27–34 Kitab al Zuhd Wal Raqaiq: The Book of Zuhd and Heart-Softening Narrations by Abdullah bin Mubarak

كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ وَالرَّقَائِقِ

Kitāb al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqāʾiq

Worldly Detachment, Lawful Provision, and Charity

Chapters 27–34

عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak

بَابُ التَّقَلُّلِ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا

bābu al-taqalluli mina al-dunyā

Chapter on limiting one’s share of worldly life.

٥٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ الْأَخْرَمِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

505 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā qaysu bnu al-rabīʿi, ʿan shimri bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿani al-mughīrati bni saʿdi bni al-ʾakhrami, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ibni masʿūdin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā ʿalayhi wasallama:

505 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ informed us, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyya, from al-Mughīra ibn Saʿd ibn al-Akhram, from his father, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said: God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

«لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الضَّيْعَةَ؛ فَتَرْغَبُوا فِي الدُّنْيَا» ، قَالَ: وَبِالْمَدِينَةِ: مَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ، وَبِرَاذَانَ مَا بِرَاذَانُ. قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَرَاذَانُ مَكَانٌ بِالْمَدِينَةِ

«lā tattakhidhū al-ḍayʿata; fatarghabū fī al-dunyā» , qāla: wabi-l-madīnati: mā bi-l-madīnati, wabirādhāna mā birādhānu. qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: warādhānu makānun bi-l-madīnati

‘Do not acquire landed estates, lest you become attached to the world.’ He said, ‘And in Medina is what is in Medina, and in Rādhān is what is in Rādhān.’ Ibn Ṣāʿid said, ‘Rādhān is a place in Medina.’

٥٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ السَّعْدِيِّ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُ، وَهُوَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي عَامِرِ بْنِ لُؤَيٍّ، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ :

506 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi ʾanna ʿabda Allāhi bna al-saʿdiyyi kāna yuḥaddithu, wahuwa rajulun min banī ʿāmiri bni luʾayyin, wakāna min ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama :

506 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, that ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Saʿdī—a man of Banū ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy and one of the companions of God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him—used to relate:

«فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا نَائِمٌ أَوْفَيْتُ عَلَى جَبَلٍ، فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ، طَلَعَتْ لِي ثُلَّةٌ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ، قَدْ سَدَّتِ الْأُفُقَ، حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَوْا مِنِّي دَفَعَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الشِّعَابُ بِكُلِّ زَهْرَةٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَمَرُّوا وَلَمْ يَلْتَفِتْ إِلَيْهَا مِنْهُمْ رَاكِبٌ،

«fabaynamā ʾanā nāʾimun ʾawfaytu ʿalā jabalin, fabaynamā ʾanā ʿalayhi, ṭalaʿat lī thullatun min hādhihi al-ʾummati, qad saddati al-ʾufuqa, ḥattā ʾidhā danaw minnī dafaʿat ʿalayhimu al-shiʿābu bikulli zahratin mina al-dunyā, famarrū walam yaltafit ʾilayhā minhum rākibun,

‘While I was asleep, I found myself atop a mountain. As I stood there, a company from this community appeared before me, filling the horizon. When they drew near, the mountain passes poured out before them every blossom of worldly life. They passed on, and not one rider among them turned toward it.

فَلَمَّا جَاوَزُوهَا قَلِصَتِ الشِّعَابُ بِمَا فِيهَا،

falammā jāwazūhā qaliṣati al-shiʿābu bimā fīhā,

Once they had gone beyond it, the passes drew back with all they contained.

فَلَبِثْتُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ أَلْبَثَ، ثُمَّ طَلَعَتْ ثُلَّةٌ عَلَيَّ مِثْلُهَا، حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغُوا مَبْلَغَ الثُّلَّةِ الْأُولَى، دَفَعَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الشِّعَابُ بِكُلِّ زَهْرَةٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا» ،

falabithtu mā shāʾa Allāhu ʾan ʾalbatha, thumma ṭalaʿat thullatun ʿalayya mithluhā, ḥattā ʾidhā balaghū mablagha al-thullati al-ʾūlā, dafaʿat ʿalayhimu al-shiʿābu bikulli zahratin mina al-dunyā» ,

I remained there as long as God willed. Then another company like the first appeared before me. When they reached the place the first company had reached, the passes poured out before them every blossom of worldly life.

قَالَ: «فَالْآخِذُ وَالتَّارِكُ، وَهُمْ عَلَى ظَهْرٍ حَتَّى إِذَا جَاوَزُوهَا قَلِصَتِ الشِّعَابُ بِمَا فِيهَا،

qāla: «fa-l-ʾākhidhu wa-l-tāriku, wahum ʿalā ẓahrin ḥattā ʾidhā jāwazūhā qaliṣati al-shiʿābu bimā fīhā,

Some took and some left, but they remained mounted. Once they had gone beyond it, the passes drew back with all they contained.

فَلَبِثْتُ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ، ثُمَّ طَلَعَتِ الثُّلَّةُ الثَّالِثَةُ، حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغُوا مَبْلَغَ الثُّلَّتَيْنِ دَفَعَتِ الشِّعَابُ بِكُلِّ زَهْرَةٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا،

falabithtu mā shāʾa Allāhu, thumma ṭalaʿati al-thullatu al-thālithatu, ḥattā ʾidhā balaghū mablagha al-thullatayni dafaʿati al-shiʿābu bikulli zahratin mina al-dunyā,

I remained as long as God willed. Then the third company appeared. When they reached the same place as the first two companies, the passes poured out before them every blossom of worldly life.

فَأَنَاخَ أَوَّلُ رَاكِبٍ، فَلَمْ يُجَاوِزْهُ رَاكِبٌ، فَنَزَلُوا يَهْتَالُونَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَعَهْدِي بِالْقَوْمِ وَهُمْ يَهْتَالُونَ وَقَدْ ذَهَبَتِ الرُّكَّابُ»

faʾanākha ʾawwalu rākibin, falam yujāwizhu rākibun, fanazalū yahtālūna mina al-dunyā, faʿahdī bi-l-qawmi wahum yahtālūna waqad dhahabati al-rukkābu»

The first rider made his mount kneel, and not one rider went beyond him. They dismounted and began scooping up the world for themselves. The last I saw of them, they were still gathering it, while their mounts had gone.’

٥٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

507 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: balaghanā ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

507 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak said: A report reached us from al-Ḥasan, who said that God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

“ إِنَّمَا مَثَلِي وَمَثَلُكُمْ وَمَثَلُ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ قَوْمٍ سَلَكُوا مَفَازَةً غَبْرَاءَ، لَا يَدْرُونَ مَا قَطَعُوا مِنْهَا أَكْثَرَ أَمْ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْهَا، فَحَسَرَ ظَهْرُهُمْ، وَنَفِدَ زَادُهُمْ، وَسَقَطُوا بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيِ الْمَفَازَةِ، فَأَيْقَنُوا بِالْهَلَكَةِ،

“ ʾinnamā mathalī wamathalukum wamathalu al-dunyā kamathali qawmin salakū mafāzatan ghabrāʾa, lā yadrūna mā qaṭaʿū minhā ʾakthara ʾam mā baqiya minhā, faḥasara ẓahruhum, wanafida zāduhum, wasaqaṭū bayna ẓahrānayi al-mafāzati, faʾayqanū bi-l-halakati,

‘My likeness, your likeness, and the likeness of the world are those of people who set out across a dusty desert, unsure whether they had crossed more of it than remained. Their mounts grew exhausted, their provisions ran out, and they collapsed in the midst of the desert, certain they would perish.

فَبَيْنَا هُمْ كَذَلِكَ إِذْ خَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَجُلٌ فِي حُلَّةٍ، يَقْطُرُ رَأْسُهُ، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّ هَذَا لَحَدِيثُ الْعَهْدِ بِالرِّيفِ،

fabaynā hum kadhālika ʾidh kharaja ʿalayhim rajulun fī ḥullatin, yaqṭuru raʾsuhu, faqālū: ʾinna hādhā laḥadīthu al-ʿahdi bi-l-rīfi,

While they were in that state, a man appeared before them wearing a fine garment, water dripping from his head. They said, “This man has only just left cultivated country.”

فَانْتَهَى إِلَيْهِمْ، فَقَالَ: مَا لَكُمْ يَا هَؤُلَاءِ؟ قَالُوا: مَا تَرَى، حَسَرَ ظَهْرُنَا ، وَنَفِدَ زَادُنَا، وَسَقَطْنَا بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيِ الْمَفَازَةِ، وَلَا نَدْرِي مَا قَطَعْنَا مِنْهَا أَكْثَرَ أَمْ مَا بَقِيَ عَلَيْنَا؟

fantahā ʾilayhim, faqāla: mā lakum yā hāʾulāʾi? qālū: mā tarā, ḥasara ẓahrunā , wanafida zādunā, wasaqaṭnā bayna ẓahrānayi al-mafāzati, walā nadrī mā qaṭaʿnā minhā ʾakthara ʾam mā baqiya ʿalaynā?

He came up to them and asked, “What is wrong with you?” They replied, “You can see: our mounts are exhausted, our provisions have run out, and we have collapsed in the middle of the desert. We do not know whether we have crossed more of it than remains before us.”

قَالَ: مَا تَجْعَلُونَ لِي إِنْ أَوْرَدْتُكُمْ مَاءً رُوَاءً، وَرِيَاضًا خُضْرًا؟ قَالُوا: نَجْعَلُ لَكَ حُكْمَكَ، قَالَ: تَجْعَلُونَ لِي عُهُودَكُمْ، وَمَوَاثِيقَكُمْ أَنْ لَا تَعْصُونِي،

qāla: mā tajʿalūna lī ʾin ʾawradtukum māʾan ruwāʾan, wariyāḍan khuḍran? qālū: najʿalu laka ḥukmaka, qāla: tajʿalūna lī ʿuhūdakum, wamawāthīqakum ʾan lā taʿṣūnī,

He asked, “What will you grant me if I bring you to abundant water and green meadows?” They said, “You may set your own terms.” He said, “Then give me your pledges and covenants that you will not disobey me.”

قَالَ: فَجَعَلُوا لَهُ عُهُودَهُمْ، وَمَوَاثِيقَهُمْ أَنْ لَا يَعْصُوهُ، فَمَالَ بِهِمْ، وَأَوْرَدَهُمْ رِيَاضًا خُضْرًا، وَمَاءً رُوَاءً،

qāla: fajaʿalū lahu ʿuhūdahum, wamawāthīqahum ʾan lā yaʿṣūhu, famāla bihim, waʾawradahum riyāḍan khuḍran, wamāʾan ruwāʾan,

They gave him their pledges and covenants that they would not disobey him. He turned them toward another course and brought them to green meadows and abundant water.

فَمَكَثَ يَسِيرًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: هَلُمُّوا إِلَى رِيَاضٍ أَعْشَبَ مِنْ رِيَاضِكُمْ هَذِهِ، وَمَاءٍ أَرْوَى مِنْ مَائِكُمْ هَذَا، فَقَالَ جُلُّ الْقَوْمِ: مَا قَدَرْنَا عَلَى هَذَا حَتَّى كِدْنَا أَنْ لَا نَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ،

famakatha yasīran, thumma qāla: halummū ʾilā riyāḍin ʾaʿshaba min riyāḍikum hādhihi, wamāʾin ʾarwā min māʾikum hādhā, faqāla jullu al-qawmi: mā qadarnā ʿalā hādhā ḥattā kidnā ʾan lā naqdira ʿalayhi,

After remaining there a short while, he said, “Come to meadows richer in grass than these and to water more satisfying than this.” Most of the people said, “We reached this only with great difficulty; we nearly failed to reach it at all.”

وَقَالَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ: أَلَسْتُمْ قَدْ جَعَلْتُمْ لِهَذَا الرَّجُلِ عُهُودَكُمْ، وَمَوَاثِيقَكُمْ أَنْ لَا تَعْصُوهُ، وَقَدْ صَدَقَكُمْ فِي أَوَّلِ حَدِيثِهِ، فَآخِرُ حَدِيثِهِ مِثْلُ أَوَّلِهِ،

waqālat ṭāʾifatun minhum: ʾalastum qad jaʿaltum lihādhā al-rajuli ʿuhūdakum, wamawāthīqakum ʾan lā taʿṣūhu, waqad ṣadaqakum fī ʾawwali ḥadīthihi, faʾākhiru ḥadīthihi mithlu ʾawwalihi,

But a group among them said, “Did you not give this man your pledges and covenants that you would not disobey him? He spoke truthfully at the beginning, so what he now says will be like what he said at first.”

فَرَاحَ وَرَاحُوا مَعَهُ، فَأَوْرَدَهُمْ رِيَاضًا خُضْرًا، وَمَاءً رُوَاءً، وَأَتَى الْآخَرِينَ الْعَدُوُّ مِنْ تَحْتِ لَيْلَتِهِمْ، فَأَصْبَحُوا مِنْ بَيْنِ قَتِيلٍ وَأَسِيرٍ ”

farāḥa warāḥū maʿahu, faʾawradahum riyāḍan khuḍran, wamāʾan ruwāʾan, waʾatā al-ʾākharīna al-ʿaduwwu min taḥti laylatihim, faʾaṣbaḥū min bayni qatīlin waʾasīrin ”

The man departed, and they departed with him. He brought them to green meadows and abundant water. As for the others, an enemy came upon them under cover of night, and by morning some had been killed and others taken captive.’

بَابُ هَوَانِ الدُّنْيَا عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ

bābu hawāni al-dunyā ʿalā Allāhi ʿazza wajalla

Chapter on the world’s lowliness in the sight of God, mighty and majestic.

٥٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُجَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْمُسْتَوْرِدِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ - أَحَدِ بَنِي فِهْرٍ - قَالَ:

508 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mujālidu bnu saʿīdin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿani al-mustawridi bni shaddādin - ʾaḥadi banī fihrin - qāla:

508 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mujālid ibn Saʿīd informed us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddād, a man of Banū Fihr, who said:

كُنْتُ فِي الرَّكْبِ الَّذِينَ وَقَفُوا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَلَى السَّخْلَةِ الْمَيِّتَةِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَتَرَوْنَ هَذِهِ هَانَتْ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا حَتَّى أَلْقَوْهَا؟» قَالُوا: مِنْ هَوَانِهَا أَلْقَوْهَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: «فَالدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ هَذِهِ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا»

kuntu fī al-rakbi al-ladhīna waqafū maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi ʿalā al-sakhlati al-mayyitati, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾatarawna hādhihi hānat ʿalā ʾahlihā ḥattā ʾalqawhā?» qālū: min hawānihā ʾalqawhā yā rasūla Allāhi, qāla: «fa-l-dunyā ʾahwanu ʿalā Allāhi min hādhihi ʿalā ʾahlihā»

I was among the riders who stopped with God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, beside a dead kid goat. God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said, ‘Do you think this became so worthless to its owners that they threw it away?’ They replied, ‘They threw it away because it was worthless, Messenger of God.’ He said, ‘The world is still more worthless to God than this was to its owners.’

٥٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ أَنَّ رِجَالًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَدَّثُوا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ:

509 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿuthmānu bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi bni ʾabī rāfiʿin ʾanna rijālan min ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḥaddathū ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi qāla:

509 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ related to me that several companions of the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, reported that God's Messenger, God's blessings be upon him, said:

«لَوْ أَنَّ الدُّنْيَا تَعْدِلُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ جَنَاحَ بَعُوضَةٍ فِي الْخَيْرِ مَا أَعْطَى مِنْهَا الْكَافِرَ شَيْئًا»

«law ʾanna al-dunyā taʿdilu ʿinda Allāhi janāḥa baʿūḍatin fī al-khayri mā ʾaʿṭā minhā al-kāfira shayʾan»

‘If the world were worth even a mosquito's wing in God's sight as something good, He would not give an unbeliever any part of it.’

٥١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ:

510 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu:

510 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. 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:

“ أَدْرَكْتُ أَقْوَامًا كَانَتِ الدُّنْيَا تَعْرِضُ لِأَحَدِهِمْ حَلَالَهَا فَيَدَعُهَا، فَيَقُولُ: وَاللَّهِ مَا أَدْرِي عَلَى مَا أَنَا مِنْ هَذِهِ إِذَا صَارَتْ فِي يَدَيَّ ”

“ ʾadraktu ʾaqwāman kānati al-dunyā taʿriḍu liʾaḥadihim ḥalālahā fayadaʿuhā, fayaqūlu: wa-llāhi mā ʾadrī ʿalā mā ʾanā min hādhihi ʾidhā ṣārat fī yadayya ”

‘I knew people to whom the lawful goods of this world were offered, yet one of them would leave them, saying, “By God, I do not know what state I would be in if this entered my hands.”’

٥١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُطَرِّفٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَرْبُوعٍ، عَنْ مَالِكِ الدَّارِ

511 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu muṭarrifin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū ḥāzimin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni saʿīdi bni yarbūʿin, ʿan māliki al-dāri

511 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif informed us; Abū Ḥāzim related to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿīd ibn Yarbūʿ, from Mālik al-Dār, that:

أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ أَخَذَ أَرْبَعَمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ فَجَعَلَهَا فِي صُرَّةٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلْغُلَامِ: اِذْهَبْ بِهَا إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ، ثُمَّ تَلَّهَ سَاعَةً فِي الْبَيْتِ حَتَّى تَنْظُرَ مَا يَصْنَعُ، فَذَهَبَ بِهَا الْغُلَامُ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَقُولُ لَكَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ: اِجْعَلْ هَذِهِ فِي بَعْضِ حَوَائِجِكَ، فَقَالَ: وَصَلَهُ اللَّهُ وَرَحِمَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: تَعَالَيْ يَا جَارِيَةُ، اِذْهَبِي بِهَذِهِ السَّبْعَةِ إِلَى فُلَانٍ، وَبِهَذِهِ الْخَمْسَةِ إِلَى فُلَانٍ، حَتَّى أَنْفَدَهَا،

ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi ʾakhadha ʾarbaʿamiʾati dīnārin fajaʿalahā fī ṣurratin, thumma qāla li-l-ghulāmi: idhhab bihā ʾilā ʾabī ʿubaydata bni al-jarrāḥi, thumma tallaha sāʿatan fī al-bayti ḥattā tanẓura mā yaṣnaʿu, fadhahaba bihā al-ghulāmu ʾilayhi, faqāla: yaqūlu laka ʾamīru al-muʾminīna: ijʿal hādhihi fī baʿḍi ḥawāʾijika, faqāla: waṣalahu Allāhu waraḥimahu, thumma qāla: taʿālay yā jāriyatu, idhhabī bihādhihi al-sabʿati ʾilā fulānin, wabihādhihi al-khamsati ʾilā fulānin, ḥattā ʾanfadahā,

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb placed four hundred dinars in a pouch and told a servant, ‘Take this to Abū ʿUbayda ibn al-Jarrāḥ, then remain in the house for a while so you can see what he does.’ The servant took it to him and said, ‘The Commander of the Faithful tells you to use this for some of your needs.’ Abū ʿUbayda said, ‘May God maintain and have mercy on him.’ Then he called, ‘Come, servant girl: take these seven to so-and-so and these five to so-and-so,’ until he had distributed it all.

فَرَجَعَ الْغُلَامُ إِلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ، فَأَخْبَرَهُ، وَوَجَدَهُ قَدْ أَعَدَّ مِثْلَهَا لِمُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ، فَقَالَ: اِذْهَبْ بِهَا إِلَى مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ، ثُمَّ تَلَّهَ فِي الْبَيْتِ سَاعَةً؛ حَتَّى تَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَا يَصْنَعُ،

farajaʿa al-ghulāmu ʾilā ʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi, faʾakhbarahu, wawajadahu qad ʾaʿadda mithlahā limuʿādhi bni jabalin, faqāla: idhhab bihā ʾilā muʿādhi bni jabalin, thumma tallaha fī al-bayti sāʿatan; ḥattā tanẓura ʾilā mā yaṣnaʿu,

The servant returned to ʿUmar and told him. He found that ʿUmar had prepared the same amount for Muʿādh ibn Jabal. ʿUmar said, ‘Take it to Muʿādh, then remain in the house a while so you can see what he does.’

فَذَهَبَ بِهَا إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَقُولُ لَكَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ: اِجْعَلْ هَذَا فِي حَاجَتِكَ، فَقَالَ: وَصَلَهُ وَرَحِمَهُ، تَعَالَيْ يَا جَارِيَةُ، اِذْهَبِي إِلَى فُلَانٍ بِكَذَا، وَإِلَى بَيْتِ فُلَانٍ بِكَذَا، وَإِلَى بَيْتِ فُلَانٍ بِكَذَا،

fadhahaba bihā ʾilayhi, faqāla: yaqūlu laka ʾamīru al-muʾminīna: ijʿal hādhā fī ḥājatika, faqāla: waṣalahu waraḥimahu, taʿālay yā jāriyatu, idhhabī ʾilā fulānin bikadhā, waʾilā bayti fulānin bikadhā, waʾilā bayti fulānin bikadhā,

He took it to Muʿādh and said, ‘The Commander of the Faithful tells you to use this for your needs.’ Muʿādh said, ‘May God maintain and have mercy on him. Come, servant girl: take such-and-such to so-and-so, such-and-such to the household of so-and-so, and such-and-such to another household.’

فَاطَّلَعَتِ اِمْرَأَةُ مُعَاذٍ، فَقَالَتْ: وَنَحْنُ وَاللَّهِ مَسَاكِينُ، فَأَعْطِنَا، فَلَمْ يَبْقَ فِي الْخِرْقَةِ إِلَّا دِينَارَانِ، فَدَحَا بِهِمَا،

faṭṭalaʿati imraʾatu muʿādhin, faqālat: wanaḥnu wa-llāhi masākīnu, faʾaʿṭinā, falam yabqa fī al-khirqati ʾillā dīnārāni, fadaḥā bihimā,

Muʿādh's wife looked out and said, ‘By God, we too are poor, so give us something.’ Only two dinars remained in the cloth, and he tossed them to her.

فَرَجَعَ الْغُلَامُ إِلَى عُمَرَ فَأَخْبَرَهُ؛ فَسُرَّ بِذَلِكَ عُمَرُ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّهُمْ إِخْوَةٌ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ "

farajaʿa al-ghulāmu ʾilā ʿumara faʾakhbarahu; fasurra bidhālika ʿumaru, waqāla: ʾinnahum ʾikhwatun baʿḍuhum min baʿḍin "

The servant returned and informed ʿUmar. ʿUmar was delighted and said, ‘They are brothers, each of the same stock as the others.’

٥١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي عِيسَى قَالَ:

512 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan mūsā bni ʾabī ʿīsā qāla:

512 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĪsā, who said:

أَتَى عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ، مَشْرُبَةَ بَنِي حَارِثَةَ، فَوَجَدَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مَسْلَمَةَ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: “ كَيْفَ تَرَانِي يَا مُحَمَّدُ؟ فَقَالَ: أَرَاكَ وَاللَّهِ كَمَا أُحِبُّ، وَكَمَا يُحِبُّ مَنْ يُحِبُّ لَكَ الْخَيْرَ، أَرَاكَ قَوِيًّا عَلَى جَمْعِ الْمَالِ، عَفِيفًا عَنْهُ، عَادِلًا فِي قَسْمِهِ، وَلَوْ مِلْتَ عَدَلْنَاكَ، كَمَا يُعْدَلُ السَّهْمُ فِي الثِّقَافِ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: هَاهْ، فَقَالَ: لَوْ مِلْتَ عَدَلْنَاكَ، كَمَا يُعْدَلُ السَّهْمُ فِي الثِّقَافِ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلَنِي فِي قَوْمٍ إِذَا مِلْتُ عَدَلُونِي ”

ʾatā ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi, mashrubata banī ḥārithata, fawajada muḥammada bna maslamata, faqāla ʿumaru: “ kayfa tarānī yā muḥammadu? faqāla: ʾarāka wa-llāhi kamā ʾuḥibbu, wakamā yuḥibbu man yuḥibbu laka al-khayra, ʾarāka qawiyyan ʿalā jamʿi al-māli, ʿafīfan ʿanhu, ʿādilan fī qasmihi, walaw milta ʿadalnāka, kamā yuʿdalu al-sahmu fī al-thiqāfi, faqāla ʿumaru: hāh, faqāla: law milta ʿadalnāka, kamā yuʿdalu al-sahmu fī al-thiqāfi, faqāla ʿumaru: al-ḥamdu lillāhi al-ladhī jaʿalanī fī qawmin ʾidhā miltu ʿadalūnī ”

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb came to the upper room of Banū Ḥāritha and found Muḥammad ibn Maslama. ʿUmar asked, ‘How do you see me, Muḥammad?’ He replied, ‘By God, I see you as I would wish, and as anyone who wishes you well would wish: strong in collecting public wealth, personally restrained from it, and just in dividing it. If you were to bend aside, we would straighten you as an arrow is straightened with a shaft-straightener.’ ʿUmar said, ‘Say that again.’ He repeated, ‘If you were to bend aside, we would straighten you as an arrow is straightened with a shaft-straightener.’ ʿUmar said, ‘Praise be to God, who has placed me among people who would straighten me if I bent aside.’

