā bni ʾādama qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾisrāʾīlu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-sulamiyyi, ʿan ʿaliyyin,
Abū Hāshim al-Rifāʿī related to us and said: Yaḥyā ibn Ādam related to us and said: Isrāʾīl related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, from ʿAlī,
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِنَحْوِهِ،
ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama binaḥwihi,
from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with a similar report.
وَكَذَلِكَ رَوَاهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ،
wakadhālika rawāhu muḥammadu bnu thābitin, ʿan ʾisrāʾīla,
Muḥammad ibn Thābit likewise transmitted it from Isrāʾīl
وَقَالَ: عَنْ عَلِيٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، نَحْوَهُ.
waqāla: ʿan ʿaliyyin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, naḥwahu.
and said: from ʿAlī, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with similar wording.
٤٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ وَحْدَهُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ اِبْنَ صَاعِدٍ يَقُولُ:
423 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi waḥdahu qāla: samiʿtu ibna ṣāʿidin yaqūlu:
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh alone reported to you and said: I heard Ibn Ṣāʿid say:
“ سَمِعْتُ اِبْنَ الْمَنَاذِرِ، يَقُولُ: التَّثْقِيلُ وَالتَّخْفِيفُ فِي كَلَامِ الْعَرَبِ وَاحِدٌ
“ samiʿtu ibna al-manādhiri, yaqūlu: al-tathqīlu wa-l-takhfīfu fī kalāmi al-ʿarabi wāḥidun
‘I heard Ibn al-Manādhir say that the heavier and lighter forms have the same sense in Arabic.
يَعْنِي يَقْضِي وَيُقْضَى ”
yaʿnī yaqḍī wayuqḍā ”
He meant yaqḍī and yuqḍā, the two forms of the verb used for dying.’
٤٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
424 - 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 مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍ، عَنِ النَّخَعِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan ʾabī maʿsharin, ʿani al-nakhaʿiyyi qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Manṣūr, from Abū Maʿshar, from al-Nakhaʿī, who said:
«كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ، أَوْ يَرَوْنَ
«kānū yaqūlūna, ʾaw yarawna
‘They used to say—or hold the view—
أَنَّ الْمَشْيَ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الْمُظْلِمَةِ مُوجِبَةٌ»
ʾanna al-mashya fī al-laylati al-muẓlimati mūjibatun»
that walking on a dark night is a deed that makes a reward due.’
٤٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
425 - 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 أَبِي السَّوْدَاءِ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي مِجْلَزٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʾabī al-sawdāʾi al-nahdiyyi, ʿan ʾabī mijlazin qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Abū al-Sawdāʾ al-Nahdī, from Abū Mijlaz, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:
«مَا أُبَالِي عَلَى أَيِّ حَالٍ أَصْبَحْتُ،
«mā ʾubālī ʿalā ʾayyi ḥālin ʾaṣbaḥtu,
‘I do not mind what circumstances greet me in the morning:
عَلَى مَا أُحِبُّ أَوْ عَلَى مَا أَكْرَهُ،
ʿalā mā ʾuḥibbu ʾaw ʿalā mā ʾakrahu,
whether they bring what I like or what I dislike,
لِأَنِّي لَا أَدْرِي الْخَيْرَ فِيمَا أُحِبُّ أَوْ فِيمَا أَكْرَهُ»
liʾannī lā ʾadrī al-khayra fīmā ʾuḥibbu ʾaw fīmā ʾakrahu»
for I do not know whether the good lies in what I like or in what I dislike.’
٤٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ:
426 - 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:
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ مِثْلَهُ
ḥaddathanā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata bihādhā al-ʾisnādi mithlahu
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna related the same report with this chain.
٤٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
427 - 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 قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ صَالِحَ بْنَ مِسْمَارٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun qāla: samiʿtu ṣāliḥa bna mismārin qāla:
Maʿmar informed us and said: I heard Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār say:
«مَا أَدْرِي أَنِعْمَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيَّ فِيمَا بَسَطَ أَعْظَمُ،
«mā ʾadrī ʾaniʿmatu Allāhi ʿalayya fīmā basaṭa ʾaʿẓamu,
‘I do not know whether God’s blessing to me in what He has bestowed freely is greater,
أَوْ نِعْمَتُهُ عَلَيَّ فِيمَا زَوَى عَنِّي؟»
ʾaw niʿmatuhu ʿalayya fīmā zawā ʿannī?»
or His blessing to me in what He has withheld from me.’
بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي التَّوَكُّلِ
bābu mā jāʾa fī al-tawakkuli
Chapter on what is related concerning trust in God.
٤٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
428 - 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 سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، أَنَّ سَلْمَانَ، وَعَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ سَلَامٍ اِلْتَقَيَا،
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin, ʿan saʿīdi bni al-musayyibi, ʾanna salmāna, waʿabda Allāhi bna salāmin iltaqayā,
Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd informed us, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who reported that Salmān and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām met.
فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ:
faqāla ʾaḥaduhumā liṣāḥibihi:
One said to the other:
إِنْ لَقِيتَ رَبَّكَ قَبْلِي فَالْقَنِي وَأَعْلِمْنِي مَا لَقِيتَ،
ʾin laqīta rabbaka qablī falqanī waʾaʿlimnī mā laqīta,
‘If you meet your Lord before I do, come to me and tell me what you have encountered.
وَإِنْ لَقِيتُهُ قَبْلَكَ لَقِيتُكَ فَأَخْبَرْتُكَ،
waʾin laqītuhu qablaka laqītuka faʾakhbartuka,
And if I meet Him before you, I will come and tell you.’
فَتُوُفِّيَ أَحَدُهُمَا، وَلَقِيَ صَاحِبَهُ فِي الْمَنَامِ،
fatuwuffiya ʾaḥaduhumā, walaqiya ṣāḥibahu fī al-manāmi,
One of them died, and appeared to his companion in a dream.
فَقَالَ لَهُ:
faqāla lahu:
He said to him:
«تَوَكَّلْ وَأَبْشِرْ، فَإِنِّي لَمْ أَرَ مِثْلَ التَّوَكُّلِ»،
«tawakkal waʾabshir, faʾinnī lam ʾara mithla al-tawakkuli»,
‘Trust in God and take heart, for I have seen nothing like trust in Him.’
قَالَ ذَلِكَ ثَلَاثَ مِرَارٍ
qāla dhālika thalātha mirārin
He said this three times.
٤٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ:
429 - 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 سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ جُدْعَانَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan yaḥyā bni saʿīdin, waʿaliyyi bni zaydi bni judʿāna, ʿan saʿīdi bni al-musayyibi qāla:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd and ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said:
اِلْتَقَيَا سَلْمَانُ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ،
iltaqayā salmānu waʿabdu Allāhi bnu salāmin,
Salmān and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām met.
فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ: إِنْ مِتَّ قَبْلِي فَالْقَنِي وَأَخْبِرْنِي مَا صَنَعَ بِكَ رَبُّكَ،
faqāla ʾaḥaduhumā liṣāḥibihi: ʾin mitta qablī falqanī waʾakhbirnī mā ṣanaʿa bika rabbuka,
One said to the other: ‘If you die before me, come to me and tell me what your Lord has done with you.
وَإِنْ أَنَا مِتُّ قَبْلَكَ لَقِيتُكَ فَأَخْبَرْتُكَ،
waʾin ʾanā mittu qablaka laqītuka faʾakhbartuka,
If I die before you, I will come and tell you.’
فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، كَيْفَ هَذَا؟ أَوَ يَكُونُ هَذَا؟
faqāla ʿabdu Allāhi: yā ʾabā ʿabdi Allāhi, kayfa hādhā? ʾawa yakūnu hādhā?
ʿAbd Allāh said, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, how could this happen? Can it happen?’
قَالَ: «نَعَمْ، إِنَّ أَرْوَاحَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي بَرْزَخٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ تَذْهَبُ حَيْثُ شَاءَتْ،
qāla: «naʿam, ʾinna ʾarwāḥa al-muʾminīna fī barzakhin mina al-ʾarḍi tadhhabu ḥaythu shāʾat,
He said, ‘Yes. The spirits of believers are in an intervening place on earth and go wherever they wish,
وَنَفْسَ الْكَافِرِ فِي سِجِّينٍ»،
wanafsa al-kāfiri fī sijjīnin»,
while the soul of the unbeliever is in Sijjīn.’
قَالَ: فَخَرَجَ سَلْمَانُ إِلَى الْعِرَاقِ
qāla: fakharaja salmānu ʾilā al-ʿirāqi
Salmān then went to Iraq.
قَالَ حُسَيْنٌ: «تَخَرَّقَ عَلَيَّ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ بَاقِيَةٌ»،
qāla ḥusaynun: «takharraqa ʿalayya mina al-kitābi bāqiyatun»,
Al-Ḥusayn said, ‘The remaining part of the book was torn away from me.’
قَالَ حُسَيْنٌ: فَحَدَّثَنِيهِ سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ الْعَوَّامِ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ جُدْعَانَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ،
qāla ḥusaynun: faḥaddathanīhi saʿīdu bnu sulaymāna, ʿan ʿabbādi bni al-ʿawwāmi, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni zaydi bni judʿāna, ʿan saʿīdi bni al-musayyibi,
Al-Ḥusayn said: Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān related it to me, from ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib,
بِمِثْلِ مَا حَدَّثَنَاهُ سُفْيَانُ - قَالَ:
bimithli mā ḥaddathanāhu sufyānu - qāla:
in wording like what Sufyān related to us. He said:
مَاتَ سَلْمَانُ وَلَقِيَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ فِي الْمَنَامِ, وَهُوَ قَائِلٌ
māta salmānu walaqiya ʿabda Allāhi fī al-manāmi, wahuwa qāʾilun
Salmān died and appeared to ʿAbd Allāh in a dream while ʿAbd Allāh was resting at midday.
فَقَالَ: «إِنِّي لَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا خَيْرًا مِنَ التَّوَكُّلِ»
faqāla: «ʾinnī lam ʾara shayʾan khayran mina al-tawakkuli»
He said, ‘I have seen nothing better than trust in God.’
٤٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
430 - 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 أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْخَطْمِيِّ، أُرَاهُ رَفَعَهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʾabī jaʿfarin al-ʾanṣāriyyi, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni yazīda al-khaṭmiyyi, ʾurāhu rafaʿahu ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
Ḥammād ibn Salama informed us, from Abū Jaʿfar al-Anṣārī, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Khaṭmī. I think he traced the report back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ:
ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kāna yaqūlu:
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to say:
«اللَّهُمَّ اُرْزُقْنِي حُبَّكَ وَحُبَّ مَا يَنْفَعُنِي حُبُّهُ عِنْدَكَ،
«Allāhumma urzuqnī ḥubbaka waḥubba mā yanfaʿunī ḥubbuhu ʿindaka,
‘O God, grant me love of You and love of whatever is helpful to me through my love for it in Your sight.
اللَّهُمَّ مَا رَزَقْتَنِي مِمَّا أُحِبُّ،
Allāhumma mā razaqtanī mimmā ʾuḥibbu,
O God, whatever You have given me of what I love,
فَاجْعَلْهُ لِي قُوَّةً فِيمَا تُحِبُّ،
fajʿalhu lī quwwatan fīmā tuḥibbu,
make it a source of strength for me in what You love.
وَمَا زَوَيْتَ عَنِّي مَا أُحِبُّ، فَاجْعَلْهُ لِي فَرَاغًا فِيمَا تُحِبُّ»
wamā zawayta ʿannī mā ʾuḥibbu, fajʿalhu lī farāghan fīmā tuḥibbu»
And whatever I love that You have withheld from me, make its absence free time for what You love.’
٤٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
431 - 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 خَالِدِ بْنِ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ، أَنَّ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan khālidi bni ʾabī ʿimrāna, ʾanna ibna ʿumara qāla:
Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from Khālid ibn Abī ʿImrān, who reported that Ibn ʿUmar said:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا يَكَادُ يَقُومُ مِنْ مَجْلِسِهِ إِلَّا دَعَا بِهَؤُلَاءِ الدَّعَوَاتِ:
kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama lā yakādu yaqūmu min majlisihi ʾillā daʿā bihāʾulāʾi al-daʿawāti:
The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, rarely rose from a gathering without offering these prayers:
«اللَّهُمَّ اِقْسِمْ لَنَا مِنْ خَشْيَتِكَ مَا يَحُولُ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ مَعَاصِيكَ،
«Allāhumma iqsim lanā min khashyatika mā yaḥūlu baynanā wabayna maʿāṣīka,
‘O God, grant us enough reverent fear of You to keep us from disobeying You;
وَمِنْ طَاعَتِكَ مَا تُبَلِّغُنَا بِهِ رَحْمَتَكَ،
wamin ṭāʿatika mā tuballighunā bihi raḥmataka,
enough obedience to You to bring us to Your mercy;
وَمِنَ الْيَقِينِ مَا تُهَوِّنُ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا مُصِيبَاتِ الدُّنْيَا،
wamina al-yaqīni mā tuhawwinu bihi ʿalaynā muṣībāti al-dunyā,
and enough certainty to make this world’s hardships easier for us to bear.
وَمَتِّعْنَا بِأَسْمَاعِنَا وَأَبْصَارِنَا وَقُوَّتِنَا مَا أَحْيَيْتَنَا،
wamattiʿnā biʾasmāʿinā waʾabṣārinā waquwwatinā mā ʾaḥyaytanā,
Let us enjoy our hearing, sight, and strength for as long as You keep us alive,
وَاجْعَلْهُ الْوَارِثَ مِنَّا،
wajʿalhu al-wāritha minnā,
and let them be the last of us to go.
وَاجْعَلْ ثَأْرَنَا عَلَى مَنْ ظَلَمَنَا،
wajʿal thaʾranā ʿalā man ẓalamanā,
Let us obtain redress from those who have wronged us,
وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى مَنْ عَادَانَا،
wanṣurnā ʿalā man ʿādānā,
and help us against those who bear us enmity.
وَلَا تَجْعَلْ مُصِيبَتَنَا فِي دِينِنَا،
walā tajʿal muṣībatanā fī dīninā,
Do not let our suffering touch our faith.
وَلَا تَجْعَلِ الدُّنْيَا أَكْبَرَ هَمِّنَا وَلَا مَبْلَغَ عِلْمِنَا،
walā tajʿali al-dunyā ʾakbara hamminā walā mablagha ʿilminā,
Do not make this world our greatest concern or the limit of our knowledge,
وَلَا تُسَلِّطْ عَلَيْنَا مَنْ لَا يَرْحَمُنَا»
walā tusalliṭ ʿalaynā man lā yarḥamunā»
and do not set over us anyone who will show us no mercy.’
٤٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
432 - 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 كَثِيرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ الْجَنَدِيِّ، عَنْ مَنْ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan kathīri bni suwaydin al-janadiyyi, ʿan man samiʿa ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu:
Maʿmar informed us, from Kathīr ibn Suwayd al-Janadī, from someone who heard Abū Hurayra say:
«لَا يَخْرُجُ عَبْدٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا حَتَّى يَرَى مَحْذَرَهُ»
«lā yakhruju ʿabdun mina al-dunyā ḥattā yarā maḥdharahu»
‘No servant leaves this world without first seeing what he has cause to fear.’
رَوَاهُ كَثِيرُ بْنُ سُوَيْدٍ الْجَنَدِيُّ، ذَكَرَهُ اِبْنُ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ
rawāhu kathīru bnu suwaydin al-janadiyyu, dhakarahu ibnu ʾabī ḥātimin
Kathīr ibn Suwayd al-Janadī transmitted it; Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him.
٤٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
433 - 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 حَيَّانَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ḥayyāna, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani al-rabīʿi bni khuthaymin qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Abū Ḥayyān, from his father, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym, who said:
«لَا تُشْعِرُوا بِي أَحَدًا
«lā tushʿirū bī ʾaḥadan
‘Do not alert anyone about me;
وَسُلُّونِي إِلَى رَبِّي سَلًّا»
wasullūnī ʾilā rabbī sallan»
carry me swiftly to my Lord.’
٤٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
434 - 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، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi qāla:
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from al-Shaʿbī, who said:
لَمَّا طُعِنَ عُمَرُ، بُعِثَ إِلَيْهِ لَبَنٌ فَشَرِبَهُ فَخَرَجَ مِنْ طَعْنَتِهِ،
lammā ṭuʿina ʿumaru, buʿitha ʾilayhi labanun fasharibahu fakharaja min ṭaʿnatihi,
When ʿUmar was stabbed, milk was brought to him. He drank it, and it came out through his wound.
وَقَالَ: «اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ، اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ»،
waqāla: «Allāhu ʾakbaru, Allāhu ʾakbaru»,
He said, ‘God is greater, God is greater.’
فَجَعَلَ جُلَسَاؤُهُ يُثْنُونَ عَلَيْهِ،
fajaʿala julasāʾuhu yuthnūna ʿalayhi,
Those sitting with him began to praise him.
فَقَالَ: «وَدِدْتُ أَنْ أَخْرُجَ مِنْهَا كَفَافًا كَمَا دَخَلْتُ فِيهَا،
faqāla: «wadidtu ʾan ʾakhruja minhā kafāfan kamā dakhaltu fīhā,
He said, ‘I wish I could leave this world with my account even, just as I entered it.
لَوْ كَانَ لِيَ الْيَوْمَ مَا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ أَوْ غَرُبَتْ، لَافْتَدَيْتُ بِهِ مِنْ هَوْلِ الْمَطْلَعِ» .
law kāna liya al-yawma mā ṭalaʿat ʿalayhi al-shamsu ʾaw gharubat, laftadaytu bihi min hawli al-maṭlaʿi» .
If I possessed everything the sun rises and sets upon today, I would give it all as a ransom against the terror of what lies ahead.’
٤٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
435 - 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 مَوْهَبٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي مَنْ سَمِعَ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu mawhabin qāla: ʾakhbaranī man samiʿa ibna ʿumara yaqūlu:
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mawhab informed us and said: Someone who heard Ibn ʿUmar related to me that he said:
لَمَّا حُضِرَ عُمَرُ غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَخَذْتُ رَأْسَهُ فَوَضَعْتُهُ فِي حِجْرِي،
lammā ḥuḍira ʿumaru ghushiya ʿalayhi, faʾakhadhtu raʾsahu fawaḍaʿtuhu fī ḥijrī,
When ʿUmar was near death, he fainted. I lifted his head and placed it in my lap.
فَأَفَاقَ فَقَالَ: «ضَعْ رَأْسِي فِي الْأَرْضِ»،
faʾafāqa faqāla: «ḍaʿ raʾsī fī al-ʾarḍi»,
He regained consciousness and said, ‘Put my head on the ground.’
ثُمَّ غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَفَاقَ وَرَأْسُهُ فِي حِجْرِي، فَأَفَاقَ، فَقَالَ:
thumma ghushiya ʿalayhi, faʾafāqa waraʾsuhu fī ḥijrī, faʾafāqa, faqāla:
He then fainted again. He came to with his head in my lap; he regained consciousness and said:
«ضَعْ رَأْسِي فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا آمُرُكَ»،
«ḍaʿ raʾsī fī al-ʾarḍi kamā ʾāmuruka»,
‘Put my head on the ground, as I am telling you.’
فَقُلْتُ: وَهَلْ حِجْرِي وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا سَوَاءٌ يَا أَبَتَاهُ؟
faqultu: wahal ḥijrī wa-l-ʾarḍu ʾillā sawāʾun yā ʾabatāhu?
I asked, ‘Father, what difference is there between my lap and the ground?’
فَقَالَ: «ضَعْ رَأْسِي بِالْأَرْضِ لَا أُمَّ لَكَ كَمَا آمُرُكَ،
faqāla: «ḍaʿ raʾsī bi-l-ʾarḍi lā ʾumma laka kamā ʾāmuruka,
He said, ‘Put my head on the ground, for heaven’s sake, as I am telling you.
فَإِذَا قُبِضْتُ فَأَسْرِعُوا بِي إِلَى حُفْرَتِي،
faʾidhā qubiḍtu faʾasriʿū bī ʾilā ḥufratī,
When I die, take me quickly to my grave.