٥١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعٍ قَالَ:

513 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿumara bni saʿīdin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿabāyata bni rifāʿata bni rāfiʿin qāla:

513 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd, from his father, from ʿAbāya ibn Rifāʿa ibn Rāfiʿ, who said:

بَلَغَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ أَنَّ سَعْدًا اِتَّخَذَ قَصْرًا، وَجَعَلَ عَلَيْهِ بَابًا، وَقَالَ: اِنْقَطَعَ الصُّوَيْتُ، فَأَرْسَلَ عُمَرُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مَسْلَمَةَ، وَكَانَ عُمَرُ إِذَا أَحَبَّ أَنْ يُؤْتَى بِالْأَمْرِ كَمَا يُرِيدُ بَعَثَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: اِئْتِ سَعْدًا؛ فَأَحْرِقْ عَلَيْهِ بَابَهُ،

balagha ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi ʾanna saʿdan ittakhadha qaṣran, wajaʿala ʿalayhi bāban, waqāla: inqaṭaʿa al-ṣuwaytu, faʾarsala ʿumaru muḥammada bna maslamata, wakāna ʿumaru ʾidhā ʾaḥabba ʾan yuʾtā bi-l-ʾamri kamā yurīdu baʿathahu, faqāla lahu: iʾti saʿdan; faʾaḥriq ʿalayhi bābahu,

News reached ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb that Saʿd had built a palace, fitted it with a door, and said, ‘The faint voices have been shut out.’ ʿUmar sent Muḥammad ibn Maslama—for whenever ʿUmar wanted a matter carried out exactly as he intended, he sent him—and told him, ‘Go to Saʿd and burn his door.’

فَقَدِمَ الْكُوفَةَ، فَلَمَّا أَتَى الْبَابَ أَخْرَجَ زَنْدَهُ، فَاسْتَوْرَى نَارًا، ثُمَّ أَحْرَقَ الْبَابَ،

faqadima al-kūfata, falammā ʾatā al-bāba ʾakhraja zandahu, fastawrā nāran, thumma ʾaḥraqa al-bāba,

He reached Kufa, struck a fire with his firestick, and burned the door.

فَأُتِيَ سَعْدٌ، فَأُخْبِرَ، وَوُصِفَ لَهُ صِفَتُهُ، فَعَرَفَهُ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِ سَعْدٌ، فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ: إِنَّهُ بَلَغَ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنَّكَ قُلْتَ: اِنْقَطَعَ الصُّوَيْتُ، فَحَلَفَ سَعْدٌ بِاللَّهِ مَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ: نَفْعَلُ الَّذِي أُمِرْنَا، وَنُؤَدِّي عَنْكَ مَا تَقُولُ ،

faʾutiya saʿdun, faʾukhbira, wawuṣifa lahu ṣifatuhu, faʿarafahu, fakharaja ʾilayhi saʿdun, faqāla muḥammadun: ʾinnahu balagha ʾamīra al-muʾminīna ʾannaka qulta: inqaṭaʿa al-ṣuwaytu, faḥalafa saʿdun bi-llāhi mā qāla dhālika, faqāla muḥammadu bnu maslamata: nafʿalu al-ladhī ʾumirnā, wanuʾaddī ʿanka mā taqūlu ,

Saʿd was told what had happened and, when the man's description was given, recognized him and came out. Muḥammad said, ‘The Commander of the Faithful heard that you said, “The faint voices have been shut out.”’ Saʿd swore by God that he had not said it. Muḥammad replied, ‘We shall do what we were commanded and report what you say.’

ثُمَّ رَكِبَ رَاحِلَتَهُ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ بِبَطْنِ الرُّمَّةِ أَصَابَهُ مِنَ الْخَمْصِ وَالْجُوعِ مَا اللَّهُ بِهِ أَعْلَمُ،

thumma rakiba rāḥilatahu, falammā kāna bibaṭni al-rummati ʾaṣābahu mina al-khamṣi wa-l-jūʿi mā Allāhu bihi ʾaʿlamu,

He then mounted his camel. In the valley of al-Rumma he suffered such hunger and emptiness that God alone knew its severity.

فَأَبْصَرَ غَنَمًا فَأَرْسَلَ غُلَامَهُ بِعِمَامَتِهِ، فَقَالَ: اِذْهَبْ فَابْتَعْ مِنْهَا شَاةً، فَجَاءَ الْغُلَامُ بِشَاةٍ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي، فَأَرَادَ ذَبْحَهَا، فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَكُفَّ،

faʾabṣara ghanaman faʾarsala ghulāmahu biʿimāmatihi, faqāla: idhhab fabtaʿ minhā shātan, fajāʾa al-ghulāmu bishātin wahuwa yuṣallī, faʾarāda dhabḥahā, faʾashāra ʾilayhi ʾan yakuffa,

Seeing some sheep, he sent his servant with his turban and said, ‘Buy a sheep with it.’ The servant returned with a sheep while he was praying and wanted to slaughter it, but Muḥammad gestured for him to stop.

فَلَمَّا قَضَى صَلَاتَهُ، قَالَ: اِذْهَبْ، فَإِنْ كَانَتْ مَمْلُوكَةً مُسْلِمَةً، فَارْدُدِ الشَّاةَ، وَخُذِ الْعِمَامَةَ، وَإِنْ كَانَتْ حُرَّةً فَارْدُدِ الشَّاةَ، فَذَهَبَ، فَإِذَا هِيَ مَمْلُوكَةٌ فَرَدَّ الشَّاةَ، وَأَخَذَ الْعِمَامَةَ،

falammā qaḍā ṣalātahu, qāla: idhhab, faʾin kānat mamlūkatan muslimatan, fardudi al-shāta, wakhudhi al-ʿimāmata, waʾin kānat ḥurratan fardudi al-shāta, fadhahaba, faʾidhā hiya mamlūkatun faradda al-shāta, waʾakhadha al-ʿimāmata,

When he finished praying, he said, ‘Go back. If she is an enslaved Muslim woman, return the sheep and take back the turban; if she is free, return the sheep.’ The woman proved to be enslaved, so the servant returned the sheep and recovered the turban.

وَأَخَذَ بِخِطَامِ رَاحِلَتِهِ - أَوْ زِمَامِهَا - لَا يَمُرُّ بِبَقْلَةٍ إِلَّا خَطَفَهَا، حَتَّى آوَاهُ اللَّيْلُ إِلَى قَوْمٍ، فَأَتَوْهُ بِخُبْزٍ وَلَبَنٍ، وَقَالُوا: لَوْ كَانَ عِنْدَنَا شَيْءٌ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا أَتَيْنَاكَ بِهِ، فَقَالَ: بِسْمِ اللَّهِ كُلُّ حَلَالٍ أَذْهَبَ السَّغَبَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ مَأْكَلِ السُّوءِ،

waʾakhadha bikhiṭāmi rāḥilatihi - ʾaw zimāmihā - lā yamurru bibaqlatin ʾillā khaṭafahā, ḥattā ʾāwāhu al-laylu ʾilā qawmin, faʾatawhu bikhubzin walabanin, waqālū: law kāna ʿindanā shayʾun ʾafḍalu min hādhā ʾataynāka bihi, faqāla: bismi Allāhi kullu ḥalālin ʾadhhaba al-saghaba khayrun min maʾkali al-sūʾi,

Muḥammad took hold of his camel's halter—or its lead-rope—and plucked every edible plant he passed until night brought him to some people. They brought bread and milk and said, ‘Had we possessed anything better, we would have brought it to you.’ He said, ‘In God's name. Any lawful food that drives away hunger is better than bad food.’

حَتَّى قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ، فَبَدَأَ بِأَهْلِهِ فَابْتَرَدَ مِنَ الْمَاءِ، ثُمَّ رَاحَ،

ḥattā qadima al-madīnata, fabadaʾa biʾahlihi fabtarada mina al-māʾi, thumma rāḥa,

When he reached Medina, he first went to his family, cooled himself with water, and then went to ʿUmar.

فَلَمَّا أَبْصَرَهُ عُمَرُ، قَالَ: لَوْلَا حُسْنُ الظَّنِّ بِكَ مَا رَوَيْنَا أَنَّكَ أَدَّيْتَ، وَذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ أَسْرَعَ السَّيْرَ، فَقَالَ: قَدْ فَعَلْتُ، وَهُوَ يَعْتَذِرُ، وَيَحْلِفُ بِاللَّهِ مَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ،

falammā ʾabṣarahu ʿumaru, qāla: lawlā ḥusnu al-ẓanni bika mā rawaynā ʾannaka ʾaddayta, wadhakara ʾannahu ʾasraʿa al-sayra, faqāla: qad faʿaltu, wahuwa yaʿtadhiru, wayaḥlifu bi-llāhi mā qāla dhālika,

On seeing him, ʿUmar said, ‘Were it not for my good opinion of you, we would not believe that you had carried it out,’ and remarked on how quickly he had traveled. Muḥammad said, ‘I did it. Saʿd offers his excuse and swears by God that he did not say it.’

قَالَ: فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: هَلْ أَمَرَ لَكَ بِشَيْءٍ؟ فَقَالَ: قَدْ رَأَيْتُ مَكَانًا، أَتَأْمُرُ لِي؟ - قَالَ اِبْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ: أَنْ تَأْخُذَ لِي مِنْهُ - قَالَ عُمَرُ: إِنَّ أَرْضَ الْعِرَاقِ أَرْضٌ رَفِيعَةٌ، وَإِنَّ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ يَمُوتُونَ حَوْلِي مِنَ الْجُوعِ، فَخَشِيتُ أَنْ آمُرَ لَكَ؛ فَيَكُونَ لَكَ الْبَارِدُ وَلِيَ الْحَارُّ، أَمَا سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ يَقُولُ: «لَا يَشْبَعُ الْمُؤْمِنُ دُونَ جَارِهِ» ، أَوْ قَالَ: «الرَّجُلُ دُونَ جَارِهِ» .

qāla: faqāla ʿumaru: hal ʾamara laka bishayʾin? faqāla: qad raʾaytu makānan, ʾataʾmuru lī? - qāla ibnu ʿuyaynata: ʾan taʾkhudha lī minhu - qāla ʿumaru: ʾinna ʾarḍa al-ʿirāqi ʾarḍun rafīʿatun, waʾinna ʾahla al-madīnati yamūtūna ḥawlī mina al-jūʿi, fakhashītu ʾan ʾāmura laka; fayakūna laka al-bāridu waliya al-ḥārru, ʾamā samiʿta rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi yaqūlu: «lā yashbaʿu al-muʾminu dūna jārihi» , ʾaw qāla: «al-rajulu dūna jārihi» .

ʿUmar asked, ‘Did he order anything to be given to you?’ He replied, ‘I saw an estate there. Would you assign something to me?’—Ibn ʿUyayna explained: ‘Would you take some of it for me?’ ʿUmar said, ‘Iraq is rich land, while the people of Medina are dying of hunger around me. I feared assigning something to you, lest you receive the cool portion and I the hot. Have you not heard God's Messenger, God's blessings be upon him, say, “A believer does not eat his fill while his neighbor goes without”—or he said, “A man does not eat his fill while his neighbor goes without”?’

٥١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الْجَوَّازُ - بِمَكَّةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعٍ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بِنَحْوِهِ،

514 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu manṣūrin al-jawwāzu - bimakkata, qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿumara bni saʿīdin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿabāyata bni rifāʿata bni rāfiʿin, ʿan ʿumara binaḥwihi,

514 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Jawwāz related to us in Mecca; Ibn ʿUyayna related to us, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd, from his father, from ʿAbāya ibn Rifāʿa ibn Rāfiʿ, from ʿUmar, with a similar report.

وَذَكَرَ فِيهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ نَحْوَ مَا ذَكَرَهُ.

wadhakara fīhi ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi naḥwa mā dhakarahu.

It also included, from the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, approximately what was related above.

٥١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ - يَعْنِي الثَّوْرِيَّ - عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بِنَحْوِهِ،

515 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā yaʿqūbu bnu ʾibrāhīma al-dawraqiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu - yaʿnī al-thawriyya - ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿabāyata bni rifāʿata, ʿan ʿumara binaḥwihi,

515 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī related to us; Sufyān—meaning al-Thawrī—related to us, from his father, from ʿAbāya ibn Rifāʿa, from ʿUmar, with a similar report.

وَذَكَرَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ كَمَا ذَكَرَ.

wadhakara ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi kamā dhakara.

He cited from the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, the same wording as the preceding narrator.

٥١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ أَبُو هَاشِمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَيَّانَ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ

516 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā ziyādu bnu ʾayyūba ʾabū hāshimin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾibrāhīma qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū ḥayyāna al-taymiyyu, ʿan ʿabāyata bni rifāʿata

516 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; Ziyād ibn Ayyūb Abū Hāshim related to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm related to us; Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī related to us, from ʿAbāya ibn Rifāʿa.

بِنَحْوِهِ، وَلَمْ يَرْفَعْهُ.

binaḥwihi, walam yarfaʿhu.

He related a similar report but did not raise it to the Prophet.

٥١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَيَّانَ التَّيْمِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي عَبَايَةُ بْنُ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعٍ،

517 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿamru bnu ʿaliyyin qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū ḥayyāna al-taymiyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʿabāyatu bnu rifāʿata bni rāfiʿin,

517 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī related to us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd informed us; Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī informed us; ʿAbāya ibn Rifāʿa ibn Rāfiʿ informed me,

عَنْ عُمَرَ بِنَحْوِهِ، وَلَمْ يَرْفَعْهُ

ʿan ʿumara binaḥwihi, walam yarfaʿhu

from ʿUmar, with a similar report. He did not raise it to the Prophet.

٥١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ

519 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʾibrāhīmu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʿawfin

519 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf informed me:

أَنَّهُ قَدِمَ وَافِدًا عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ فِي خِلَافَتِهِ، فَ

ʾannahu qadima wāfidan ʿalā muʿāwiyata fī khilāfatihi, fa

He came as part of a delegation to Muʿāwiya during his caliphate.

قَالَ: فَدَخَلْتُ الْمَقْصُورَةَ، فَسَلَّمْتُ عَلَى مَجْلِسٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ، ثُمَّ جَلَسْتُ، فَقَالَ لِي رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ: مَنْ أَنْتَ يَا فَتَى؟ قُلْتُ: أَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ،

qāla: fadakhaltu al-maqṣūrata, fasallamtu ʿalā majlisin min ʾahli al-shāmi, thumma jalastu, faqāla lī rajulun minhum: man ʾanta yā fatā? qultu: ʾanā ʾibrāhīmu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʿawfin,

He said: I entered the screened chamber, greeted a gathering of Syrians, and sat down. One of them asked, ‘Who are you, young man?’ I replied, ‘I am Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf.’

قَالَ: يَرْحَمُ اللَّهُ أَبَاكَ، أَخْبَرَنِي فُلَانٌ - لِرَجُلٍ سَمَّاهُ - أَنَّهُ قَالَ: “ وَاللَّهِ لَأَلْحَقَنَّ بِأَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَلَأُحْدِثَنَّ بِهِمْ عَهْدًا، وَلَا أُكَلِّمَنَّهُمْ،

qāla: yarḥamu Allāhu ʾabāka, ʾakhbaranī fulānun - lirajulin sammāhu - ʾannahu qāla: “ wa-llāhi laʾalḥaqanna biʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, falaʾuḥdithanna bihim ʿahdan, walā ʾukallimannahum,

He said, ‘May God have mercy on your father. So-and-so’—naming a man—‘told me that he said, “By God, I shall join the companions of God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, renew my acquaintance with them, and speak with them.”

قَالَ: فَقَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فِي خِلَافَةِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ؛ فَلَقِيتُهُمْ إِلَّا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَوْفٍ، أُخْبِرْتُ أَنَّهُ بِأَرْضٍ لَهُ بِالْجُرُفِ،

qāla: faqadimtu al-madīnata fī khilāfati ʿuthmāna bni ʿaffāna; falaqītuhum ʾillā ʿabda al-raḥmāni bna ʿawfin, ʾukhbirtu ʾannahu biʾarḍin lahu bi-l-jurufi,

I came to Medina during the caliphate of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān and met them all except ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf. I was told he was on an estate of his at al-Jurf,

فَرَكِبْتُ إِلَيْهِ حَتَّى جِئْتُهُ، فَإِذَا هُوَ وَاضِعٌ رِدَاءَهُ يُحَوِّلُ الْمَاءَ بِمِسْحَاةٍ فِي يَدِهِ،

farakibtu ʾilayhi ḥattā jiʾtuhu, faʾidhā huwa wāḍiʿun ridāʾahu yuḥawwilu al-māʾa bimisḥātin fī yadihi,

so I rode out to him. I found him with his cloak laid aside, directing water with a mattock in his hand.

فَلَمَّا رَآنِي اِسْتَحْيَى مِنِّي فَأَلْقَى الْمِسْحَاةَ، وَأَخَذَ رِدَاءَهُ، فَسَلَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ، وَقُلْتُ لَهُ: جِئْتُكَ لِأَمْرٍ، وَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ أَعْجَبَ مِنْهُ، هَلْ جَاءَكُمْ إِلَّا مَا جَاءَنَا؟ وَهَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ إِلَّا مَا عَلِمْنَا؟ فَقَالَ: عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ: لَمْ يَأْتِنَا إِلَّا مَا قَدْ جَاءَكُمْ، وَلَمْ نَعْلَمْ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ،

falammā raʾānī istaḥyā minnī faʾalqā al-misḥāta, waʾakhadha ridāʾahu, fasallamtu ʿalayhi, waqultu lahu: jiʾtuka liʾamrin, waqad raʾaytu ʾaʿjaba minhu, hal jāʾakum ʾillā mā jāʾanā? wahal ʿalimtum ʾillā mā ʿalimnā? faqāla: ʿabdu al-raḥmāni: lam yaʾtinā ʾillā mā qad jāʾakum, walam naʿlam ʾillā mā qad ʿalimtum,

When he saw me, he felt shy before me, dropped the mattock, and put on his cloak. I greeted him and said, “I came to ask you about something, but I have now seen something still more remarkable. Did anything come to you that did not come to us? Did you learn anything that we did not learn?” ʿAbd al-Raḥmān replied, “Nothing came to us except what came to you, and we learned nothing except what you learned.”

قُلْتُ: فَمَا زِلْنَا نَزْهَدُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَتَرْغَبُونَ، وَنَخِفُّ فِي الْجِهَادِ وَتَتَثَاقَلُونَ، وَأَنْتُمْ سَلَفُنَا، وَخِيَارُنَا، وَأَصْحَابُ نَبِيِّنَا صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،

qultu: famā zilnā nazhadu fī al-dunyā watarghabūna, wanakhiffu fī al-jihādi watatathāqalūna, waʾantum salafunā, wakhiyārunā, waʾaṣḥābu nabiyyinā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,

I said, “Why then do we continue to renounce the world while you desire it, and hasten to struggle while you hold back, though you are our predecessors, our best men, and the companions of our Prophet, God’s blessings and peace be upon him?”

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ: لَمْ يَأْتِنَا إِلَّا مَا قَدْ جَاءَكُمْ، وَلَمْ نَعْلَمْ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ، وَلَكِنَّا بُلِينَا بِالضَّرَّاءِ فَصَبَرْنَا، وَبُلِينَا بِالسَّرَّاءِ فَلَمْ نَصْبِرْ ”

faqāla ʿabdu al-raḥmāni: lam yaʾtinā ʾillā mā qad jāʾakum, walam naʿlam ʾillā mā qad ʿalimtum, walākinnā bulīnā bi-l-ḍarrāʾi faṣabarnā, wabulīnā bi-l-sarrāʾi falam naṣbir ”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said, “Nothing came to us except what came to you, and we learned nothing except what you learned. But we were tried by hardship and remained patient; then we were tried by ease and did not remain patient.”’

٥٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ:

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

520 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who said:

«تَصَدَّقَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِشَطْرِ مَالِهِ أَرْبَعَةِ آلَافٍ، ثُمَّ تَصَدَّقَ بِأَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفًا، ثُمَّ تَصَدَّقَ بِأَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفًا، ثُمَّ تَصَدَّقَ بِأَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ، ثُمَّ حَمَلَ عَلَى خَمْسِمِائَةِ فَرَسٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، ثُمَّ عَلَى أَلْفٍ وَخَمْسِ مِائَةِ رَاحِلَةٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، وَكَانَ عَامَّةُ مَالِهِ مِنَ التِّجَارَةِ»

«taṣaddaqa ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu ʿawfin ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bishaṭri mālihi ʾarbaʿati ʾālāfin, thumma taṣaddaqa biʾarbaʿīna ʾalfan, thumma taṣaddaqa biʾarbaʿīna ʾalfan, thumma taṣaddaqa biʾarbaʿīna ʾalfa dīnārin, thumma ḥamala ʿalā khamsimiʾati farasin fī sabīli Allāhi, thumma ʿalā ʾalfin wakhamsi miʾati rāḥilatin fī sabīli Allāhi, wakāna ʿāmmatu mālihi mina al-tijārati»

‘During the lifetime of God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf gave half his wealth in charity—four thousand. Then he gave forty thousand, then another forty thousand, and then forty thousand dinars. He later equipped five hundred horses in God's path, followed by fifteen hundred riding camels in God's path. Most of his wealth came from trade.’

٥٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ

521 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu bnu al-ḥajjāji, ʿan saʿdi bni ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʾabīhi

521 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj informed us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from his father, that:

أَنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَوْفٍ أُتِيَ بِطَعَامٍ وَكَانَ صَائِمًا، فَقَالَ: “ قُتِلَ مُصْعَبُ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ، وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي، وَكُفِّنَ فِي بُرْدَتِهِ، إِنْ غُطِّيَ رَأْسُهُ بَدَتْ رِجْلَاهُ، وَإِنْ غُطَّتْ رِجْلَاهُ بَدَا رَأْسُهُ. وَأُرَاهُ قَالَ: وَقُتِلَ حَمْزَةُ وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي، ثُمَّ بُسِطَ لَنَا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا مَا بُسِطَ. أَوْ قَالَ: أُعْطِينَا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا مَا أُعْطِينَا، وَقَدْ خَشِينَا أَنْ تَكُونَ حَسَنَاتُنَا قَدْ عُجِّلَتْ لَنَا، ثُمَّ جَعَلَ يَبْكِي حَتَّى تَرَكَ الطَّعَامَ ”

ʾanna ʿabda al-raḥmāni bna ʿawfin ʾutiya biṭaʿāmin wakāna ṣāʾiman, faqāla: “ qutila muṣʿabu bnu ʿumayrin, wahuwa khayrun minnī, wakuffina fī burdatihi, ʾin ghuṭṭiya raʾsuhu badat rijlāhu, waʾin ghuṭṭat rijlāhu badā raʾsuhu. waʾurāhu qāla: waqutila ḥamzatu wahuwa khayrun minnī, thumma busiṭa lanā mina al-dunyā mā busiṭa. ʾaw qāla: ʾuʿṭīnā mina al-dunyā mā ʾuʿṭīnā, waqad khashīnā ʾan takūna ḥasanātunā qad ʿujjilat lanā, thumma jaʿala yabkī ḥattā taraka al-ṭaʿāma ”

Food was brought to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf while he was fasting. He said, ‘Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr was killed, and he was better than I. He was shrouded in his cloak: if his head was covered, his feet showed; and if his feet were covered, his head showed.’ The narrator believed he also said, ‘Ḥamza was killed, and he was better than I. Then the world was spread out for us as it has been—or he said, we were given of the world what we were given. We fear that our good things may have been hastened to us in this life.’ He began to weep until he left the food untouched.

٥٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي قَيْسُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ:

522 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā misʿarun qāla: ḥaddathanī qaysu bnu muslimin, ʿan ṭāriqi bni shihābin qāla:

522 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Misʿar related to us; Qays ibn Muslim related to me, from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, who said:

عَادَ خَبَّابًا بَقَايَا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالُوا: “ أَبْشِرْ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ، إِخْوَانُكَ تُقْدِمُ عَلَيْهِمْ غَدًا، فَبَكَى، فَقَالُوا لَهُ: عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الْحَالِ، فَقَالَ: أَمَا إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِهِ جَزَعٌ، لَكِنَّكُمْ ذَكَّرْتُمُونِي أَقْوَامًا، وَسَمَّيْتُمُوهُمْ لِي إِخْوَانًا، وَإِنَّ أُولَئِكَ قَدْ مَضَوْا بِأُجُورِهِمْ كَمَا هِيَ، وَإِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يَكُونَ ثَوَابُ مَا تَذْكُرُونَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا أَصَبْنَا بَعْدَهُمْ ”

ʿāda khabbāban baqāyā min ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqālū: “ ʾabshir ʾabā ʿabdi Allāhi , ʾikhwānuka tuqdimu ʿalayhim ghadan, fabakā, faqālū lahu: ʿalayhā mina al-ḥāli, faqāla: ʾamā ʾinnahu laysa bihi jazaʿun, lākinnakum dhakkartumūnī ʾaqwāman, wasammaytumūhum lī ʾikhwānan, waʾinna ʾūlāʾika qad maḍaw biʾujūrihim kamā hiya, waʾinnī ʾakhāfu ʾan yakūna thawābu mā tadhkurūna min tilka al-ʾaʿmāli mā ʾaṣabnā baʿdahum ”

Some surviving companions of God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, visited Khabbāb in his illness. They said, ‘Rejoice, Abū ʿAbd Allāh. Tomorrow you will meet your brothers.’ He wept. They asked why he was in such a state. He said, ‘It is not from panic. But you reminded me of people and called them my brothers. They departed with their rewards intact, while I fear that the reward for the deeds you mention may be what we acquired after them.’