فَإِنَّهَا هُوَ خَيْرٌ تُقَدِّمُونِي إِلَيْهِ، أَوْ شَرٌّ تَضَعُونَهُ عَنْ رِقَابِكُمْ»
faʾinnahā huwa khayrun tuqaddimūnī ʾilayhi, ʾaw sharrun taḍaʿūnahu ʿan riqābikum»
Either you will be bringing me to something good, or you will be taking a burden of evil off your shoulders.’
٤٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
436 - 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: قَالَ: يَعْنِي عُمَرَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾusāmatu bnu zaydin qāla: qāla: yaʿnī ʿumara:
Usāma ibn Zayd informed us. He said—meaning that ʿUmar said:
«اِطْرَحْ وَجْهِي يَا بُنَيَّ بِالْأَرْضِ, لَعَلَّ اللَّهَ يَرْحَمُنِي»،
«iṭraḥ wajhī yā bunayya bi-l-ʾarḍi, laʿalla Allāha yarḥamunī»,
‘My son, place my face on the ground; perhaps God will have mercy on me.’
قَالَ: فَمَسَحَ خَدَّيْهِ بِالتُّرَابِ، ثُمَّ غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ غَشْيَةً شَدِيدَةً،
qāla: famasaḥa khaddayhi bi-l-turābi, thumma ghushiya ʿalayhi ghashyatan shadīdatan,
Then he rubbed his cheeks in the dust and fainted deeply.
قَالَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ: فَرَفَعْتُ رَأْسَهُ, وَوَضَعْتُهُ فِي حِجْرِي، فَأَفَاقَ، فَقَالَ:
qāla ibnu ʿumara: farafaʿtu raʾsahu, wawaḍaʿtuhu fī ḥijrī, faʾafāqa, faqāla:
Ibn ʿUmar said: I lifted his head and placed it in my lap. He came to and said:
«اِطْرَحْ وَجْهِي عَلَى التُّرَابِ لَعَلَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَنْ يَرْحَمَنِي»،
«iṭraḥ wajhī ʿalā al-turābi laʿalla Allāha taʿālā ʾan yarḥamanī»,
‘Lay my face on the dust; perhaps God Most High will have mercy on me.’
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «وَيْلٌ لِعُمَرَ وَوَيْلٌ لِأُمِّهِ إِنْ لَمْ يُغْفَرْ لَهُ»
thumma qāla: «waylun liʿumara wawaylun liʾummihi ʾin lam yughfar lahu»
Then he said, ‘Woe to ʿUmar and to his mother if he is not forgiven!’
٤٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
437 - 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 مَعْمَرٍ، أَنَّ النَّخَعِيَّ، بَكَى عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ
ʿan maʿmarin, ʾanna al-nakhaʿiyya, bakā ʿinda mawtihi
from Maʿmar, who reported that al-Nakhaʿī wept as he was dying.
فَقِيلَ لَهُ: مَا يُبْكِيكَ؟
faqīla lahu: mā yubkīka?
Someone asked him, ‘What makes you weep?’
قَالَ: «أَنْتَظِرُ مِنَ اللَّهِ رَسُولًا يُبَشِّرُنِي بِالْجَنَّةِ أَوْ النَّارِ»
qāla: «ʾantaẓiru mina Allāhi rasūlan yubashshirunī bi-l-jannati ʾaw al-nāri»
He said, ‘I am waiting for a messenger from God to bring me news of the Garden or the Fire.’
٤٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
438 - 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، عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَطِيَّةَ الْمَذْبُوحِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu, ʿan ḥammādi bni saʿīdi bni ʾabī ʿaṭiyyata al-madhbūḥi qāla:
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī informed us, from Ḥammād ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿAṭiyya al-Madhbūḥ, who said:
لَمَّا حَضَرَ أَبَا عَطِيَّةَ الْمَوْتُ جَزِعَ مِنْهُ،
lammā ḥaḍara ʾabā ʿaṭiyyata al-mawtu jaziʿa minhu,
When death drew near to Abū ʿAṭiyya, he was distressed by it.
فَقِيلَ لَهُ: أَتَجْزَعُ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ؟
faqīla lahu: ʾatajzaʿu mina al-mawti?
Someone asked, ‘Are you distressed by death?’
فَقَالَ: «وَمَا لِي لَا أَجْزَعُ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ
faqāla: «wamā lī lā ʾajzaʿu mina al-mawti
He said, ‘Why should death not trouble me?
فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ سَاعَةٌ، ثُمَّ لَا أَدْرِي أَيْنَ يُسْلَكُ بِي»
faʾinnamā hiya sāʿatun, thumma lā ʾadrī ʾayna yuslaku bī»
It is only a single hour, and afterward I do not know where I will be led.’
٤٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
439 - 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 الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ شَيْبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي نَوْفَلِ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَقْرَبِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-ʾaswadu bnu shaybāna, ʿan ʾabī nawfali bni ʾabī al-ʿaqrabi qāla:
Al-Aswad ibn Shaybān informed us, from Abū Nawfal ibn Abī al-ʿAqrab, who said:
لَمَّا حَضَرَتْ عَمْرَو بْنَ الْعَاصِ الْوَفَاةُ، وَضَعَ يَدَهُ مَوْضِعَ الْغُلِّ مِنْ ذَقَنِهِ،
lammā ḥaḍarat ʿamra bna al-ʿāṣi al-wafātu, waḍaʿa yadahu mawḍiʿa al-ghulli min dhaqanihi,
When ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ was dying, he put his hand at the place beneath his chin where a collar would fasten.
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ أَمَرْتَنَا فَتَرَكْنَا،
thumma qāla: «Allāhumma ʾamartanā fataraknā,
Then he said, ‘O God, You commanded us and we neglected Your commands;
وَنَهَيْتَنَا فَرَكِبْنَا،
wanahaytanā farakibnā,
You forbade us and we transgressed;
وَلَا يَسَعُنَا إِلَّا مَغْفِرَتُكَ»
walā yasaʿunā ʾillā maghfiratuka»
nothing can save us but Your forgiveness.’
وَكَانَتْ تِلْكَ هِجِّيرَاهُ حَتَّى مَاتَ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ
wakānat tilka hijjīrāhu ḥattā māta raḥimahu Allāhu
He kept repeating those words until he died—may God have mercy on him.
٤٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
440 - 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: حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ شِمَاسَةَ، حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī yazīdu bnu ʾabī ḥabībin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni shimāsata, ḥaddathahu qāla:
Ibn Lahīʿa informed us and said: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb related to me, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shimāsa, who told him the following:
لَمَّا حَضَرَتْ عَمْرَو بْنَ الْعَاصِ الْوَفَاةُ بَكَى،
lammā ḥaḍarat ʿamra bna al-ʿāṣi al-wafātu bakā,
When ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ was near death, he wept.
فَقَالَ لَهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: لِمَ تَبْكِي؟ أَجَزَعٌ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ؟
faqāla lahu ʿabdu Allāhi: lima tabkī? ʾajazaʿun mina al-mawti?
ʿAbd Allāh asked him, ‘Why are you weeping? Are you afraid of death?’
قَالَ: «لَا، وَاللَّهِ، وَلَكِنْ مَا بَعْدُ»،
qāla: «lā, wa-llāhi, walākin mā baʿdu»,
He said, ‘No, by God; it is what comes afterward.’
فَقَالَ لَهُ: فَكُنْتَ عَلَى خَيْرٍ،
faqāla lahu: fakunta ʿalā khayrin,
ʿAbd Allāh said to him, ‘But you have lived well.’
فَجَعَلَ يُذَكِّرُهُ صُحْبَةَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَفُتُوحَهُ الشَّامَ،
fajaʿala yudhakkiruhu ṣuḥbata al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wafutūḥahu al-shāma,
He began reminding him of his companionship with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and his conquests in Syria.
فَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ:
faqāla ʿamru bnu al-ʿāṣi:
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ said:
“ تَرَكْتَ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ، شَهَادَةَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ،
“ tarakta ʾafḍala min dhālika kullihi, shahādata ʾan lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu,
‘You have passed over what is better than all of that: the testimony that there is no god but God.
إِنِّي كُنْتُ عَلَى ثَلَاثَةِ أَطْبَاقٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا طَبَقَةٌ لَا عَرَفْتُ نَفْسِي فِيهَا،
ʾinnī kuntu ʿalā thalāthati ʾaṭbāqin laysa fīhā ṭabaqatun lā ʿaraftu nafsī fīhā,
I have lived through three different states. There was no state in which I did not know myself.
كُنْتُ أَوَّلَ شَيْءٍ كَافِرًا،
kuntu ʾawwala shayʾin kāfiran,
At first I was an unbeliever,
وَكُنْتُ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ،
wakuntu ʾashadda al-nāsi ʿalā rasūli Allāhi,
and I was among those most hostile to the Messenger of God.
فَلَوْ مِتُّ حِينَئِذٍ لَوَجَبَتْ لِيَ النَّارُ،
falaw mittu ḥīnaʾidhin lawajabat liya al-nāru,
Had I died then, the Fire would have been my due.
فَلَمَّا بَايَعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كُنْتُ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ مِنْهُ حَيَاءً،
falammā bāyaʿtu rasūla Allāhi kuntu ʾashadda al-nāsi minhu ḥayāʾan,
When I pledged allegiance to the Messenger of God, I was more shy before him than anyone else.
مَا مَلَأْتُ عَيْنَيَّ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ حَيَاءً مِنْهُ،
mā malaʾtu ʿaynayya min rasūli Allāhi ḥayāʾan minhu,
I never looked at the Messenger of God long enough to fill my eyes, out of shyness before him.
فَلَوْ مِتُّ حِينَئِذٍ قَالَ النَّاسُ: هَنِيئًا لِعَمْرٍو، أَسْلَمَ وَكَانَ عَلَى خَيْرٍ، وَمَاتَ عَلَى خَيْرِ أَحْوَالِهِ فَرُجِيَ لِي الْجَنَّةُ،
falaw mittu ḥīnaʾidhin qāla al-nāsu: hanīʾan liʿamrin, ʾaslama wakāna ʿalā khayrin, wamāta ʿalā khayri ʾaḥwālihi farujiya lī al-jannatu,
Had I died then, people would have said: “Good fortune to ʿAmr! He embraced Islam, lived well, and died in his finest state.” There would have been hope of the Garden for me.
ثُمَّ تَلَبَّسْتُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ بِأَشْيَاءَ فَلَا أَدْرِي أَعَلَيَّ أَمْ لِي؟
thumma talabbastu baʿda dhālika biʾashyāʾa falā ʾadrī ʾaʿalayya ʾam lī?
Afterward I became involved in other matters, and I do not know whether they count for me or against me.
فَإِذَا أَنَا مِتُّ فَلَا تَبْكِيَنَّ عَلَيَّ، وَلَا تُتْبِعُونِي نَارًا،
faʾidhā ʾanā mittu falā tabkiyanna ʿalayya, walā tutbiʿūnī nāran,
When I die, do not wail over me, and do not carry a fire in my funeral procession.
وَشُدُّوا عَلَيَّ إِزَارِي، فَإِنِّي مُخَاصِمٌ،
washuddū ʿalayya ʾizārī, faʾinnī mukhāṣimun,
Fasten my waistcloth tightly around me, for I must face an accounting.
وَسُنُّوا عَلَيَّ التُّرَابَ سَنًّا،
wasunnū ʿalayya al-turāba sannan,
Let the earth fall over me in a steady stream;
فَإِنَّ جَنْبِيَ الْأَيْمَنَ لَيْسَ بِأَحَقَّ بِالتُّرَابِ مِنْ جَنْبِي الْأَيْسَرِ،
faʾinna janbiya al-ʾaymana laysa biʾaḥaqqa bi-l-turābi min janbī al-ʾaysari,
my right side has no greater claim to earth than my left side.
وَلَا تَجْعَلَنَّ فِي قَبْرِي خَشَبَةً، وَلَا حَجَرًا،
walā tajʿalanna fī qabrī khashabatan, walā ḥajaran,
Do not put wood or stone in my grave.
وَإِذَا وَارَيْتُمُونِي فَاقْعُدُوا عِنْدِي قَدْرَ نَحْرِ جَزُورٍ وَتَقْطِيعِهَا أَسْتَأْنِسُ بِكُمْ ”
waʾidhā wāraytumūnī faqʿudū ʿindī qadra naḥri jazūrin wataqṭīʿihā ʾastaʾnisu bikum ”
After you have buried me, sit beside me for as long as it takes to slaughter and cut up a camel, so that I may take comfort in your company.’
بَابُ بُشْرَى الْمُؤْمِنِ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ
bābu bushrā al-muʾmini ʿinda al-mawti waghayri dhālika
Chapter on good tidings for the believer at death and other matters.
٤٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ:
441 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿabbāsin:
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; Sufyān informed us and said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās said:
«إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الرَّجُلَ بِالْمَوْتِ،
«ʾidhā raʾaytumu al-rajula bi-l-mawti,
‘When you see someone nearing death,
فَبَشِّرُوهُ حَتَّى يَلْقَى رَبَّهُ وَهُوَ حَسَنُ الظَّنِّ بِهِ،
fabashshirūhu ḥattā yalqā rabbahu wahuwa ḥasanu al-ẓanni bihi,
give him good news so that he meets his Lord with a good opinion of Him.
وَإِذَا كَانَ حَيًّا فَخَوِّفُوهُ بِرَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
waʾidhā kāna ḥayyan fakhawwifūhu birabbihi ʿazza wajalla»
But while he is alive, remind him to fear his Lord, mighty and majestic.’
٤٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
442 - 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، عَنْ أَبِي صَخْرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin, ʿan ʾabī ṣakhrin, ʿan muḥammadi bni kaʿbin al-quraẓiyyi qāla:
Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us, from Abū Ṣakhr, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, who said:
“ إِذَا اِسْتَنْقَعَتْ نَفْسُ الْعَبْدِ
“ ʾidhā istanqaʿat nafsu al-ʿabdi
‘When the servant’s soul gathers at the moment of death,
جَاءَهُ الْمَلَكُ، وَقَالَ: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ وَلِيَّ اللَّهِ،
jāʾahu al-malaku, waqāla: al-salāmu ʿalayka waliyya Allāhi,
an angel comes to him and says, “Peace be upon you, friend of God.
اللَّهُ يَقْرَأُ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامَ،
Allāhu yaqraʾu ʿalayka al-salāma,
God sends you His greetings.”
ثُمَّ نَزَعَ بِهَذِهِ الْآيَةِ:
thumma nazaʿa bihādhihi al-ʾāyati:
Then he cited this verse:
{الَّذِينَ تَتَوَفَّاهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ طَيِّبِينَ يَقُولُونَ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمُ اُدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ} [النَّحْلِ: ٣٢] ”
{al-ladhīna tatawaffāhumu al-malāʾikatu ṭayyibīna yaqūlūna salāmun ʿalaykumu udkhulū al-jannata} [al-naḥli: 32] ”
“Those whom the angels take while they are pure: they say, ‘Peace be upon you. Enter the Garden’” (al-Naḥl 16:32).’
٤٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
443 - 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 أَبِي رُهْمٍ السَّمَاعِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan ʾabī ruhmin al-samāʿiyyi, ʿan ʾabī ʾayyūba al-ʾanṣāriyyi qāla:
Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from Abū Ruhm al-Samāʿī, from Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, who said:
“ إِذَا قُبِضَتْ نَفْسُ الْعَبْدِ تَلَقَّاهُ أَهْلُ الرَّحْمَةِ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ كَمَا يَلْقَوْنَ الْبَشِيرَ فِي الدُّنْيَا،
“ ʾidhā qubiḍat nafsu al-ʿabdi talaqqāhu ʾahlu al-raḥmati min ʿibādi Allāhi kamā yalqawna al-bashīra fī al-dunyā,
‘When a servant’s soul is taken, the people of mercy among God’s servants welcome him as people in this world welcome a bearer of good news.
فَيُقْبِلُونَ عَلَيْهِ لِيَسْأَلُوهُ،
fayuqbilūna ʿalayhi liyasʾalūhu,
They come toward him to ask him questions.
فَيَقُولُ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ: أَنْظِرُوا أَخَاكُمْ حَتَّى يَسْتَرِيحَ، فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ فِي كَرْبٍ،
fayaqūlu baʿḍuhum libaʿḍin: ʾanẓirū ʾakhākum ḥattā yastarīḥa, faʾinnahu kāna fī karbin,
Some say to the others, “Give your brother time to rest; he has been through distress.”
فَيُقْبِلُونَ عَلَيْهِ فَيَسْأَلُونَهُ مَا فَعَلَ فُلَانٌ؟
fayuqbilūna ʿalayhi fayasʾalūnahu mā faʿala fulānun?
Then they come back and ask him, “How is so-and-so?
مَا فَعَلَتْ فُلَانَةٌ؟
mā faʿalat fulānatun?
How is such-and-such a woman?
هَلْ تَزَوَّجَتْ؟
hal tazawwajat?
Has she married?”
فَإِذَا سَأَلُوا عَنِ الرَّجُلِ قَدْ مَاتَ قَبْلَهُ،
faʾidhā saʾalū ʿani al-rajuli qad māta qablahu,
If they ask about a man who died before he did,
قَالَ لَهُمْ: إِنَّهُ قَدْ هَلَكَ،
qāla lahum: ʾinnahu qad halaka,
he tells them, “He has died.”
فَيَقُولُونَ: إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
fayaqūlūna: ʾinnā li-llāhi waʾinnā ʾilayhi rājiʿūna
They say, “We belong to God, and to Him we return.
ذُهِبَ بِهِ إِلَى أُمِّهِ الْهَاوِيَةِ،
dhuhiba bihi ʾilā ʾummihi al-hāwiyati,
He has been taken to his mother, the Abyss.
فَبِئْسَتِ الْأُمُّ، وَبِئْسَتِ الْمُرَبِّيَةُ،
fabiʾsati al-ʾummu, wabiʾsati al-murabbiyatu,
What a wretched mother and nurse she is!”
قَالَ: فَيُعْرَضُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ،
qāla: fayuʿraḍu ʿalayhim ʾaʿmāluhum,
He continued: Their deeds are then shown to them.
فَإِذَا رَأَوْا حَسَنًا فَرِحُوا وَاسْتَبْشَرُوا،
faʾidhā raʾaw ḥasanan fariḥū wastabsharū,
When they see something good, they rejoice and take heart,
وَقَالُوا: هَذِهِ نِعْمَتُكَ عَلَى عَبْدِكَ فَأَتِمَّهَا،
waqālū: hādhihi niʿmatuka ʿalā ʿabdika faʾatimmahā,
saying, “This is Your favor to Your servant; bring it to completion.”
وَإِنْ رَأَوْا سُوءًا قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ رَاجِعْ بِعَبْدِكِ ”،
waʾin raʾaw sūʾan qālū: Allāhumma rājiʿ biʿabdiki ”,
But if they see something bad, they say, “O God, bring Your servant back [to what is right].”’
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: رَوَاهُ سَلَّامٌ الطَّوِيلُ، عَنْ ثَوْرٍ فَرَفَعَهُ،
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: rawāhu sallāmun al-ṭawīlu, ʿan thawrin farafaʿahu,
Ibn Ṣāʿid said: Sallām al-Ṭawīl also transmitted it from Thawr and attributed it to the Prophet.
٤٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ:
444 - 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:
أَخْبَرَنِيهِ سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ سَلَّامٍ، عَنْ ثَوْرٍ
ʾakhbaranīhi saʿīdu bnu sulaymāna, ʿan sallāmin, ʿan thawrin
Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān related it to me, from Sallām, from Thawr;
وَزَادَ فِي إِسْنَادِهِ خَالِدَ بْنَ مَعْدَانَ
wazāda fī ʾisnādihi khālida bna maʿdāna
he added Khālid ibn Maʿdān to its chain of transmission.
٤٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
445 - 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 دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيَّ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā dāwūdu bnu qaysin qāla: samiʿtu muḥammada bna kaʿbin al-quraẓiyya qāla:
Dāwūd ibn Qays informed us and said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī say:
«إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لَتَبْكِي مِنْ رَجُلٍ،
«ʾinna al-ʾarḍa latabkī min rajulin,
‘The earth weeps because of one man,
وَتَبْكِي عَلَى رَجُلٍ،
watabkī ʿalā rajulin,
and it weeps over another.
تَبْكِي عَلَى مَنْ كَانَ يَعْمَلُ عَلَى ظَهْرِهَا بِطَاعَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
tabkī ʿalā man kāna yaʿmalu ʿalā ẓahrihā biṭāʿati Allāhi ʿazza wajalla,
It weeps over the one who obeyed God, mighty and majestic, upon its surface,
وَتَبْكِي مِمَّنْ كَانَ يَعْمَلُ عَلَى ظَهْرِهَا بِمَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى»،
watabkī mimman kāna yaʿmalu ʿalā ẓahrihā bimaʿṣiyati Allāhi taʿālā»,
and it weeps because of the one who disobeyed God Most High upon its surface.’
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ:
thumma qaraʾa:
Then he recited:
{فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاءُ وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا مُنْظَرِينَ} [الدُّخَانِ: ٢٩]
{famā bakat ʿalayhimu al-samāʾu wa-l-ʾarḍu wamā kānū munẓarīna} [al-dukhāni: 29]
“Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they granted respite” (al-Dukhān 44:29).
٤٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
446 - 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 قَالَ: حَدَّثَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْعَاصِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan khālidi bni maʿdāna qāla: ḥaddatha ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-ʿāṣi qāla:
Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿĀṣ related and said:
«إِنَّ أَرْوَاحَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي طَيْرٍ كَالزَّرَازِيرِ
«ʾinna ʾarwāḥa al-muʾminīna fī ṭayrin ka-l-zarāzīri
‘The spirits of believers are within birds like starlings;
يَتَعَارَفُونَ،
yataʿārafūna,
they recognize one another
يُرْزَقُونَ مِنْ ثَمَرِ الْجَنَّةِ»
yurzaqūna min thamari al-jannati»
and are nourished by the fruit of the Garden.’
٤٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
447 - 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 اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَعْلَى قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni yaʿlā qāla:
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿlā informed us and said:
أَخْبَرَنِي عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ،
ʾakhbaranī ʿuthmānu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾawsin,
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aws told me
أَنَّ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ، قَالَ لَهُ:
ʾanna saʿīda bna jubayrin, qāla lahu:
that Saʿīd ibn Jubayr said to him:
«اِسْتَأْذِنْ لِي عَلَى بِنْتِ أَخِي»
«istaʾdhin lī ʿalā binti ʾakhī»
‘Ask permission for me to visit my brother’s daughter.’
- وَهِيَ زَوْجَةُ عُثْمَانَ، وَهِيَ بِنْتُ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَوْسٍ -
- wahiya zawjatu ʿuthmāna, wahiya bintu ʿamri bni ʾawsin -
She was ʿUthmān’s wife, the daughter of ʿAmr ibn Aws.
فَاسْتَأْذَنْتُ لَهُ عَلَيْهَا، فَدَخَلَ، فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهَا،
fastaʾdhantu lahu ʿalayhā, fadakhala, fasallama ʿalayhā,
I obtained permission for him to see her; he entered and greeted her.
ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا: «كَيْفَ فَعَلَ زَوْجُكِ بِكِ؟»
thumma qāla lahā: «kayfa faʿala zawjuki biki?»
Then he asked her, ‘How has your husband treated you?’
قَالَتْ: إِنَّهُ لَمُحْسِنٌ فِيمَا اِسْتَطَاعَ،
qālat: ʾinnahu lamuḥsinun fīmā istaṭāʿa,
She said, ‘He has treated me well, as far as he can.’
ثُمَّ اِلْتَفَتَ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ، وَقَالَ:
thumma iltafata ʾilā ʿuthmāna, waqāla:
Then Saʿīd turned to ʿUthmān and said:
«يَا عُثْمَانُ، أَحْسِنْ إِلَيْهَا,
«yā ʿuthmānu, ʾaḥsin ʾilayhā,
‘ʿUthmān, treat her well,
فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَصْنَعُ بِهَا شَيْئًا إِلَّا جَاءَ عَمْرُو بْنُ أَوْسٍ»،
faʾinnaka lā taṣnaʿu bihā shayʾan ʾillā jāʾa ʿamru bnu ʾawsin»,
for whatever you do to her, ʿAmr ibn Aws will learn of it.’
قَالَ: وَهَلْ يَأْتِي الْأَمْوَاتَ أَخْبَارُ الْأَحْيَاءِ؟
qāla: wahal yaʾtī al-ʾamwāta ʾakhbāru al-ʾaḥyāʾi?
ʿUthmān asked, ‘Do the dead receive news of the living?’
قَالَ: “ نَعَمْ، مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ لَهُ حَمِيمٌ إِلَّا يَأْتِيهِ أَخْبَارُ أَقَارِبِهِ،
qāla: “ naʿam, mā min ʾaḥadin lahu ḥamīmun ʾillā yaʾtīhi ʾakhbāru ʾaqāribihi,
Saʿīd replied, ‘Yes. Anyone with a close companion receives news of their relatives.
فَإِنْ كَانَ خَيْرًا سُرَّ بِهِ، وَفَرِحَ بِهِ، وَهَنِئَ بِهِ،
faʾin kāna khayran surra bihi, wafariḥa bihi, wahaniʾa bihi,
If the news is good, they are pleased, rejoice, and delight in it;
وَإِنْ كَانَ شَرًّا اِبْتَأَسَ بِذَلِكَ، وَحَزِنَ
waʾin kāna sharran ibtaʾasa bidhālika, waḥazina
if it is bad, they are distressed and grieve.
حَتَّى إِنَّهُمْ يَسْأَلُونَ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ قَدْ مَاتَ،
ḥattā ʾinnahum yasʾalūna ʿani al-rajuli qad māta,
They even ask about a man who has died.
فَيُقَالُ: أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ؟
fayuqālu: ʾalam yaʾtikum?
Someone asks them, “Has he not come to you?”
فَيَقُولُونَ: لَقَدْ خُولِفَ بِهِ إِلَى أُمِّهِ الْهَاوِيَةِ ”
fayaqūlūna: laqad khūlifa bihi ʾilā ʾummihi al-hāwiyati ”
They reply, “He has been taken on another path, to his mother, the Abyss.”’
بَابُ ذَمِّ الرِّيَاءِ وَالْعُجْبِ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ
bābu dhammi al-riyāʾi wa-l-ʿujbi waghayri dhālika
Chapter: Condemning showing off, self-admiration, and other matters.
٤٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
448 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
448 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿan baʿḍi ʾaṣḥābihi, ʿan muṭarrifi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-shikhkhīri qāla:
Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us, from one of his companions, from Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr, who said:
«لَأَنْ أَبِيتَ نَائِمًا وَأُصْبِحَ نَادِمًا،
«laʾan ʾabīta nāʾiman waʾuṣbiḥa nādiman,
“I would rather spend the night asleep and wake full of regret
أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَبِيتَ قَائِمًا، فَأُصْبِحَ مُعْجَبًا»
ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾabīta qāʾiman, faʾuṣbiḥa muʿjaban»
than spend it standing in prayer and wake impressed with myself.”
٤٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
449 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
449 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا كَهْمَسُ بْنُ حَسَنٍ، عَنْ أَبِي السَّلِيلِ:
ʾakhbaranā kahmasu bnu ḥasanin, ʿan ʾabī al-salīli:
Kahmas ibn Ḥasan informed us, from Abū al-Salīl:
قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِسَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ: الرَّجُلُ يُعْطِي الشَّيْءَ، وَيَصْنَعُ الْمَعْرُوفَ،
qāla rajulun lisaʿīdi bni al-musayyibi: al-rajulu yuʿṭī al-shayʾa, wayaṣnaʿu al-maʿrūfa,
A man said to Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, “A person gives something and does a good deed,
وَيُحِبُّ أَنْ يُؤْجَرَ وَيُحْمَدَ،
wayuḥibbu ʾan yuʾjara wayuḥmada,
and wants to be rewarded and praised.”
قَالَ: «أَتُحِبُّ أَنْ تُمْقَتَ؟»
qāla: «ʾatuḥibbu ʾan tumqata?»
He replied, “Would you rather be despised?”
٤٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
450 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
450 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنِ اِبْنِ الْهَادِ، عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾibrāhīma bni al-ḥārithi al-taymiyyi, ʿani ibni al-hādi, ʿani al-ʿabbāsi bni ʿabdi al-muṭṭalibi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taymī, from Ibn al-Hād, from al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“ يَظْهَرُ هَذَا الدِّينُ حَتَّى يُجَاوِزَ الْبِحَارَ،
“ yaẓharu hādhā al-dīnu ḥattā yujāwiza al-biḥāra,
“This religion will spread until it crosses the seas,
وَحَتَّى يُخَاضَ بِالْخَيْلِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ،
waḥattā yukhāḍa bi-l-khayli fī sabīli Allāhi,
and the waters are forded on horseback in the cause of God.
ثُمَّ يَأْتِي أَقْوَامٌ يَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ،
thumma yaʾtī ʾaqwāmun yaqraʾūna al-qurʾāna,
Then people will come who recite the Qurʾān;
فَإِذَا قَرَءُوهُ، قَالُوا: قَدْ قَرَأْنَا الْقُرْآنَ،
faʾidhā qaraʾūhu, qālū: qad qaraʾnā al-qurʾāna,
once they have recited it, they will say, ‘We have recited the Qurʾān.
فَمَنْ أَقْرَأُ مِنَّا؟
faman ʾaqraʾu minnā?
Who recites it better than we do?
مَنْ أَعْلَمُ مِنَّا؟ ”
man ʾaʿlamu minnā? ”
Who knows more than we do?’”
ثُمَّ اِلْتَفَتَ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ،
thumma iltafata ʾilā ʾaṣḥābihi,
Then he turned to his companions
فَقَالَ: «هَلْ تَرَوْنَ فِي أُولَئِكَ مِنْ خَيْرٍ؟»
faqāla: «hal tarawna fī ʾūlāʾika min khayrin?»
and asked, “Do you see any good in such people?”
قَالُوا: لَا،
qālū: lā,
They said, “No.”
قَالَ: «فَأُولَئِكَ مِنْكُمْ، وَأُولَئِكَ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ،
qāla: «faʾūlāʾika minkum, waʾūlāʾika min hādhihi al-ʾummati,
He said, “They are from among you; they are from this community,
وَأُولَئِكَ هُمْ وَقُودُ النَّارِ»
waʾūlāʾika hum waqūdu al-nāri»
and they are fuel for the Fire.”
٤٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
451 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
451 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ الْمَعَافِرِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شَرَاحِيلُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu shurayḥin al-maʿāfiriyyu qāla: ḥaddathanī sharāḥīlu bnu yazīda, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shurayḥ al-Maʿāfirī related to us; he said: Sharāḥīl ibn Yazīd related to me, from an unnamed man, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«أَكْثَرُ مُنَافِقِي أُمَّتِي قُرَّاؤُهَا»
«ʾaktharu munāfiqī ʾummatī qurrāʾuhā»
“Most of the hypocrites of my community are its Qurʾān reciters.”
٤٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
452 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
452 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama, ʿan ḍamrata bni ḥabībin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam informed us, from Ḍamra ibn Ḥabīb, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«إِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ يَرْفَعُونَ أَعْمَالَ الْعَبْدِ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ،
«ʾinna al-malāʾikata yarfaʿūna ʾaʿmāla al-ʿabdi min ʿibādi Allāhi,
“The angels raise up the deeds of one of God’s servants,
يَسْتَكْثِرُونَهُ، وَيُزَكُّونَهُ
yastakthirūnahu, wayuzakkūnahu
considering them abundant and speaking well of them,
حَتَّى يَبْلُغُوا بِهِ إِلَى حَيْثُ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مِنْ سُلْطَانِهِ،
ḥattā yablughū bihi ʾilā ḥaythu shāʾa Allāhu min sulṭānihi,
until they carry them to whatever part of His dominion God wills.
فَيُوحِي اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِمْ أَنَّكُمْ حَفَظَةٌ عَلَى عَمَلِ عَبْدِي،
fayūḥī Allāhu ʾilayhim ʾannakum ḥafaẓatun ʿalā ʿamali ʿabdī,
Then God reveals to them: ‘You are the guardians who record My servant’s deeds,
وَأَنَا رَقِيبٌ عَلَى مَا فِي نَفْسِهِ،
waʾanā raqībun ʿalā mā fī nafsihi,
but I watch over what is within him.
إِنَّ عَبْدِي هَذَا لَمْ يُخْلِصْ لِي،
ʾinna ʿabdī hādhā lam yukhliṣ lī,
This servant of Mine did not act sincerely for Me,
وَلَمْ يُخْلِصْ عَمَلَهُ فَاجْعَلْهُ فِي سِجِّينٍ،
walam yukhliṣ ʿamalahu fajʿalhu fī sijjīnin,
nor was his deed sincere. Place it in Sijjīn.’
وَيَصْعَدُونَ بِعَمَلِ الْعَبْدِ يَسْتَقِلُّونَهُ، وَيَحْقِرُونَهُ
wayaṣʿadūna biʿamali al-ʿabdi yastaqillūnahu, wayaḥqirūnahu
And they ascend with another servant’s deed, thinking little of it and regarding it as insignificant,
حَتَّى يَنْتَهُوا بِهِ إِلَى حَيْثُ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مِنْ سُلْطَانِهِ،
ḥattā yantahū bihi ʾilā ḥaythu shāʾa Allāhu min sulṭānihi,
until they bring it to whatever part of His dominion God wills.
فَيُوحِي اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِمْ أَنَّكُمْ حَفَظَةٌ عَلَى عَمَلِ عَبْدِي،
fayūḥī Allāhu ʾilayhim ʾannakum ḥafaẓatun ʿalā ʿamali ʿabdī,
Then God reveals to them: ‘You are the guardians who record My servant’s deeds,
وَأَنَا رَقِيبٌ عَلَى مَا فِي نَفْسِهِ،
waʾanā raqībun ʿalā mā fī nafsihi,
but I watch over what is within him.
إِنَّ عَبْدِي هَذَا أَخْلَصَ عَمَلَهُ
ʾinna ʿabdī hādhā ʾakhlaṣa ʿamalahu
This servant of Mine did his deed sincerely;
فَاكْتُبُوهُ فِي عِلِّيِّينَ»
faktubūhu fī ʿilliyyīna»
write it in ʿIlliyyīn.’”
٤٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
453 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
453 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ حَفْصَةَ بِنْتِ سِيرِينَ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ كَعْبًا يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā hishāmun, ʿan ḥafṣata binti sīrīna, ʿani al-rabīʿi bni ziyādin qāla: samiʿtu kaʿban yaqūlu:
Hishām informed us, from Ḥafṣa daughter of Sīrīn, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Ziyād, who said: I heard Kaʿb say:
«وَاللَّهِ، مَا اِسْتَقَرَّ لِعَبْدٍ ثَنَاءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ حَتَّى يَسْتَقِرَّ لَهُ فِي أَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ»
«wa-llāhi, mā istaqarra liʿabdin thanāʾun fī al-ʾarḍi ḥattā yastaqirra lahu fī ʾahli al-samāʾi»
“By God, praise for a servant never becomes established on earth until it has become established for him among the inhabitants of heaven.”
٤٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
454 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
454 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ حَنْطَبٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿani al-muṭṭalibi bni ḥanṭabin qāla:
Al-Awzāʿī informed us, from al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ḥanṭab, who said:
" إِذَا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَنْ عَبْدٍ نَادَى جَبْرَئِيلَ
" ʾidhā raḍiya Allāhu ʿazza wajalla ʿan ʿabdin nādā jabraʾīla
“When God, mighty and exalted, is pleased with a servant, He calls Gabriel,
فَيَأْخُذُهُ كَالْغَشْوَةِ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ،
fayaʾkhudhuhu ka-l-ghashwati mā shāʾa Allāhu,
and Gabriel is overcome as if by a fainting spell for as long as God wills.
فَإِذَا أَفَاقَ قَالَ: لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ،
faʾidhā ʾafāqa qāla: labbayka yā rabba al-ʿālamīna,
When he recovers, he says, ‘At Your service, Lord of all worlds.’
فَيَقُولُ: إِنِّي قَدْ رَضِيتُ عَنْ فُلَانٍ، وَصَلَّيْتُ عَلَيْهِ،
fayaqūlu: ʾinnī qad raḍītu ʿan fulānin, waṣallaytu ʿalayhi,
Then God says, ‘I am pleased with so-and-so, and I have blessed him.’
فَيَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ
fayaqūlu al-malāʾikatu: ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi
Then the angels say, ‘May God bless him,’
حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ،
ḥattā yantahiya dhālika ʾilā al-ʾarḍi,
until word of it reaches the earth.”
وَأَظُنُّهُ قَالَ: «فَإِذَا أَبْغَضَ عَبْدًا فَمِثْلُ ذَلِكَ»
waʾaẓunnuhu qāla: «faʾidhā ʾabghaḍa ʿabdan famithlu dhālika»
And I think he also said, “When He detests a servant, something similar happens.”
٤٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
455 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
455 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ وَهُوَ أَبُو هِلَالٍ الرَّاسِبِيُّ، عَنْ عُقْبَةَ الرَّاسِبِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu sulaymin wahuwa ʾabū hilālin al-rāsibiyyu, ʿan ʿuqbata al-rāsibiyyi, ʿan ʾabī al-jawzāʾi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Muḥammad ibn Sulaym, who is Abū Hilāl al-Rāsibī, informed us, from ʿUqba al-Rāsibī, from Abū al-Jawzāʾ, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِأَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَأَهْلِ النَّارِ؟
«ʾalā ʾukhbirukum biʾahli al-jannati, waʾahli al-nāri?
“Shall I tell you who the people of the Garden and the people of the Fire are?
أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ مَنْ مُلِئَتْ مَسَامِعُهُ مِنَ الثَّنَاءِ الْحَسَنِ وَهُوَ يَسْمَعُ،
ʾahlu al-jannati man muliʾat masāmiʿuhu mina al-thanāʾi al-ḥasani wahuwa yasmaʿu,
A person of the Garden is one whose ears are filled with good praise, while he hears it;
وَأَهْلُ النَّارِ مَنْ مُلِئَتْ مَسَامِعُهُ مِنَ الثَّنَاءِ السَّيِّئِ وَهُوَ يَسْمَعُ»
waʾahlu al-nāri man muliʾat masāmiʿuhu mina al-thanāʾi al-sayyiʾi wahuwa yasmaʿu»
a person of the Fire is one whose ears are filled with bad things said about him, while he hears them.”
٤٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
456 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
456 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ مَرْزُوقٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي عَدِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā al-fuḍaylu bnu marzūqin qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʿadiyyu bnu thābitin, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Al-Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq informed us; he said: ʿAdī ibn Thābit informed me, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayra, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَمَرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِمَا أَمَرَ بِهِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ،
“ ʾinna Allāha taʿālā ʾamara al-muʾminīna bimā ʾamara bihi al-mursalīna,
“God Most High commanded the believers as He commanded the messengers.
فَقَالَ: {يَا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ كُلُوا مِنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَاعْمَلُوا صَالِحًا} [الْمُؤْمِنُونَ: ٥١]،
faqāla: {yā ʾayyuhā al-rusulu kulū mina al-ṭayyibāti waʿmalū ṣāliḥan} [al-muʾminūna: 51],
He said: {O messengers, eat of the good things and do what is right} [al-Muʾminūn: 51].
وَقَالَ {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُلُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ} [الْبَقَرَةِ: ١٧٢]،
waqāla {yā ʾayyuhā al-ladhīna ʾāmanū kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum} [al-baqarati: 172],
And He said: {O you who believe, eat of the good things We have provided you} [al-Baqara: 172].
قَالَ: وَذَكَرَ الرَّجُلَ يُطِيلُ السَّفَرَ،
qāla: wadhakara al-rajula yuṭīlu al-safara,
Then he mentioned a man making a long journey,
أَشْعَثَ، أَغْبَرَ،
ʾashʿatha, ʾaghbara,
disheveled and dusty,
يَمُدُّ يَدَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ يَا رَبِّ، يَا رَبِّ،
yamuddu yadahu ʾilā al-samāʾi yā rabbi, yā rabbi,
stretching his hand toward heaven and crying, “Lord! Lord!”