٥٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ: قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ، وَأَخْبَرَنَاهُ سُفْيَانُ أَيْضًا، عَنْ أُمَيٍّ الْمُرَادِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الْعُبَيْدَيْنِ لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ:

523 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata: qāla al-ḥusaynu, waʾakhbaranāhu sufyānu ʾayḍan, ʿan ʾumayyin al-murādiyyi qāla: qāla ʾabū al-ʿubaydayni liʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin:

523 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us. Al-Ḥusayn said: Sufyān also informed us, from Umayy al-Murādī, who said: Abū al-ʿUbaydayn said to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd:

“ يَا أَصْحَابَ مُحَمَّدٍ، لَا تَخْتَلِفُوا فَتَشُقُّوا عَلَيْنَا، فَقَالَ: يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ أَبَا الْعُبَيْدَيْنِ، إِنَّمَا أَصْحَابُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الَّذِينَ دُفِنُوا مَعَهُ فِي الْبُرُدِ ”

“ yā ʾaṣḥāba muḥammadin, lā takhtalifū fatashuqqū ʿalaynā, faqāla: yarḥamuka Allāhu ʾabā al-ʿubaydayni, ʾinnamā ʾaṣḥābu muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama al-ladhīna dufinū maʿahu fī al-burudi ”

‘Companions of Muḥammad, do not disagree and make matters hard for us.’ He replied, ‘May God have mercy on you, Abū al-ʿUbaydayn. The companions of Muḥammad, God's blessings and peace be upon him, are those who were buried with him in their cloaks.’

٥٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عِنَبَةَ الْخَوْلَانِيِّ

524 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī muḥammadu bnu ziyādin, ʿan ʾabī ʿinabata al-khawlāniyyi

524 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ziyād related to me, from Abū ʿInaba al-Khawlānī:

أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي مَجْلِسِ خَوْلَانَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ جَالِسًا، فَخَرَجَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ هَارِبًا مِنَ الطَّاعُونِ، فَسَأَلَ عَنْهُ، فَقَالُوا: خَرَجَ يَتَزَحْزَحُ هَارِبًا مِنَ الطَّاعُونِ ، فَقَالَ: “ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ، مَا كُنْتُ أَرَى أَنِّي أَبْقَى حَتَّى أَسْمَعَ بِمِثْلِ هَذَا، أَفَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ عَنْ خِلَالٍ كَانَ عَلَيْهَا إِخْوَانُكُمْ: أَوَّلُهَا لِقَاءُ اللَّهِ كَانَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِمْ مِنَ الشَّهْدِ، وَالثَّانِيَةُ لَمْ يَكُونُوا يَخَافُونَ عَدُوًّا قَلُّوا أَوْ كَثُرُوا، وَالثَّالِثَةُ لَمْ يَكُونُوا يَخَافُونَ عَوَزًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، كَانُوا وَاثِقِينَ بِاللَّهِ أَنْ يَرْزُقَهُمْ، وَالرَّابِعَةُ إِنْ نَزَلَ بِهِمُ الطَّاعُونُ لَمْ يَبْرَحُوا حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ اللَّهُ فِيهِمْ مَا قَضَى ”

ʾannahu kāna fī majlisi khawlāna fī al-masjidi jālisan, fakharaja ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿabdi al-maliki hāriban mina al-ṭāʿūni, fasaʾala ʿanhu, faqālū: kharaja yatazaḥzaḥu hāriban mina al-ṭāʿūni , faqāla: “ ʾinnā lillāhi waʾinnā ʾilayhi rājiʿūna, mā kuntu ʾarā ʾannī ʾabqā ḥattā ʾasmaʿa bimithli hādhā, ʾafalā ʾukhbirukum ʿan khilālin kāna ʿalayhā ʾikhwānukum: ʾawwaluhā liqāʾu Allāhi kāna ʾaḥabba ʾilayhim mina al-shahdi, wa-l-thāniyatu lam yakūnū yakhāfūna ʿaduwwan qallū ʾaw kathurū, wa-l-thālithatu lam yakūnū yakhāfūna ʿawazan mina al-dunyā, kānū wāthiqīna bi-llāhi ʾan yarzuqahum, wa-l-rābiʿatu ʾin nazala bihimu al-ṭāʿūnu lam yabraḥū ḥattā yaqḍiya Allāhu fīhim mā qaḍā ”

He was seated in the Khawlān gathering in the mosque when ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Malik went out fleeing the plague. He asked about him and was told, ‘He went away to distance himself, fleeing the plague.’ Abū ʿInaba said, ‘We belong to God and to Him we return. I never thought I would live to hear of anything like this. Shall I tell you four qualities your brothers possessed? First, meeting God was dearer to them than honey. Second, they did not fear an enemy, whether few or many. Third, they did not fear destitution in this world, for they trusted God to provide for them. Fourth, if plague descended among them, they did not leave until God decreed for them what He decreed.’

٥٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍ، حَدَّثَنِي اِبْنُ سَابِطٍ، أَوْ غَيْرُهُ أَنَّ أَبَا جَهْمِ بْنَ حُذَيْفَةَ الْعَدَوِيَّ قَالَ:

525 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿumaru bnu saʿīdi bni ʾabī ḥusaynin, ḥaddathanī ibnu sābiṭin, ʾaw ghayruhu ʾanna ʾabā jahmi bna ḥudhayfata al-ʿadawiyya qāla:

525 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn informed us; Ibn Sābiṭ—or someone else—related to me that Abū Jahm ibn Ḥudhayfa al-ʿAdawī said:

اِنْطَلَقْتُ يَوْمَ الْيَرْمُوكِ أَطْلُبُ اِبْنَ عَمِّي، وَمَعِي شَنَّةٌ مِنْ مَاءٍ، وَإِنَاءٌ، فَقُلْتُ: «إِنْ كَانَ بِهِ رَمَقٌ سَقَيْتُهُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ، وَمَسَحْتُ بِهِ وَجْهَهُ، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِهِ يَنْشَغُ» فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: أَسْقِيكَ؟ فَأَشَارَ أَنْ نَعَمْ، فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ يَقُولُ: آهِ، فَأَشَارَ اِبْنُ عَمِّي أَنِ اِنْطَلِقْ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ، فَإِذَا هُوَ هِشَامُ بْنُ الْعَاصِ أَخُو عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، فَأَتَيْتُهُ، فَقُلْتُ: أَسْقِيكَ؟ فَسَمِعَ آخَرَ يَقُولُ: آهِ، فَأَشَارَ هِشَامٌ أَنِ اِنْطَلِقْ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ، فَجِئْتُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ مَاتَ، ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ إِلَى هِشَامٍ، فَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ مَاتَ، ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُ اِبْنَ عَمِّي، فَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ مَاتَ "

inṭalaqtu yawma al-yarmūki ʾaṭlubu ibna ʿammī, wamaʿī shannatun min māʾin, waʾināʾun, faqultu: «ʾin kāna bihi ramaqun saqaytuhu mina al-māʾi, wamasaḥtu bihi wajhahu, faʾidhā ʾanā bihi yanshaghu» faqultu lahu: ʾasqīka? faʾashāra ʾan naʿam, faʾidhā rajulun yaqūlu: ʾāhi, faʾashāra ibnu ʿammī ʾani inṭaliq bihi ʾilayhi, faʾidhā huwa hishāmu bnu al-ʿāṣi ʾakhū ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi, faʾataytuhu, faqultu: ʾasqīka? fasamiʿa ʾākhara yaqūlu: ʾāhi, faʾashāra hishāmun ʾani inṭaliq bihi ʾilayhi, fajiʾtuhu faʾidhā huwa qad māta, thumma rajaʿtu ʾilā hishāmin, faʾidhā huwa qad māta, thumma ʾataytu ibna ʿammī, faʾidhā huwa qad māta "

On the day of Yarmūk I went searching for my cousin, carrying a worn waterskin and a vessel. I thought, ‘If any life remains in him, I shall give him water and wipe his face with it.’ I found him gasping. I asked, ‘Shall I give you water?’ He gestured yes. Then another man cried, ‘Ah!’ My cousin gestured that I should take the water to him. It was Hishām ibn al-ʿĀṣ, brother of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ. I came to him and asked, ‘Shall I give you water?’ He heard another man cry, ‘Ah!’ and gestured that I should take it to him. I reached the third man and found him dead. I returned to Hishām and found that he too had died. Then I came back to my cousin and found that he had died.

٥٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ

526 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī bakrin

526 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mālik ibn Anas informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, that:

أَنَّ أَبَا طَلْحَةَ كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِي حَائِطٍ لَهُ، فَطَارَ دُبْسِيٌّ، فَطَفِقَ يَتَرَدَّدُ يَلْتَمِسُ مَخْرَجًا، فَلَمْ يَجِدْهُ لِالْتِفَافِ النَّخْلِ، فَأَعْجَبَهُ ذَلِكَ، فَأَتْبَعَهُ بَصَرَهُ سَاعَةً، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ، فَإِذَا هُوَ لَا يَدْرِي كَمْ صَلَّى ، فَقَالَ: “ لَقَدْ أَصَابَنِي فِي مَالِي هَذَا فِتْنَةٌ، فَأَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، هُوَ صَدَقَةٌ، فَضَعْهُ حَيْثُ أَرَاكَ اللَّهُ ”

ʾanna ʾabā ṭalḥata kāna yuṣallī fī ḥāʾiṭin lahu, faṭāra dubsiyyun, faṭafiqa yataraddadu yaltamisu makhrajan, falam yajidhu li-l-tifāfi al-nakhli, faʾaʿjabahu dhālika, faʾatbaʿahu baṣarahu sāʿatan, thumma rajaʿa, faʾidhā huwa lā yadrī kam ṣallā , faqāla: “ laqad ʾaṣābanī fī mālī hādhā fitnatun, faʾatā al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fadhakara dhālika lahu, faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, huwa ṣadaqatun, faḍaʿhu ḥaythu ʾarāka Allāhu ”

Abū Ṭalḥa was praying in an orchard of his when a ringdove flew about, repeatedly seeking a way out but unable to find one because of the dense palms. The sight pleased him, and he followed it with his eyes for a while. When he returned to his prayer, he no longer knew how many cycles he had prayed. He said, ‘This property of mine has tempted me.’ He went to the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, and told him what had happened. He said, ‘Messenger of God, it is charity; place it wherever God shows you.’

٥٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا - يَعْنِي مَالِكَ بْنَ أَنَسٍ - قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ

527 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan - yaʿnī mālika bna ʾanasin - qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʾabī bakrin

527 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; He also informed us—meaning Mālik ibn Anas—who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr related to us:

“ أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ كَانَ يُصَلِّي فِي حَائِطٍ لَهُ بِالْقُفِّ فِي زَمَنِ الثَّمَرِ، وَالنَّخْلُ قَدْ ذُلِّلَتْ، وَهِيَ مُطَوِّقَةٌ بِثَمَرِهَا، فَنَظَرَ إِلَى ذَلِكَ فَأَعْجَبَهُ مَا رَأَى مِنْ ثَمَرِهَا، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى صَلَاتِهِ وَهُوَ لَا يَدْرِي كَمْ صَلَّى، فَقَالَ: لَقَدْ أَصَابَنِي فِي مَالِي هَذَا فِتْنَةٌ، فَأَتَى عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ فَذَكَرَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: إِنَّهُ صَدَقَةٌ، فَاجْعَلْهُ فِي سُبُلِ الْخَيْرِ، فَبَاعَهُ عُثْمَانُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ بِخَمْسِينَ أَلْفًا، فَكَانَ اِسْمُ ذَلِكَ الْمَالِ الْخَمْسِينَ ”

“ ʾanna rajulan mina al-ʾanṣāri kāna yuṣallī fī ḥāʾiṭin lahu bi-l-quffi fī zamani al-thamari, wa-l-nakhlu qad dhullilat, wahiya muṭawwiqatun bithamarihā, fanaẓara ʾilā dhālika faʾaʿjabahu mā raʾā min thamarihā, thumma rajaʿa ʾilā ṣalātihi wahuwa lā yadrī kam ṣallā, faqāla: laqad ʾaṣābanī fī mālī hādhā fitnatun, faʾatā ʿuthmāna bna ʿaffāna fadhakara lahu, faqāla lahu: ʾinnahu ṣadaqatun, fajʿalhu fī subuli al-khayri, fabāʿahu ʿuthmānu raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu bikhamsīna ʾalfan, fakāna ismu dhālika al-māli al-khamsīna ”

‘A man of the Anṣār was praying in an orchard of his at al-Quff during fruit season. The palms had been made easy to harvest and were encircled with their fruit. He looked at them and admired the fruit he saw. When he returned to his prayer, he no longer knew how many cycles he had prayed. He said, “This property of mine has tempted me.” He went to ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān and told him, saying, “It is charity; devote it to paths of goodness.” ʿUthmān, may God be pleased with him, sold it for fifty thousand, and that estate thereafter became known as ‘the Fifty.’’

٥٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مِسْعَرُ بْنُ كِدَامٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْقِبْطِيَّةِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ الْقُرَشِيِّ

528 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā misʿaru bnu kidāmin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu al-qibṭiyyati, ʿani ibni ʾabī rabīʿata al-qurashiyyi

528 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Misʿar ibn Kidām informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Qibṭiyya related to us, from Ibn Abī Rabīʿa al-Qurashī:

«أَنَّهُ فَاتَتْهُ الرَّكْعَتَانِ قَبْلَ الْفَجْرِ فَأَعْتَقَ رَقَبَةً» . فِي نُسْخَةٍ عَتِيقَةٍ عَلَى حَاشِيَتِهَا قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَالصَّوَابُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ "

«ʾannahu fātathu al-rakʿatāni qabla al-fajri faʾaʿtaqa raqabatan» . fī nuskhatin ʿatīqatin ʿalā ḥāshiyatihā qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: wa-l-ṣawābu ʿabdu Allāhi "

‘When he missed the two cycles before the dawn prayer, he emancipated a slave.’ In the margin of an old copy, Ibn Ṣāʿid says, ‘The correct name is ʿAbd Allāh.’

٥٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ ثَوْبَانَ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ الْأَزْدِيَّ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ جَدِّهِ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ

529 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥasanu bnu thawbāna al-hamdāniyyu ʾanna muḥammada bna ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī muslimin al-ʾazdiyya ʾakhbarahu ʿan jaddihi ʾabī muslimin

529 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Thawbān al-Hamdānī related to us that Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Muslim al-Azdī informed him, from his grandfather Abū Muslim:

«أَنَّهُ صَلَّى مَعَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ - أَوْ حَدَّثَهُ مَنْ صَلَّى مَعَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ - الْمَغْرِبَ، فَمَسَّى بِهَا، أَوْ شَغَلَهُ بَعْضُ الْأَمْرِ حَتَّى طَلَعَ نَجْمَانِ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ تِلْكَ أَعْتَقَ رَقَبَتَيْنِ»

«ʾannahu ṣallā maʿa ʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi - ʾaw ḥaddathahu man ṣallā maʿa ʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi - al-maghriba, famassā bihā, ʾaw shaghalahu baʿḍu al-ʾamri ḥattā ṭalaʿa najmāni, falammā faragha min ṣalātihi tilka ʾaʿtaqa raqabatayni»

‘He prayed the sunset prayer with ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb—or someone who prayed with ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb related it to him. ʿUmar delayed it until evening had deepened, or some matter occupied him, until two stars appeared. When he finished that prayer, he emancipated two slaves.’

٥٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ

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

530 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; One of the people of Basra informed us:

أَنَّ مُطَرِّفَ بْنَ الشِّخِّيرِ مَاتَتِ اِمْرَأَتُهُ أَوْ بَعْضُ أَهْلِهِ، فَقَالَ نَاسٌ مِنْ إِخْوَانِهِ: اِنْطَلِقُوا بِنَا إِلَى أَخِيكُمْ مُطَرِّفٍ؛ لَا يَخْلُو بِهِ الشَّيْطَانُ، فَيُدْرِكَ بَعْضَ حَاجَتِهِ مِنْهُ، فَأَتَوْهُ، فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ دَهِينًا فِي هَيْئَةٍ حَسَنَةٍ، فَقَالُوا: خَشِينَا شَيْئًا فَنَرْجُو أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى قَدْ عَصَمَكَ مِنْهُ، وَأَخْبَرُوهُ بِالَّذِي قَالُوا، فَقَالَ مُطَرِّفٌ: «لَوْ كَانَتْ لِيَ الدُّنْيَا كَمَا هِيَ، ثُمَّ سُئِلْتُهَا بِشَرْبَةٍ أُسْقَاهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لَافْتَدَيْتُ بِهَا»

ʾanna muṭarrifa bna al-shikhkhīri mātati imraʾatuhu ʾaw baʿḍu ʾahlihi, faqāla nāsun min ʾikhwānihi: inṭaliqū binā ʾilā ʾakhīkum muṭarrifin; lā yakhlū bihi al-shayṭānu, fayudrika baʿḍa ḥājatihi minhu, faʾatawhu, fakharaja ʿalayhim dahīnan fī hayʾatin ḥasanatin, faqālū: khashīnā shayʾan fanarjū ʾan yakūna Allāhu taʿālā qad ʿaṣamaka minhu, waʾakhbarūhu bi-l-ladhī qālū, faqāla muṭarrifun: «law kānat liya al-dunyā kamā hiya, thumma suʾiltuhā bisharbatin ʾusqāhā yawma al-qiyāmati laftadaytu bihā»

Muṭarrif ibn al-Shikhkhīr's wife—or another member of his family—died. Some of his brothers said, ‘Let us go to our brother Muṭarrif, lest Satan find him alone and obtain some aim against him.’ They came to him, and he emerged freshly oiled and looking well. They said, ‘We feared something for you, but we hope God Most High has protected you from it,’ and told him what they had said. Muṭarrif replied, ‘If I possessed the world exactly as it is and were asked to ransom it for one drink I would receive on the Day of Resurrection, I would give it as my ransom.’

٥٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:

531 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni al-mukhtāri, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:

531 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn al-Mukhtār, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

«وَاللَّهِ مَا تَعَاظَمَ فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ مَا طَلَبُوا بِهِ الْجَنَّةَ , أَبْكَاهُمُ الْخَوْفُ مِنَ النَّارِ»

«wa-llāhi mā taʿāẓama fī ʾanfusihim mā ṭalabū bihi al-jannata , ʾabkāhumu al-khawfu mina al-nāri»

‘By God, what they sought Paradise with never seemed great in their own eyes. Fear of the Fire made them weep.’

٥٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ صُبَيْحٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:

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

532 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Ṣubayḥ informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:

“ الْمُؤْمِنُ مَنْ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مَا قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَمَا قَالَ، وَالْمُؤْمِنُ أَحْسَنُ النَّاسِ عَمَلًا، وَأَشَدُّ النَّاسِ خَوْفًا، لَوْ أَنْفَقَ جَبَلًا مِنْ مَالٍ مَا أَمِنَ دُونَ أَنْ يُعَايِنَ، وَلَا يَزْدَادُ صَلَاحًا وَبِرًّا وَعِبَادَةً إِلَّا اِزْدَادَ فَرَقًا، يَقُولُ: لَا أَنْجُو لَا أَنْجُو وَالْمُنَافِقُ يَقُولُ: سَوَادُ النَّاسِ كَثِيرٌ، وَسَيُغْفَرُ لِي، وَلَا بَأْسَ عَلَيَّ، يُسِيءُ الْعَمَلَ، وَيَتَمَنَّى عَلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ”

“ al-muʾminu man yaʿlamu ʾanna mā qāla Allāhu ʿazza wajalla kamā qāla, wa-l-muʾminu ʾaḥsanu al-nāsi ʿamalan, waʾashaddu al-nāsi khawfan, law ʾanfaqa jabalan min mālin mā ʾamina dūna ʾan yuʿāyina, walā yazdādu ṣalāḥan wabirran waʿibādatan ʾillā izdāda faraqan, yaqūlu: lā ʾanjū lā ʾanjū wa-l-munāfiqu yaqūlu: sawādu al-nāsi kathīrun, wasayughfaru lī, walā baʾsa ʿalayya, yusīʾu al-ʿamala, wayatamannā ʿalā Allāhi taʿālā ”

‘The believer knows that what God, mighty and majestic, has said is exactly as He said. The believer performs the best deeds and fears more than anyone. Even if he spent a mountain of wealth, he would not feel secure until he saw the outcome with his own eyes. The more he grows in righteousness, goodness, and worship, the more his fear increases, and he says, “I shall not be saved; I shall not be saved.” The hypocrite says, “The mass of people is great; I shall be forgiven, and no harm will come to me.” He does evil deeds while entertaining wishful hopes about God Most High.’

٥٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ أَنَّ مُوسَى صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

533 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿuthmānu bnu al-ʾaswadi, ʿan ʿaṭāʾin ʾanna mūsā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

533 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿUthmān ibn al-Aswad informed us, from ʿAṭāʾ, that Moses, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

“ أَيْ رَبِّ، أَيُّ عِبَادِكَ أَحْكَمُ؟ قَالَ: الَّذِي يَحْكُمُ لِلنَّاسِ كَمَا يَحْكُمُ لِنَفْسِهِ، قَالَ: أَيُّ عِبَادِكَ أَغْنَى؟ قَالَ: أَرْضَاهُمْ بِمَا قَسَمْتُ لَهُ، قَالَ: فَأَيُّ عِبَادِكَ أَخْشَى؟ قَالَ: أَعْلَمُهُمْ بِي ”

“ ʾay rabbi, ʾayyu ʿibādika ʾaḥkamu? qāla: al-ladhī yaḥkumu li-l-nāsi kamā yaḥkumu linafsihi, qāla: ʾayyu ʿibādika ʾaghnā? qāla: ʾarḍāhum bimā qasamtu lahu, qāla: faʾayyu ʿibādika ʾakhshā? qāla: ʾaʿlamuhum bī ”

‘My Lord, which of Your servants is wisest?’ He replied, ‘The one who judges for others as he judges for himself.’ He asked, ‘Which of Your servants is richest?’ He replied, ‘The one most content with what I have allotted him.’ He asked, ‘Which of Your servants fears You most?’ He replied, ‘The one who knows Me best.’

٥٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ الْعَدَوِيِّ قَالَ:

534 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin, ʿan khālidi bni ʿumayrin al-ʿadawiyyi qāla:

534 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra informed us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Khālid ibn ʿUmayr al-ʿAdawī, who said:

خَطَبَنَا عُتْبَةُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ، فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ، وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: “ أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّ الدُّنْيَا قَدْ آذَنَتْ بِصُرْمٍ، وَوَلَّتْ حَذَّاءَ، فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهَا إِلَّا صُبَابَةٌ كَصُبَابَةِ الْإِنَاءِ يَصْطَبُّهَا صَاحِبُهَا،

khaṭabanā ʿutbatu bnu ghazwāna, faḥamida Allāha, waʾathnā ʿalayhi, thumma qāla: “ ʾammā baʿdu, faʾinna al-dunyā qad ʾādhanat biṣurmin, wawallat ḥadhdhāʾa, faʾinnahu lam yabqa minhā ʾillā ṣubābatun kaṣubābati al-ʾināʾi yaṣṭabbuhā ṣāḥibuhā,

ʿUtba ibn Ghazwān addressed us. He praised and extolled God, then said, ‘To proceed: the world has announced its departure and turned away swiftly. Nothing remains of it but a few drops like the dregs a vessel's owner pours out.

وَأَنْتُمْ تَتَنَقَّلُونَ مِنْهُ إِلَى دَارٍ لَا زَوَالَ لَهَا، فَانْتَقِلُوا بِخَيْرِ مَا بِحَضْرَتِكُمْ،

waʾantum tatanaqqalūna minhu ʾilā dārin lā zawāla lahā, fantaqilū bikhayri mā biḥaḍratikum,

You are passing from it to a dwelling that never vanishes, so depart with the best deeds available to you.

فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ ذُكِرَ لَنَا: أَنَّ الْحَجَرَ يُلْقَى مِنْ شَفِيرِ جَهَنَّمَ فَيَهْوِي فِيهَا سَبْعِينَ عَامًا، لَا يُدْرِكُ لَهَا قَعْرًا، وَاللَّهِ لَتُمْلَأَنَّ، فَعَجِبْتُمْ،

faʾinnahu qad dhukira lanā: ʾanna al-ḥajara yulqā min shafīri jahannama fayahwī fīhā sabʿīna ʿāman, lā yudriku lahā qaʿran, wa-llāhi latumlaʾanna, faʿajibtum,

We have been told that a stone cast from the brink of Hell falls through it for seventy years without reaching its bottom. By God, it will surely be filled—do you wonder at that?