وَمَطْعَمُهُ حَرَامٌ،
wamaṭʿamuhu ḥarāmun,
Yet what he eats is unlawful,
وَمَلْبَسُهُ حَرَامٌ،
wamalbasuhu ḥarāmun,
and what he wears is unlawful.
فَأَنَّى يُسْتَجَابُ لِذَلِكَ؟ ”
faʾannā yustajābu lidhālika? ”
How, then, could his prayer be answered?”
٤٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
457 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
457 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ مِسْمَارٍ قَالَ: قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى:
ʿan sufyāna, ʿan jaʿfari bni burqāna, ʿan ṣāliḥi bni mismārin qāla: qāla Allāhu taʿālā:
From Sufyān, from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Mismār, who said: God Most High said:
«تَدْعُونِي وَقُلُوبُكُمْ مُعْرِضَةٌ،
«tadʿūnī waqulūbukum muʿriḍatun,
“You call upon Me while your hearts are turned away.
فَبَاطِلٌ مَا تَرْهَبُونَ»
fabāṭilun mā tarhabūna»
What you fear, then, is in vain.”
٤٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
458 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
458 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ الرَّقَاشِيُّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ṣāliḥun al-murriyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā yazīdu al-raqāshiyyu, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:
Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī informed us; he said: Yazīd al-Raqāshī related to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
“ يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَدْعُو الْمُؤْمِنُ لِلْجَمَاعَةِ فَلَا يُسْتَجَابُ لَهُ،
“ yaʾtī ʿalā al-nāsi zamānun yadʿū al-muʾminu li-l-jamāʿati falā yustajābu lahu,
“A time will come when a believer prays on behalf of the community, but is not answered.
يَقُولُ اللَّهُ: اُدْعُ لِنَفْسِكَ
yaqūlu Allāhu: udʿu linafsika
God will say, ‘Pray for yourself
وَلِمَا يَحْزُبُكَ مِنْ خَاصَّةِ أَمْرِكَ فَأُجِيبَكَ،
walimā yaḥzubuka min khāṣṣati ʾamrika faʾujībaka,
and for the pressing matters that concern you personally, and I will answer you;
وَأَمَّا الْجَمَاعَةُ فَلَا ”،
waʾammā al-jamāʿatu falā ”,
as for the community, no.’”
قَالَ صَالِحٌ: وَأَخْبَرَنِي عُتْبَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ:
qāla ṣāliḥun: waʾakhbaranī ʿutbatu bnu ʾabī sulaymāna, ʿan yazīda al-raqāshiyyi, ʿan ʾanasin qāla:
Ṣāliḥ said: ʿUtba ibn Abī Sulaymān also informed me, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas, who said:
«إِنَّهُمْ أَغْضَبُونِي»
«ʾinnahum ʾaghḍabūnī»
“They have angered Me.”
٤٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
459 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
459 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan muḥammadi bni ḥamzata bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni salāmin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Maʿmar informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«خَصْلَتَانِ لَا تَكُونَانِ فِي مُنَافِقٍ، حُسْنُ سَمْتٍ، وَلَا فِقْهٌ فِي الدِّينِ»
«khaṣlatāni lā takūnāni fī munāfiqin, ḥusnu samtin, walā fiqhun fī al-dīni»
“Two qualities are not found in a hypocrite: gracious bearing and understanding of religion.”
٤٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ،
460 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki,
460 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us:
عَنِ اِبْنِ جُرَيْجٍ قَرَأَهُ قَالَ: قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى:
ʿani ibni jurayjin qaraʾahu qāla: qāla sulaymānu bnu mūsā:
From Ibn Jurayj, who read it, who said: Sulaymān ibn Mūsā said:
«إِذَا صُمْتَ فَلْيَصُمْ سَمْعُكَ وَبَصَرُكَ وَلِسَانُكَ عَنِ الْكَذِبِ،
«ʾidhā ṣumta falyaṣum samʿuka wabaṣaruka walisānuka ʿani al-kadhibi,
“When you fast, let your hearing, sight, and tongue fast from falsehood.
وَدَعْ عَنْكَ أَذَى الْخَادِمِ،
wadaʿ ʿanka ʾadhā al-khādimi,
Refrain from harming your servant.
وَلْيَكُنْ عَلَيْكَ سَكِينَةٌ وَوَقَارٌ،
walyakun ʿalayka sakīnatun wawaqārun,
Carry yourself with calm and dignity,
وَلَا تَجْعَلْ يَوْمَ صَوْمِكَ وَيَوْمَ فِطْرِكَ سَوَاءً»
walā tajʿal yawma ṣawmika wayawma fiṭrika sawāʾan»
and do not make your fasting day the same as a day when you are not fasting.”
٤٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
461 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
461 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ حُمَيْدَ بْنَ هِلَالٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُطَرِّفٌ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu ḥumayda bna hilālin qāla: ḥaddathanī muṭarrifun qāla:
Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us; he said: I heard Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl say: Muṭarrif related to me, saying:
أَتَيْتُ عِمْرَانَ بْنَ حُصَيْنٍ يَوْمًا،
ʾataytu ʿimrāna bna ḥuṣaynin yawman,
One day I went to see ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn.
فَقُلْتُ: إِنِّي لَأَدَعُ إِتْيَانَكَ لِمَا أَرَاكَ فِيهِ،
faqultu: ʾinnī laʾadaʿu ʾityānaka limā ʾarāka fīhi,
I said, “Seeing what you are going through has made me hold back from visiting you.”
قَالَ: «فَلَا تَفْعَلْ،
qāla: «falā tafʿal,
He said, “Do not do that.
فَوَاللَّهِ إِنَّ أَحَبَّهُ إِلَيَّ أَحَبُّهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى»
fawallāhi ʾinna ʾaḥabbahu ʾilayya ʾaḥabbuhu ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā»
By God, what is dearest to me is what is dearest to God Most High.”
قَالَ جَرِيرٌ: «وَكَانَ سَقَى بَطْنُهُ
qāla jarīrun: «wakāna saqā baṭnuhu
Jarīr said, “Fluid had collected in his abdomen,
فَمَكَثَ عَلَى سَرِيرٍ مَنْقُوبٍ ثَلَاثِينَ سَنَةً»
famakatha ʿalā sarīrin manqūbin thalāthīna sanatan»
and he remained on a bed with holes in it for thirty years.”
٤٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
462 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
462 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna qāla:
Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us; he said:
اِشْتَكَى عِمْرَانُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ شَكْوَةً،
ishtakā ʿimrānu bnu ḥuṣaynin shakwatan,
ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn fell ill.
فَقَالَ بَعْضُ مَنْ يَأْتِيهِ: قَدْ كَانَ يَمْنَعُنَا مِنْ إِتْيَانِكَ مَا نَرَى عِنْدَكَ،
faqāla baʿḍu man yaʾtīhi: qad kāna yamnaʿunā min ʾityānika mā narā ʿindaka,
One of those who visited him said, “What we see here has been keeping us from coming to visit you.”
قَالَ: «فَلَا تَفْعَلْ،
qāla: «falā tafʿal,
He replied, “Do not do that,
فَإِنَّ أَحَبَّهُ إِلَيَّ أَحَبُّهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى»
faʾinna ʾaḥabbahu ʾilayya ʾaḥabbuhu ʾilā Allāhi taʿālā»
for what is dearest to me is what is dearest to God Most High.”
٤٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
463 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
463 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي حَيَّانَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī ḥayyāna, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla:
Sufyān informed us, from Abū Ḥayyān, from his father, who said:
قَدِمْتُ الشَّامَ،
qadimtu al-shāma,
I came to Syria.
فَقُلْتُ: هَلْ مِنَ الْجُنْدِ أَحَدٌ مَرِيضٌ نَعُودُهُ؟
faqultu: hal mina al-jundi ʾaḥadun marīḍun naʿūduhu?
I asked, “Is anyone among the garrison ill, whom we might visit?”
فَقَالُوا: لَا، إِلَّا سُوَيْدَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ الْحَنْظَلِيَّ،
faqālū: lā, ʾillā suwayda bna shuʿbata al-ḥanẓaliyya,
They said, “No one except Suwayd ibn Shuʿba al-Ḥanẓalī.”
فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ،
fadakhaltu ʿalayhi,
So I went in to see him.
فَلَوْلَا أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ اِمْرَأَتَهُ تَقُولُ:
falawlā ʾannī samiʿtu imraʾatahu taqūlu:
Had I not heard his wife say,
أَهْلِي فِدَاؤُكَ،
ʾahlī fidāʾuka,
“May my family be your ransom!
مَا أُطْعِمُكَ؟
mā ʾuṭʿimuka?
What can I give you to eat?
مَا أَسْقِيكَ؟
mā ʾasqīka?
What can I give you to drink?”
مَا ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ دُونَ الثَّوْبِ شَيْئًا،
mā ẓanantu ʾanna dūna al-thawbi shayʾan,
I would have thought there was nothing beneath the cover.
إِنِّي قَدْ خِفْتُ
ʾinnī qad khiftu
I grew afraid.
فَكَشَفَ الثَّوْبَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ،
fakashafa al-thawba ʿan wajhihi,
Then he uncovered his face
فَقَالَ: «يَا هَذَا، لَعَلَّكَ يَسُوءُكَ الَّذِي تَرَى بِي؟»
faqāla: «yā hādhā, laʿallaka yasūʾuka al-ladhī tarā bī?»
and said, “My friend, does the sight of me trouble you?”
فَقُلْتُ: نَعَمْ
faqultu: naʿam
I said, “Yes”
- أَوْ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: إِي -،
- ʾaw qāla: qultu: ʾī -,
—or he said, “I replied, ‘Indeed’”—
وَالَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ غَيْرُهُ،
wa-l-ladhī lā ʾilāha ghayruhu,
“by the One besides whom there is no god.”
قَالَ: “ فَلَا يَسُوءُكَ ذَلِكَ،
qāla: “ falā yasūʾuka dhālika,
He said, “Then do not let it trouble you.
فَلَقَدْ دَبِرَتْ حُرْقُفَتِي
falaqad dabirat ḥurqufatī
The bony part of my hip has developed a sore
- أَوْ قَالَ: الْحَرَاقِفُ - مِنِّي،
- ʾaw qāla: al-ḥarāqifu - minnī,
—or he said, ‘the bones of my hips’—
فَمَا لِي ضَجْعَةٌ مُنْذُ كَذَا وَكَذَا إِلَّا عَلَى حُرِّ وَجْهِي،
famā lī ḍajʿatun mundhu kadhā wakadhā ʾillā ʿalā ḥurri wajhī,
and for such a long time I have had no way to lie down except on the bare side of my face.
وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ سُوَيْدٍ بِيَدِهِ
wa-l-ladhī nafsu suwaydin biyadihi
By the One in whose hand Suwayd’s soul rests,
مَا يَسُرُّنِي أَنَّهُ نَقَصَتْ مِنْهُ قُلَامَةُ ظُفُرٍ ”
mā yasurrunī ʾannahu naqaṣat minhu qulāmatu ẓufurin ”
I would not be glad if even a fingernail’s clipping of it were taken away.”
٤٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
464 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
464 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي صَعْصَعَةَ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ أَبَا الْحُبَابِ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī ṣaʿṣaʿata, ʾannahu samiʿa saʿīdu bnu yasārin ʾabā al-ḥubābi yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Mālik ibn Anas informed us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ṣaʿṣaʿa, who heard Saʿīd ibn Yasār, Abū al-Ḥubāb, say: I heard Abū Hurayra say: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«مَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُصِبْ مِنْهُ»
«man yuridi Allāhu bihi khayran yuṣib minhu»
“When God intends good for someone, He afflicts that person.”
٤٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
465 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
465 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عِيَاضِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ الْفِهْرِيِّ،
ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿan khālidi bni yazīda, ʿan ʿiyāḍi bni ʿuqbata al-fihriyyi,
Ibn Lahīʿa informed us, from Khālid ibn Yazīd, from ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿUqba al-Fihrī:
أَنَّهُ مَاتَ اِبْنٌ لَهُ،
ʾannahu māta ibnun lahu,
A son of his died.
فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ فِي قَبْرِهِ،
falammā nazala fī qabrihi,
When he went down into his grave,
قَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ: وَاللَّهِ إِنْ كَانَ لَسَيِّدَ الْجَيْشِ،
qāla lahu rajulun: wa-llāhi ʾin kāna lasayyida al-jayshi,
a man said to him, “By God, he was truly the leader of the army.
فَاحْتَسِبْهُ،
faḥtasibhu,
Bear his loss in hope of God’s reward.”
فَقَالَ: «وَمَا يَمْنَعُنِي أَنْ أَحْتَسِبَهُ وَقَدْ كَانَ بِالْأَمْسِ مِنْ زِينَةِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا،
faqāla: «wamā yamnaʿunī ʾan ʾaḥtasibahu waqad kāna bi-l-ʾamsi min zīnati al-ḥayāti al-dunyā,
He replied, “What would keep me from hoping for reward? Yesterday he was one of the ornaments of this worldly life,
وَهُوَ الْيَوْمَ مِنَ الْبَاقِيَاتِ الصَّالِحَاتِ؟»
wahuwa al-yawma mina al-bāqiyāti al-ṣāliḥāti?»
and today he is among the good things that endure.”
٤٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
466 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
466 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شُرَحْبِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْخَوْلَانِيُّ، عَنْ عُمَيْرِ بْنِ سَيْفٍ الْخَوْلَانِيِّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا مُسْلِمٍ الْخَوْلَانِيَّ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī shuraḥbīlu bnu muslimin al-khawlāniyyu, ʿan ʿumayri bni sayfin al-khawlāniyyi, ʾannahu samiʿa ʾabā muslimin al-khawlāniyya yaqūlu:
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; he said: Shuraḥbīl ibn Muslim al-Khawlānī related to me, from ʿUmayr ibn Sayf al-Khawlānī, who heard Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī say:
«لَأَنْ يُولَدَ لِي مَوْلُودٌ يُحْسِنُ اللَّهُ نَبَاتَهُ،
«laʾan yūlada lī mawlūdun yuḥsinu Allāhu nabātahu,
“I would rather have a child born to me whom God lets grow well;
حَتَّى إِذَا اِسْتَوَى عَلَى شَبَابِهِ،
ḥattā ʾidhā istawā ʿalā shabābihi,
then, when he reaches the fullness of youth
وَكَانَ أَعْجَبَ مَا يَكُونُ إِلَيَّ،
wakāna ʾaʿjaba mā yakūnu ʾilayya,
and is dearest of all to me,
قَبَضَهُ اللَّهُ مِنِّي،
qabaḍahu Allāhu minnī,
God takes him from me.
أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ تَكُونَ لِي الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا»
ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan takūna lī al-dunyā wamā fīhā»
That would be dearer to me than owning the world and all it contains.”
٤٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
467 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
467 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni al-qāsimi, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Mālik ibn Anas informed us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«لِيُعَزِّي الْمُسْلِمِينَ عَنْ مَصَائِبِهِمْ، الْمُصِيبَةُ بِي»
«liyuʿazzī al-muslimīna ʿan maṣāʾibihim, al-muṣībatu bī»
“Let Muslims find consolation for their misfortunes in the calamity of losing me.”
٤٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
468 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
468 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan qatādata, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
Maʿmar informed us, from Qatāda, concerning the words of God Most High:
{وَابْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْحُزْنِ فَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ} [يُوسُفَ: ٨٤]
{wabyaḍḍat ʿaynāhu mina al-ḥuzni fahuwa kaẓīmun} [yūsufa: 84]
{His eyes turned white with grief, and he held it within} [Yūsuf: 84].
قَالَ: «كَظَمَ عَلَى الْحُزْنِ فَلَمْ يَقُلْ إِلَّا خَيْرًا»
qāla: «kaẓama ʿalā al-ḥuzni falam yaqul ʾillā khayran»
He said, “He held in his grief and said nothing but good.”
٤٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
469 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
469 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ:
ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla:
Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us; he said:
حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي الْوَلِيدِ أَبُو عُثْمَانَ الْمَدَنِيُّ،
ḥaddathanī al-walīdu bnu ʾabī al-walīdi ʾabū ʿuthmāna al-madaniyyu,
Al-Walīd ibn Abī al-Walīd, Abū ʿUthmān al-Madanī, related to me
أَنَّ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ شُفَيِّ بْنِ مَاتِعٍ الْأَصْبَحِيِّ قَالَ:
ʾanna ʿuqbata bna muslimin, ḥaddathahu ʿan shufayyi bni mātiʿin al-ʾaṣbaḥiyyi qāla:
that ʿUqba ibn Muslim related to him from Shufayy ibn Mātiʿ al-Aṣbaḥī, who said:
قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَدَخَلْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ،
qadimtu al-madīnata fadakhaltu al-masjida,
I arrived in Medina and entered the mosque,
فَإِذَا النَّاسُ قَدِ اِجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى رَجُلٍ،
faʾidhā al-nāsu qadi ijtamaʿū ʿalā rajulin,
where I found people gathered around a man.
فَقُلْتُ: مَنْ هَذَا؟
faqultu: man hādhā?
I asked, “Who is this?”
فَقَالُوا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ:
faqālū ʾabū hurayrata:
They said, “Abū Hurayra.”
فَلَمَّا تَفَرَّقَ النَّاسُ دَنَوْتُ مِنْهُ،
falammā tafarraqa al-nāsu danawtu minhu,
When the people dispersed, I drew near to him
فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ حَدِّثْنِي حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْسَ بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ فِيهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ،
faqultu: yā ʾabā hurayrata ḥaddithnī ḥadīthan samiʿtahu min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama laysa baynaka wabaynahu fīhi ʾaḥadun mina al-nāsi,
and said, “Abū Hurayra, tell me a report you heard directly from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, with no one else between you and him.”
فَقَالَ: أَفْعَلُ، لَأُحَدِّثَنَّكَ حَدِيثًا حَدَّثَنِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْسَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ،
faqāla: ʾafʿalu, laʾuḥaddithannaka ḥadīthan ḥaddathanīhi rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama laysa baynī wabaynahu ʾaḥadun mina al-nāsi,
He said, “I will. I will tell you a report the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, told me, with no one else between me and him.”
ثُمَّ نَشَغَ نَشْغَةً فَأَفَاقَ،
thumma nashagha nashghatan faʾafāqa,
Then he choked with emotion and recovered.
فَهُوَ يَقُولُ: أَفْعَلُ لَأُحَدِّثَنَّكَ حَدِيثًا حَدَّثَنِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنِي أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ،
fahuwa yaqūlu: ʾafʿalu laʾuḥaddithannaka ḥadīthan ḥaddathanīhi rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama laysa baynahu wabaynī ʾaḥadun mina al-nāsi,
He kept saying, “I will. I will tell you a report the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, told me, with no one else between him and me.”
ثُمَّ نَشَغَ الثَّانِيَةَ فَأَفَاقَ،
thumma nashagha al-thāniyata faʾafāqa,
Then he choked a second time and recovered.
وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: لَأُحَدِّثَنَّكَ حَدِيثًا حَدَّثَنِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْسَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُ فِيهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ،
wahuwa yaqūlu: laʾuḥaddithannaka ḥadīthan ḥaddathanīhi rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama laysa baynī wabaynahu fīhi ʾaḥadun mina al-nāsi,
He was saying, “I will tell you a report the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, told me, with no one else between me and him in it.”
ثُمَّ نَشَغَ الثَّالِثَةَ، أَوِ الرَّابِعَةَ ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ،
thumma nashagha al-thālithata, ʾawi al-rābiʿata thumma ʾafāqa,
Then he choked a third time—or a fourth—and recovered.
وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: أَفْعَلُ, لَأُحَدِّثَنَّكَ حَدِيثًا حَدَّثَنِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي هَذَا الْبَيْتِ لَيْسَ مَعِي فِيهِ غَيْرُهُ،
wahuwa yaqūlu: ʾafʿalu, laʾuḥaddithannaka ḥadīthan ḥaddathanīhi rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī hādhā al-bayti laysa maʿī fīhi ghayruhu,
He was saying, “I will. I will tell you a report the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, told me in this house when no one else was with us.”