وَقَدْ ذُكِرَ لَنَا أَنَّ مَا بَيْنَ مِصْرَاعَيْنِ مِنْ مَصَارِيعِ الْجَنَّةِ مَسِيرَةُ أَرْبَعِينَ عَامًا، وَلَيَأْتِيَنَّ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمٌ وَهُوَ كَظِيظُ الزِّحَامِ،

waqad dhukira lanā ʾanna mā bayna miṣrāʿayni min maṣārīʿi al-jannati masīratu ʾarbaʿīna ʿāman, walayaʾtiyanna ʿalayhi yawmun wahuwa kaẓīẓu al-ziḥāmi,

We have also been told that the distance between two leaves of one of Paradise's gates is a journey of forty years, yet a day will come when it is packed with crowds.

وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي وَإِنِّي سَابِعُ سَبْعَةٍ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، مَا لَنَا طَعَامٌ إِلَّا وَرَقُ الشَّجَرِ، حَتَّى قَرِحَتْ أَشْدَاقُنَا، وَالْتَقَطْتُ بُرْدَةً، فَاشْتَقَقْتُهَا بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، وَاتَّزَرْتُ بِنِصْفِهَا وَاتَّزَرَ بِنِصْفِهَا،

walaqad raʾaytunī waʾinnī sābiʿu sabʿatin maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, mā lanā ṭaʿāmun ʾillā waraqu al-shajari, ḥattā qariḥat ʾashdāqunā, wa-l-taqaṭtu burdatan, fashtaqaqtuhā baynī wabayna saʿdi bni mālikin, wattazartu biniṣfihā wattazara biniṣfihā,

I remember myself as the seventh of seven with God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him. We had no food except tree leaves, until the corners of our mouths became ulcerated. I found a cloak and split it between Saʿd ibn Mālik and myself. I wrapped one half around my waist and he wrapped the other half around his.

فَمَا أَصْبَحَ مِنَّا الْيَوْمَ أَحَدٌ حَيًّا إِلَّا أَصْبَحَ أَمِيرًا عَلَى مِصْرٍ مِنَ الْأَمْصَارِ، فَإِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ أَنْ أَكُونَ فِي نَفْسِي عَظِيمًا، وَعِنْدَ اللَّهِ صَغِيرًا،

famā ʾaṣbaḥa minnā al-yawma ʾaḥadun ḥayyan ʾillā ʾaṣbaḥa ʾamīran ʿalā miṣrin mina al-ʾamṣāri, faʾinnī ʾaʿūdhu bi-llāhi ʾan ʾakūna fī nafsī ʿaẓīman, waʿinda Allāhi ṣaghīran,

Today every one of us still alive has become governor over one of the great cities. I seek refuge in God from being great in my own eyes but small in God's sight.

وَإِنَّهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ نُبُوَّةٌ قَطُّ إِلَّا تَنَاسَخَتْ حَتَّى تَصِيرَ عَاقِبَتُهَا مُلْكًا، وَسَتُبْلَوْنَ، أَوْ سَتُجَرِّبُونَ الْأُمَرَاءَ بَعْدِي ”

waʾinnahā lam takun nubuwwatun qaṭṭu ʾillā tanāsakhat ḥattā taṣīra ʿāqibatuhā mulkan, wasatublawna, ʾaw satujarribūna al-ʾumarāʾa baʿdī ”

No prophethood has ever remained unchanged; with time its end became kingship. You will be tested—or you will experience—the rulers after me.’

٥٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ

535 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani

535 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan:

أَنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: {فَلَا تَغُرَّنَّكُمُ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا وَلَا يَغُرَّنَّكُمْ بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورُ} [لُقْمَانَ: ٣٣] قَالَ: “ مَنْ قَالَ ذَا؟ قَالَ: مَنْ خَلَقَهَا وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِهَا، قَالَ: وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: إِيَّاكُمْ وَمَا شَغَلَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِنَّ الدُّنْيَا كَثِيرَةُ الْأَشْغَالِ، لَا يَفْتَحُ رَجُلٌ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ بَابَ شُغْلٍ إِلَّا أَوْشَكَ ذَلِكَ الْبَابُ أَنْ يَفْتَحَ عَلَيْهِ عَشَرَةَ أَبْوَابٍ ”

ʾannahu kāna ʾidhā talā hādhihi al-ʾāyata: {falā taghurrannakumu al-ḥayātu al-dunyā walā yaghurrannakum bi-llāhi al-gharūru} [luqmāna: 33] qāla: “ man qāla dhā? qāla: man khalaqahā wahuwa ʾaʿlamu bihā, qāla: waqāla al-ḥasanu: ʾiyyākum wamā shaghala mina al-dunyā, faʾinna al-dunyā kathīratu al-ʾashghāli, lā yaftaḥu rajulun ʿalā nafsihi bāba shughlin ʾillā ʾawshaka dhālika al-bābu ʾan yaftaḥa ʿalayhi ʿasharata ʾabwābin ”

Whenever he recited, ‘Do not let the life of this world deceive you, and do not let the Deceiver deceive you concerning God’ [Qurʾān 31:33], he would say, ‘Who said this? The One who created the world and knows it best.’ Al-Ḥasan also said, ‘Beware of whatever worldly matter preoccupies you. The world is full of preoccupations. No one opens a single door of preoccupation upon himself without that door soon opening ten more doors upon him.’

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

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

536 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Wuhayb related to us:

أَنَّ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ بَاعَ حِمَارًا، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: لَوْ أَمْسَكْتَهُ، فَقَالَ: «لَقَدْ كَانَ لَنَا مُوَافِقًا، وَلَكِنَّهُ أَذْهَبَ بِشُعْبَةٍ مِنْ قَلْبِي، فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أَشْغَلَ قَلْبِي بِشَيْءٍ»

ʾanna ibna ʿumara bāʿa ḥimāran, faqīla lahu: law ʾamsaktahu, faqāla: «laqad kāna lanā muwāfiqan, walākinnahu ʾadhhaba bishuʿbatin min qalbī, fakarihtu ʾan ʾashghala qalbī bishayʾin»

Ibn ʿUmar sold a donkey. Someone said, ‘If only you had kept it.’ He replied, ‘It suited us well, but it took away a portion of my heart, and I disliked occupying my heart with anything.’

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

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

537 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us:

“ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ: يَا بُنَيَّ، إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا بَحْرٌ عَمِيقٌ، قَدْ غَرِقَ فِيهَا نَاسٌ كَثِيرٌ، فَلْتَكُنْ سَفِينَتُكَ فِيهَا تَقْوَى اللَّهِ، وَحَشْوُهَا إِيمَانًا بِاللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَشِرَاعُهَا التَّوَكُّلَ عَلَى اللَّهِ، لَعَلَّكَ نَاجٍ، وَلَا أَرَاكَ نَاجِيًا ”

“ qāla luqmānu: yā bunayya, ʾinna al-dunyā baḥrun ʿamīqun, qad ghariqa fīhā nāsun kathīrun, faltakun safīnatuka fīhā taqwā Allāhi, waḥashwuhā ʾīmānan bi-llāhi ʿazza wajalla, washirāʿuhā al-tawakkula ʿalā Allāhi, laʿallaka nājin, walā ʾarāka nājiyan ”

‘Luqmān said, “My son, the world is a deep sea in which many people have drowned. Let your vessel upon it be reverent fear of God, its cargo faith in God, mighty and majestic, and its sail reliance upon God. Perhaps you will be saved, though I do not think you will be saved.”’

٥٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَكَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبَ بْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ يَقُولُ:

538 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā bakkāru bnu ʿabdi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu wahba bna munabbihin yaqūlu:

538 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. 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:

“ مَرَّ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْعُبَّادِ عَلَى رَجُلٍ فَوَجَدَهُ مَهْمُومًا مُنَكَّسًا، فَقَالَ: مَا شَأْنُكَ، أَرَاكَ مُنَكَّسًا؟ فَقَالَ: أَعْجَبَنِي أَمْرُ فُلَانٍ، قَدْ بَلَغَ مِنَ الْعِبَادَةِ مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتَ، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا، فَقَالَ: لَا تَعْجَبْ مِمَّنْ يَرْجِعُ، وَلَكِنِ اِعْجَبْ مِمَّنْ يَسْتَقِيمُ ”

“ marra rajulun mina al-ʿubbādi ʿalā rajulin fawajadahu mahmūman munakkasan, faqāla: mā shaʾnuka, ʾarāka munakkasan? faqāla: ʾaʿjabanī ʾamru fulānin, qad balagha mina al-ʿibādati mā qad ʿalimta, thumma rajaʿa ʾilā ʾahli al-dunyā, faqāla: lā taʿjab mimman yarjiʿu, walākini iʿjab mimman yastaqīmu ”

‘A worshipper passed a man and found him troubled, his head bowed. He asked, “What is wrong? I see you downcast.” The man replied, “I am astonished by so-and-so. He attained the degree of worship you know, then returned to the people of the world.” The worshipper said, “Do not be astonished by one who turns back; be astonished by one who remains upright.”’

٥٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: وَبَلَغَنَا عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ:

539 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: wabalaghanā ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu kāna yaqūlu:

539 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak said: A report reached us from al-Ḥasan that he used to say:

«خَبَاثُ، كُلُّ عِيدَانِكَ مَضَضْنَا، فَوَجَدْنَا عَاقِبَتَهُ مُرًّا»

«khabāthu, kullu ʿīdānika maḍaḍnā, fawajadnā ʿāqibatahu murran»

‘Vile thing! We have chewed every one of your sticks and found its end bitter.’

٥٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَمَّنْ سَمِعَ الْحَسَنَ:

540 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿamman samiʿa al-ḥasana:

540 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from someone who heard al-Ḥasan say:

“ مَا بَسَطَهَا لِأَحَدٍ إِلَّا اِغْتِرَارًا، قَالَ: وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: مَا عَالَ مُقْتَصِدٌ ”

“ mā basaṭahā liʾaḥadin ʾillā ightirāran, qāla: waqāla al-ḥasanu: mā ʿāla muqtaṣidun ”

‘It is never spread out for anyone except as a delusion.’ Al-Ḥasan also said, ‘One who lives moderately will not become destitute.’

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

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

541 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak said: Sufyān said:

“ كَانَ يُقَالُ: خَيْرُ الدُّنْيَا لَكُمْ مَا لَمْ تُبْتَلُوا بِهِ مِنْهَا، وَخَيْرُ مَا اُبْتُلِيتُمْ بِهِ مِنْهَا مَا خَرَجَ مِنْ أَيْدِيكُمْ ”

“ kāna yuqālu: khayru al-dunyā lakum mā lam tubtalū bihi minhā, wakhayru mā ubtulītum bihi minhā mā kharaja min ʾaydīkum ”

‘It used to be said: the best part of the world for you is what you have not been tried with; and the best part of what you have been tried with is what has passed out of your hands.’

٥٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ أَبِي مَعْنٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي سُهَيْلُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ الْكَلْبِيُّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

542 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, ʿan ʾabī maʿnin qāla: ḥaddathanī suhaylu bnu ḥassāna al-kalbiyyu ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

542 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak related, from Abū Maʿn, who said: Suhayl ibn Ḥassān al-Kalbī related to me that God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

“ إِنَّ الصَّفَا الزَّلَّالَ الَّذِي لَا يَثْبُتُ عَلَيْهِ أَقْدَامُ الْعُلَمَاءِ: الطَّمَعُ ”

“ ʾinna al-ṣafā al-zallāla al-ladhī lā yathbutu ʿalayhi ʾaqdāmu al-ʿulamāʾi: al-ṭamaʿu ”

‘The slippery smooth rock upon which the feet of learned people cannot remain firm is greed.’

٥٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ قَالَ : قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ:

543 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā thawru bnu yazīda, ʿan khālidi bni maʿdāna qāla : qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi:

543 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Thawr ibn Yazīd informed us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, who said: Abū al-Dardāʾ said:

«الدُّنْيَا مَلْعُونَةٌ، مَلْعُونٌ مَا فِيهَا، إِلَّا ذِكْرَ اللَّهِ وَمَا أَدَّى إِلَيْهِ، وَالْعَالِمُ، وَالْمُتَعَلِّمُ فِي الْخَيْرِ شَرِيكَانِ، وَسَائِرُ النَّاسِ هَمَجٌ لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِمْ»

«al-dunyā malʿūnatun, malʿūnun mā fīhā, ʾillā dhikra Allāhi wamā ʾaddā ʾilayhi, wa-l-ʿālimu, wa-l-mutaʿallimu fī al-khayri sharīkāni, wasāʾiru al-nāsi hamajun lā khayra fīhim»

‘The world is accursed, and accursed is what it contains, except remembrance of God and whatever leads to it. The learned person and the learner are partners in goodness; the rest of the people are a rabble with no good in them.’

٥٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شِمْرُ بْنُ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ قَالَ:

544 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla: ʾakhbaranā shimru bnu ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin, ʿan ʿubādata bni al-ṣāmiti qāla:

544 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Aʿmash informed us; Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyya informed us, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, from ʿUbāda ibn al-Ṣāmit, who said:

«يُؤْتَى بِالدُّنْيَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَيُمَيَّزُ مَا كَانَ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، ثُمَّ يُرْمَى بِسَائِرِ ذَلِكَ فِي النَّارِ» .

«yuʾtā bi-l-dunyā yawma al-qiyāmati fayumayyazu mā kāna lillāhi ʿazza wajalla, thumma yurmā bisāʾiri dhālika fī al-nāri» .

‘The world will be brought forth on the Day of Resurrection. Whatever was for God, mighty and majestic, will be separated out; all the rest will then be thrown into the Fire.’

٥٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّاسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شِمْرُ بْنُ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ يَرْفَعُهُ قَالَ:

545 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabbāsu bnu yazīda qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū muʿāwiyata qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla: ḥaddathanā shimru bnu ʿaṭiyyata, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin, ʿan ʿubādata bni al-ṣāmiti yarfaʿuhu qāla:

545 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; ʿAbbās ibn Yazīd related to us; Abū Muʿāwiya related to us; al-Aʿmash related to us; Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyya related to us, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, from ʿUbāda ibn al-Ṣāmit, who raised it to the Prophet and said:

«يُؤْتَى بِالدُّنْيَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ»

«yuʾtā bi-l-dunyā yawma al-qiyāmati, thumma dhakara naḥwahu»

‘The world will be brought forth on the Day of Resurrection’—then he related approximately the same report.

٥٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ صَبِيحٍ، وَجَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ:

546 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-rabīʿu bnu ṣabīḥin, wajaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla ʾubayyu bnu kaʿbin:

546 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣabīḥ and Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: Ubayy ibn Kaʿb said:

«إِنَّ مَطْعَمَ اِبْنِ آدَمَ ضُرِبَ لِلدُّنْيَا مَثَلًا، وَإِنْ قَزَّحَهُ وَمَلَّحَهُ»

«ʾinna maṭʿama ibni ʾādama ḍuriba li-l-dunyā mathalan, waʾin qazzaḥahu wamallaḥahu»

‘The food of Adam's child has been set forth as a likeness of the world, even if he seasons and salts it.’

٥٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ، عَنْ عُقَيْلِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ :

547 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin, ʿan ʿuqayli bni khālidin, ʿan salamata bni ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʿawfin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama :

547 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us, from ʿUqayl ibn Khālid, from Salama ibn Abī Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, from his father, who said: God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

“ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ قَالَ: لَنْ يَنْجُوَ مِنِّي الْغَنِيُّ مِنْ إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ: إِمَّا أُزَيِّنُهُ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ فَيَمْنَعَهُ عَنْ حَقِّهِ، وَإِمَّا أَنْ أُسَهِّلَ لَهُ سَبِيلَهُ فَيُنْفِقَهُ فِي غَيْرِ حَقِّهِ، وَإِمَّا أَنْ أُحَبِّبَهُ إِلَيْهِ فَيَكْسِبَهُ بِغَيْرِ حَقِّهِ ”

“ ʾinna al-shayṭāna qāla: lan yanjuwa minnī al-ghaniyyu min ʾiḥdā thalāthin: ʾimmā ʾuzayyinuhu fī ʿaynayhi fayamnaʿahu ʿan ḥaqqihi, waʾimmā ʾan ʾusahhila lahu sabīlahu fayunfiqahu fī ghayri ḥaqqihi, waʾimmā ʾan ʾuḥabbibahu ʾilayhi fayaksibahu bighayri ḥaqqihi ”

‘Satan said, “The wealthy person will not escape me from one of three directions: either I shall beautify wealth in his eyes so that he withholds its due; or I shall make its path easy for him so that he spends it where it has no right to be spent; or I shall make him love it so that he earns it without right.”’

٥٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ: قَالَ اِبْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:

548 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi qāla: qāla ibnu masʿūdin:

548 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Manṣūr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, who said: Ibn Masʿūd said:

«إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يُرِيدُ الْإِنْسَانَ بِكُلِّ رَيْدَةٍ، فَيَمْتَنِعُ مِنْهُ، فَيَجْثُمُ لَهُ عِنْدَ الْمَالِ، فَيَأْخُذُهُ بِعُنُقِهِ»

«ʾinna al-shayṭāna yurīdu al-ʾinsāna bikulli raydatin, fayamtaniʿu minhu, fayajthumu lahu ʿinda al-māli, fayaʾkhudhuhu biʿunuqihi»

‘Satan approaches a person by every stratagem, but the person resists him. Satan then crouches in wait for him beside wealth and seizes him by the neck.’

٥٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ سَبْرَةَ الْمَدَنِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ سَمِعَ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

549 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿīsā bnu sabrata al-madaniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanī man samiʿa ʾanasa bna mālikin yuḥaddithu ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

549 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿĪsā ibn Sabra al-Madanī informed us. He said: Someone who heard Anas ibn Mālik narrate from the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, related to me that he said:

«إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعْطِي الدُّنْيَا عَلَى نِيَّةِ الْآخِرَةِ، وَأَبَى أَنْ يُعْطِيَ الْآخِرَةَ عَلَى نِيَّةِ الدُّنْيَا»

«ʾinna Allāha yuʿṭī al-dunyā ʿalā niyyati al-ʾākhirati, waʾabā ʾan yuʿṭiya al-ʾākhirata ʿalā niyyati al-dunyā»

‘God grants worldly goods when the intention is the hereafter, but He refuses to grant the hereafter when the intention is the world.’

٥٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ، عَنِ الْمُهَاجِرِ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ:

550 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu, ʿani al-muhājiri bni ḥabībin, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla:

550 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī informed us, from al-Muhājir ibn Ḥabīb, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said:

«لَئِنْ حَلَفْتُمْ لِي عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ أَزْهَدُكُمْ، لَأَحْلِفَنَّ لَكُمْ أَنَّهُ خَيْرُكُمْ»

«laʾin ḥalaftum lī ʿalā rajulin minkum ʾannahu ʾazhadukum, laʾaḥlifanna lakum ʾannahu khayrukum»

‘If you were to swear to me that one of you is the most renunciant among you, I would swear to you that he is the best among you.’

٥٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ التَّيْمِيُّ:

551 - 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 ʾibrāhīmu al-taymiyyu:

551 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak said: Sufyān informed us. He said: Ibrāhīm al-Taymī said:

«كَمْ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ الْقَوْمِ؟ أَقْبَلَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الدُّنْيَا فَهَرَبُوا مِنْهَا، وَأَدْبَرَتْ عَنْكُمْ فَاتَّبَعْتُمُوهَا»

«kam baynakum wabayna al-qawmi? ʾaqbalat ʿalayhimu al-dunyā faharabū minhā, waʾadbarat ʿankum fattabaʿtumūhā»

‘How great is the distance between you and those people! The world advanced toward them, so they fled from it; it has turned away from you, yet you pursue it.’

٥٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي فُلَانٌ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

552 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi qāla: ḥaddathanī fulānun qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

552 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, who said: So-and-so related to me that God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

«أُوتِيتُ بِمَفَاتِيحِ الْأَرْضِ، فَوُضِعَتْ فِي يَدَيَّ، فَذَهَبَ نَبِيُّكُمْ بِخَيْرِ مَذْهَبٍ، وَتُرِكْتُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا تَأْكُلُونَ مِنْ خَبِيصِهَا، مِنْ أَصْفَرِهِ، وَأَحْمَرِهِ، وَأَخْضَرِهِ، وَأَبْيَضِهِ، وَإِنَّمَا هِيَ شَيْءٌ وَاحِدٌ، لَوَّثْتُمُوهُ؛ اِلْتِمَاسَ الشَّهَوَاتِ»

«ʾūtītu bimafātīḥi al-ʾarḍi, fawuḍiʿat fī yadayya, fadhahaba nabiyyukum bikhayri madhhabin, waturiktum fī al-dunyā taʾkulūna min khabīṣihā, min ʾaṣfarihi, waʾaḥmarihi, waʾakhḍarihi, waʾabyaḍihi, waʾinnamā hiya shayʾun wāḥidun, lawwathtumūhu; iltimāsa al-shahawāti»

‘I was brought the keys of the earth and they were placed in my hands. Your Prophet chose the best course and departed, while you were left in the world eating its mixed sweetmeats—yellow, red, green, and white. It is really only one thing that you have colored and muddied in your pursuit of appetites.’

بَابُ التَّوَكُّلِ وَالتَّوَاضُعِ

bābu al-tawakkuli wa-l-tawāḍuʿi

Chapter on trust in God and humility.

أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو هَانِئٍ الْخَوْلَانِيُّ أَنَّ عَمْرَو بْنَ مَالِكٍ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ فَضَالَةَ بْنَ عُبَيْدٍ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʾabū hāniʾin al-khawlāniyyu ʾanna ʿamra bna mālikin ḥaddathahu ʾannahu samiʿa faḍālata bna ʿubaydin yaqūlu: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us; Abū Hāniʾ al-Khawlānī informed me that ʿAmr ibn Mālik related to him that he heard Faḍāla ibn ʿUbayd say: I heard God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, say:

«طُوبَى لِمَنْ هُدِيَ لِلْإِسْلَامِ، وَكَانَ عَيْشُهُ كَفَافًا، وَقَنَعَ»

«ṭūbā liman hudiya li-l-ʾislāmi, wakāna ʿayshuhu kafāfan, waqanaʿa»

‘Blessed is the one who is guided to Islam, whose livelihood is sufficient, and who is content.’

٥٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هَانِئٍ الْخَوْلَانِيُّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَمْرَو بْنَ حُرَيْثٍ وَغَيْرَهُ يَقُولَانِ:

554 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū hāniʾin al-khawlāniyyu ʾannahu samiʿa ʿamra bna ḥuraythin waghayrahu yaqūlāni:

554 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us; Abū Hāniʾ al-Khawlānī related to us that he heard ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth and another man say:

“ إِنَّمَا أُنْزِلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فِي أَصْحَابِ الصُّفَّةِ: {وَلَوْ بَسَطَ اللَّهُ الرِّزْقَ لِعِبَادِهِ لَبَغَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ} [الشُّورَى: ٢٧] ، وَذَلِكَ أَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا: لَوْ أَنَّ لَنَا الدُّنْيَا، فَتَمَنَّوُا الدُّنْيَا ”.

“ ʾinnamā ʾunzilat hādhihi al-ʾāyatu fī ʾaṣḥābi al-ṣuffati: {walaw basaṭa Allāhu al-rizqa liʿibādihi labaghaw fī al-ʾarḍi} [al-shūrā: 27] , wadhālika ʾannahum qālū: law ʾanna lanā al-dunyā, fatamannawu al-dunyā ”.

‘This verse was revealed concerning the People of the Bench: {Had God expanded provision for His servants, they would have transgressed throughout the earth} [Qurʾān 42:27]. This was because they said, “If only we possessed the world,” and so they longed for the world.’

قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: عَمْرُو بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ هَذَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ مِصْرَ، لَيْسَتْ لَهُ صُحْبَةٌ، وَلَيْسَ هُوَ عَمْرَو بْنَ حُرَيْثٍ الْمَخْزُومِيَّ، الَّذِي رَأَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَرَوَى عَنْهُ "

qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: ʿamru bnu ḥuraythin hādhā rajulun min miṣra, laysat lahu ṣuḥbatun, walaysa huwa ʿamra bna ḥuraythin al-makhzūmiyya, al-ladhī raʾā al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, warawā ʿanhu "

Ibn Ṣāʿid said: ‘This ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth was a man from Egypt and was not a Companion. He was not ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth al-Makhzūmī, who saw the Prophet, God's blessings and peace be upon him, and transmitted from him.’

٥٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ يَعْنِي التَّيْمِيَّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ:

555 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma yaʿnī al-taymiyya, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla:

555 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm—meaning al-Taymī—from his father, from Abū Dharr, who said:

“ ذُو الدِّرْهَمَيْنِ أَشَدُّ حِسَابًا - أَوْ قَالَ: حَبْسًا - مِنْ ذِي الدِّرْهَمِ ”

“ dhū al-dirhamayni ʾashaddu ḥisāban - ʾaw qāla: ḥabsan - min dhī al-dirhami ”

‘The possessor of two dirhams faces a harder reckoning—or he said, a longer detention—than the possessor of one dirham.’

٥٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ضَمْرَةُ، وَالْمُهَاصِرُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، وَحَكِيمُ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

556 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū bakri bnu ʾabī maryama al-ghassāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ḍamratu, wa-l-muhāṣiru bnu ḥabībin, waḥakīmu bnu ʿumayrin ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

556 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī informed us; Ḍamra, al-Muhāṣir ibn Ḥabīb, and Ḥakīm ibn ʿUmayr related to us that God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

“ يَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَبْدَيْنِ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ كَانَا عَلَى سِيرَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ، أَحَدُهُمَا مَقْتُورٌ عَلَيْهِ، وَالْآخَرُ مُوَسَّعٌ عَلَيْهِ، فَيُقْبِلُ الْمَقْتُورُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ، لَا يَنْثَنِي عَنْهَا حِينَ يَنْتَهِي إِلَى أَبْوَابِهَا، فَيَقُولُ لَهُ حَجَبَتُهَا إِلَيْكَ، فَيَقُولُ: إِذًا لَا أَرْجِعُ،

“ yabʿathu Allāhu yawma al-qiyāmati ʿabdayni min ʿibādihi kānā ʿalā sīratin wāḥidatin, ʾaḥaduhumā maqtūrun ʿalayhi, wa-l-ʾākharu muwassaʿun ʿalayhi, fayuqbilu al-maqtūru fī al-jannati, lā yanthanī ʿanhā ḥīna yantahī ʾilā ʾabwābihā, fayaqūlu lahu ḥajabatuhā ʾilayka, fayaqūlu: ʾidhan lā ʾarjiʿu,

‘On the Day of Resurrection, God will raise two of His servants who followed the same course in life. One had been kept in straitened circumstances, while the other had been given abundance. The straitened man advances into Paradise without turning aside. When he reaches its gates, their keepers call out to him, “Stop there!” He replies, “Then I shall not turn back.”

وَإِنَّ سَيْفَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ، فَيَقُولُ: إِنِّي أُعْطِيتُ هَذَا السَّيْفَ فِي الدُّنْيَا أُجَاهِدُ بِهِ، فَلَمْ أَزَلْ مُجَاهِدًا بِهِ حَتَّى قُبِضْتُ وَأَنَا عَلَى ذَلِكَ،

waʾinna sayfahu fī ʿunuqihi, fayaqūlu: ʾinnī ʾuʿṭītu hādhā al-sayfa fī al-dunyā ʾujāhidu bihi, falam ʾazal mujāhidan bihi ḥattā qubiḍtu waʾanā ʿalā dhālika,

A sword is hanging from his neck, and he says, “I was given this sword in the world to strive with. I continued striving with it until I was taken in death while still upon that course.”

فَيَرْمِي بِسَيْفِهِ إِلَى الْخَزَنَةِ، وَيَنْطَلِقُ لَا يُثْنُونَهُ، وَلَا يَحْبِسُونَهُ عَنِ الْجَنَّةِ، فَيَدْخُلُهَا، فَيَمْكُثُ فِيهَا دَهْرًا،

fayarmī bisayfihi ʾilā al-khazanati, wayanṭaliqu lā yuthnūnahu, walā yaḥbisūnahu ʿani al-jannati, fayadkhuluhā, fayamkuthu fīhā dahran,

He throws his sword to the keepers and sets off. They neither turn him away nor detain him from Paradise, and he enters it. He remains there for a long age.

قَالَ: ثُمَّ يَمُرُّ بِهِ أَخُوهُ الْمُوَسَّعُ عَلَيْهِ، فَيَقُولُ لَهُ: يَا فُلَانُ، مَا حَبَسَكَ؟

qāla: thumma yamurru bihi ʾakhūhu al-muwassaʿu ʿalayhi, fayaqūlu lahu: yā fulānu, mā ḥabasaka?

Then his brother, the man who had been given abundance, passes by. He asks him, “So-and-so, what delayed you?”

فَيَقُولُ: مَا خُلِّيَ سَبِيلِي إِلَّا الْآنَ، وَلَقَدْ حُبِسْتُ مَا لَوْ أَنَّ ثَلَاثَ مِائَةِ بَعِيرٍ أَكَلَتْ حَمْضًا، لَا يَرِدْنَ الْمَاءَ إِلَّا خِمْسًا، وَرَدْنَ عَلَى عَرَقِي لَصَدَرْنَ مِنْهُ رِيًّا ”

fayaqūlu: mā khulliya sabīlī ʾillā al-ʾāna, walaqad ḥubistu mā law ʾanna thalātha miʾati baʿīrin ʾakalat ḥamḍan, lā yaridna al-māʾa ʾillā khimsan, waradna ʿalā ʿaraqī laṣadarna minhu riyyan ”

The man replies, “My way was not cleared until just now. I was detained so long that, had three hundred camels fed on salt shrubs and watered only once every five days come upon my sweat, they would have left it fully quenched.”’

٥٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

557 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾabī ʾayyūba qāla: ḥaddathanī man samiʿa ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

557 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb informed us; someone who heard Abū Hurayra say related to me that God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

«إِنَّمَا أَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَى أُمَّتِي ضَعْفَ الْيَقِينِ»

«ʾinnamā ʾatakhawwafu ʿalā ʾummatī ḍaʿfa al-yaqīni»

‘What I fear for my community is weakness of certainty.’

٥٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

558 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

558 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. 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 that God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, said:

«إِلَّا إِنَّ النَّاسَ لَمْ يُؤْتَوْا فِي الدُّنْيَا شَيْئًا خَيْرًا مِنَ الْيَقِينِ، وَالْعَافِيَةِ، فَسَلُوهُمَا اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ» .

«ʾillā ʾinna al-nāsa lam yuʾtaw fī al-dunyā shayʾan khayran mina al-yaqīni, wa-l-ʿāfiyati, fasalūhumā Allāha ʿazza wajalla» .

‘Indeed, people have been given nothing in this world better than certainty and well-being, so ask God, mighty and majestic, for both.’

وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: صَدَقَ اللَّهُ، وَصَدَقَ رَسُولُهُ،

waqāla al-ḥasanu: ṣadaqa Allāhu, waṣadaqa rasūluhu,

Al-Ḥasan said, ‘God has spoken truly, and His Messenger has spoken truly.

بِالْيَقِينِ هُرِبَ مِنَ النَّارِ، وَبِالْيَقِينِ طُلِبَتِ الْجَنَّةُ، وَبِالْيَقِينِ صُبِرَ عَلَى الْمَكْرُوهِ، وَبِالْيَقِينِ أُدِّيَتِ الْفَرَائِضُ،

bi-l-yaqīni huriba mina al-nāri, wa-bi-l-yaqīni ṭulibati al-jannatu, wa-bi-l-yaqīni ṣubira ʿalā al-makrūhi, wa-bi-l-yaqīni ʾuddiyati al-farāʾiḍu,

Through certainty people escaped the Fire; through certainty they sought Paradise; through certainty they endured what was hateful; and through certainty they fulfilled the obligatory duties.

وَفِي مُعَافَاةِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ كَثِيرٌ، قَدْ وَاللَّهِ رَأَيْنَاهُمْ يَتَقَارَبُونَ فِي الْعَافِيَةِ، فَإِذَا وَقَعَ الْبَلَاءُ تَبَايَنُوا "

wafī muʿāfāti Allāhi khayrun kathīrun, qad wa-llāhi raʾaynāhum yataqārabūna fī al-ʿāfiyati, faʾidhā waqaʿa al-balāʾu tabāyanū "

There is abundant good in the well-being God grants. By God, we have seen people appear much alike while they enjoyed well-being, but when affliction fell upon them, their differences became clear.’

٥٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي بَكْرُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا تَمِيمٍ الْجَيْشَانِيَّ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ يَقُولُ : سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

559 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin qāla: ḥaddathanī bakru bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni hubayrata ʾannahu samiʿa ʾabā tamīmin al-jayshāniyya yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi yaqūlu : samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

559 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us; Bakr ibn ʿAmr related to me, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hubayra, that he heard Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī say: I heard ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb say: I heard God's Messenger, God's blessings and peace be upon him, say:

«لَوْ أَنَّكُمْ تَتَوَكَّلُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ حَقَّ تَوَكُّلِهِ؛ لَرَزَقَكُمْ كَمَا تُرْزَقُ الطَّيْرُ، تَغْدُو خِمَاصًا، وَتَرُوحُ بِطَانًا»

«law ʾannakum tatawakkalūna ʿalā Allāhi ḥaqqa tawakkulihi; larazaqakum kamā turzaqu al-ṭayru, taghdū khimāṣan, watarūḥu biṭānan»

‘If you were to rely upon God as He truly deserves to be relied upon, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds: they set out in the morning with empty bellies and return in the evening with full bellies.’

بَابُ الْقَنَاعَةِ وَالرِّضَا

bābu al-qanāʿati wa-l-riḍā

Chapter on contentment and satisfaction.

أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ شِمْرِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ الْأَخْرَمِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:

ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan shimri bni ʿaṭiyyata, ʿani al-mughīrati bni saʿdi bni al-ʾakhrami, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿani ibni masʿūdin qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Sulaymān, from Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyya, from al-Mughīra ibn Saʿd ibn al-Akhram, from his father, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said:

«مَا يَضُرُّ عَبْدًا يُصْبِحُ عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، وَيُمْسِي عَلَيْهِ، مَاذَا أَصَابَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا»

«mā yaḍurru ʿabdan yuṣbiḥu ʿalā al-ʾislāmi, wayumsī ʿalayhi, mādhā ʾaṣāba mina al-dunyā»

‘Whatever share of this world he receives cannot harm a servant who begins the day upon Islam and ends it upon Islam.’

٥٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ أَنَّ رَبِيعَةَ بْنَ لَقِيطٍ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ مَعَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ عَامَ الْجَمَاعَةِ، وَهُمْ رَاجِعُونَ مِنْ مَسْكَنٍ، وَأُمْطِرُوا دَمًا عَبِيطًا،

561 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī yazīdu bnu ʾabī ḥabībin ʾanna rabīʿata bna laqīṭin ʾakhbarahu ʾannahu kāna maʿa ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi ʿāma al-jamāʿati, wahum rājiʿūna min maskanin, wa-ʾumṭirū daman ʿabīṭan,

561 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb related to me that Rabīʿa ibn Laqīṭ informed him that he was with ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ in the Year of Unity while they were returning from Maskan, and fresh blood rained upon them.

قَالَ رَبِيعَةُ: وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي أَنْصِبُ الْإِنَاءَ فَيَمْتَلِئُ دَمًا عَبِيطًا،

qāla rabīʿatu: walaqad raʾaytunī ʾanṣibu al-ʾināʾa fayamtaliʾu daman ʿabīṭan,

Rabīʿa said, ‘I saw myself set out a vessel and watched it fill with fresh blood.

فَظَنَّ النَّاسُ أَنَّهَا هِيَ، وَمَاجَ النَّاسُ بَعْضُهُمْ فِي بَعْضٍ،

faẓanna al-nāsu ʾannahā hiya, wamāja al-nāsu baʿḍuhum fī baʿḍin,

The people thought, “This is it,” and surged into one another.

فَقَامَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ، فَأَثْنَى عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِمَا هُوَ لَهُ أَهْلٌ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، أَصْلِحُوا مَا بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمْ وَلَوِ اِصْطَدَمَ هَذَانِ الْجَبَلَانِ»

faqāma ʿamru bnu al-ʿāṣi, faʾathnā ʿalā Allāhi ʿazza wajalla bimā huwa lahu ʾahlun, thumma qāla: «yā ʾayyuhā al-nāsu, ʾaṣliḥū mā baynakum wabayna Allāhi taʿālā, walā yaḍurrukum wa-law-iṣṭadama hādhāni al-jabalāni»

ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ stood, praised God, mighty and majestic, as He deserves to be praised, and then said, “People, set right what lies between you and God Most High. Nothing will harm you, even if these two mountains collide.”’

٥٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ سَبْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْمَقْبُرِيَّ يَقُولُ : قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ:

562 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿīsā bnu sabrata qāla: samiʿtu al-maqburiyya yaqūlu : qāla ʾabū hurayrata:

562 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿĪsā ibn Sabra informed us. He said: I heard al-Maqburī say that Abū Hurayra said:

«تَعِسَ عَبْدُ الدِّينَارِ وَعَبْدُ الدِّرْهَمِ، بَادِرُوا النَّوْكَى الْمُكِبِّينَ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا»

«taʿisa ʿabdu al-dīnāri waʿabdu al-dirhami, bādirū al-nawkā al-mukibbīna ʿalā al-dunyā»

‘Wretched is the slave of the dinar and the slave of the dirham. Race ahead of the fools who have thrown themselves upon the world.’

٥٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ:

563 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sharīkun, ʿan ʿāṣimin, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla:

563 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sharīk informed us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayra, who said:

" كَانَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: «اِتَّخِذُوا الْمَسَاجِدَ مَسَاكِنَ، وَالْبُيُوتَ مَنَازِلَ، وَكُلُوا مِنْ بَقْلِ الْبَرِيَّةِ، وَانْجُوا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بِسَلَامٍ» .

" kāna ʿīsā ibnu maryama ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu liʾaṣḥābihi: «ittakhidhū al-masājida masākina, wa-l-buyūta manāzila, wakulū min baqli al-bariyyati, wanjū mina al-dunyā bisalāmin» .

‘Jesus son of Mary, God's blessings and peace be upon him, used to say to his companions, “Make the mosques your dwellings and houses your stopping places; eat the wild plants of the open country, and escape the world in peace.”’

قَالَ شَرِيكٌ: فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِسُلَيْمَانَ، فَزَادَنِي: «وَاشْرَبُوا مِنَ الْمَاءِ الْقَرَاحِ»

qāla sharīkun: fadhakartu dhālika lisulaymāna, fazādanī: «washrabū mina al-māʾi al-qarāḥi»

Sharīk said, ‘I mentioned this to Sulaymān, and he added for me, “And drink pure, unmixed water.”’

٥٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ شَيْبَانَ السَّدُوسِيِّ، قَالَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ ثَوْرِ بْنِ شَقِيقِ بْنِ ثَوْرٍ - وَكَانَتْ تَهُمُّهُ نَفْسُهُ - قُلْتُ لِلْحَسَنِ:

564 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, ʿani al-ʾaswadi bni shaybāna al-sadūsiyyi, qāla al-faḍlu bnu thawri bni shaqīqi bni thawrin - wakānat tahummuhu nafsuhu - qultu li-l-ḥasani:

564 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from al-Aswad ibn Shaybān al-Sadūsī. Al-Faḍl ibn Thawr ibn Shaqīq ibn Thawr—who was deeply concerned about his own soul—said:

“ يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ، رَجُلَانِ طَلَبَ أَحَدُهُمَا الدُّنْيَا بِحَلَالِهَا، فَأَصَابَهَا، فَوَصَلَ فِيهَا رَحِمَهُ، وَقَدَّمَ فِيهَا لِنَفْسِهِ، وَجَانَبَ الْآخَرُ الدُّنْيَا؟

“ yā ʾabā saʿīdin, rajulāni ṭalaba ʾaḥaduhumā al-dunyā biḥalālihā, faʾaṣābahā, fawaṣala fīhā raḥimahu, waqaddama fīhā linafsihi, wajānaba al-ʾākharu al-dunyā?

‘I said to al-Ḥasan, “Abū Saʿīd, consider two men. One sought the world through lawful means and obtained it; with it he maintained his ties of kinship and sent good ahead for himself. The other kept aloof from the world.”

فَقَالَ: «أَحَبُّهُمَا إِلَيَّ الَّذِي جَانَبَ الدُّنْيَا» ،

faqāla: «ʾaḥabbuhumā ʾilayya al-ladhī jānaba al-dunyā» ,

Al-Ḥasan replied, “The one who kept aloof from the world is dearer to me.”

فَأَعَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَعَادَ عَلَيَّ مِثْلَهَا ”

faʾaʿadtu ʿalayhi, faʾaʿāda ʿalayya mithlahā ”

I put the question to him again, and he gave me the same answer.’

٥٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الصَّهْبَاءِ - وَهُوَ صِلَةُ بْنُ أَشْيَمَ:

565 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu sulaymin qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥasanu qāla: qāla ʾabū al-ṣahbāʾi - wahuwa ṣilatu bnu ʾashyama:

565 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Muḥammad ibn Sulaym informed us; al-Ḥasan related to us. He said that Abū al-Ṣahbāʾ—Ṣila ibn Ashyam—said:

«طَلَبْتُ الرِّزْقَ فِي وُجُوهِهِ فَأَعْيَانِي أَنْ أُصِيبَهُ إِلَّا رِزْقَ يَوْمٍ بِيَوْمٍ، فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ خَيْرٌ لِي»

«ṭalabtu al-rizqa fī wujūhihi faʾaʿyānī ʾan ʾuṣībahu ʾillā rizqa yawmin biyawmin, faʿalimtu ʾannahu khayrun lī»

‘I sought provision through its various avenues, but I could obtain no more than one day's provision at a time. I then realized that this was better for me.’

وَقَالَ: وَسَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ، وَإِلَّا فَحَدَّثَنِي دَاوُدُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ :

waqāla: wasamiʿtu al-ḥasana, waʾillā faḥaddathanī dāwūdu, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu qāla :

He also said: I heard al-Ḥasan—or else Dāwūd related to me from al-Ḥasan—that he said:

«مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يُرْزَقُ رِزْقَ يَوْمٍ بِيَوْمٍ، وَلَا يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ قَدْ خِيرَ لَهُ إِلَّا عَاجِزٌ» ، أَوْ قَالَ: غَبِيُّ الرَّأْيِ

«mā min muslimin yurzaqu rizqa yawmin biyawmin, walā yaʿlamu ʾannahu qad khīra lahu ʾillā ʿājizun» , ʾaw qāla: ghabiyyu al-raʾyi

‘Any Muslim who is provided one day's provision at a time but does not realize that the better course has been chosen for him is helpless’—or he said, ‘poor in judgment.’

بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي الْفَقْرِ

bābu mā jāʾa fī al-faqri

Chapter on what has been related concerning poverty.

٥٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بَذِيمَةَ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ حَبْتَرٍ الْأَسَدِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:

566 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni badhīmata, ʿan qaysi bni ḥabtarin al-ʾasadiyyi qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin:

566 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī informed us, from ʿAlī ibn Badhīma, from Qays ibn Ḥabtar al-Asadī, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:

“ حَبَّذَا الْمَكْرُوهَانِ: الْمَوْتُ، وَالْفَقْرُ، وَايْمُ اللَّهِ مَا هُوَ إِلَّا الْغِنَى وَالْفَقْرُ، وَمَا أُبَالِي بِأَيِّهِمَا اُبْتُلِيتُ؛ لِأَنَّ حَقَّ اللَّهِ فِي كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَاجِبٌ، إِنْ كَانَ الْغِنَى إِنَّ فِيهِ لَلْعَطْفَ، وَإِنْ كَانَ الْفَقْرُ إِنَّ فِيهِ لَلصَّبْرَ ”

“ ḥabbadhā al-makrūhāni: al-mawtu, wa-l-faqru, wa-aymu Allāhi mā huwa ʾillā al-ghinā wa-l-faqru, wamā ʾubālī biʾayyihimā ubtulītu; liʾanna ḥaqqa Allāhi fī kulli wāḥidin minhumā wājibun, ʾin kāna al-ghinā ʾinna fīhi la-l-ʿaṭfa, waʾin kāna al-faqru ʾinna fīhi la-l-ṣabra ”

‘How welcome are the two disliked things: death and poverty! By God, it is only wealth or poverty, and I do not care by which of the two I am tested, for God’s due is obligatory in each. If it is wealth, it affords scope for generosity; and if it is poverty, it affords scope for patience.’

٥٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:

567 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu, ʿani al-qāsimi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin:

567 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī informed us, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:

«لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي مِنَ الدُّنْيَا فَرْدٌ كَالرَّاكِبِ الرَّائِحِ الْغَادِي»

«lawadidtu ʾannī mina al-dunyā fardun ka-l-rākibi al-rāʾiḥi al-ghādī»

‘I wish that my share of this world were no more than that of a lone rider who comes and goes.’

٥٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَنْعُمٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

568 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu ziyādi bni ʾanʿumin, ʿan saʿdi bni masʿūdin ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

568 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿum informed us, from Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«الْفَقْرُ أَحْسَنُ - أَوْ أَزْيَنُ - بِالْمُؤْمِنِ مِنَ الْعِذَارِ الْجَيِّدِ عَلَى خَدِّ الْفَرَسِ»

«al-faqru ʾaḥsanu - ʾaw ʾazyanu - bi-l-muʾmini mina al-ʿidhāri al-jayyidi ʿalā khaddi al-farasi»

‘Poverty is more becoming—or more beautiful—for the believer than a fine cheek strap upon a horse’s cheek.’

٥٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُوقَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

569 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu sūqata, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni ʾabī ṭalḥata ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama

569 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Muḥammad ibn Sūqa informed us, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭalḥa, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace,

خَرَجَ مِنْ بَعْضِ بُيُوتِهِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ، فَلَمْ يَرَ أَحَدًا فِيهِ،

kharaja min baʿḍi buyūtihi ʾilā al-masjidi, falam yara ʾaḥadan fīhi,

left one of his apartments for the mosque and found no one there.

فَسَمِعَ فِي زَاوِيَةٍ مِنْ زَاوَيَاهُ صَوْتًا فَأَتَاهُمْ،

fasamiʿa fī zāwiyatin min zāwayāhu ṣawtan faʾatāhum,

He then heard voices in one corner of the mosque and went to them.

فَقَالَ: «الصَّلَاةَ تَنْتَظِرُونَ؟ أَمَا إِنَّهَا صَلَاةٌ لَمْ تَكُنْ فِي الْأُمَمِ قَبْلَكُمْ , وَهِيَ الْعِشَاءُ» ،

faqāla: «al-ṣalāta tantaẓirūna? ʾamā ʾinnahā ṣalātun lam takun fī al-ʾumami qablakum , wahiya al-ʿishāʾu» ,

He asked, ‘Are you waiting for the prayer? This is a prayer that the communities before you did not have: the night prayer.’

ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ النُّجُومَ أَمَانٌ لِلسَّمَاءِ، فَإِذَا طُمِسَتِ النُّجُومُ أَتَى السَّمَاءَ مَا تُوعَدُ، وَأَنَا أَمَانٌ لِأَصْحَابِي، فَإِذَا مِتُّ أَتَى أَصْحَابِي مَا يُوعَدُونَ، وَأَصْحَابِي أَمَانٌ لِأُمَّتِي، فَإِذَا ذَهَبَ أَصْحَابِي أَتَى أُمَّتِي مَا يُوعَدُونَ»

thumma naẓara ʾilā al-samāʾi, faqāla: «ʾinna al-nujūma ʾamānun li-l-samāʾi, faʾidhā ṭumisati al-nujūmu ʾatā al-samāʾa mā tūʿadu, waʾanā ʾamānun liʾaṣḥābī, faʾidhā mittu ʾatā ʾaṣḥābī mā yūʿadūna, waʾaṣḥābī ʾamānun liʾummatī, faʾidhā dhahaba ʾaṣḥābī ʾatā ʾummatī mā yūʿadūna»

Then he looked toward the sky and said, ‘The stars are a safeguard for the sky. When the stars are blotted out, what the sky has been promised will come upon it. I am a safeguard for my Companions; when I die, what my Companions have been promised will come upon them. My Companions are a safeguard for my community; when my Companions are gone, what my community has been promised will come upon it.’

٥٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ حَيَّانَ قَالَ:

570 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʿubaydu Allāhi ʾabū ʿabdi Allāhi bnu sulaymāna, ʿan ʿuthmāna bni ḥayyāna qāla:

570 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān, informed me, from ʿUthmān ibn Ḥayyān, who said:

أَكَلْنَا مَعَ أُمِّ الدَّرْدَاءِ طَعَامًا، فَأَغْفَلْنَا الْحَمْدَ لِلَّهِ،

ʾakalnā maʿa ʾummi al-dardāʾi ṭaʿāman, faʾaghfalnā al-ḥamda lillāhi,

We ate a meal with Umm al-Dardāʾ and neglected to praise God.

فَقَالَتْ: «يَا بَنِيَّ، لَا تَدَعُوا أَنْ تَأْدِمُوا طَعَامَكُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ، أَكْلًا وَحَمْدًا، خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَكْلٍ وَصَمْتٍ»

faqālat: «yā baniyya, lā tadaʿū ʾan taʾdimū ṭaʿāmakum bidhikri Allāhi, ʾaklan waḥamdan, khayrun min ʾaklin waṣamtin»

She said, ‘My sons, never fail to season your food with the remembrance of God. Eating followed by praise is better than eating in silence.’

٥٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

571 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

571 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he said: he said: al-Awzāʿī informed us. He said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَا أُبَالِي مَا رَدَدْتُ بِهِ عَنِّي الْجُوعَ»

«mā ʾubālī mā radadtu bihi ʿannī al-jūʿa»

‘I do not care what I use to ward hunger away from myself.’

٥٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ الْمَكِّيُّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

572 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu al-makkiyyu, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

572 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl al-Makkī informed us, from al-Ḥasan, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«إِنَّ مَثَلَ أَصْحَابِي فِي أُمَّتِي كَالْمِلْحِ فِي الطَّعَامِ ، لَا يَصْلُحُ الطَّعَامُ إِلَّا بِالْمِلْحِ» .

«ʾinna mathala ʾaṣḥābī fī ʾummatī ka-l-milḥi fī al-ṭaʿāmi , lā yaṣluḥu al-ṭaʿāmu ʾillā bi-l-milḥi» .

‘The likeness of my Companions within my community is that of salt in food: food is not wholesome without salt.’

قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: فَقَدْ ذَهَبَ مِلْحُنَا، فَكَيْفَ نَصْلُحُ؟

qāla al-ḥasanu: faqad dhahaba milḥunā, fakayfa naṣluḥu?

Al-Ḥasan said, ‘Our salt has gone, so how can we become wholesome?’

٥٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمَا:

573 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan khaythamata qāla: qāla sulaymānu bnu dāwūda ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhimā:

573 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Sulaymān, from Khaythama, who said: Solomon son of David, God’s blessings be upon them both, said:

«كُلُّ الْعَيْشِ قَدْ جَرَّبْنَاهُ، لَيِّنُهُ وَشَدِيدُهُ، فَوَجَدْنَا يَكْفِي مِنْهُ أَدْنَاهُ»

«kullu al-ʿayshi qad jarrabnāhu, layyinuhu washadīduhu, fawajadnā yakfī minhu ʾadnāhu»

‘We have experienced every kind of life, both its ease and its hardship, and found that the least of it is enough.’

٥٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ أَخِيهِ، عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ

574 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan ʾakhīhi, ʿan muṣʿabi bni saʿdin

574 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from his brother, from Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd,

أَنَّ حَفْصَةَ قَالَتْ لِعُمَرَ: “ أَلَا تَلْبَسُ ثَوْبًا لَيِّنًا أَلْيَنَ مِنْ ثَوْبِكَ، وَتَأْكُلُ طَعَامًا أَطْيَبَ مِنْ طَعَامِكَ هَذَا؟

ʾanna ḥafṣata qālat liʿumara: “ ʾalā talbasu thawban layyinan ʾalyana min thawbika, wataʾkulu ṭaʿāman ʾaṭyaba min ṭaʿāmika hādhā?

that Ḥafṣa said to ʿUmar, ‘Why do you not wear a soft garment, softer than yours, and eat food more pleasant than this food of yours?

فَقَدْ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ الْأَرْضَ، وَأَوْسَعَ عَلَيْكَ مِنَ الرِّزْقِ،

faqad fataḥa Allāhu ʿalayka al-ʾarḍa, waʾawsaʿa ʿalayka mina al-rizqi,

God has opened the lands to you and enlarged your provision.’

قَالَ: سَأُخْصِمُكِ إِلَى نَفْسِكِ.

qāla: saʾukhṣimuki ʾilā nafsiki.

He replied, ‘I shall make your own self the judge against you.’

فَذَكَرَ أَمْرَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، وَمَا كَانَ يَلْقَى مِنْ شِدَّةِ الْعَيْشِ، وَلَمْ يَزَلْ يَذْكُرُ حَتَّى بَكَتْ،

fadhakara ʾamra rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi, wamā kāna yalqā min shiddati al-ʿayshi, walam yazal yadhkuru ḥattā bakat,

He then recalled the condition of the Messenger of God, God bless him, and the hardship of life that he endured. He continued recounting it until she wept.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عُمَرُ: لَأَشْرَكَنَّهُمَا فِي مِثْلِ عَيْشِهِمَا الشَّدِيدِ؛ لَعَلِّي أُدْرِكُ مَعَهُمَا مِثْلَ عَيْشِهِمَا الرَّخِيِّ ”

thumma qāla ʿumaru: laʾashrakannahumā fī mithli ʿayshihimā al-shadīdi; laʿallī ʾudriku maʿahumā mithla ʿayshihimā al-rakhiyyi ”

Then ʿUmar said, ‘I will certainly share with those two a life of comparable hardship, so that perhaps I may join them in a life of comparable ease.’

٥٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ:

575 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni al-mukhtāri, ʿani al-ḥasani ʾannahu dhakara rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi faqāla:

575 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn al-Mukhtār, from al-Ḥasan, who mentioned the Messenger of God, God bless him, and said:

«لَا وَاللَّهِ مَا كَانَتْ تُغْلَقُ دُونَهُ الْأَبْوَابُ، وَلَا تَقُومُ دُونَهُ الْحَجَبَةُ، وَلَا يُغْدَى عَلَيْهِ بِالْجِفَانِ، وَلَا يُرَاحُ عَلَيْهِ بِهَا،

«lā wa-llāhi mā kānat tughlaqu dūnahu al-ʾabwābu, walā taqūmu dūnahu al-ḥajabatu, walā yughdā ʿalayhi bi-l-jifāni, walā yurāḥu ʿalayhi bihā,

‘No, by God! Doors were not shut to bar access to him, chamberlains did not stand in people’s way, and great bowls were not brought to him morning and evening.

وَلَكِنَّهُ كَانَ بَارِزًا، مَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَلْقَى نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَقِيَهُ،

walākinnahu kāna bārizan, man ʾarāda ʾan yalqā nabiyya Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama laqiyahu,

Rather, he remained accessible: whoever wished to meet the Prophet of God, God bless him and grant him peace, could meet him.

وَكَانَ وَاللَّهِ يَجْلِسُ بِالْأَرْضِ، وَيُوضَعُ طَعَامُهُ بِالْأَرْضِ، وَيَلْبَسُ الْغَلِيظَ، وَيَرْكَبُ الْحِمَارَ، وَيُرْدِفُ بَعْدَهُ، وَيَلْعَقُ وَاللَّهِ يَدَهُ»

wakāna wa-llāhi yajlisu bi-l-ʾarḍi, wayūḍaʿu ṭaʿāmuhu bi-l-ʾarḍi, wayalbasu al-ghalīẓa, wayarkabu al-ḥimāra, wayurdifu baʿdahu, wayalʿaqu wa-llāhi yadahu»

By God, he would sit upon the ground, his food would be placed upon the ground, he would wear coarse cloth, ride a donkey, let another ride behind him, and, by God, lick his hand.’

٥٧٦ - قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، عَلَى الشَّيْخِ الثِّقَةِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ تَاسِعَ عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ،

576 - qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu, ʿalā al-shaykhi al-thiqati ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadin al-jawhariyyi bi-baghdāda bi-bābi al-marātibi ḥarasahā Allāhu ghadāta yawmi al-ʾithnayni tāsiʿa ʿashara jumādā al-ʾūlā sanata ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿi miʾatin,

576 — Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī read to the trustworthy shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jawharī in Baghdad, at Bāb al-Marātib—may God guard it—on Monday morning, the nineteenth of Jumādā al-Ūlā in the year 454.

قَالَ أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قِرَاءَةً عَلَى كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ

qāla ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadi bni zakariyyā bni ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin muḥammadu bnu ʾismāʿīla qirāʾatan ʿalā kulli wāḥidin minhumā waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu

He said: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl informed you, the text having been read to each of them while you were present and listening.

قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ قَالَ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ، عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ، عَنْ أَسْلَمَ مَوْلَى عُمَرَ قَالَ:

qālā: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin qāla, ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī dhiʾbin, ʿan muslimi bni jundubin, ʿan ʾaslama mawlā ʿumara qāla:

Both said: Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī Dhiʾb informed us, from Muslim ibn Jundub, from Aslam, the client of ʿUmar, who said:

“ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، وَهُوَ أَبْيَضُ وَأَبَضُّ النَّاسِ وَأَجْمَلُهُمْ،

“ qadima ʿalayhi muʿāwiyatu bnu ʾabī sufyāna, wahuwa ʾabyaḍu waʾabaḍḍu al-nāsi waʾajmaluhum,

‘Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān came to ʿUmar. He was the fairest, fullest in build, and most handsome of men.

فَخَرَجَ إِلَى الْحَجِّ مَعَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ،

fakharaja ʾilā al-ḥajji maʿa ʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi,

He set out for the pilgrimage with ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

فَكَانَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ، فَيَعْجَبُ لَهُ، ثُمَّ يَضَعُ أُصْبُعَهُ عَلَى مَتْنِهِ، ثُمَّ يَرْفَعُهَا عَنْ مِثْلِ الشِّرَاكِ، فَيَقُولُ: بَخٍ بَخٍ، نَحْنُ إِذًا خَيْرُ النَّاسِ إِنْ جُمِعَ لَنَا خَيْرُ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ،

fakāna ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi yanẓuru ʾilayhi, fayaʿjabu lahu, thumma yaḍaʿu ʾuṣbuʿahu ʿalā matnihi, thumma yarfaʿuhā ʿan mithli al-shirāki, fayaqūlu: bakhin bakhin, naḥnu ʾidhan khayru al-nāsi ʾin jumiʿa lanā khayru al-dunyā wa-l-ʾākhirati,

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb would look at him in admiration, then press a finger into his back and lift it after making a mark the width of a sandal strap. He would say, “Bravo, bravo! Then we are surely the best of people, if the good of this world and the Hereafter has been gathered for us.”

فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، سَأُحَدِّثُكَ إِنَّا بِأَرْضِ الْحَمَّامَاتِ وَالرِّيفِ،

faqāla muʿāwiyatu: yā ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, saʾuḥaddithuka ʾinnā biʾarḍi al-ḥammāmāti wa-l-rīfi,

Muʿāwiya said, “Commander of the Faithful, I shall explain: we live in a land of bathhouses and fertile countryside.”

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: سَأُحَدِّثُكَ مَا بِكَ، إِلْطَافُكَ نَفْسَكَ بِأَطْيَبِ الطَّعَامِ، وَتَصَبُّحُكَ حَتَّى تَضْرِبَ الشَّمْسُ مَتْنَكَ، وَذَوُو الْحَاجَاتِ وَرَاءَ الْبَابِ،

faqāla ʿumaru: saʾuḥaddithuka mā bika, ʾilṭāfuka nafsaka biʾaṭyabi al-ṭaʿāmi, wataṣabbuḥuka ḥattā taḍriba al-shamsu matnaka, wadhawū al-ḥājāti warāʾa al-bābi,

ʿUmar replied, “I shall tell you what afflicts you: you pamper yourself with the finest food and sleep through the morning until the sun strikes your back, while people with needs remain behind the door.”

قَالَ: فَلَمَّا جِئْنَا ذَا طُوًى أَخْرَجَ مُعَاوِيَةُ حُلَّةً فَلَبِسَهَا، فَوَجَدَ عُمَرُ مِنْهَا رِيحًا كَأَنَّهُ رِيحُ طِيبٍ،

qāla: falammā jiʾnā dhā ṭuwan ʾakhraja muʿāwiyatu ḥullatan falabisahā, fawajada ʿumaru minhā rīḥan kaʾannahu rīḥu ṭībin,

When we reached Dhū Ṭuwā, Muʿāwiya brought out a suit and put it on. ʿUmar detected upon it a scent like perfume.

فَقَالَ: يَعْمَدُ أَحَدُكُمْ فَيَخْرُجُ حَاجًّا تَفِلًا حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءَ أَعْظَمَ بُلْدَانِ اللَّهِ: حَرَمَهُ، أَخْرَجَ ثَوْبَيْهِ كَأَنَّهُمَا كَانَا فِي الطِّيبِ فَلَبِسَهُمَا،

faqāla: yaʿmadu ʾaḥadukum fayakhruju ḥājjan tafilan ḥattā ʾidhā jāʾa ʾaʿẓama buldāni Allāhi: ḥaramahu, ʾakhraja thawbayhi kaʾannahumā kānā fī al-ṭībi falabisahumā,

He said, “One of you deliberately sets out for the pilgrimage unperfumed and dusty; then, when he reaches the greatest of God’s lands—His sanctuary—he takes out two garments as though they had lain in perfume and puts them on!”

فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: إِنَّمَا لَبِسْتُهُمَا لِأَنْ أَدْخُلَ فِيهِمَا عَلَى عَشِيرَتِي أَوْ قَوْمِي، وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ بَلَغَنِي أَذَاكَ هَهُنَا وَبِالشَّامِ، وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ لَقَدْ عَرَفْتُ الْحَيَاءَ فِيهِ،

faqāla muʿāwiyatu: ʾinnamā labistuhumā liʾan ʾadkhula fīhimā ʿalā ʿashīratī ʾaw qawmī, wa-llāhi laqad balaghanī ʾadhāka hāhunā wa-bi-l-shāmi, wa-llāhu yaʿlamu laqad ʿaraftu al-ḥayāʾa fīhi,

Muʿāwiya said, “I put them on only so that I might enter among my clan—or my people—wearing them. By God, your reproach has reached me here and in Syria.” God knows, I recognized embarrassment in him.

وَنَزَعَ مُعَاوِيَةُ الثَّوْبَيْنِ، وَلَبِسَ ثَوْبَيْهِ اللَّذَيْنِ أَحْرَمَ فِيهِمَا ”

wanazaʿa muʿāwiyatu al-thawbayni, walabisa thawbayhi al-ladhayni ʾaḥrama fīhimā ”

Muʿāwiya removed the two garments and put back on the two garments in which he had entered consecration.’

٥٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ اِبْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:

577 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani ibni ṭāwūsin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla:

577 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, who said:

رَأَى عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ كَاشِفًا عَنْ بَطْنِهِ، فَرَأَى جِلْدَةً رَقِيقَةً، فَرَفَعَ عَلَيْهِ الدِّرَّةَ، فَقَالَ: «أَجِلْدَةُ كَافِرٍ»

raʾā ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi yazīda bna ʾabī sufyāna kāshifan ʿan baṭnihi, faraʾā jildatan raqīqatan, farafaʿa ʿalayhi al-dirrata, faqāla: «ʾajildatu kāfirin»

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb saw Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān with his stomach uncovered and noticed his delicate skin. He raised his whip over him and exclaimed, ‘The skin of an unbeliever?’

٥٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى الطَّوِيلُ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ:

578 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī yaḥyā al-ṭawīlu, ʿan nāfiʿin qāla:

578 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; Yaḥyā al-Ṭawīl related to me, from Nāfiʿ, who said:

سَمِعْتُ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ يُحَدِّثُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ

samiʿtu ibna ʿumara yuḥaddithu saʿīda bna jubayrin

I heard Ibn ʿUmar relate to Saʿīd ibn Jubayr.

قَالَ: بَلَغَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ أَنَّ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَأْكُلُ أَلْوَانَ الطَّعَامِ،

qāla: balagha ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi ʾanna yazīda bna ʾabī sufyāna yaʾkulu ʾalwāna al-ṭaʿāmi,

He said: Word reached ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb that Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān ate several kinds of food.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِمَوْلًى لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهُ يَرْفَأُ: “ إِذَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ حَضَرَ عَشَاؤُهُ فَأَعْلِمْنِي،

faqāla ʿumaru li-mawlan lahu yuqālu lahu yarfaʾu: “ ʾidhā ʿalimta ʾannahu qad ḥaḍara ʿashāʾuhu faʾaʿlimnī,

ʿUmar said to a client of his named Yarfaʾ, ‘When you know that his supper has been served, let me know.’

فَلَمَّا حَضَرَ عَشَاؤُهُ أَعْلَمَهُ،

falammā ḥaḍara ʿashāʾuhu ʾaʿlamahu,

When Yazīd’s supper was served, Yarfaʾ informed him.

فَأَتَى عُمَرُ، فَسَلَّمَ، وَاسْتَأْذَنَ، فَأَذِنَ لَهُ،

faʾatā ʿumaru, fasallama, wastaʾadhana, faʾadhina lahu,

ʿUmar came, greeted him, and asked permission to enter. Permission was granted.

فَدَخَلَ، فَقَرَّبَ عَشَاءَهُ،

fadakhala, faqarraba ʿashāʾahu,

He entered, and Yazīd had his supper brought near.

فَجَاءَ بِثَرِيدَةِ لَحْمٍ، فَأَكَلَ عُمَرُ مَعَهُ مِنْهَا،

fajāʾa bitharīdati laḥmin, faʾakala ʿumaru maʿahu minhā,

A dish of bread crumbled into meat broth was brought, and ʿUmar ate from it with him.

ثُمَّ قَرَّبَ شِوَاءً، فَبَسَطَ يَزِيدُ يَدَهُ، فَكَفَّ عُمَرُ،

thumma qarraba shiwāʾan, fabasaṭa yazīdu yadahu, fakaffa ʿumaru,

Then roast meat was brought. Yazīd stretched out his hand, but ʿUmar held his own hand back.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عُمَرُ: وَاللَّهِ يَا يَزِيدُ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، أَطْعَامٌ بَعْدَ طَعَامٍ؟ وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ عُمَرَ بِيَدِهِ، لَئِنْ خَالَفْتُمْ عَنْ سُنَّتِهِمْ لَيُخَالِفَنَّ بِكُمْ عَنْ طَرِيقَتِهِمْ ”.

thumma qāla ʿumaru: wa-llāhi yā yazīdu bna ʾabī sufyāna, ʾaṭʿāmun baʿda ṭaʿāmin? wa-alladhī nafsu ʿumara biyadihi, laʾin khālaftum ʿan sunnatihim layukhālifanna bikum ʿan ṭarīqatihim ”.

ʿUmar then said, ‘By God, Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān—one dish after another? By Him in whose hand is ʿUmar’s soul, if you depart from their practice, you will surely be turned away from their path.’

قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ مَا جَاءَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ "

qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: hādhā ḥadīthun gharībun mā jāʾa bihādhā al-ʾisnādi ʾaḥadun ʾillā ibnu al-mubāraki "

Ibn Ṣāʿid said: This is an uncommon report; no one transmitted it with this chain except Ibn al-Mubārak.

٥٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ:

579 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu:

579 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. 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:

قَدِمَ عَلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عُمَرَ وَفْدٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ مَعَ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ،

qadima ʿalā ʾamīri al-muʾminīna ʿumara wafdun min ʾahli al-baṣrati maʿa ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi,

A delegation from the people of Basra came to the Commander of the Faithful ʿUmar with Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī.

قَالَ: فَكُنَّا نَدْخُلُ عَلَيْهِ، وَلَهُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ خُبْزٌ يُلَتُّ،

qāla: fakunnā nadkhulu ʿalayhi, walahu kulla yawmin khubzun yulattu,

He said: We would enter upon him, and every day he had bread moistened with some accompaniment.

وَرُبَّمَا وَافَيْنَاهُ مَا دَوَّمَ بِسَمْنٍ، وَأَحْيَانًا بِزَيْتٍ، وَأَحْيَانًا بِاللَّبَنِ، وَرُبَّمَا وَافَقْنَا الْقَدَائِدَ الْيَابِسَةَ قَدْ دُقَّتْ، ثُمَّ أُغْلِيَ بِمَاءٍ، وَرُبَّمَا وَافَقْنَا اللَّحْمَ الْغَرِيضَ وَهُوَ قَلِيلٌ،

warubbamā wāfaynāhu mā dawwama bisamnin, waʾaḥyānan bizaytin, waʾaḥyānan bi-l-labani, warubbamā wāfaqnā al-qadāʾida al-yābisata qad duqqat, thumma ʾughliya bimāʾin, warubbamā wāfaqnā al-laḥma al-gharīḍa wahuwa qalīlun,

Sometimes we found it seasoned with clarified butter, sometimes with oil, and sometimes with milk. At times we found dried strips of meat that had been pounded and then boiled in water; at other times we found fresh meat, though that was rare.

فَقَالَ لَنَا يَوْمًا: “ إِنِّي وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ أَرَى تَعْذِيرَكُمْ، وَكَرَاهِيَّتَكُمْ طَعَامِي، وَإِنِّي وَاللَّهِ لَوْ شِئْتُ لَكُنْتُ أَطْيَبَكُمْ طَعَامًا، وَأَرَقَّكُمْ عَيْشًا،

faqāla lanā yawman: “ ʾinnī wa-llāhi laqad ʾarā taʿdhīrakum, wakarāhiyyatakum ṭaʿāmī, waʾinnī wa-llāhi law shiʾtu lakuntu ʾaṭyabakum ṭaʿāman, waʾaraqqakum ʿayshan,

One day he said to us, ‘By God, I can see your discomfort and your dislike of my food. By God, if I wished, I could have the finest food and the softest life among you.

أَمَا وَاللَّهِ مَا أَجْهَلُ عَنْ كَرَاكِرَ وَأَسْنِمَةٍ، وَعَنْ صِلَاءٍ، وَعَنْ صَلَائِقَ، وَصِنَابٍ - قَالَ جَرِيرٌ: الصِّلَاءُ الشِّوَاءُ، وَالصِّنَابُ الْخَرْدَلُ، وَالصَّلَائِقُ الْخُبْزُ الرِّقَاقُ -

ʾamā wa-llāhi mā ʾajhalu ʿan karākira waʾasnimatin, waʿan ṣilāʾin, waʿan ṣalāʾiqa, waṣinābin - qāla jarīrun: al-ṣilāʾu al-shiwāʾu, wa-l-ṣinābu al-khardalu, wa-l-ṣalāʾiqu al-khubzu al-riqāqu -

By God, I am not ignorant of camel breasts and humps, of roasting, thin breads, and mustard relish.’ Jarīr said: al-ṣilāʾ means roasting; al-ṣināb is mustard; and al-ṣalāʾiq are thin breads.

وَلَكِنِّي سَمِعْتُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى عَيَّرَ قَوْمًا بِأَمْرٍ فَعَلُوهُ، فَقَالَ : {أَذْهَبْتُمْ طَيِّبَاتِكُمْ فِي حَيَاتِكُمُ الدُّنْيَا وَاسْتَمْتَعْتُمْ بِهَا} [الْأَحْقَافِ: ٢٠] ،

walākinnī samiʿtu Allāha taʿālā ʿayyara qawman biʾamrin faʿalūhu, faqāla : {ʾadhhabtum ṭayyibātikum fī ḥayātikumu al-dunyā wastamtaʿtum bihā} [al-ʾaḥqāfi: 20] ,

‘But I heard God Most High reproach a people for something they had done: {You exhausted your good things in your worldly life and enjoyed them} [al-Aḥqāf 46:20].’

قَالَ: فَكَلَّمَنَا أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّ، فَقَالَ: لَوْ كَلَّمْتُمْ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، فَفَرَضَ لَكُمْ مِنْ بَيْتِ الْمَالِ طَعَامًا تَأْكُلُونَهُ،

qāla: fakallamanā ʾabū mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyu, faqāla: law kallamtum ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, fafaraḍa lakum min bayti al-māli ṭaʿāman taʾkulūnahu,

He said: Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī spoke to us and said, ‘If only you would speak to the Commander of the Faithful, so that he might allot you food from the public treasury to eat.’

قَالَ: فَكَلَّمْنَاهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأُمَرَاءِ، أَمَا تَرْضَوْنَ لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ مَا أَرْضَى لِنَفْسِي،

qāla: fakallamnāhu, faqāla: yā maʿshara al-ʾumarāʾi, ʾamā tarḍawna liʾanfusikum mā ʾarḍā linafsī,

He said: We spoke to him. He said, ‘Company of governors, are you not content for yourselves with what I accept for myself?’

قَالَ: فَقُلْنَا: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنَّ الْمَدِينَةَ أَرْضٌ الْعَيْشُ بِهَا شَدِيدٌ، وَلَا نَرَى طَعَامَكَ يُغْشَى، وَلَا يُؤْكَلُ، وَإِنَّا بِأَرْضٍ ذَاتِ رِيفٍ، وَإِنَّ أَمِيرَنَا يُغْشَى، وَإِنَّ طَعَامَهُ يُؤْكَلُ،

qāla: faqulnā: yā ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, ʾinna al-madīnata ʾarḍun al-ʿayshu bihā shadīdun, walā narā ṭaʿāmaka yughshā, walā yuʾkalu, waʾinnā biʾarḍin dhāti rīfin, waʾinna ʾamīranā yughshā, waʾinna ṭaʿāmahu yuʾkalu,

He said: We replied, ‘Commander of the Faithful, Medina is a land in which living is hard. We do not see people frequenting your food or eating it. We, however, are in a fertile land; our governor receives visitors, and his food is eaten.’

قَالَ: فَنَكَّسَ عُمَرُ سَاعَةً، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَقَالَ: قَدْ فَرَضْتُ لَكُمْ مِنْ بَيْتِ الْمَالِ شَاتَيْنِ، وَجَرِيبَيْنِ،

qāla: fanakkasa ʿumaru sāʿatan, thumma rafaʿa raʾsahu faqāla: qad faraḍtu lakum min bayti al-māli shātayni, wajarībayni,

He said: ʿUmar lowered his head for a time, then raised it and said, ‘I have allotted you two sheep and two jarībs from the public treasury.

فَإِذَا كَانَ بِالْغَدَاةِ فَضَعْ إِحْدَى الشَّاتَيْنِ عَلَى أَحَدِ الْجَرِيبَيْنِ، فَكُلْ أَنْتَ وَأَصْحَابُكَ، ثُمَّ اُدْعُ بِشَرَابٍ فَاشْرَبْ - قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: يَعْنِي الشَّرَابَ الْحَلَالَ -

faʾidhā kāna bi-l-ghadāti faḍaʿ ʾiḥdā al-shātayni ʿalā ʾaḥadi al-jarībayni, fakul ʾanta waʾaṣḥābuka, thumma udʿu bisharābin fashrab - qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: yaʿnī al-sharāba al-ḥalāla -

In the morning, place one of the two sheep upon one of the two jarībs, and you and your companions may eat. Then call for a drink and drink’—Ibn Ṣāʿid said, meaning a lawful drink—

ثُمَّ اِسْقِ الَّذِي عَنْ يَمِينِكَ، ثُمَّ الَّذِي يَلِيهِ، ثُمَّ قُمْ لِحَاجَتِكَ،

thumma isqi al-ladhī ʿan yamīnika, thumma al-ladhī yalīhi, thumma qum liḥājatika,

‘then give drink to the person on your right, then the person next to him, and then rise to attend to your duties.