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:
samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:
I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say:
“ إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ، يَنْزِلُ اللَّهُ إِلَى عِبَادِهِ لِيَقْضِيَ بَيْنَهُمْ،
“ ʾidhā kāna yawmu al-qiyāmati, yanzilu Allāhu ʾilā ʿibādihi liyaqḍiya baynahum,
“When the Day of Resurrection comes, God will descend to His servants to judge among them,
فَكُلُّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيَةٌ،
fakullu ʾummatin jāthiyatun,
and every community will be kneeling.
فَأَوَّلُ مَنْ يُدْعَى رَجُلٌ جَمَعَ الْقُرْآنَ،
faʾawwalu man yudʿā rajulun jamaʿa al-qurʾāna,
The first person summoned will be a man who gathered the Qurʾān.
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ: عَبْدِي، أَلَمْ أُعَلِّمْكَ مَا أَنْزَلْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِي؟
fayaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā lahu: ʿabdī, ʾalam ʾuʿallimka mā ʾanzaltu ʿalā rasūlī?
God Most High will say to him, ‘My servant, did I not teach you what I sent down to My Messenger?’
فَيَقُولُ: بَلَى يَا رَبِّ،
fayaqūlu: balā yā rabbi,
He will say, ‘Yes, my Lord.’
فَيَقُولُ: مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ فِيمَا عَلَّمْتُكَ؟
fayaqūlu: mādhā ʿamilta fīmā ʿallamtuka?
God will ask, ‘What did you do with what I taught you?’
فَيَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ، كُنْتُ أَقُومُ بِهِ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ، وَآنَاءَ النَّهَارِ،
fayaqūlu: yā rabbi, kuntu ʾaqūmu bihi ʾānāʾa al-layli, waʾānāʾa al-nahāri,
He will say, ‘My Lord, I recited it in prayer at hours of the night and hours of the day.’
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ لَهُ: كَذَبْتَ،
fayaqūlu Allāhu lahu: kadhabta,
God will say to him, ‘You are lying.’
وَتَقُولُ لَهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: كَذَبْتَ،
wataqūlu lahu al-malāʾikatu: kadhabta,
The angels will also say to him, ‘You are lying.’
بَلْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يُقَالَ: فُلَانٌ قَارِئٌ، فَقَدْ قِيلَ ذَاكَ،
bal ʾaradta ʾan yuqāla: fulānun qāriʾun, faqad qīla dhāka,
‘Instead, you wanted people to say, “So-and-so is a reciter.” And that has been said.
اِذْهَبْ فَلَيْسَ لَكَ الْيَوْمَ عِنْدَنَا شَيْءٌ،
idhhab falaysa laka al-yawma ʿindanā shayʾun,
Go. Today you have nothing with Us.’
ثُمَّ يُؤْتَى بِصَاحِبِ الْمَالِ،
thumma yuʾtā biṣāḥibi al-māli,
Then the man who possessed wealth will be brought forward.
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ لَهُ: عَبْدِي، أَلَمْ أُنْعِمْ عَلَيْكَ؟ أَلَمْ أُفْضِلْ عَلَيْكَ؟ أَلَمْ أُوَسِّعْ عَلَيْكَ؟ أَوْ نَحْوَهُ،
fayaqūlu Allāhu lahu: ʿabdī, ʾalam ʾunʿim ʿalayka? ʾalam ʾufḍil ʿalayka? ʾalam ʾuwassiʿ ʿalayka? ʾaw naḥwahu,
God will say to him, ‘My servant, did I not favor you? Did I not give you more than others? Did I not grant you abundance?’—or words to that effect.
فَيَقُولُ: بَلَى يَا رَبِّ،
fayaqūlu: balā yā rabbi,
He will say, ‘Yes, my Lord.’
فَيَقُولُ: مَاذَا عَمِلْتَ فِيمَا آتَيْتُكَ؟
fayaqūlu: mādhā ʿamilta fīmā ʾātaytuka?
God will ask, ‘What did you do with what I gave you?’
فَيَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ كُنْتُ أَصِلُ الرَّحِمَ، وَأَتَصَدَّقُ، وَأَفْعَلُ، وَأَفْعَلُ،
fayaqūlu: yā rabbi kuntu ʾaṣilu al-raḥima, waʾataṣaddaqu, waʾafʿalu, waʾafʿalu,
He will say, ‘My Lord, I maintained family ties, gave charity, and did this and did that.’
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ: كَذَبْتَ،
fayaqūlu Allāhu: kadhabta,
God will say, ‘You are lying.’
وَتَقُولُ لَهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: كَذَبْتَ،
wataqūlu lahu al-malāʾikatu: kadhabta,
The angels will also say to him, ‘You are lying.’
بَلْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يُقَالَ: فُلَانٌ جَوَادٌ، فَقَدْ قِيلَ ذَاكَ،
bal ʾaradta ʾan yuqāla: fulānun jawādun, faqad qīla dhāka,
‘Instead, you wanted people to say, “So-and-so is generous.” And that has been said.
اِذْهَبْ فَلَيْسَ لَكَ عِنْدَنَا الْيَوْمَ شَيْءٌ،
idhhab falaysa laka ʿindanā al-yawma shayʾun,
Go. Today you have nothing with Us.’
وَيُدْعَى الْمَقْتُولُ،
wayudʿā al-maqtūlu,
Then the man who was killed will be summoned.
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ لَهُ: عَبْدِي، فِيمَ قُتِلْتَ؟
fayaqūlu Allāhu lahu: ʿabdī, fīma qutilta?
God will ask him, ‘My servant, for what were you killed?’
فَيَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ، فَيكَ، وَفِي سَبِيلِكَ،
fayaqūlu: yā rabbi, fayka, wafī sabīlika,
He will say, ‘My Lord, for Your sake and in Your cause.’
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: كَذَبْتَ،
fayaqūlu Allāhu taʿālā: kadhabta,
God Most High will say, ‘You are lying.’
وَتَقُولُ لَهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ: كَذَبْتَ،
wataqūlu lahu al-malāʾikatu: kadhabta,
The angels will also say to him, ‘You are lying.’
بَلْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يُقَالَ: فُلَانٌ جَرِيءٌ، فَقَدْ قِيلَ ذَاكَ،
bal ʾaradta ʾan yuqāla: fulānun jarīʾun, faqad qīla dhāka,
‘Instead, you wanted people to say, “So-and-so is brave.” And that has been said.
اِذْهَبْ فَلَيْسَ لَكَ الْيَوْمَ عِنْدَنَا شَيْءٌ ”،
idhhab falaysa laka al-yawma ʿindanā shayʾun ”,
Go. Today you have nothing with Us.’”
قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ: ثُمَّ ضَرَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَدَهُ عَلَى رُكْبَتِي،
qāla ʾabū hurayrata: thumma ḍaraba rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yadahu ʿalā rukbatī,
Abū Hurayra said: Then the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, struck my knee with his hand
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ، أُولَئِكَ الثَّلَاثَةُ أَوَّلُ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ تُسَعَّرُ بِهِمُ النَّارُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»،
thumma qāla: «yā ʾabā hurayrata, ʾūlāʾika al-thalāthatu ʾawwalu khalqi Allāhi tusaʿʿaru bihimu al-nāru yawma al-qiyāmati»,
and said, “Abū Hurayra, those three are the first of God’s creatures with whom the Fire will be kindled on the Day of Resurrection.”
قَالَ حَيْوَةُ أَوْ أَبُو عُثْمَانَ: فَأَخْبَرَنِي الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ - وَكَانَ سَيَّافًا لِمُعَاوِيَةَ - أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ يَعْنِي عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ،
qāla ḥaywatu ʾaw ʾabū ʿuthmāna: faʾakhbaranī al-ʿalāʾu bnu ḥakīmin - wakāna sayyāfan limuʿāwiyata - ʾannahu dakhala ʿalayhi rajulun yaʿnī ʿalā muʿāwiyata,
Ḥaywa, or Abū ʿUthmān, said: al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Ḥakīm told me—he was Muʿāwiya’s swordsman—that a man went in to see him, meaning Muʿāwiya,
فَحَدَّثَهُ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ،
faḥaddathahu bihādhā al-ḥadīthi ʿan ʾabī hurayrata,
and recounted to him this report from Abū Hurayra.
قَالَ الْوَلِيدُ: فَأَخْبَرَنِي عُقْبَةُ، أَنَّ شُفَيًّا هُوَ الَّذِي دَخَلَ عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ فَحَدَّثَهُ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ،
qāla al-walīdu: faʾakhbaranī ʿuqbatu, ʾanna shufayyan huwa al-ladhī dakhala ʿalā muʿāwiyata faḥaddathahu bihādhā al-ḥadīthi,
Al-Walīd said: ʿUqba told me that Shufayy was the one who went in to Muʿāwiya and recounted this report.
قَالَ: فَبَكَى مُعَاوِيَةُ فَاشْتَدَّ بُكَاؤُهُ ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ،
qāla: fabakā muʿāwiyatu fashtadda bukāʾuhu thumma ʾafāqa,
He said: Muʿāwiya wept intensely, then regained his composure,
وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: صَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
wahuwa yaqūlu: ṣadaqa Allāhu warasūluhu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
saying, “God and His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, have spoken truly:
«مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا نُوَفِّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ فِيهَا وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يُبْخَسُونَ
«man kāna yurīdu al-ḥayāta al-dunyā wazīnatahā nuwaffi ʾilayhim ʾaʿmālahum fīhā wahum fīhā lā yubkhasūna
Whoever desires this worldly life and its finery, We will repay them in full for their deeds in it, and they will not be shortchanged in it.
أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّارُ
ʾūlāʾika al-ladhīna laysa lahum fī al-ʾākhirati ʾillā al-nāru
Those are the ones who will have nothing in the Hereafter except the Fire.
وَحَبِطَ مَا صَنَعُوا فِيهَا وَبَاطِلٌ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ»
waḥabiṭa mā ṣanaʿū fīhā wabāṭilun mā kānū yaʿmalūna»
What they made in this world has come to nothing, and all they used to do is worthless.”
٤٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ:
470 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla:
470 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. They both said: Yaḥyā informed us; he said: al-Ḥusayn related to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said:
أَخْبَرَنَا بَكَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبَ بْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ يَقُولُ:
ʾakhbaranā bakkāru bnu ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu wahba bna munabbihin yaqūlu:
Bakkār ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; he said: I heard Wahb ibn Munabbih say:
“ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِيمَا يَعِيبُ بِهِ أَحْبَارَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ:
“ qāla Allāhu taʿālā fīmā yaʿību bihi ʾaḥbāra banī ʾisrāʾīla:
“God Most High said, reproaching the learned men of the Children of Israel:
تَفَقَّهُونَ لِغَيْرِ الدِّينِ،
tafaqqahūna lighayri al-dīni,
‘You study religious law for purposes other than religion,
وَتَعَلَّمُونَ لِغَيْرِ الْعَمَلِ،
wataʿallamūna lighayri al-ʿamali,
and learn without putting what you learn into practice.
وَتَبْتَاعُونَ الدُّنْيَا بِعَمَلِ الْآخِرَةِ،
watabtāʿūna al-dunyā biʿamali al-ʾākhirati,
You buy this world with deeds meant for the Hereafter.
تَلْبَسُونَ لِلنَّاسِ جُلُودَ الضَّأْنِ،
talbasūna li-l-nāsi julūda al-ḍaʾni,
Before other people you wear the skins of sheep,
وَتُخْفُونَ أَنْفُسَ الذِّئَابِ،
watukhfūna ʾanfusa al-dhiʾābi,
while you conceal the souls of wolves.
وَتَنْفُونَ الْقَذَى مِنْ شَرَابِكُمْ،
watanfūna al-qadhā min sharābikum,
You strain the speck of dirt from your drink,
وَتَبْتَلِعُونَ أَمْثَالَ الْجِبَالِ مِنَ الْحَرَامِ،
watabtaliʿūna ʾamthāla al-jibāli mina al-ḥarāmi,
yet swallow mountains of what is unlawful.
وَتُثَقِّلُونَ الدِّينَ عَلَى النَّاسِ أَمْثَالَ الْجِبَالِ،
watuthaqqilūna al-dīna ʿalā al-nāsi ʾamthāla al-jibāli,
You lay the burden of religion on people like mountains,
وَلَا تُعِينُونَهُمْ بِرَفْعِ الْخَنَاصِرِ،
walā tuʿīnūnahum birafʿi al-khanāṣiri,
yet do not lift even a little finger to help them.
تُطَوِّلُونَ الصَّلَاةَ،
tuṭawwilūna al-ṣalāta,
You lengthen your prayers
وَتُبَيِّضُونَ الثِّيَابَ،
watubayyiḍūna al-thiyāba,
and keep your clothes white,
تَقْتَنِصُونَ مَالَ الْيَتِيمِ وَالْأَرْمَلَةِ،
taqtaniṣūna māla al-yatīmi wa-l-ʾarmalati,
while you seize the wealth of orphans and widows.
فَبِعِزَّتِي حَلَفْتُ لَأَضْرِبَنَّكُمْ بِفِتْنَةٍ يَضِلُّ فِيهَا رَأْيُ كُلِّ ذِي رَأْيٍ، وَحِكْمَةُ الْحَكِيمِ ”
fabiʿizzatī ḥalaftu laʾaḍribannakum bifitnatin yaḍillu fīhā raʾyu kulli dhī raʾyin, waḥikmatu al-ḥakīmi ”
By My might, I swear I will strike you with a trial that will confound the judgment of every discerning person and the wisdom of the wise.’”
بَابُ تَوْبَةِ دَاوُدَ وَذِكْرِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ
bābu tawbati dāwūda wa-dhikri al-anbiyāʾi ṣalawātu Allāhi ʿalayhim
Chapter on David’s repentance and accounts of the prophets, God’s blessings be upon them.
٤٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
471 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
471 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي الْحَارِثَ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبًا الذِمَّارِيَّ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ،
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī al-ḥāritha bnu yazīda, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni rabāḥin qāla: samiʿtu wahban al-dhimmāriyya, yuḥaddithu ʿan faḍālata bni ʿubaydin,
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us; al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd told me, from ʿAlī ibn Rabāḥ, who said: I heard Wahb al-Dhimārī narrate from Faḍāla ibn ʿUbayd,
“ أَنَّ دَاوُدَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ سَأَلَ رَبَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يُخْبِرَهُ بِأَحَبِّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ:
“ ʾanna dāwūda ʿalayhi al-salāmu saʾala rabbahu ʿazza wajalla ʾan yukhbirahu biʾaḥabbi al-ʾaʿmāli ʾilayhi, faqāla:
who related that David, peace be upon him, asked his Lord, mighty and majestic, to tell him which deeds He loved most. He said:
عَشْرًا إِذَا فَعَلْتَهُنَّ يَا دَاوُدُ، لَا تَذْكُرَنَّ أَحَدًا مِنْ خَلْقِي إِلَّا بِخَيْرٍ، وَلَا تَغْتَابَنَّ أَحَدًا مِنْ خَلْقِي، وَلَا تَحْسُدَنَّ أَحَدًا مِنْ خَلْقِي،
ʿashran ʾidhā faʿaltahunna yā dāwūdu, lā tadhkuranna ʾaḥadan min khalqī ʾillā bikhayrin, walā taghtābanna ʾaḥadan min khalqī, walā taḥsudanna ʾaḥadan min khalqī,
‘Ten things, O David, if you do them: speak of none of My creatures except with good words; speak ill of none of My creatures behind their backs; and envy none of My creatures.’
قَالَ دَاوُدُ: يَا رَبِّ، هَؤُلَاءِ الثَّلَاثُ لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ فَأَمْسِكْ عَلَيَّ السَّبْعَ، وَلَكِنْ يَا رَبِّ أَخْبِرْنِي بِأَحِبَّائِكَ مِنْ خَلْقِكَ أُحِبُّهُمْ لَكَ،
qāla dāwūdu: yā rabbi, hāʾulāʾi al-thalāthu lā ʾastaṭīʿu faʾamsik ʿalayya al-sabʿa, walākin yā rabbi ʾakhbirnī biʾaḥibbāʾika min khalqika ʾuḥibbuhum laka,
David said, ‘My Lord, I cannot manage these three; spare me the seven. But, my Lord, tell me which of Your creatures are dear to You, so I may love them for Your sake.’
قَالَ: ذُو سُلْطَانٍ يَرْحَمُ النَّاسَ، وَيَحْكُمُ لِلنَّاسِ كَمَا يَحْكُمُ لِنَفْسِهِ، وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا فَهُوَ يُنْفِقُ مِنْهُ اِبْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ اللَّهِ وَفِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَرَجُلٌ يُفْنِي شَبَابَهُ وَقُوَّتَهُ فِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
qāla: dhū sulṭānin yarḥamu al-nāsa, wayaḥkumu li-l-nāsi kamā yaḥkumu linafsihi, warajulun ʾātāhu Allāhu mālan fahuwa yunfiqu minhu ibtighāʾa wajhi Allāhi wafī ṭāʿati Allāhi ʿazza wajalla, warajulun yufnī shabābahu waquwwatahu fī ṭāʿati Allāhi ʿazza wajalla,
He said, ‘A person in authority who has mercy on people and judges for them as he would for himself; a man to whom God has given wealth and who spends it seeking God's countenance and in obedience to Him, mighty and majestic; a man who gives his youth and strength in obedience to God, mighty and majestic;
وَرَجُلٌ كَانَ قَلْبُهُ مُعَلَّقًا فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ مِنْ حُبِّهِ إِيَّاهَا، وَرَجُلٌ لَقِيَ اِمْرَأَةً حَسْنَاءَ فَأَمْكَنَتْهُ مِنْ نَفْسِهَا فَتَرَكَهَا مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ، وَرَجُلٌ حَيْثُ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى مَعَهُ،
warajulun kāna qalbuhu muʿallaqan fī al-masājidi min ḥubbihi ʾiyyāhā, warajulun laqiya imraʾatan ḥasnāʾa faʾamkanathu min nafsihā fatarakahā min khashyati Allāhi, warajulun ḥaythu kāna yaʿlamu ʾanna Allāha taʿālā maʿahu,
a man whose heart is attached to the mosques because he loves them; a man who meets a beautiful woman who offers herself to him, yet turns away out of fear of God; and a man who, wherever he may be, knows that God Most High is with him.
نَقِيَّةٌ قُلُوبُهُمْ، طَيِّبٌ كَسْبُهُمْ، يَتَحَابُّونَ بِجَلَالِي، أُذْكَرُ بِهِمْ وَيُذْكَرُونَ بِذِكْرِي، وَرَجُلٌ فَاضَتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ”
naqiyyatun qulūbuhum, ṭayyibun kasbuhum, yataḥābbūna bijalālī, ʾudhkaru bihim wayudhkarūna bidhikrī, warajulun fāḍat ʿaynāhu min khashyati Allāhi ʿazza wajalla ”
Their hearts are pure, their earnings good, and they love one another for My majesty. I am remembered through them, and they are remembered when I am remembered. And a man whose eyes overflow out of fear of God, mighty and majestic.’
٤٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
472 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
472 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say:
“ لَمَّا أَصَابَ دَاوُدُ الْخَطِيئَةَ، خَرَّ سَاجِدًا أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: يَا دَاوُدُ، اِرْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ فَقَدْ عَفَوْتُ عَنْكَ، قَالَ: يَا رَبِّ، أَنْتَ حَكَمٌ عَدْلٌ لَا تَظْلِمُ، وَقَدْ قَتَلْتُ الرَّجُلَ، قَالَ: أَسْتَوْهِبُكَ مِنْهُ فَيَهَبُكَ لِي، فَأُثْنِيهِ الْجَنَّةَ ”
“ lammā ʾaṣāba dāwūdu al-khaṭīʾata, kharra sājidan ʾarbaʿīna laylatan, faqīla lahu: yā dāwūdu, irfaʿ raʾsaka faqad ʿafawtu ʿanka, qāla: yā rabbi, ʾanta ḥakamun ʿadlun lā taẓlimu, waqad qataltu al-rajula, qāla: ʾastawhibuka minhu fayahabuka lī, faʾuthnīhi al-jannata ”
‘When David fell into sin, he dropped into prostration for forty nights. He was told, “David, lift your head; I have pardoned you.” He said, “My Lord, You are a just judge who does no wrong, yet I have killed the man.” He said, “I shall ask him to grant you to Me, and he will grant you to Me; then I shall reward him with Paradise.”’
قَالَ: وَسَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ يَقُولُ:
qāla: wasamiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin yaqūlu:
He also said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr say:
«خَرَّ دَاوُدُ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً سَاجِدًا يَبْكِي، فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ وَمَا فِي جَبِينِهِ لُحَادَةٌ مِنْ لَحْمٍ»
«kharra dāwūdu ʾarbaʿīna laylatan sājidan yabkī, farafaʿa raʾsahu wamā fī jabīnihi luḥādatun min laḥmin»
‘David fell prostrate for forty nights, weeping. When he raised his head, there was not a scrap of flesh left on his forehead.’
٤٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
473 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
473 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَكَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبَ بْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā bakkāru bnu ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu wahba bna munabbihin yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Bakkār ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us. He said: I heard Wahb ibn Munabbih say:
“ مَا رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ حَتَّى قَالَ لَهُ الْمَلَكُ: أَوَّلُ أَمْرِكَ ذَنْبٌ، وَآخِرُهُ مَعْصِيَةٌ، اِرْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ، فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ، فَمَكَثَ حَيَاتَهُ لَا يَشْرَبُ مَاءً إِلَّا مَزَجَهُ بِدُمُوعِهِ، وَلَا يَأْكُلُ طَعَامًا إِلَّا بَلَّهُ بِدُمُوعِهِ، وَلَا يَضْطَجِعُ عَلَى فِرَاشٍ إِلَّا أَعْرَاهُ - أَوْ قَالَ: أَغْرَاهُ - بِدُمُوعِهِ حَتَّى اِنْهَرَمَ، فَكَانَ لَا يُدْفِئُهُ لِحَافٌ ”
“ mā rafaʿa raʾsahu ḥattā qāla lahu al-malaku: ʾawwalu ʾamrika dhanbun, waʾākhiruhu maʿṣiyatun, irfaʿ raʾsaka, farafaʿa raʾsahu, famakatha ḥayātahu lā yashrabu māʾan ʾillā mazajahu bidumūʿihi, walā yaʾkulu ṭaʿāman ʾillā ballahu bidumūʿihi, walā yaḍṭajiʿu ʿalā firāshin ʾillā ʾaʿrāhu - ʾaw qāla: ʾaghrāhu - bidumūʿihi ḥattā inharama, fakāna lā yudfiʾuhu liḥāfun ”
‘He did not raise his head until the angel said to him, “Your affair began in sin and ends in disobedience. Raise your head.” He raised it. For the rest of his life he drank no water without mixing it with his tears, ate no food without moistening it with his tears, and lay on no bedding without wetting it—or, as the narrator said, drenching it—with his tears. He grew so old that no blanket could keep him warm.’
٤٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
474 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
474 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شِبْلٌ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shiblun, ʿani ibni ʾabī najīḥin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shibl informed us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid, who said:
“ مَكَثَ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا سَاجِدًا - يَعْنِي دَاوُدَ، وَلَا يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ حَتَّى نَبَتَ الْمَرْعَى مِنْ دُمُوعِ عَيْنَيْهِ حَتَّى غَطَّى رَأْسَهُ،
“ makatha ʾarbaʿīna yawman sājidan - yaʿnī dāwūda, walā yarfaʿu raʾsahu ḥattā nabata al-marʿā min dumūʿi ʿaynayhi ḥattā ghaṭṭā raʾsahu,
‘He remained prostrate for forty days—meaning David—without raising his head. Grass sprang up from his tears until it covered his head.
فَنُودِيَ يَا دَاوُدُ، أَجَائِعٌ فَتُطْعَمَ؟ أَمْ ظَمْآنُ فَتُسْقَى؟ أَمْ عَارٍ فَتُكْسَى؟ قَالَ: فَأُجِيبَ فِي غَيْرِ مَا طَلَبَ، فَنَحِبَ نَحْبَةً هَاجَ مِنْهُ الْعُودُ فَاحْتَرَقَ مِنْ حَرِّ جَوْفِهِ،
fanūdiya yā dāwūdu, ʾajāʾiʿun fatuṭʿama? ʾam ẓamʾānu fatusqā? ʾam ʿārin fatuksā? qāla: faʾujība fī ghayri mā ṭalaba, fanaḥiba naḥbatan hāja minhu al-ʿūdu faḥtaraqa min ḥarri jawfihi,
Then he was called: “David, are you hungry, that you may be fed? Thirsty, that you may be given water? Or naked, that you may be clothed?” The answer he received did not address what he sought. He sobbed so fiercely that the wood stirred and caught fire from the heat within him.
ثُمَّ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ التَّوْبَةَ وَالْمَغْفِرَةَ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَبِّ، اِجْعَلْ خَطِيئَتِي فِي كَفِّي، فَكَانَ لَا يَبْسُطُ كَفَّهُ لِطَعَامٍ، وَلَا لِشَرَابٍ، وَلَا لِشَيْءٍ سِوَى ذَلِكَ إِلَّا رَآهَا فَأَبْكَتْهُ، قَالَ: فَإِنْ كَانَ لَيُؤْتَى بِالْقَدَحِ ثُلُثَاهُ مَاءٌ، فَإِذَا تَنَاوَلَهُ أَبْصَرَ خَطِيئَةً، فَمَا يَضَعُهُ عَلَى شَفَتَيْهِ حَتَّى يَفِيضَ مِنْ دُمُوعِهِ ”
thumma ʾanzala Allāhu al-tawbata wa-l-maghfirata, faqāla: yā rabbi, ijʿal khaṭīʾatī fī kaffī, fakāna lā yabsuṭu kaffahu liṭaʿāmin, walā lisharābin, walā lishayʾin siwā dhālika ʾillā raʾāhā faʾabkathu, qāla: faʾin kāna layuʾtā bi-l-qadaḥi thuluthāhu māʾun, faʾidhā tanāwalahu ʾabṣara khaṭīʾatan, famā yaḍaʿuhu ʿalā shafatayhi ḥattā yafīḍa min dumūʿihi ”
Then God sent down repentance and forgiveness. He said, “My Lord, place my sin in my palm.” Thereafter, whenever he opened his hand for food, drink, or anything else, he saw it and wept. A cup two thirds full of water would be brought to him; when he reached for it and saw the sin, his tears filled the cup before he could bring it to his lips.’
٤٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
475 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
475 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْجَدَلِيِّ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi Allāhi al-jadaliyyi qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥammād ibn Salama informed us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jadalī, who said:
«مَا رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ حَتَّى مَاتَ، حَيَاءً مِنْ رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ» يَعْنِي دَاوُدَ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
«mā rafaʿa raʾsahu ʾilā al-samāʾi ḥattā māta, ḥayāʾan min rabbihi ʿazza wajalla» yaʿnī dāwūda ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
‘He did not lift his head toward the sky before his death, out of shame before his Lord, mighty and majestic.’ He meant David, God's blessings and peace be upon him.
٤٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
476 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
476 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْفَزَارِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾibrāhīmu bnu muḥammadin al-fazāriyyu, ʿan ʿabdi al-maliki bni sulaymāna, ʿan mujāhidin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Fazārī informed us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Sulaymān, from Mujāhid, who said:
«كَانَتْ خَطِيئَةُ دَاوُدَ مَنْقُوشَةً فِي كَفِّهِ»
«kānat khaṭīʾatu dāwūda manqūshatan fī kaffihi»
‘David's sin was inscribed in his palm.’
٤٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
477 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
477 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَالْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْجَلْدِ قَالَ: قَرَأْتُ فِي مَسْأَلَةِ دَاوُدَ رَبَّهُ تَعَالَى:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, wa-l-haythamu bnu ḥumaydin qālā: ʾakhbaranā ṣāliḥun al-murriyyu, ʿan ʾabī ʿimrāna al-jawniyyi, ʿan ʾabī al-jaldi qāla: qaraʾtu fī masʾalati dāwūda rabbahu taʿālā:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak and al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd both informed us; Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī informed us, from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from Abū al-Jald, who said: I read among David's questions to his Lord Most High:
“ إِلَهِي مَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ عَزَّى الْحَزِينَ الْمُصَابَ اِبْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِكَ؟ قَالَ: جَزَاؤُهُ أَنْ أَكْسُوَهُ كِسَاءً مِنْ أَرْدِيَةِ الْإِيمَانِ، أَسْتُرُهُ بِهِ مِنَ النَّارِ،
“ ʾilāhī mā jazāʾu man ʿazzā al-ḥazīna al-muṣāba ibtighāʾa marḍātika? qāla: jazāʾuhu ʾan ʾaksuwahu kisāʾan min ʾardiyati al-ʾīmāni, ʾasturuhu bihi mina al-nāri,
‘My God, what is the reward of one who consoles a grieving person struck by loss, seeking Your pleasure?’ He said, ‘His reward is that I clothe him in a garment from the robes of faith, shielding him with it from the Fire.’
قَالَ: إِلَهِي فَمَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ يَتَّبِعُ الْجَنَائِزَ اِبْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِكَ؟ قَالَ: جَزَاؤُهُ أَنْ تُشَيِّعَهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ يَوْمَ يَمُوتُ، وَأُصَلِّي عَلَى رُوحِهِ فِي الْأَرْوَاحِ،
qāla: ʾilāhī famā jazāʾu man yattabiʿu al-janāʾiza ibtighāʾa marḍātika? qāla: jazāʾuhu ʾan tushayyiʿahu al-malāʾikatu yawma yamūtu, waʾuṣallī ʿalā rūḥihi fī al-ʾarwāḥi,
He asked, ‘My God, what is the reward of one who follows funeral processions, seeking Your pleasure?’ He said, ‘His reward is that the angels accompany him on the day he dies and that I bless his spirit among the spirits.’
قَالَ: إِلَهِي فَمَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ يُشْبِعُ الْيَتِيمَ وَالْأَرْمَلَةَ اِبْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِكَ؟ قَالَ: جَزَاؤُهُ أَنْ أُظِلَّهُ فِي ظِلِّي يَوْمَ لَا ظِلَّ إِلَّا ظِلِّي،
qāla: ʾilāhī famā jazāʾu man yushbiʿu al-yatīma wa-l-ʾarmalata ibtighāʾa marḍātika? qāla: jazāʾuhu ʾan ʾuẓillahu fī ẓillī yawma lā ẓilla ʾillā ẓillī,
He asked, ‘My God, what is the reward of one who feeds an orphan and a widow, seeking Your pleasure?’ He said, ‘His reward is that I shelter him in My shade on the day when there is no shade but Mine.’
قَالَ: إِلَهِي فَمَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ بَكَى مِنْ خَشْيَتِكَ حَتَّى تَسِيلَ دُمُوعُهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ؟ قَالَ: جَزَاؤُهُ أَنْ أُحَرِّمَ وَجْهَهُ عَنْ لَفْحِ النَّارِ، وَأَنْ أُؤَمِّنَهُ يَوْمَ الْفَزَعِ عَنْ لَفْحِ النَّارِ ”
qāla: ʾilāhī famā jazāʾu man bakā min khashyatika ḥattā tasīla dumūʿuhu ʿalā wajhihi? qāla: jazāʾuhu ʾan ʾuḥarrima wajhahu ʿan lafḥi al-nāri, waʾan ʾuʾamminahu yawma al-fazaʿi ʿan lafḥi al-nāri ”
He asked, ‘My God, what is the reward of one who weeps from fear of You until tears run down his face?’ He said, ‘His reward is that I spare his face the scorching heat of the Fire and give him security on the day of terror from its scorching heat.’
٤٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
478 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
478 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الصَّمَدِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ مَعْبَدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَوَّامِ مُؤَذِّنِ بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ، عَنْ كَعْبِ الْأَحْبَارِ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʿabdi al-ṣamadi qāla: ḥaddathanā māliku bnu dīnārin, ʿan maʿbadin al-juhaniyyi, ʿan ʾabī al-ʿawwāmi muʾadhdhini bayti al-maqdisi, ʿan kaʿbi al-ʾaḥbāri qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad informed us; Mālik ibn Dīnār related to us, from Maʿbad al-Juhanī, from Abū al-ʿAwwām, the muezzin of Jerusalem, from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, who said:
“ بَيْنَمَا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ يُصَلُّونَ فِي بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ إِذْ جَاءَ رَجُلَانِ، فَدَخَلَ أَحَدُهُمَا، وَلَمْ يَدْخُلِ الْآخَرُ، وَقَامَ خَارِجًا عَلَى أَبْوَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ، وَقَالَ: أَنَا أَدْخُلُ بَيْتَ اللَّهِ، لَيْسَ مِثْلِي يَدْخُلُ بَيْتَ اللَّهِ ، وَقَدْ عَمِلْتُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَجَعَلَ يَبْكِي، وَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ ”، قَالَ كَعْبٌ: «فَكُتِبَ مِنَ الْغَدِ أَنَّهُ صِدِّيقٌ»
“ baynamā banū ʾisrāʾīla yuṣallūna fī bayti al-maqdisi ʾidh jāʾa rajulāni, fadakhala ʾaḥaduhumā, walam yadkhuli al-ʾākharu, waqāma khārijan ʿalā ʾabwābi al-masjidi, waqāla: ʾanā ʾadkhulu bayta Allāhi, laysa mithlī yadkhulu bayta Allāhi , waqad ʿamiltu kadhā wakadhā, wajaʿala yabkī, walam yadkhul ”, qāla kaʿbun: «fakutiba mina al-ghadi ʾannahu ṣiddīqun»
‘While the Children of Israel were praying in Jerusalem, two men came. One went in; the other stayed outside at the mosque doors. He said, “Me, enter God's house? Someone like me cannot enter God's house after doing such and such!” He kept weeping and did not go in.’ Kaʿb said, ‘The next day it was written that he was a ṣiddīq, a person of deep truthfulness.’
٤٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
479 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
479 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ الْحِمْصِيِّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin, ʿan ʾabī salamata al-ḥimṣiyyi, ʿan yaḥyā bni jābirin, ʿan yazīda bni maysarata qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us, from Abū Salama al-Ḥimṣī, from Yaḥyā ibn Jābir, from Yazīd ibn Maysara, who said:
كَانَ طَعَامُ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا الْجَرَادَ، وَقُلُوبَ الشَّجَرِ، وَكَانَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ أَنْعَمُ مِنْكَ يَا يَحْيَى وَطَعَامُكَ الْجَرَادُ، وَقُلُوبُ الشَّجَرِ؟»
kāna ṭaʿāmu yaḥyā bni zakariyyā al-jarāda, waqulūba al-shajari, wakāna yaqūlu: «man ʾanʿamu minka yā yaḥyā waṭaʿāmuka al-jarādu, waqulūbu al-shajari?»
The food of Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā was locusts and the hearts of trees. He used to say, ‘Who enjoys greater comfort than you, Yaḥyā, when your food is locusts and the hearts of trees?’
٤٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
480 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
480 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ ثَابِتٌ الدَّوْسِيُّ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: كَانَ مِنْ دُعَاءِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū salamata thābitun al-dawsiyyu, ʿan sālimi bni ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla: kāna min duʿāʾi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us; Abū Salama Thābit al-Dawsī informed us, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: Among the Prophet's supplications, God's blessings and peace be upon him, was:
«اللَّهُمَّ اُرْزُقْنِي عَيْنَيْنِ هَطَّالَتَيْنِ تَبْكِيَانِ بِذُرُوفِ الدُّمُوعِ، وَتَشْفِيَانِي مِنْ خَشْيَتِكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَكُونَ الدُّمُوعُ دَمًا، وَالْأَضْرَاسُ جَمْرًا»
«Allāhumma urzuqnī ʿaynayni haṭṭālatayni tabkiyāni bidhurūfi al-dumūʿi, watashfiyānī min khashyatika qabla ʾan yakūna al-dumūʿu daman, wa-l-ʾaḍrāsu jamran»
‘O God, grant me two eyes that pour down tears, weeping streams of them and healing me through fear of You, before tears become blood and teeth become embers.’
٤٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
481 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
481 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir related to us. He said:
قُلْتُ لِيَزِيدَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ: مَا لِيَ أَرَى عَيْنَيْكَ لَا تَجِفُّ؟ قَالَ: «وَمَا مَسْأَلَتُكَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ؟» قُلْتُ: عَسَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يَنْفَعَ بِهِ، قَالَ: «يَا أَخِي، إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى تَوَاعَدَنِي إِنْ أَنَا عَصَيْتُهُ أَنْ يَسْجُنَنِي فِي النَّارِ، وَلَوْ تَوَاعَدَنِي أَلَّا يَسْجُنَنِي إِلَّا فِي الْحَمَّامِ لَكُنْتُ حَرِيًّا أَلَّا يَجِفَّ لِي عَيْنِي»
qultu liyazīda bni marthadin: mā liya ʾarā ʿaynayka lā tajiffu? qāla: «wamā masʾalatuka ʿan dhālika?» qultu: ʿasā Allāhu ʿazza wajalla ʾan yanfaʿa bihi, qāla: «yā ʾakhī, ʾinna Allāha taʿālā tawāʿadanī ʾin ʾanā ʿaṣaytuhu ʾan yasjunanī fī al-nāri, walaw tawāʿadanī ʾallā yasjunanī ʾillā fī al-ḥammāmi lakuntu ḥariyyan ʾallā yajiffa lī ʿaynī»
I asked Yazīd ibn Marthad, ‘Why do I see that your eyes never dry?’ He replied, ‘Why do you ask about that?’ I said, ‘Perhaps God, mighty and majestic, will let it benefit others.’ He said, ‘Brother, God Most High has warned me that, if I disobey Him, He will imprison me in the Fire. Even if He had warned me only of confinement in a bathhouse, I would have good reason for my eyes never to dry.’
٤٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
482 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
482 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir informed us. He said:
قِيلَ: لِيَزِيدَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ، أَهَكَذَا أَنْتَ فِي خَلَوَاتِكَ؟ قَالَ: «وَمَا مَسْأَلَتُكَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ؟» قُلْتُ: عَسَى اللَّهُ أَنْ يَنْفَعَ بِهِ، قَالَ: “
qīla: liyazīda bni marthadin, ʾahākadhā ʾanta fī khalawātika? qāla: «wamā masʾalatuka ʿan dhālika?» qultu: ʿasā Allāhu ʾan yanfaʿa bihi, qāla: “
Someone asked Yazīd ibn Marthad, ‘Are you like this when alone, too?’ He said, ‘Why do you ask?’ I said, ‘Perhaps God will let it benefit others.’
وَاللَّهِ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَيَعْرِضُ لِي حِينَ أَسْكُنُ إِلَى أَهْلِي، فَيَحُولُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ مَا أُرِيدُ، وَإِنَّهُ لَيُوضَعُ الطَّعَامُ بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ فَيَعْرِضُ لِي، فَيَحُولُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ أَكْلِهِ حَتَّى تَبْكِيَ اِمْرَأَتِي، وَيَبْكِيَ صِبْيَانُنَا، لَا يَدْرُونَ مَا أَبْكَانَا، وَلَرُبَّمَا أَضْجَرَ ذَلِكَ اِمْرَأَتِي، فَتَقُولُ: يَا وَيْحَهَا، خُصَّتْ بِهِ مَعَكَ مِنْ طُولِ الْحُزْنِ فِي هَذِهِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا مَا تَقَرُّ لِي مَعَكَ عَيْنٌ ”
wa-llāhi ʾinna dhālika layaʿriḍu lī ḥīna ʾaskunu ʾilā ʾahlī, fayaḥūlu baynī wabayna mā ʾurīdu, waʾinnahu layūḍaʿu al-ṭaʿāmu bayna yadayya fayaʿriḍu lī, fayaḥūlu baynī wabayna ʾaklihi ḥattā tabkiya imraʾatī, wayabkiya ṣibyānunā, lā yadrūna mā ʾabkānā, walarubbamā ʾaḍjara dhālika imraʾatī, fataqūlu: yā wayḥahā, khuṣṣat bihi maʿaka min ṭūli al-ḥuzni fī hādhihi al-ḥayāti al-dunyā mā taqarru lī maʿaka ʿaynun ”
He replied, ‘By God, it comes upon me even when I settle down with my family and keeps me from what I intended. Food is placed before me, but it comes upon me and keeps me from eating. My wife weeps, and our children weep, though they do not know what made us weep. Sometimes it so distresses my wife that she says, “Alas for her! She has been singled out to share your long sorrow in this worldly life; with you my eyes find no rest.”’