فَإِذَا كَانَ بِالْعَشِيِّ فَضَعِ الشَّاةَ الْغَابِرَةَ عَلَى الْجَرِيبِ الْغَابِرِ، فَكُلْ أَنْتَ وَأَصْحَابُكَ،

faʾidhā kāna bi-l-ʿashiyyi faḍaʿi al-shāta al-ghābirata ʿalā al-jarībi al-ghābiri, fakul ʾanta waʾaṣḥābuka,

In the evening, place the remaining sheep upon the remaining jarīb, and you and your companions may eat.

أَلَا وَأَشْبِعُوا النَّاسَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ، وَأَطْعِمُوا عِيَالَهُمْ، فَإِنَّ تَجْفِينَكُمْ لِلنَّاسِ لَا يُحْسِنُ أَخْلَاقَهُمْ، وَلَا يُشْبِعُ جَائِعَهُمْ،

ʾalā waʾashbiʿū al-nāsa fī buyūtihim, waʾaṭʿimū ʿiyālahum, faʾinna tajfīnakum li-l-nāsi lā yuḥsinu ʾakhlāqahum, walā yushbiʿu jāʾiʿahum,

Be sure to fill people in their own homes and feed their dependents, for serving people from your large platters will neither improve their character nor satisfy their hungry.

وَاللَّهِ مَعَ ذَلِكَ مَا أَظُنُّ رُسْتَاقًا يُؤْخَذُ مِنْهُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ شَاتَانِ وَجَرِيبَانِ إِلَّا يُسْرِعُ ذَلِكَ فِي خَرَابِهِ ”

wa-llāhi maʿa dhālika mā ʾaẓunnu rustāqan yuʾkhadhu minhu kulla yawmin shātāni wajarībāni ʾillā yusriʿu dhālika fī kharābihi ”

Even so, by God, I do not think that a district from which two sheep and two jarībs are taken every day can avoid being swiftly brought to ruin.’

٥٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ اِبْنِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:

580 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani ibni ṭāwūsin, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla:

580 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, who said:

«أَجْدَبَ النَّاسُ عَلَى عَهْدِ عُمَرَ، فَمَا أَكَلَ سَمِينًا، وَلَا سَمْنًا حَتَّى أَكَلَ النَّاسُ»

«ʾajdaba al-nāsu ʿalā ʿahdi ʿumara, famā ʾakala samīnan, walā samnan ḥattā ʾakala al-nāsu»

‘The people suffered drought during ʿUmar’s time, and he ate neither fatty meat nor clarified butter until the people themselves had eaten.’

٥٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ قَالَ:

581 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin qāla: ʾakhbaranī yaḥyā bnu ʿubaydin al-jahḍamiyyu, ʿan ʿalqamata bni ʿabdi Allāhi al-muzaniyyi qāla:

581 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim informed us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd al-Jahḍamī informed me, from ʿAlqama ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, who said:

أُتِيَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ بِبِرْذَونٍ، فَقَالَ:

ʾutiya ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi bi-birdhawnin, faqāla:

A riding horse was brought to ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

“ مَا هَذَا؟ فَقِيلَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، هَذِهِ دَابَّةٌ لَهَا وَطْأَةٌ، وَلَهَا هَيْئَةٌ، وَلَهَا جَمَالٌ، تَرْكَبُهُ الْعَجَمُ،

“ mā hādhā? faqīla: yā ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, hādhihi dābbatun lahā waṭʾatun, walahā hayʾatun, walahā jamālun, tarkabuhu al-ʿajamu,

He asked, ‘What is this?’ They replied, ‘Commander of the Faithful, this mount has a smooth gait, an impressive appearance, and beauty. The non-Arabs ride it.’

فَقَامَ فَرَكِبَهُ،

faqāma farakibahu,

He rose and mounted it.

فَلَمَّا سَارَ هَزَّ مَنْكِبَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: قَبَّحَ اللَّهُ هَذَا، بِئْسَ الدَّابَّةُ هَذَا، فَنَزَلَ عَنْهُ ”

falammā sāra hazza mankibayhi, faqāla: qabbaḥa Allāhu hādhā, biʾsa al-dābbatu hādhā, fanazala ʿanhu ”

When it moved and made his shoulders sway, he said, ‘May God disfigure this! What a wretched mount this is!’ Then he dismounted.

٥٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ:

582 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi:

582 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:

«لَا تَنْخُلُوا الدَّقِيقَ فَإِنَّهُ طَعَامٌ كُلُّهُ»

«lā tankhulū al-daqīqa faʾinnahu ṭaʿāmun kulluhu»

‘Do not sift the flour, for all of it is food.’

٥٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ يَسَارِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ قَالَ:

583 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan ʾabī wāʾilin, ʿan yasāri bni numayrin qāla:

583 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Sulaymān, from Abū Wāʾil, from Yasār ibn Numayr, who said:

«مَا نَخَلْتُ لِعُمَرَ طَعَامًا قَطُّ إِلَّا وَأَنَا لَهُ عَاصٍ»

«mā nakhaltu liʿumara ṭaʿāman qaṭṭu ʾillā waʾanā lahu ʿāṣin»

‘I never sifted food for ʿUmar without thereby disobeying him.’

٥٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ الطَّائِيِّ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ:

584 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʾayyūba al-ṭāʾiyyi, ʿan qaysi bni muslimin, ʿan ṭāriqi bni shihābin qāla:

584 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Ayyūb al-Ṭāʾī, from Qays ibn Muslim, from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, who said:

لَمَّا قَدِمَ عُمَرُ أَرْضَ الشَّامِ أُتِيَ بِبِرْذَونٍ فَرَكِبَهُ، فَهَزَّهُ، فَكَرِهَهُ، فَنَزَلَ عَنْهُ، وَرَكِبَ بَعِيرَهُ،

lammā qadima ʿumaru ʾarḍa al-shāmi ʾutiya bi-birdhawnin farakibahu, fahazzahu, fakarihahu, fanazala ʿanhu, warakiba baʿīrahu,

When ʿUmar arrived in the land of Syria, a riding horse was brought to him. He mounted it, but it jolted him, so he disliked it, dismounted, and mounted his camel.

فَعَرَضَتْ لَهُ مَخَاضَةٌ، فَنَزَلَ عَنْ بَعِيرِهِ، وَنَزَعَ مُوقَيْهِ، فَأَخَذَهُمَا بِيَدِهِ، وَخَاضَ الْمَاءَ، وَهُوَ مُمْسِكٌ بَعِيرَهُ بِخِطَامِهِ - أَوْ قَالَ: بِزِمَامِهِ -

faʿaraḍat lahu makhāḍatun, fanazala ʿan baʿīrihi, wanazaʿa mūqayhi, faʾakhadhahumā biyadihi, wakhāḍa al-māʾa, wahuwa mumsikun baʿīrahu bikhiṭāmihi - ʾaw qāla: bizimāmihi -

A ford lay in his path. He dismounted from his camel, removed his leather socks, carried them in his hand, and waded through the water while holding his camel by its halter—or, he said, its reins.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ: لَقَدْ صَنَعْتَ الْيَوْمَ صَنِيعًا عَظِيمًا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ،

faqāla lahu ʾabū ʿubaydata bnu al-jarrāḥi: laqad ṣanaʿta al-yawma ṣanīʿan ʿaẓīman ʿinda ʾahli al-ʾarḍi,

Abū ʿUbayda ibn al-Jarrāḥ said to him, ‘Today you have done something momentous in the eyes of the people of this land.’

قَالَ: فَصَكَّ فِي صَدْرِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ:

qāla: faṣakka fī ṣadrihi, thumma qāla:

ʿUmar struck him on the chest and then said:

«أَوِّهْ - يَمُدُّ بِهَا صَوْتَهُ - لَوْ غَيْرُكَ يَقُولُ هَذَا يَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ، إِنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ أَذَلَّ النَّاسِ، وَأَقَلَّ النَّاسِ، وَأَحْقَرَ النَّاسِ، فَأَعَزَّكُمُ اللَّهُ بِالْإِسْلَامِ، فَمَهْمَا تَطْلُبُوا الْعِزَّ بِغَيْرِهِ يُذِلَّكُمُ اللَّهُ»

«ʾawwih - yamuddu bihā ṣawtahu - law ghayruka yaqūlu hādhā yā ʾabā ʿubaydata, ʾinnakum kuntum ʾadhalla al-nāsi, waʾaqalla al-nāsi, waʾaḥqara al-nāsi, faʾaʿazzakumu Allāhu bi-l-ʾislāmi, famahmā taṭlubū al-ʿizza bighayrihi yudhillakumu Allāhu»

‘Ah!’—drawing out the sound—‘If only someone other than you had said this, Abū ʿUbayda! You were the most abased, the fewest, and the most despised of people. God gave you might through Islam. Whenever you seek might through anything else, God will abase you.’

٥٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْقَاسِمَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَسْلَمَ مَوْلَى عُمَرَ يَذْكُرُ

585 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin qāla: samiʿtu al-qāsima bna muḥammadin yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʾaslama mawlā ʿumara yadhkuru

585 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd informed us. He said: I heard al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad say: I heard Aslam, the client of ʿUmar, mention

أَنَّهُ كَانَ مَعَ عُمَرَ وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ الشَّامَ

ʾannahu kāna maʿa ʿumara wahuwa yurīdu al-shāma

that he was with ʿUmar while ʿUmar was bound for Syria.

حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَا مِنَ الشَّامِ، أَنَاخَ عُمَرُ، وَذَهَبَ لِحَاجَةٍ لَهُ،

ḥattā ʾidhā danā mina al-shāmi, ʾanākha ʿumaru, wadhahaba liḥājatin lahu,

When he drew near Syria, ʿUmar made his camel kneel and went to relieve himself.

قَالَ أَسْلَمُ: فَطَرَحْتُ فَرْوَتِي بَيْنَ شِعْبَتَيْ رَحْلِي،

qāla ʾaslamu: faṭaraḥtu farwatī bayna shiʿbatay raḥlī,

Aslam said: I placed my fur covering between the two uprights of my saddle.

فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ عُمَرُ عَمَدَ إِلَى بَعِيرِ أَسْلَمَ، فَرَكِبَ عَلَى الْفَرْوِ، وَرَكِبَ أَسْلَمُ بَعِيرَ عُمَرَ،

falammā faragha ʿumaru ʿamada ʾilā baʿīri ʾaslama, farakiba ʿalā al-farwi, warakiba ʾaslamu baʿīra ʿumara,

When ʿUmar had finished, he went to Aslam’s camel and mounted upon the fur, while Aslam mounted ʿUmar’s camel.

فَخَرَجَا يَسِيرَانِ حَتَّى لَقِيَهُمَا أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ،

fakharajā yasīrāni ḥattā laqiyahumā ʾahlu al-ʾarḍi,

They continued riding until the people of the land came out to meet them.

قَالَ أَسْلَمُ: فَلَمَّا دَنَوْا مِنَّا أَشَرْتُ لَهُمْ إِلَى عُمَرَ، فَجَعَلُوا يَتَحَدَّثُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ،

qāla ʾaslamu: falammā danaw minnā ʾashartu lahum ʾilā ʿumara, fajaʿalū yataḥaddathūna baynahum,

Aslam said: When they drew near us, I pointed ʿUmar out to them, and they began talking among themselves.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: «تَطْمَحُ أَبْصَارُهُمْ إِلَى مَرَاكِبِ مَنْ لَا خَلَاقَ لَهُمْ» .

faqāla ʿumaru: «taṭmaḥu ʾabṣāruhum ʾilā marākibi man lā khalāqa lahum» .

ʿUmar said, ‘Their eyes aspire to the mounts of people who have no share.’

كَأَنَّ عُمَرَ يُرِيدُ مَرَاكِبَ الْعَجَمِ

kaʾanna ʿumara yurīdu marākiba al-ʿajami

ʿUmar apparently meant the mounts of the non-Arabs.

٥٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ :

586 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan hishāmi bni ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla :

586 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, from his father, who said:

قَدِمَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ الشَّامَ، فَتَلَقَّاهُ أُمَرَاءُ الْأَجْنَادِ، وَعُظَمَاءُ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ،

qadima ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi al-shāma, fatalaqqāhu ʾumarāʾu al-ʾajnādi, waʿuẓamāʾu ʾahli al-ʾarḍi,

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb arrived in Syria, and the commanders of its armies and the leading men of the land came out to receive him.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: “ أَيْنَ أَخِي؟ قَالُوا: مَنْ؟ قَالَ: أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ، قَالُوا: يَأْتِيكَ الْآنَ،

faqāla ʿumaru: “ ʾayna ʾakhī? qālū: man? qāla: ʾabū ʿubaydata, qālū: yaʾtīka al-ʾāna,

ʿUmar asked, ‘Where is my brother?’ They asked, ‘Who?’ He replied, ‘Abū ʿUbayda.’ They said, ‘He will come to you now.’

قَالَ: فَجَاءَ عَلَى نَاقَةٍ مَخْطُومَةٍ بِحَبْلٍ، فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ، وَسَأَلَهُ،

qāla: fajāʾa ʿalā nāqatin makhṭūmatin biḥablin, fasallama ʿalayhi, wasaʾalahu,

He came on a she-camel haltered with a rope, greeted ʿUmar, and spoke with him.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلنَّاسِ: اِنْصَرِفُوا عَنَّا،

thumma qāla li-l-nāsi: inṣarifū ʿannā,

Then ʿUmar said to the people, ‘Leave us.’

فَسَارَ مَعَهُ حَتَّى أَتَى مَنْزِلَهُ، فَنَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمْ يَرَ فِي بَيْتِهِ إِلَّا سَيْفَهُ، وَتُرْسَهُ، وَرَحْلَهُ،

fasāra maʿahu ḥattā ʾatā manzilahu, fanazala ʿalayhi, falam yara fī baytihi ʾillā sayfahu, watursahu, waraḥlahu,

He went with Abū ʿUbayda until he reached his dwelling and alighted there. He saw nothing in his house except his sword, shield, and saddle.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: لَوِ اِتَّخَذْتَ مَتَاعًا - أَوْ قَالَ: شَيْئًا -

faqāla lahu ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: law-i-ttakhadhta matāʿan - ʾaw qāla: shayʾan -

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said to him, ‘If only you had acquired some furnishings’—or he said, ‘something.’

قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنَّ هَذَا سَيُبَلِّغُنَا الْمَقِيلَ ”

qāla ʾabū ʿubaydata: yā ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, ʾinna hādhā sayuballighunā al-maqīla ”

Abū ʿUbayda replied, ‘Commander of the Faithful, this will carry us to the resting place.’

٥٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَامِلٍ لِعُمَرَ كَانَ عَلَى أَذْرِعَاتٍ، قَالَ:

587 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan hishāmi bni ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿāmilin liʿumara kāna ʿalā ʾadhriʿātin, qāla:

587 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, from his father, from one of ʿUmar’s officials at Adhriʿāt, who said:

“ قَدِمَ عَلَيْنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ، وَإِذَا عَلَيْهِ قَمِيصٌ مِنْ كَرَابِيسَ،

“ qadima ʿalaynā ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi, waʾidhā ʿalayhi qamīṣun min karābīsa,

‘ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb came to us wearing a shirt of coarse cotton.

فَأَعْطَانِيهِ، فَقَالَ: اِغْسِلْهُ وَارْقَعْهُ،

faʾaʿṭānīhi, faqāla: ighsilhu warqaʿhu,

He gave it to me and said, “Wash it and patch it.”

قَالَ: فَغَسَلْتُهُ وَرَقَعْتُهُ، ثُمَّ قَطَعْتُ عَلَيْهِ قَمِيصًا،

qāla: faghasaltuhu waraqaʿtuhu, thumma qaṭaʿtu ʿalayhi qamīṣan,

I washed and patched it, then cut another shirt to its pattern.

فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهِمَا، فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا قَمِيصُكَ، وَهَذَا قَمِيصٌ قَطَعْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ؛ لِتَلْبَسَهُ،

faʾataytuhu bihimā, faqultu: hādhā qamīṣuka, wahādhā qamīṣun qaṭaʿtuhu ʿalayhi; litalbasahu,

I brought him both and said, “This is your shirt, and this is a shirt I cut to its pattern for you to wear.”

فَمَسَّهُ، فَوَجَدَهُ لَيِّنًا، فَقَالَ: لَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِيهِ، هَذَا أَنْشَفُ لِلْعَرَقِ مِنْهُ ”

famassahu, fawajadahu layyinan, faqāla: lā ḥājata lanā fīhi, hādhā ʾanshafu li-l-ʿaraqi minhu ”

He felt it, found it soft, and said, “We have no need of it. This one absorbs sweat better than that one.”’

٥٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:

588 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:

588 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra informed us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:

«لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْ عُمَرَ أَرْبَعَ رِقَاعٍ فِي قَمِيصِهِ»

«laqad raʾaytu bayna katifay ʿumara ʾarbaʿa riqāʿin fī qamīṣihi»

‘I saw four patches on ʿUmar’s shirt between his shoulders.’

٥٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ

589 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan rajulin min ʾahli al-shāmi

589 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from a man of Syria,

أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ، وَهُوَ يُوقِدُ تَحْتَ قِدْرٍ لَهُ مِنْ حَطَبٍ، قَدْ أَصَابَهُ مَطَرٌ وَدُمُوعُهُ تَسِيلُ،

ʾannahu dakhala ʿalā ʾabī dharrin, wahuwa yūqidu taḥta qidrin lahu min ḥaṭabin, qad ʾaṣābahu maṭarun wadumūʿuhu tasīlu,

that he entered upon Abū Dharr while Abū Dharr was lighting a fire beneath a cooking pot with rain-soaked wood, and his tears were streaming.

فَقَالَتْ لَهُ اِمْرَأَتُهُ: لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكَ مِنْ هَذَا مَنْدُوحَةٌ، وَلَوْ شِئْتَ لَكُفِيتَ،

faqālat lahu imraʾatuhu: laqad kāna laka min hādhā mandūḥatun, walaw shiʾta lakufīta,

His wife said to him, ‘You could have spared yourself this. Had you wished, someone would have done it for you.’

فَقَالَ: “ فَأَنَا أَبُو ذَرٍّ، وَهَذَا عَيْشِي، فَإِنْ رَضِيتِ وَإِلَّا فَتَحْتُ كَنَفَ اللَّهِ،

faqāla: “ faʾanā ʾabū dharrin, wahādhā ʿayshī, faʾin raḍīti waʾillā fataḥtu kanafa Allāhi,

He replied, ‘I am Abū Dharr, and this is my life. If you are content, well and good; otherwise, God’s shelter is open.’

قَالَ: فَكَأَنَّمَا أَلْقَمَهَا حَجَرًا

qāla: fakaʾannamā ʾalqamahā ḥajaran

He said: It was as though he had put a stone in her mouth and silenced her.

حَتَّى إِذَا أَنْضَجَ مَا فِي قِدْرِهِ جَاءَ بِصَحْفَةٍ، فَكَسَرَ فِيهَا خُبْزًا لَهُ غَلِيظًا،

ḥattā ʾidhā ʾanḍaja mā fī qidrihi jāʾa biṣaḥfatin, fakasara fīhā khubzan lahu ghalīẓan,

When he had cooked what was in his pot, he brought a dish and crumbled some coarse bread into it.

ثُمَّ جَاءَ بِالَّذِي كَانَ فِي الْقِدْرِ فَكَدَّرَهُ عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ جَاءَ بِهِ إِلَى اِمْرَأَتِهِ،

thumma jāʾa bi-alladhī kāna fī al-qidri fakaddarahu ʿalayhi, thumma jāʾa bihi ʾilā imraʾatihi,

Then he brought what had been in the pot and poured it over the bread, and took it to his wife.

ثُمَّ قَالَ: اُدْنُ، فَأَكَلْنَا جَمِيعًا،

thumma qāla: udnu, faʾakalnā jamīʿan,

He then said, ‘Come near,’ and we all ate together.

ثُمَّ أَمَرَ جَارِيَتَهُ أَنْ تَسْقِيَنَا، فَسَقَتْنَا مَذْقَةً مِنْ لَبَنِ مِعْزَاهُ،

thumma ʾamara jāriyatahu ʾan tasqiyanā, fasaqatnā madhqatan min labani miʿzāhu,

Then he ordered his servant girl to give us drink. She gave us a diluted draught of milk from his goats.

فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، لَوِ اِتَّخَذْتَ فِي بَيْتِكَ عَيْشًا،

faqultu: yā ʾabā dharrin, law-i-ttakhadhta fī baytika ʿayshan,

I said, ‘Abū Dharr, if only you kept a more comfortable living in your house.’

فَقَالَ: عِبَادَ اللَّهِ، أَتُرِيدُونَ مِنَ الْحِسَابِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ هَذَا؟

faqāla: ʿibāda Allāhi, ʾaturīdūna mina al-ḥisābi ʾakthara min hādhā?

He replied, ‘Servants of God, do you want me to face more reckoning than this?

أَلَيْسَ هَذَا مِثَالًا، نَرْقُدُ عَلَيْهِ، وَعِبَاءَةً نَبْسُطُهَا، وَكِسَاءً نَلْبَسُهُ، وَبُرْمَةً نَطْبُخُ فِيهَا، وَصَحْفَةً نَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا، وَبَطَّةً فِيهَا زَيْتٌ، وَغِرَارَةً فِيهَا دَقِيقٌ، أَتُرِيدُ لِي مِنَ الْحِسَابِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ هَذَا؟

ʾalaysa hādhā mithālan, narqudu ʿalayhi, waʿibāʾatan nabsuṭuhā, wakisāʾan nalbasuhu, waburmatan naṭbukhu fīhā, waṣaḥfatan naʾkulu minhā, wabaṭṭatan fīhā zaytun, waghirāratan fīhā daqīqun, ʾaturīdu lī mina al-ḥisābi ʾakthara min hādhā?

Do we not have a mattress to sleep upon, a cloak to spread out, a wrap to wear, a pot to cook in, a dish to eat from, a flask containing oil, and a sack containing flour? Do you want me to face more reckoning than this?’

قُلْتُ: فَإِنَّ عَطَاءَكَ أَرْبَعُ مِائَةِ دِينَارٍ، وَأَنْتَ فِي شَرَفٍ مِنَ الْعَطَاءِ، فَأَيْنَ يَذْهَبُ عَطَاؤُكَ؟

qultu: faʾinna ʿaṭāʾaka ʾarbaʿu miʾati dīnārin, waʾanta fī sharafin mina al-ʿaṭāʾi, faʾayna yadhhabu ʿaṭāʾuka?

I said, ‘But your stipend is four hundred dinars, and you hold a distinguished rank in the stipend rolls. Where does your stipend go?’

فَقَالَ: أَمَا أَنِّي لَنْ أُعَمِّيَ عَلَيْكَ، لِي بِهَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ - وَأَشَارَ إِلَى قَرْيَةٍ بِالشَّامِ - ثَلَاثُونَ فَرَسًا،

faqāla: ʾamā ʾannī lan ʾuʿammiya ʿalayka, lī bihādhihi al-qaryati - waʾashāra ʾilā qaryatin bi-l-shāmi - thalāthūna farasan,

He replied, ‘I will not conceal it from you. I have thirty horses in this village’—and he pointed to a village in Syria.

فَإِذَا خَرَجَ عَطَائِي اِشْتَرَيْتُ لَهُمْ عَلَفًا، وَأَرْزَاقًا لِمَنْ يَقُومُ عَلَيْهَا، وَنَفَقَةً لِأَهْلِي،

faʾidhā kharaja ʿaṭāʾī ishtaraytu lahum ʿalafan, waʾarzāqan liman yaqūmu ʿalayhā, wanafaqatan liʾahlī,

‘When my stipend is paid, I buy fodder for them, provisions for those who tend them, and maintenance for my family.

فَإِنْ بَقِيَ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ اِشْتَرَيْتُ بِهِ فُلُوسًا، فَجَعَلْتُ عِنْدَ نَبَطِيٍّ هَهُنَا، فَإِنِ اِحْتَاجَ أَهْلِي إِلَى لَحْمٍ أَخَذُوا مِنْهُ، وَإِنِ اِحْتَاجُوا إِلَى شَيْءٍ أَخَذُوا مِنْهُ،

faʾin baqiya minhu shayʾun ishtaraytu bihi fulūsan, fajaʿaltu ʿinda nabaṭiyyin hāhunā, faʾini iḥtāja ʾahlī ʾilā laḥmin ʾakhadhū minhu, waʾini iḥtājū ʾilā shayʾin ʾakhadhū minhu,

If anything remains, I buy copper coins with it and deposit them with a Nabataean here. If my family needs meat, they take its cost from him; and if they need anything else, they take it from him.

ثُمَّ أَحْمِلُ عَلَيْهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، لَيْسَ عِنْدَ آلِ أَبِي ذَرٍّ دِينَارٌ وَلَا دِرْهَمٌ ”

thumma ʾaḥmilu ʿalayhā fī sabīli Allāhi, laysa ʿinda ʾāli ʾabī dharrin dīnārun walā dirhamun ”

Then I provide those horses for service in God’s cause. The household of Abū Dharr keeps neither a dinar nor a dirham.’