٤٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
483 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
483 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُهَاجِرِ،
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin, ʿan ʾismāʿīla bni ʿubaydi Allāhi bni ʾabī al-muhājiri,
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir informed us, from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī al-Muhājir, who related that:
أَنَّ دَاوُدَ كَانَ يُعَاتَبُ فِي كَثْرَةِ الْبُكَاءِ، فَيَقُولُ: «ذَرُونِي أَبْكِي قَبْلَ يَوْمِ الْبُكَاءِ، قَبْلَ تَحْرِيقِ الْعِظَامِ، وَاشْتِعَالِ اللِّحَى، قَبْلَ أَنْ يُؤْمَرَ بِي مَلَائِكَةٌ غِلَاظٌ شِدَادٌ لَا يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ، وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ»
ʾanna dāwūda kāna yuʿātabu fī kathrati al-bukāʾi, fayaqūlu: «dharūnī ʾabkī qabla yawmi al-bukāʾi, qabla taḥrīqi al-ʿiẓāmi, washtiʿāli al-liḥā, qabla ʾan yuʾmara bī malāʾikatun ghilāẓun shidādun lā yaʿṣūna Allāha mā ʾamarahum, wayafʿalūna mā yuʾmarūna»
David was reproached for weeping so much. He would say, ‘Let me weep before the day of weeping, before bones are burned and beards set alight, before harsh and mighty angels are commanded concerning me—angels who do not disobey God's commands and who do whatever they are ordered.’
٤٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
484 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
484 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْأَوْزَاعِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ بِلَالَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ʾawzāʿiyya yaqūlu: samiʿtu bilāla bna saʿdin:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us. He said: I heard al-Awzāʿī say: I heard Bilāl ibn Saʿd say:
«كَفَى بِي وَاللَّهِ ذَنْبًا أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُزَهِّدُنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَنَحْنُ نَرْغَبُ فِيهَا، فَزَاهِدُكُمْ رَاغِبٌ، وَعَالِمُكُمْ جَاهِلٌ، وَعَابِدُكُمْ مُقَصِّرٌ»
«kafā bī wa-llāhi dhanban ʾan yakūna Allāhu ʿazza wajalla yuzahhidunā fī al-dunyā, wanaḥnu narghabu fīhā, fazāhidukum rāghibun, waʿālimukum jāhilun, waʿābidukum muqaṣṣirun»
‘By God, it is sin enough for me that God, mighty and majestic, urges us to turn away from this world while we desire it. Your renunciant still desires it; your learned person is ignorant; and your worshipper falls short.’
٤٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
485 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
485 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْأَوْزَاعِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ بِلَالَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ، يَقُولُ فِي مَوَاعِظِهِ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ʾawzāʿiyya yaqūlu: samiʿtu bilāla bna saʿdin, yaqūlu fī mawāʿiẓihi:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us. He said: I heard al-Awzāʿī say: I heard Bilāl ibn Saʿd say in his exhortations:
«يَا أَهْلَ الْخُلُودِ، وَيَا أَهْلَ الْبَقَاءِ، إِنَّكُمْ لَمْ تُخْلَقُوا لِلْفَنَاءِ، وَإِنَّمَا تُنْقَلُونَ مِنْ دَارٍ إِلَى دَارٍ»
«yā ʾahla al-khulūdi, wayā ʾahla al-baqāʾi, ʾinnakum lam tukhlaqū li-l-fanāʾi, waʾinnamā tunqalūna min dārin ʾilā dārin»
‘People destined to remain, people destined to abide: you were not created to perish. You are only moved from one dwelling to another.’
٤٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
486 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
486 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ: عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ تَمِيمٍ، سَمِعْتُ بِلَالَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: qāla: ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni tamīmin, samiʿtu bilāla bna saʿdin yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us. He said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Tamīm said: I heard Bilāl ibn Saʿd say:
«يَا أَهْلَ الْخُلُودِ، يَا أَهْلَ الْبَقَاءِ، إِنَّكُمْ لَمْ تُخْلَقُوا لِلْفَنَاءِ، وَإِنَّمَا تُنْقَلُونَ مِنْ دَارٍ إِلَى دَارٍ، كَمَا نُقِلْتُمْ مِنَ الْأَصْلَابِ إِلَى الْأَرْحَامِ، وَمِنَ الْأَرْحَامِ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا، وَمِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَى الْقُبُورِ، وَمِنَ الْقُبُورِ إِلَى الْمَوْقِفِ، وَمِنَ الْمَوْقِفِ إِلَى الْخُلُودِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَوِ النَّارِ»
«yā ʾahla al-khulūdi, yā ʾahla al-baqāʾi, ʾinnakum lam tukhlaqū li-l-fanāʾi, waʾinnamā tunqalūna min dārin ʾilā dārin, kamā nuqiltum mina al-ʾaṣlābi ʾilā al-ʾarḥāmi, wamina al-ʾarḥāmi ʾilā al-dunyā, wamina al-dunyā ʾilā al-qubūri, wamina al-qubūri ʾilā al-mawqifi, wamina al-mawqifi ʾilā al-khulūdi fī al-jannati ʾawi al-nāri»
‘People destined to remain, people destined to abide: you were not created to perish. You are only moved from one dwelling to another, just as you were moved from the loins into wombs, from wombs into the world, from the world into graves, from graves to the place of standing, and from that place to abiding forever in Paradise or the Fire.’
٤٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
487 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
487 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْأَوْزَاعِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ بِلَالَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu bnu muslimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ʾawzāʿiyya yaqūlu: samiʿtu bilāla bna saʿdin yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed us. He said: I heard al-Awzāʿī say: I heard Bilāl ibn Saʿd say:
«أَخٌ لَكَ كُلَّمَا لَقِيَكَ ذَكَّرَكَ بِحَظِّكَ مِنَ اللَّهِ، خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ أَخٍ لَكَ كُلَّمَا لَقِيَكَ وَضَعَ فِي كَفِّكَ دِينَارًا»
«ʾakhun laka kullamā laqiyaka dhakkaraka biḥaẓẓika mina Allāhi, khayrun laka min ʾakhin laka kullamā laqiyaka waḍaʿa fī kaffika dīnāran»
‘A brother who reminds you of your portion with God whenever he meets you is better for you than a brother who puts a dinar in your palm whenever he meets you.’
٤٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
488 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
488 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan qatādata, ʿan ʾanasin, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Qatāda, from Anas, that the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:
«إِذَا حَضَرَ الْعَشَاءُ، وَأُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ فَابْدَءُوا بِالْعَشَاءِ» ، قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «لَا أَعْلَمُ رَوَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ إِلَّا اِبْنَ الْمُبَارَكِ»
«ʾidhā ḥaḍara al-ʿashāʾu, waʾuqīmati al-ṣalātu fabdaʾū bi-l-ʿashāʾi» , qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «lā ʾaʿlamu rawā hādhā al-ḥadītha ʿan maʿmarin ʾillā ibna al-mubāraki»
‘When supper is ready and the prayer is begun, start with supper.’ Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘I know of no one who transmitted this report from Maʿmar except Ibn al-Mubārak.’
٤٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
489 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
489 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَابِرٌ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-walīdu qāla: ḥaddathanā jābirun, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin al-khurāsāniyyi qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Walīd informed us; Jābir related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī, who said:
«نَقَشَ دَاوُدُ خَطِيئَتَهُ فِي كَفِّهِ لِكَيْ لَا يَنْسَاهَا، فَكَانَ إِذَا رَآهَا اِضْطَرَبَتْ يَدَاهُ»
«naqasha dāwūdu khaṭīʾatahu fī kaffihi likay lā yansāhā, fakāna ʾidhā raʾāhā iḍṭarabat yadāhu»
‘David inscribed his sin in his palm so that he would not forget it. Whenever he saw it, his hands trembled.’
٤٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
490 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
490 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ سَيَّارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā hushaymun, ʿan sayyārin, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym related to us, from Sayyār, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said:
«وَدِدْتُ أَنْ يُغْفَرَ لِي ذَنْبٌ وَاحِدٌ وَلَا يُعْرَفَ نَسَبِي»
«wadidtu ʾan yughfara lī dhanbun wāḥidun walā yuʿrafa nasabī»
‘I wish that one sin of mine would be forgiven, even if no one knew my lineage.’
٤٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
491 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
491 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ، قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimin, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna, qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū ʿUthmān, who said:
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَتَعَرَّضَ لِلْمَسْأَلَةِ - فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَكُمْ طَعَامٌ؟» ، قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «فَتَطْبُخُونَ فَتُطَيِّبُونَ وَتُقَزِّحُونَ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «أَلَكُمْ شَرَابٌ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، فَقَالَ: «فَتَعْرُضُونَ، وَتُبَرِّدُونَ، وَتُنَظِّفُونَ وَتُطَيِّبُونَ؟» ، قَالَ: نَعَمْ،
jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fataʿarraḍa li-l-masʾalati - faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «lakum ṭaʿāmun?» , qāla: naʿam, qāla: «fataṭbukhūna fatuṭayyibūna watuqazziḥūna?» qāla: naʿam, qāla: «ʾalakum sharābun?» qāla: naʿam, faqāla: «fataʿruḍūna, watubarridūna, watunaẓẓifūna watuṭayyibūna?» , qāla: naʿam,
A man came to the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, and began to ask him for something. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, asked, ‘Do you have food?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘Do you cook it, make it tasty, and season it?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘Do you have drink?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘Do you prepare it, cool it, strain it, and make it pleasant?’ He said, ‘Yes.’
قَالَ: «فَجَمَعْتَهَا جَمِيعًا فِي الْبَطْنِ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «فَأَيْنَ مَعَادُهُمَا؟» قَالَ: اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ، قَالَهَا ثَلَاثًا، قَالَ: «كَانَ مَعَادُهُمَا كَمَعَادِ الدُّنْيَا قُمْتَ إِلَى خَلْفِ بَيْتِكَ، فَأَمْسَكْتَ عَلَى أَنْفِكَ مِنْ نَتَنِ رِيحِهَا»
qāla: «fajamaʿtahā jamīʿan fī al-baṭni?» qāla: naʿam, qāla: «faʾayna maʿāduhumā?» qāla: Allāhu warasūluhu ʾaʿlamu, qālahā thalāthan, qāla: «kāna maʿāduhumā kamaʿādi al-dunyā qumta ʾilā khalfi baytika, faʾamsakta ʿalā ʾanfika min natani rīḥihā»
He asked, ‘Then you gather all of that in the belly?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘And where do the two end up?’ The man said three times, ‘God and His Messenger know best.’ He replied, ‘They end up like the world: you go behind your house and hold your nose against the foul smell.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ : «هَكَذَا رَوَاهُ اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَقَدْ ذَكَرَ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ فِيهِ سَلْمَانَ بِشَكٍّ»
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin : «hākadhā rawāhu ibnu al-mubāraki, waqad dhakara al-firyābiyyu fīhi salmāna bishakkin»
Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘That is how Ibn al-Mubārak transmitted it. Al-Firyābī included Salmān in it, but with uncertainty.’
٤٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
492 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
492 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زَنْجُوَيْهِ النَّسَائِيُّ، وَهَاشِمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ بِقَيْسَارِيَةَ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْفِرْيَابِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ _ قَالَ: سُفْيَانُ أُرَاهُ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ، قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā, qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥumaydu bnu zanjuwayhi al-nasāʾiyyu, wahāshimu bnu saʿīdin biqaysāriyata qālā: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu yūsufa al-firyābiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimi bni sulaymāna, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna — qāla: sufyānu ʾurāhu ʿan salmāna, qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; Ḥumayd ibn Zanjawayh al-Nasāʾī and Hāshim ibn Saʿīd in Caesarea both related to us; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī related to us; Sufyān related to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, from Abū ʿUthmān. Sufyān said, ‘I think it was from Salmān.’ He said:
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «أَلَكُمْ طَعَامٌ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «أَتُنَظِّفُونَ وَتَطْبُخُونَ وَتُقَزِّحُونَ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «وَتَفْعَلُونَ؟» ، قَالَ: نَعَمْ،
jāʾa rajulun ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla: «ʾalakum ṭaʿāmun?» qāla: naʿam, qāla: «ʾatunaẓẓifūna wataṭbukhūna watuqazziḥūna?» qāla: naʿam, qāla: «watafʿalūna?» , qāla: naʿam,
A man came to the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him. He asked, ‘Do you have food?’ The man said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘Do you clean it, cook it, and season it?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘And you do that?’ He said, ‘Yes.’
قَالَ: وَلَكُمْ شَرَابٌ؟ " قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «أَتُبَرِّدُونَ، وَتُنَظِّفُونَ، وَتُقَزِّحُونَ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: «فَأَيْنَ مَعَادُهُمَا؟» قَالَ: اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ، قَالَ: «فَإِنَّ مَعَادَهُمَا كَمَعَادِ الدُّنْيَا، يَقُومُ أَحَدُكُمْ خَلْفَ بَيْتِهِ فَيُمْسِكُ عَلَى أَنْفِهِ مِنْ نَتَنِ رِيحِهِ»
qāla: walakum sharābun? " qāla: naʿam, qāla: «ʾatubarridūna, watunaẓẓifūna, watuqazziḥūna?» qāla: naʿam, qāla: «faʾayna maʿāduhumā?» qāla: Allāhu warasūluhu ʾaʿlamu, qāla: «faʾinna maʿādahumā kamaʿādi al-dunyā, yaqūmu ʾaḥadukum khalfa baytihi fayumsiku ʿalā ʾanfihi min natani rīḥihi»
He asked, ‘Do you have drink?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘Do you cool it, strain it, and season it?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘And where do the two end up?’ He said, ‘God and His Messenger know best.’ He replied, ‘They end up like the world: one of you goes behind his house and holds his nose against its foul smell.’
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ وَوَقَفَهُ بَعْضٌ وَرَفَعَهُ بَعْضٌ»
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «waqad ruwiya hādhā al-ḥadīthu ʿan ʾubayyi bni kaʿbin wawaqafahu baʿḍun warafaʿahu baʿḍun»
Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘This report has also been transmitted from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb: some stopped the chain at him, while others raised it to the Prophet.’
٤٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
493 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
493 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ عُتَيٍّ السَّعْدِيِّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أُبَيَّ بْنَ كَعْبٍ يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā, qāla: ḥaddathanā ziyādu bnu ʾayyūba qāla: ḥaddathanā hushaymun qāla: ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu ʿubaydin, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan ʿutayyin al-saʿdiyyi qāla: samiʿtu ʾubayya bna kaʿbin yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; Ziyād ibn Ayyūb related to us; Hushaym related to us; Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd informed us, from al-Ḥasan, from ʿUtayy al-Saʿdī, who said: I heard Ubayy ibn Kaʿb say:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى جَعَلَ مَطْعَمَ اِبْنِ آدَمَ مَثَلًا لِلدُّنْيَا، وَإِنْ مَلَّحَهُ وَقَزَّحَهُ فَقَدْ عَلِمَ إِلَى مَا يَصِيرُ» قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «وَقَدْ رُفِعَ عَنِ الثَّوْرِيِّ، وَعَبْدِ السَّلَامِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ»
«ʾinna Allāha taʿālā jaʿala maṭʿama ibni ʾādama mathalan li-l-dunyā, waʾin mallaḥahu waqazzaḥahu faqad ʿalima ʾilā mā yaṣīru» qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «waqad rufiʿa ʿani al-thawriyyi, waʿabdi al-salāmi bni ḥarbin»
‘God Most High has made the food of Adam's child a likeness of the world. Even if he salts and seasons it, he knows what it will become.’ Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘It has also been transmitted as a Prophetic report through al-Thawrī and ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥarb.’
٤٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
494 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
494 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَاهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْوَرَّاقُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ عُتَيٍّ، عَنْ أُبَيٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ḥaddathanāhu muḥammadu bnu ʿaliyyin al-warrāqu, qāla: ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu masʿūdin qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan yūnusa bni ʿubaydin, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan ʿutayyin, ʿan ʾubayyin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Warrāq related it to us; Mūsā ibn Masʿūd related to us; Sufyān related to us, from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, from al-Ḥasan, from ʿUtayy, from Ubayy, who said: God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:
«إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا ضُرِبَتْ مَثَلًا لِابْنِ آدَمَ فَانْظُرْ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنَ اِبْنِ آدَمَ، وَإِنْ قَزَّحَهُ وَمَلَّحَهُ إِلَى مَا يَصِيرُ»
«ʾinna al-dunyā ḍuribat mathalan libni ʾādama fanẓur mā yakhruju mina ibni ʾādama, waʾin qazzaḥahu wamallaḥahu ʾilā mā yaṣīru»
‘The world has been set forth as a likeness for Adam's child. Look at what comes out of Adam's child, even if he seasoned and salted it—and what it becomes.’
٤٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
495 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
495 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو غَسَّانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ السَّلَامِ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ عُتَيٍّ، عَنْ أُبَيٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā, qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu al-haythami, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū ghassāna qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-salāmi bnu ḥarbin, ʿan yūnusa, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan ʿutayyin, ʿan ʾubayyin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham related to us; Abū Ghassān related to us; ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥarb related to us, from Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, from ʿUtayy, from Ubayy, from the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, who said:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ ضَرَبَ الدُّنْيَا لِمَطْعَمِ اِبْنِ آدَمَ مَثَلًا، وَضَرَبَ مَطْعَمَ اِبْنِ آدَمَ لِلدُّنْيَا مَثَلًا، وَإِنْ قَزَّحَهُ وَمَلَّحَهُ» قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: «وَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهُمْ يُطَيِّبُونَهُ بِالْأَفَاوِيهِ وَالطِّيبِ، ثُمَّ يَرْمُونَ بِهِ حَيْثُ رَأَيْتُمْ»
«ʾinna Allāha ḍaraba al-dunyā limaṭʿami ibni ʾādama mathalan, waḍaraba maṭʿama ibni ʾādama li-l-dunyā mathalan, waʾin qazzaḥahu wamallaḥahu» qāla al-ḥasanu: «waqad raʾaytuhum yuṭayyibūnahu bi-l-ʾafāwīhi wa-l-ṭībi, thumma yarmūna bihi ḥaythu raʾaytum»
‘God has made the world a likeness of Adam's food, and Adam's food a likeness of the world, even if he seasons and salts it.’ Al-Ḥasan said, ‘I have seen them make it pleasant with spices and fragrances, then cast it away where you have seen.’
٤٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
496 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
496 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْمُسْتَوْرِدِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ، أَحَدِ بَنِي فِهْرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿani al-mustawridi bni shaddādin, ʾaḥadi banī fihrin, qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddād, a man of Banū Fihr, who said: I heard God's Messenger say:
«مَا الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا كَمَا يَجْعَلُ أَحَدُكُمْ أُصْبُعَهُ هَذِهِ فِي الْيَمِّ، فَلْيَنْظُرْ بِمَ تَرْجِعُ»
«mā al-dunyā fī al-ʾākhirati ʾillā kamā yajʿalu ʾaḥadukum ʾuṣbuʿahu hādhihi fī al-yammi, falyanẓur bima tarjiʿu»
‘Compared with the hereafter, this world is only like one of you putting this finger of his into the sea. Let him see what it brings back.’
٤٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
497 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
497 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُطَرِّفًا يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ،
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan qatādata qāla: samiʿtu muṭarrifan yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʾabīhi,
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba informed us, from Qatāda, who said: I heard Muṭarrif narrate from his father that:
أَنَّهُ اِنْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ يَعْنِي النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ يَقْرَأُ: {أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرَ} [التَّكَاثُرِ: ٢] : «يَقُولُ اِبْنُ آدَمَ مَالِي مَالِي، فَهَلْ لَكَ مِنْ مَالِكَ إِلَّا مَا أَكَلْتَ فَأَفْنَيْتَ؟ أَوْ لَبِسْتَ فَأَبْلَيْتَ؟ أَوْ تَصَدَّقْتَ فَأَمْضَيْتَ؟»
ʾannahu intahā ʾilayhi yaʿnī al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wahuwa yaqraʾu: {ʾalhākumu al-takāthuru ḥattā zurtumu al-maqābira} [al-takāthuri: 2] : «yaqūlu ibnu ʾādama mālī mālī, fahal laka min mālika ʾillā mā ʾakalta faʾafnayta? ʾaw labista faʾablayta? ʾaw taṣaddaqta faʾamḍayta?»
He reached the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, while he was reciting, ‘The pursuit of more has distracted you until you visit the graves’ [Qurʾān 102:1–2]. He said, ‘Adam's child says, “My wealth, my wealth!” Yet what of your wealth is yours except what you eat and consume, what you wear and wear out, or what you give in charity and send ahead?’
٤٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
498 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
498 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ، يَقُولُ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana, yaqūlu:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say:
خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فِي أَصْحَابِهِ إِلَى بَقِيعِ الْغَرْقَدِ، فَقَالَ: «السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ يَا أَهْلَ الْقُبُورِ، لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا نَجَّاكُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ مِمَّا هُوَ كَائِنٌ بَعْدَكُمْ،»
kharaja rasūlu Allāhi fī ʾaṣḥābihi ʾilā baqīʿi al-gharqadi, faqāla: «al-salāmu ʿalaykum yā ʾahla al-qubūri, law taʿlamūna mā najjākumu Allāhu minhu mimmā huwa kāʾinun baʿdakum,»
God's Messenger went with his companions to Baqīʿ al-Gharqad. He said, ‘Peace be upon you, people of the graves. If only you knew what God has spared you of what will come after you!’
ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ، فَقَالَ: «هَؤُلَاءِ خَيْرٌ لِي مِنْكُمْ» ، فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِخْوَانُنَا أَسْلَمْنَا كَمَا أَسْلَمُوا، وَهَاجَرْنَا كَمَا هَاجَرُوا، وَجَاهَدْنَا كَمَا جَاهَدُوا، وَأَتَوْا عَلَى آجَالِهِمْ فَمَضَوْا فِيهَا، وَبَقِينَا فِي آجَالِنَا، فَمَا يَجْعَلُهُمْ خَيْرًا مِنَّا؟
thumma ʾaqbala ʿalā ʾaṣḥābihi, faqāla: «hāʾulāʾi khayrun lī minkum» , faqālū: yā rasūla Allāhi ʾikhwānunā ʾaslamnā kamā ʾaslamū, wahājarnā kamā hājarū, wajāhadnā kamā jāhadū, waʾataw ʿalā ʾājālihim famaḍaw fīhā, wabaqīnā fī ʾājālinā, famā yajʿaluhum khayran minnā?
Then he turned to his companions and said, ‘These people are better for me than you.’ They said, ‘Messenger of God, they are our brothers. We embraced Islam as they did, emigrated as they did, and fought as they did. Their appointed times came and they passed away, while we have remained until ours. What makes them better than us?’
قَالَ: «إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ خَرَجُوا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، وَلَمْ يَأْكُلُوا مِنْ أُجُورِهِمْ شَيْئًا، وَخَرَجُوا وَأَنَا الشَّهِيدُ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَإِنَّكُمْ قَدْ أَكَلْتُمْ مِنْ أُجُورِكُمْ، وَلَا أَدْرِي مَا تُحْدِثُونَ بَعْدِي» ،
qāla: «ʾinna hāʾulāʾi kharajū mina al-dunyā, walam yaʾkulū min ʾujūrihim shayʾan, wakharajū waʾanā al-shahīdu ʿalayhim, waʾinnakum qad ʾakaltum min ʾujūrikum, walā ʾadrī mā tuḥdithūna baʿdī» ,
He said, ‘They left the world without taking any of their rewards, and they departed while I was a witness over them. You, however, have taken some of your rewards, and I do not know what you will do after me.’
قَالَ: فَلَمَّا سَمِعَهَا الْقَوْمُ وَاللَّهِ عَقَلُوهَا، وَانْتَفَعُوا بِهَا، قَالُوا: وَإِنَّا لَمُحَاسَبُونَ بِمَا أَصَبْنَا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، وَإِنَّهُ لَيُنْقَصُ بِهِ مِنْ أُجُورِنَا، فَأَكَلُوا وَاللَّهِ طَيِّبًا وَأَنْفَقُوا قَصْدًا، وَقَدَّمُوا فَضْلًا
qāla: falammā samiʿahā al-qawmu wa-llāhi ʿaqalūhā, wantafaʿū bihā, qālū: waʾinnā lamuḥāsabūna bimā ʾaṣabnā mina al-dunyā, waʾinnahu layunqaṣu bihi min ʾujūrinā, faʾakalū wa-llāhi ṭayyiban waʾanfaqū qaṣdan, waqaddamū faḍlan
When the people heard this, by God, they understood it and took it to heart. They said, ‘We will be called to account for what we have received of this world, and it diminishes our rewards.’ By God, they ate what was wholesome, spent moderately, and sent their surplus ahead.
٤٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
499 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
499 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
قَالَ رَجُلٌ لِأَخِيهِ لَمَّا فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ: “ يَا أَخِي، أَتَخْشَى أَنْ يَبْلُغَنَا مَا نَرَى عَلَى مَا نَعْلَمُ؟ قَالَ: وَمَا يُؤَمِّنُكَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ؟ ”
qāla rajulun liʾakhīhi lammā fataḥa Allāhu ʿalayhim: “ yā ʾakhī, ʾatakhshā ʾan yablughanā mā narā ʿalā mā naʿlamu? qāla: wamā yuʾamminuka min dhālika? ”
When God granted them an opening, a man said to his brother, ‘My brother, are you afraid that what we now see may reach us because of what we know?’ He replied, ‘What makes you feel safe from that?’
٥٠٠ - أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ الزَّاهِدُ الْعَالِمُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ الدُّلَفِيُّ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، عَلَى الشَّيْخِ الثِّقَةِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ ثَانِي عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى مِنْ سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ، وَأَنَا حَاضِرٌ، وَأَقَرَّ بِهِ،
500 - ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu al-jalīlu al-zāhidu al-ʿālimu ʾabū ʿaliyyin al-ḥusaynu bnu muḥammadi bni al-ḥusayni al-dulafiyyu al-maqdisiyyu raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu qāla: qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu, ʿalā al-shaykhi al-thiqati ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadi bni al-ḥasani al-jawhariyyi bibaghdāda bibābi al-marātibi ḥarasahā Allāhu ghadāta yawmi al-ʾithnayni thānī ʿashara jumādā al-ʾūlā min sanati ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿimiʾatin, waʾanā ḥāḍirun, waʾaqarra bihi,
500 — The noble ascetic scholar, Shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Dulafī al-Maqdisī, may God be pleased with him, informed us. He said: Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī read aloud to the trustworthy Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jawharī in Baghdad, at Bāb al-Marātib—may God protect it—on Monday morning, 12 Jumādā I 454 AH. I was present, and he affirmed it.
قَالَ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَيَوَيْهِ الْخَزَّازُ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْوَرَّاقُ قِرَاءَةً عَلَى كُلٍّ مِنْهُمَا وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ،
qāla: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadi bni zakariyyā bni ḥayawayhi al-khazzāzu, waʾabū bakrin muḥammadu bnu ʾismāʿīla al-warrāqu qirāʾatan ʿalā kullin minhumā waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu,
He said: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥayawayh al-Khazzāz and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq informed you, as the text was read to each of them while you were present and listening.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ حُصَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ،
qālā: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin, ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ḥuṣayni bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi,
Both said: Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, that:
أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ، رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، كَانَ اِسْتَعْمَلَ النُّعْمَانَ بْنَ مُقَرِّنٍ عَلَى كَسْكَرَ، فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يُنَاشِدُهُ اللَّهَ إِلَّا نَزَعَهُ عَنْ كَسْكَرَ، وَبَعَثَهُ فِي جَيْشٍ مِنْ جُيُوشِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، فَإِنَّمَا مَثَلُهُ مَثَلُ كَسْكَرَ مَثَلُ مُومِسَةٍ تَزَيَّنُ لِي فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ، فَنَزَعَهُ وَبَعَثَهُ فِي الْجَيْشِ الَّذِي بَعَثَهُ إِلَى نَهَاوَنْدَ "
ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi, raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu, kāna istaʿmala al-nuʿmāna bna muqarrinin ʿalā kaskara, fakataba ʾilayhi yunāshiduhu Allāha ʾillā nazaʿahu ʿan kaskara, wabaʿathahu fī jayshin min juyūshi al-muslimīna, faʾinnamā mathaluhu mathalu kaskara mathalu mūmisatin tazayyanu lī fī kulli yawmin, fanazaʿahu wabaʿathahu fī al-jayshi al-ladhī baʿathahu ʾilā nahāwanda "
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, had appointed al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin over Kaskar. Al-Nuʿmān wrote to him, appealing to him by God to remove him from Kaskar and send him with one of the Muslim armies. ‘My situation in Kaskar,’ he said, ‘is like a prostitute who adorns herself for me every day.’ ʿUmar removed him and sent him with the army bound for Nahāwand.
٥٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
501 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
501 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ اِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan māliki bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni yazīda, ʿani ibni masʿūdin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Sulaymān, from Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said:
«أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ أَطْوَلُ اِجْتِهَادًا وَأَطْوَلُ صَلَاةً، أَوْ أَكْثَرُ صَلَاةً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَكَانُوا خَيْرًا مِنْكُمْ» ، فَقِيلَ: لِمَ؟ قَالَ: «كَانُوا أَزْهَدَ مِنْكُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَأَرْغَبَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ»
«ʾantumu al-yawma ʾaṭwalu ijtihādan waʾaṭwalu ṣalātan, ʾaw ʾaktharu ṣalātan min ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wakānū khayran minkum» , faqīla: lima? qāla: «kānū ʾazhada minkum fī al-dunyā waʾarghaba fī al-ʾākhirati»
‘Today you strive longer and pray longer—or pray more—than the companions of God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, yet they were better than you.’ He was asked, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘They were less attached to this world than you and more eager for the hereafter.’
٥٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
502 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
502 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ الْمِسْوَرَ بْنَ مَخْرَمَةَ، أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ عَمْرَو بْنَ عَوْفٍ، وَهُوَ حَلِيفُ بَنِي عَامِرِ بْنِ لُؤَيٍّ وَكَانَ شَهِدَ بَدْرًا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، أَخْبَرَهُ
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ʿurwata bni al-zubayri, ʾakhbarahu ʾanna al-miswara bna makhramata, ʾakhbarahu ʾanna ʿamra bna ʿawfin, wahuwa ḥalīfu banī ʿāmiri bni luʾayyin wakāna shahida badran maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, ʾakhbarahu
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr. ʿUrwa informed him that al-Miswar ibn Makhrama had told him that ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf—an ally of Banū ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy who had taken part in Badr with God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him—had told him that:
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَعَثَ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْجَرَّاحِ فَقَدِمَ بِمَالٍ مِنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ، فَسَمِعَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ بِقُدُومِ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، فَوَافَوْا صَلَاةَ الْفَجْرِ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama baʿatha ʾabā ʿubaydata bna al-jarrāḥi faqadima bimālin mina al-baḥrayni, fasamiʿati al-ʾanṣāru biqudūmi ʾabī ʿubaydata, fawāfaw ṣalāta al-fajri maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, sent Abū ʿUbayda ibn al-Jarrāḥ, who brought back money from Bahrain. The Anṣār heard that Abū ʿUbayda had returned and attended the dawn prayer with God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him.
فَلَمَّا صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ اِنْصَرَفَ، فَتَعَرَّضُوا لَهُ، فَتَبَسَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حِينَ رَآهُمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «أَظُنُّكُمْ سَمِعْتُمْ أَنَّ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ قَدِمَ بِشَيْءٍ؟» قَالُوا: أَجَلْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ،
falammā ṣallā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā ʿalayhi wasallama inṣarafa, fataʿarraḍū lahu, fatabassama rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥīna raʾāhum, thumma qāla: «ʾaẓunnukum samiʿtum ʾanna ʾabā ʿubaydata qadima bishayʾin?» qālū: ʾajal yā rasūla Allāhi,
When God’s Messenger, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, finished praying and turned away, they came forward. God’s Messenger, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, smiled when he saw them, then said, ‘I expect you have heard that Abū ʿUbayda has brought something back?’ They said, ‘Yes, Messenger of God.’
قَالَ: «فَأَبْشِرُوا وَأَمِّلُوا مَا يَسُرُّكُمْ، فَوَاللَّهِ مَا الْفَقْرَ أَخْشَى عَلَيْكُمْ، وَلَكِنِّي أَخْشَى أَنْ تُبْسَطَ الدُّنْيَا عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَا بُسِطَتْ عَلَى مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ، فَتَنَافَسُوهَا كَمَا تَنَافَسُوهَا فَتُهْلِكَكُمْ كَمَا أَهْلَكَتْهُمْ»
qāla: «faʾabshirū waʾammilū mā yasurrukum, fawallāhi mā al-faqra ʾakhshā ʿalaykum, walākinnī ʾakhshā ʾan tubsaṭa al-dunyā ʿalaykum kamā busiṭat ʿalā man kāna qablakum, fatanāfasūhā kamā tanāfasūhā fatuhlikakum kamā ʾahlakathum»
He said, ‘Then receive good news, and hope for what will please you. By God, it is not poverty that I fear for you. I fear that the world will be spread out for you as it was spread out for those before you, that you will vie for it as they did, and that it will destroy you as it destroyed them.’
٥٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
503 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
503 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، وَسَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، أَنَّ حَكِيمَ بْنَ حِزَامٍ قَالَ:
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ʿurwata, wasaʿīdi bni al-musayyibi, ʾanna ḥakīma bna ḥizāmin qāla:
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwa and Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, that Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām said:
سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَأَعْطَانِي، ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْطَانِي، ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْطَانِي، ثَلَاثًا،
saʾaltu rasūla Allāhi faʾaʿṭānī, thumma saʾaltuhu faʾaʿṭānī, thumma saʾaltuhu faʾaʿṭānī, thalāthan,
I asked God's Messenger for something and he gave to me. I asked again and he gave to me; I asked a third time and he gave to me.
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «يَا حَكِيمُ، إِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ خَضِرَةٌ حُلْوَةٌ، فَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِسَخَاوَةِ نَفْسٍ بُورِكَ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِإِشْرَافِ نَفْسٍ لَمْ يُبَارَكْ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَكَانَ كَالَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَلَا يَشْبَعُ، وَالْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى» ،
thumma qāla: «yā ḥakīmu, ʾinna hādhā al-māla khaḍiratun ḥulwatun, faman ʾakhadhahu bisakhāwati nafsin būrika lahu fīhi, waman ʾakhadhahu biʾishrāfi nafsin lam yubārak lahu fīhi, wakāna ka-l-ladhī yaʾkulu walā yashbaʿu, wa-l-yadu al-ʿulyā khayrun mina al-yadi al-suflā» ,
Then he said, ‘Ḥakīm, this wealth is green and sweet. Whoever takes it with an open, contented heart will be blessed in it. Whoever takes it with grasping desire will find no blessing in it, and will be like one who eats but is never satisfied. The upper hand is better than the lower hand.’
قَالَ حَكِيمٌ: فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ لَا أَرْزَأُ أَحَدًا بَعْدَكَ شَيْئًا حَتَّى أُفَارِقَ الدُّنْيَا
qāla ḥakīmun: faqultu: yā rasūla Allāhi, wa-l-ladhī baʿathaka bi-l-ḥaqqi lā ʾarzaʾu ʾaḥadan baʿdaka shayʾan ḥattā ʾufāriqa al-dunyā
Ḥakīm said: I replied, ‘Messenger of God, by the One who sent you with the truth, I shall take nothing from anyone after you until I leave this world.’
وَكَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَدْعُو حَكِيمًا إِلَى الْعَطَاءِ فَيَأْبَى أَنْ يَقْبَلَ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ إِنَّ عُمَرَ دَعَاهُ لِلْعَطِيَّةِ فَأَبَى أَنْ يَقْبَلَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا،
wakāna ʾabū bakrin yadʿū ḥakīman ʾilā al-ʿaṭāʾi fayaʾbā ʾan yaqbala minhu, thumma ʾinna ʿumara daʿāhu li-l-ʿaṭiyyati faʾabā ʾan yaqbala minhu shayʾan,
Abū Bakr would summon Ḥakīm to receive a payment, but he refused to accept it. Then ʿUmar invited him to take his allotment, and he again refused.
فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: إِنِّي أُشْهِدُكُمْ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ عَلَى حَكِيمٍ، أَنِّي أَعْرِضُ عَلَيْهِ حَقَّهُ مِنْ هَذَا الْفَيْءِ فَيَأْبَى أَنْ يَأْخُذَهُ، قَالَ: فَلَمْ يَرْزَأْ حَكِيمٌ أَحَدًا مِنَ النَّاسِ شَيْئًا بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَتَّى تُوُفِّيَ "
faqāla ʿumaru: ʾinnī ʾushhidukum yā maʿshara al-muslimīna ʿalā ḥakīmin, ʾannī ʾaʿriḍu ʿalayhi ḥaqqahu min hādhā al-fayʾi fayaʾbā ʾan yaʾkhudhahu, qāla: falam yarzaʾ ḥakīmun ʾaḥadan mina al-nāsi shayʾan baʿda rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥattā tuwuffiya "
ʿUmar said, ‘Muslims, I call you to witness concerning Ḥakīm: I offer him his right from this public revenue, but he refuses to take it.’ After God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, Ḥakīm took nothing from anyone until he died.
٥٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ
504 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu
504 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you.
قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا الْخَيْرِ، حَدَّثَهُ، أَنَّ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ، حَدَّثَهُمْ
qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ḥaddathanī yazīdu bnu ʾabī ḥabībin, ʾanna ʾabā al-khayri, ḥaddathahu, ʾanna ʿuqbata bna ʿāmirin, ḥaddathahum
Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb told me; Abū al-Khayr told him; ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir told them that:
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ صَلَّى عَلَى قَتْلَى أُحُدٍ بَعْدَ ثَمَانِي سِنِينَ كَالْمُوَدِّعِ لِلْأَحْيَاءِ وَالْأَمْوَاتِ،
ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ṣallā ʿalā qatlā ʾuḥudin baʿda thamānī sinīna kālmuwaddiʿi li-l-ʾaḥyāʾi wa-l-ʾamwāti,
Eight years after Uḥud, God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, prayed over those killed there, as though bidding farewell to the living and the dead.
ثُمَّ طَلَعَ الْمِنْبَرَ، وَقَالَ: «إِنِّي بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ فَرَطٌ، وَأَنَا عَلَيْكُمْ شَهِيدٌ، وَإِنَّ مَوْعِدَكُمُ الْحَوْضُ، وَإِنِّي لَأَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَأَنَا فِي مَقَامِي هَذَا، وَإِنِّي لَسْتُ أَخْشَى عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ تُشْرِكُوا، وَلَكِنْ أَخْشَى عَلَيْكُمُ الدُّنْيَا أَنْ تَنَافَسُوهَا» ،
thumma ṭalaʿa al-minbara, waqāla: «ʾinnī bayna ʾaydīkum faraṭun, waʾanā ʿalaykum shahīdun, waʾinna mawʿidakumu al-ḥawḍu, waʾinnī laʾanẓuru ʾilayhi waʾanā fī maqāmī hādhā, waʾinnī lastu ʾakhshā ʿalaykum ʾan tushrikū, walākin ʾakhshā ʿalaykumu al-dunyā ʾan tanāfasūhā» ,
Then he ascended the pulpit and said, ‘I go before you, and I shall be a witness over you. Your meeting place is the Pool; I can see it from where I stand. I do not fear that you will associate others with God, but I fear that you will compete for this world.’
قَالَ عُقْبَةُ: «وَكَانَتْ آخِرَ نَظْرَةٍ نَظَرْتُهَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ»
qāla ʿuqbatu: «wakānat ʾākhira naẓratin naẓartuhā ʾilā rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama»
ʿUqba said, ‘That was the last time I saw God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him.’
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