بَابٌ فِي طَلَبِ الْحَلَالِ

bābun fī ṭalabi al-ḥalāli

Chapter on seeking lawful provision.

٥٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {اللَّهُ يَبْسُطُ الرِّزْقَ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَيَقْدِرُ لَهُ} [الْعَنْكَبُوتِ: ٦٢] ، قَالَ: «يُخَيِّرُ لَهُ»

590 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {Allāhu yabsuṭu al-rizqa liman yashāʾu min ʿibādihi wayaqdiru lahu} [al-ʿankabūti: 62] , qāla: «yukhayyiru lahu»

590 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us, from al-Ḥasan, concerning God Most High’s words, ‘God expands provision for whomever He wills among His servants and restricts it for him’ [Qurʾān 29:62]. He said: ‘He chooses what is best for him.’

٥٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ قَالَ: «مَنْ لَمْ يَسْتَحِ مِنَ الْحَلَالِ خَفَّتْ مُؤْنَتُهُ، وَقَلَّ كِبْرِيَاؤُهُ»

591 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: yazīdu bnu ʾabī ḥabībin qāla: «man lam yastaḥi mina al-ḥalāli khaffat muʾnatuhu, waqalla kibriyāʾuhu»

591 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us. Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb said: ‘Whoever is not ashamed to earn lawfully will have lighter expenses and less pride.’

٥٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي عَقِيلُ بْنُ مُدْرِكٍ، عَنْ لُقْمَانَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: «أَهْلُ الْأَمْوَالِ يَأْكُلُونَ وَنَأْكُلُ، وَيَشْرَبُونَ وَنَشْرَبُ، وَيَلْبَسُونَ وَنَلْبَسُ، وَيَرْكَبُونَ وَنَرْكَبُ، لَهُمْ فُضُولُ أَمْوَالٍ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهَا، وَنَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا مَعَهُمْ، عَلَيْهِمْ حِسَابُهَا، وَنَحْنُ مِنْهَا بَرَاءٌ»

592 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʿaqīlu bnu mudrikin, ʿan luqmāna bni ʿāmirin ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi qāla: «ʾahlu al-ʾamwāli yaʾkulūna wanaʾkulu, wayashrabūna wanashrabu, wayalbasūna wanalbasu, wayarkabūna wanarkabu, lahum fuḍūlu ʾamwālin yanẓurūna ʾilayhā, wananẓuru ʾilayhā maʿahum, ʿalayhim ḥisābuhā, wanaḥnu minhā barāʾun»

592 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; ʿAqīl ibn Mudrik informed me, from Luqmān ibn ʿĀmir, that Abū al-Dardāʾ said: ‘People of wealth eat, and we eat; they drink, and we drink; they dress, and we dress; they ride, and we ride. They have surplus wealth at which they look, and we look at it with them. Its reckoning falls upon them, while we are free of it.’

٥٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ: «الزَّهَادَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا رَاحَةٌ لِلْقَلْبِ، وَالْجَسَدِ»

593 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā baqiyyatu bnu al-walīdi ʾanna ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi qāla: «al-zahādatu fī al-dunyā rāḥatun li-l-qalbi, wa-l-jasadi»

593 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Baqiyya ibn al-Walīd informed us that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: ‘Renunciation of this world brings rest to the heart and the body.’

٥٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَبَاحُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ جُورَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ وَهْبَ بْنَ مُنَبِّهٍ يَقُولُ: «مَثَلُ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ لَهُ ضَرَّتَانِ، إِنْ أَرْضَى إِحْدَاهُمَا أَسْخَطَ الْأُخْرَى»

594 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rabāḥu bnu zaydin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu jūrāna qāla: samiʿtu wahba bna munabbihin yaqūlu: «mathalu al-dunyā wa-l-ʾākhirati kamathali rajulin lahu ḍarratāni, ʾin ʾarḍā ʾiḥdāhumā ʾaskhaṭa al-ʾukhrā»

594 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Rabāḥ ibn Zayd informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jūrān related to me. He said: I heard Wahb ibn Munabbih say: ‘This world and the Hereafter are like a man’s two co-wives: whenever he pleases one, he angers the other.’

٥٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حُرَيْثُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ قَالَ: سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَقَالَ: أَشْيَاءُ نَشْتَهِيهَا لَا نَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهَا، فَهَلْ لَنَا فِيهَا أَجْرٌ؟ قَالَ: «فَفِيمَ تُؤْجَرُونَ إِذَا لَمْ تُؤْجَرُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ؟»

595 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥuraythu bnu al-sāʾibi qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ḥasanu qāla: saʾala rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama baʿḍu ʾaṣḥābihi, faqāla: ʾashyāʾu nashtahīhā lā naqdiru ʿalayhā, fahal lanā fīhā ʾajrun? qāla: «fafīma tuʾjarūna ʾidhā lam tuʾjarū ʿalā dhālika?»

595 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥurayth ibn al-Sāʾib informed us; al-Ḥasan informed us. He said: One of the Companions asked the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, ‘There are things we desire but cannot afford. Is there a reward for us in that?’ He replied: ‘For what would you be rewarded, if you were not rewarded for that?’

٥٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَقُولُ عَلَى هَذَا الْمِنْبَرِ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بَلَاءٌ وَفِتْنَةٌ، وَإِنَّمَا مَثَلُ عَمَلِ أَحَدِكُمْ كَمَثَلِ الْوِعَاءِ، إِذَا طَابَ أَعْلَاهُ طَابَ أَسْفَلُهُ، وَإِذَا خَبُثَ أَعْلَاهُ خَبُثَ أَسْفَلُهُ»

596 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu yazīda bni jābirin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾabū ʿabdi rabbihi qāla: samiʿtu muʿāwiyata bna ʾabī sufyāna yaqūlu ʿalā hādhā al-minbari: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: «ʾinna mā baqiya mina al-dunyā balāʾun wafitnatun, waʾinnamā mathalu ʿamali ʾaḥadikum kamathali al-wiʿāʾi, ʾidhā ṭāba ʾaʿlāhu ṭāba ʾasfaluhu, waʾidhā khabutha ʾaʿlāhu khabutha ʾasfaluhu»

596 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir informed us; Abū ʿAbd Rabbihi related to me. He said: I heard Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān say from this pulpit: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say: ‘What remains of this world is trial and temptation. The likeness of one of your deeds is that of a vessel: if its top is sound, its bottom is sound; and if its top is corrupt, its bottom is corrupt.’

٥٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: «إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا جَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ وَسِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ، وَإِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ حِينَ تَخْرُجُ نَفْسُهُ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ كَانَ فِي سِجْنٍ، فَخَرَجَ مِنْهُ فَجَعَلَ يَتَقَلَّبُ فِي الْأَرْضِ، وَيَتَفَسَّحُ فِيهَا»

597 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sharīku bnu ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan yaʿlā bni ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamrin qāla: «ʾinna al-dunyā jannatu al-kāfiri wasijnu al-muʾmini, waʾinnamā mathalu al-muʾmini ḥīna takhruju nafsuhu kamathali rajulin kāna fī sijnin, fakharaja minhu fajaʿala yataqallabu fī al-ʾarḍi, wayatafassaḥu fīhā»

597 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: ‘This world is the unbeliever’s garden and the believer’s prison. When the believer’s soul departs, his likeness is that of a man released from prison, who then moves freely about the land and finds spaciousness in it.’

٥٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ جُنَادَةَ الْمَعَافِرِيُّ أَنَّ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيَّ حَدَّثَهُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَسَنَتُهُ، فَإِذَا فَارَقَ الدُّنْيَا فَارَقَ السِّجْنَ وَالسَّنَةَ»

598 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba qāla: ḥaddathanī yaḥyā bnu junādata al-maʿāfiriyyu ʾanna ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-ḥubuliyya ḥaddathahu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «al-dunyā sijnu al-muʾmini wasanatuhu, faʾidhā fāraqa al-dunyā fāraqa al-sijna wa-l-sanata»

598 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Junāda al-Maʿāfirī related to me that Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubulī related to him, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said: ‘This world is the believer’s prison and season of hardship. When he leaves this world, he leaves the prison and the hardship.’

٥٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحُبُلِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «تُحْفَةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ الْمَوْتُ»

599 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan bakri bni ʿamrin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ziyādin, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-ḥubuliyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «tuḥfatu al-muʾmini al-mawtu»

599 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from Bakr ibn ʿAmr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubulī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said: ‘Death is the believer’s gift.’

٦٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ، عَنْ مُحَارِبِ بْنِ دِثَارٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي خَيْثَمَةُ: “ أَيَسُرُّكَ الْمَوْتُ؟ قُلْتُ: لَا، قَالَ: لَا أَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا لَا يَسُرُّهُ الْمَوْتُ إِلَّا مَنْقُوصًا ”

600 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun, ʿan muḥāribi bni dithārin qāla: qāla lī khaythamatu: “ ʾayasurruka al-mawtu? qultu: lā, qāla: lā ʾaʿlamu ʾaḥadan lā yasurruhu al-mawtu ʾillā manqūṣan ”

600 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; a man informed us, from Muḥārib ibn Dithār, who said: Khaythama asked me, ‘Would death make you glad?’ I said, ‘No.’ He replied, ‘I know of no one whom death would not make glad except someone deficient.’

٦٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ سَوَادَةَ أَنَّ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ أَبَا الْأَعْوَرِ السُّلَمِيَّ كَانَ جَالِسًا فِي مَجْلِسٍ، فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ: وَاللَّهِ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ شَيْئًا أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ، فَقَالَ أَبُو الْأَعْوَرِ السُّلَمِيُّ: “ لَأَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَكَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ حُمْرِ النَّعَمِ، وَلَكِنِّي وَاللَّهِ أَرْجُو أَنْ أَمُوتَ قَبْلَ أَنْ أَرَى ثَلَاثًا: أَنْ أَنْصَحَ فَتُرَدَّ نَصِيحَتِي، وَأَرَى الْغَيْرَ فَلَا أَسْتَطِيعُ تَغْيِيرَهُ، وَقَبْلَ الْهَرَمِ ”

601 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rishdīnu bnu saʿdin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿamru bnu al-ḥārithi, ʿan bakri bni sawādata ʾanna ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni ḥaddathahu ʾanna ʾabā al-ʾaʿwari al-sulamiyya kāna jālisan fī majlisin, faqāla rajulun: wa-llāhi mā khalaqa Allāhu shayʾan ʾaḥabba ʾilayya mina al-mawti, faqāla ʾabū al-ʾaʿwari al-sulamiyyu: “ laʾan ʾakūna mithlaka ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ḥumri al-naʿami, walākinnī wa-llāhi ʾarjū ʾan ʾamūta qabla ʾan ʾarā thalāthan: ʾan ʾanṣaḥa faturadda naṣīḥatī, waʾarā al-ghayra falā ʾastaṭīʿu taghyīrahu, waqabla al-harami ”

601 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Rishdīn ibn Saʿd informed us; ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith related to me, from Bakr ibn Sawāda, that Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to him that Abū al-Aʿwar al-Sulamī was sitting in a gathering. A man said, ‘By God, God has created nothing dearer to me than death.’ Abū al-Aʿwar al-Sulamī replied: ‘To be as you are would be dearer to me than red camels. Yet, by God, I hope to die before I see three things: before I offer sincere counsel and have it rejected; before I see wrongdoing and cannot change it; and before old age.’

٦٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شُرَحْبِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ الْعَنْسِيِّ «أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَدَعُ كَثِيرًا مِنَ الشِّبَعِ مَخَافَةَ الْأَشَرِ»

602 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī shuraḥbīlu bnu muslimin, ʿan ʿamri bni al-ʾaswadi al-ʿansiyyi «ʾannahu kāna yadaʿu kathīran mina al-shibaʿi makhāfata al-ʾashari»

602 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; Shuraḥbīl ibn Muslim related to me, from ʿAmr ibn al-Aswad al-ʿAnsī, that he would often stop short of satiety for fear of insolent excess.

٦٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ الْحِمْصِيُّ - قَالَ: أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ اِسْمُهُ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ، مِنْ ثِقَاتِ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ، وَحَبِيبُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ هَذَا أَيْضًا - عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَابِرٍ الطَّائِيِّ، عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِي كَرِبَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ «مَا مَلَأَ آدَمِيٌّ وِعَاءً شَرًّا مِنْ بَطْنٍ، بِحَسْبِ اِبْنِ آدَمَ أُكُلٌ يُقِمْنَ صُلْبَهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ لَا مَحَالَةَ فَثُلُثٌ طَعَامٌ، وَثُلُثٌ شَرَابٌ، وَثُلُثٌ لِنَفَسِهِ»

603 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū salamata al-ḥimṣiyyu - qāla: ʾabū muḥammadin ismuhu sulaymānu bnu sulaymin, min thiqāti ʾahli al-shāmi, waḥabību bnu ṣāliḥin hādhā ʾayḍan - ʿan yaḥyā bni jābirin al-ṭāʾiyyi, ʿani al-miqdāmi bni maʿdī kariba qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama «mā malaʾa ʾādamiyyun wiʿāʾan sharran min baṭnin, biḥasbi ibni ʾādama ʾukulun yuqimna ṣulbahu, faʾin kāna lā maḥālata fathuluthun ṭaʿāmun, wathuluthun sharābun, wathuluthun linafasihi»

603 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; Abū Salama al-Ḥimṣī informed us—Abū Muḥammad said: his name is Sulaymān ibn Sulaym, one of the trustworthy people of Syria; and this Ḥabīb ibn Ṣāliḥ likewise—from Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Ṭāʾī, from al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdī Karib, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace: ‘No human being fills a vessel worse than his belly. A few morsels that keep the son of Adam’s back upright are enough for him. If he must have more, then one third for food, one third for drink, and one third for his breath.’

٦٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَيُّوبُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَمِعَ رَجُلًا يَتَجَشَّأُ، فَقَالَ: «أَقْصِرْ مِنْ جُشَائِكَ، فَإِنَّ أَطْوَلَ النَّاسِ جُوعًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَكْثَرُهُمْ شِبَعًا فِي الدُّنْيَا»

604 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā baqiyyatu bnu al-walīdi qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾayyūbu bnu ʿuthmāna ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama samiʿa rajulan yatajashshaʾu, faqāla: «ʾaqṣir min jushāʾika, faʾinna ʾaṭwala al-nāsi jūʿan yawma al-qiyāmati ʾaktharuhum shibaʿan fī al-dunyā»

604 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Baqiyya ibn al-Walīd informed us; Ayyūb ibn ʿUthmān related to me that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, heard a man belch and said: ‘Curb your belching, for those who remain hungry longest on the Day of Resurrection are those who were most sated in this world.’

٦٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: " لَوْ أَنَّ طَعَامًا كَثِيرًا كَانَ عِنْدَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ مَا شَبِعَ مِنْهُ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَجِدَ لَهُ آكِلًا، قَالَ: فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ اِبْنُ مُطِيعٍ يَعُودُهُ، فَرَآهُ قَدْ نَحَلَ جِسْمُهُ، فَقَالَ لِصَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ اِمْرَأَتِهِ: أَلَا تُلَطِّفِينَهُ، لَعَلَّهُ يَرْتَدُّ إِلَيْهِ جِسْمُهُ، وَتَصْنَعِينَ لَهُ طَعَامًا؟ قَالَتْ: إِنَّا لَنَفْعَلُ، وَلَكِنَّهُ لَا يَدَعُ أَحَدًا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ، وَلَا مِمَّنْ بِحَضْرَتِهِ إِلَّا دَعَاهُ عَلَيْهِ، فَكَلِّمْ أَنْتَ فِي ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ اِبْنُ مُطِيعٍ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، لَوْ أَكَلْتَ فَيَرْجِعَ إِلَيْكَ جِسْمُكَ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّهُ لَيَأْتِي عَلَيَّ ثَمَانِي سِنِينَ مَا أَشْبَعُ فِيهَا شَبْعَةً وَاحِدَةً - أَوْ إِلَّا شَبْعَةً وَاحِدَةً - فَالْآنَ تُرِيدُ أَنْ أَشْبَعَ حِينَ لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْ عُمُرِي إِلَّا ظِمْءُ حِمَارٍ»

605 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ḥamzata bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara qāla: " law ʾanna ṭaʿāman kathīran kāna ʿinda ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara mā shabiʿa minhu baʿda ʾan yajida lahu ʾākilan, qāla: fadakhala ʿalayhi ibnu muṭīʿin yaʿūduhu, faraʾāhu qad naḥala jismuhu, faqāla liṣafiyyata binti ʾabī ʿubaydin imraʾatihi: ʾalā tulaṭṭifīnahu, laʿallahu yartaddu ʾilayhi jismuhu, wataṣnaʿīna lahu ṭaʿāman? qālat: ʾinnā lanafʿalu, walākinnahu lā yadaʿu ʾaḥadan min ʾahlihi, walā mimman biḥaḍratihi ʾillā daʿāhu ʿalayhi, fakallim ʾanta fī dhālika, faqāla lahu ibnu muṭīʿin: yā ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, law ʾakalta fayarjiʿa ʾilayka jismuka, faqāla: «ʾinnahu layaʾtī ʿalayya thamānī sinīna mā ʾashbaʿu fīhā shabʿatan wāḥidatan - ʾaw ʾillā shabʿatan wāḥidatan - fa-l-ʾāna turīdu ʾan ʾashbaʿa ḥīna lam yabqa min ʿumurī ʾillā ẓimʾu ḥimārin»

605 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said: Even if ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar had abundant food, he would not eat his fill once he found someone to share it. Ibn Muṭīʿ visited him when he was ill and saw that his body had grown thin. He said to Ibn ʿUmar’s wife, Ṣafiyya bint Abī ʿUbayd, ‘Could you not tend him gently and prepare food for him, so that his body might recover?’ She replied, ‘We do that, but he never leaves anyone from his household or anyone present without inviting him to it. You speak to him about it.’ Ibn Muṭīʿ said to him, ‘Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, if only you would eat so that your body might recover.’ He replied: ‘Eight years pass over me without my eating my fill even once—or except for a single full meal. Do you now want me to eat my fill when no more of my life remains than a donkey’s thirst interval?’

٦٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: أَوْصَانِي خَلِيلِي صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا صَنَعْتَ مَرَقًا فَأَكْثِرْ مَاءَهَا، ثُمَّ اُنْظُرْ إِلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ مِنْ جِيرَانِكَ فَأَصِبْهُمْ مِنْهُ بِمَعْرُوفٍ»

606 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu bnu al-ḥajjāji, ʿan ʾabī ʿimrāna al-jawniyyi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-ṣāmiti, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: ʾawṣānī khalīlī ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾidhā ṣanaʿta maraqan faʾakthir māʾahā, thumma unẓur ʾilā ʾahli baytin min jīrānika faʾaṣibhum minhu bimaʿrūfin»

606 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj informed us, from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr, who said: My intimate friend, God bless him and grant him peace, advised me: ‘When you make broth, increase its water. Then look to a household among your neighbors and kindly give them some of it.’

٦٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ الْأَسَدِيِّ أَنَّ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتَ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ، قَالَتْ: “ مَا رَأَيْتُهُ شَبِعَ، فَأَقُولُ قَدْ شَبِعَ - تَعْنِي اِبْنَ عُمَرَ - فَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُهُ ذَلِكَ، وَكَانَ لَهُ يَتِيمَانِ، صَنَعْتُ لَهُ شَيْئًا، فَدَعَاهُمَا، فَأَكَلَا مَعَهُ، فَلَمَّا نَامَا جِئْتُهُ بِشَيْءٍ، فَقَالَ: اُدْعُ فُلَانَةً، قُلْتُ: قَدْ نَامَا، وَقَدْ أَشْبَعْتُهُمَا، قَالَ: فَادْعِي لِي بَعْضَ أَهْلِ الصُّفَّةِ، فَدُعِيَ لَهُ مَسَاكِينُ، فَأَكَلُوا مَعَهُ ”

607 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni nawfalin al-ʾasadiyyi ʾanna ṣafiyyata binta ʾabī ʿubaydin, qālat: “ mā raʾaytuhu shabiʿa, faʾaqūlu qad shabiʿa - taʿnī ibna ʿumara - falammā raʾaytuhu dhālika, wakāna lahu yatīmāni, ṣanaʿtu lahu shayʾan, fadaʿāhumā, faʾakalā maʿahu, falammā nāmā jiʾtuhu bishayʾin, faqāla: udʿu fulānatan, qultu: qad nāmā, waqad ʾashbaʿtuhumā, qāla: fadʿī lī baʿḍa ʾahli al-ṣuffati, faduʿiya lahu masākīnu, faʾakalū maʿahu ”

607 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nawfal al-Asadī, that Ṣafiyya bint Abī ʿUbayd said: ‘I never saw him—meaning Ibn ʿUmar—eat his fill such that I could say, “He has eaten enough.” When I saw this of him, and he had two orphans, I prepared something for him. He called them, and they ate with him. When they had gone to sleep, I brought him something. He said, “Call so-and-so.” I said, “The two have gone to sleep, and I have fed them until they were full.” He said, “Then call for me some of the People of the Ṣuffa.” Some poor people were called, and they ate with him.’

٦٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ “ أَنَّ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، كَانَ فِي مَسِيرٍ، فَنَزَلَ مُنْزَلًا وَلَمْ يَجِئْ ثَقَلُهُ، فَلَمَّا رَأَتْهُ الرِّفَاقُ أَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ مِنْ طَعَامِهِمْ، فَقَعَدَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ وَأَصْحَابُهُ، قَالَ: وَجَاءَهُ الْمَسَاكِينُ، فَنَظَرَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ إِلَى أَفْضَلِ شَيْءٍ بِحَضْرَتِهِ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ، فَإِذَا قَصْعَةٌ فِيهَا ثَرِيدٌ، فَرَفَعَهَا؛ لِيُنَاوِلَهُمْ، فَأَخَذَ اِبْنٌ لَهُ الْقَصْعَةَ، فَقَالَ: هَذَا أَفْضَلُ طَعَامِكَ فَدَعْهُ لَنَا، وَهَهُنَا مِنَ الطَّعَامِ مَا نُطْعِمُ، قَالَ: فَتَنَازَعَ الْقَصْعَةَ بَيْنَهُمَا، فَقَالَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ: إِنَّمَا أُجَاحِشُ بِهَا عَنْ رَقَبَتِي ”

608 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī rawwādin “ ʾanna ibna ʿumara raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu, kāna fī masīrin, fanazala munzalan walam yajiʾ thaqaluhu, falammā raʾathu al-rifāqu ʾarsalū ʾilayhi min ṭaʿāmihim, faqaʿada ibnu ʿumara waʾaṣḥābuhu, qāla: wajāʾahu al-masākīnu, fanaẓara ibnu ʿumara ʾilā ʾafḍali shayʾin biḥaḍratihi mina al-ṭaʿāmi, faʾidhā qaṣʿatun fīhā tharīdun, farafaʿahā; liyunāwilahum, faʾakhadha ibnun lahu al-qaṣʿata, faqāla: hādhā ʾafḍalu ṭaʿāmika fadaʿhu lanā, wahāhunā mina al-ṭaʿāmi mā nuṭʿimu, qāla: fatanāzaʿa al-qaṣʿata baynahumā, faqāla ibnu ʿumara: ʾinnamā ʾujāḥishu bihā ʿan raqabatī ”

608 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād informed us that Ibn ʿUmar, may God be pleased with him, was traveling. He stopped at a station before his baggage arrived. When his fellow travelers saw him, they sent him some of their food. Ibn ʿUmar and his companions sat down, and poor people came to him. Ibn ʿUmar looked for the best food before him and found a bowl of tharīd. He lifted it to hand to them, but one of his sons took the bowl and said, ‘This is your best food; leave it for us. There is other food here that we can give them.’ They struggled over the bowl, and Ibn ʿUmar said: ‘I am only fighting with it to free my neck.’

٦٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي حُسَيْنٍ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ قَالَ: “ كَانَ يُقَالُ: إِذَا جَمَعَ الطَّعَامُ أَرْبَعًا كَمُلَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْ شَأْنِهِ، إِذَا كَانَ أَوَّلُهُ حَلَالًا، وَذُكِرَ اِسْمُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَكَثُرَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْأَيْدِي، وَحُمِدَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَيْهِ حِينَ يَفْرُغُ مِنْهُ، فَقَدْ كَمُلَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مِنْ شَأْنِهِ ”

609 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin, ʿani ibni ʾabī ḥusaynin, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin qāla: “ kāna yuqālu: ʾidhā jamaʿa al-ṭaʿāmu ʾarbaʿan kamula kullu shayʾin min shaʾnihi, ʾidhā kāna ʾawwaluhu ḥalālan, wadhukira ismu Allāhi taʿālā, wakathurat ʿalayhi al-ʾaydī, waḥumida Allāhu taʿālā ʿalayhi ḥīna yafrughu minhu, faqad kamula kullu shayʾin min shaʾnihi ”

609 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us, from Ibn Abī Ḥusayn, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, who said: ‘It used to be said: when food combines four things, everything about it is complete—when its beginning is lawful, God Most High’s name is mentioned over it, many hands share in it, and God Most High is praised for it when the people finish. Then everything about it is complete.’

٦١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا أَنَّهُ أُكِلَ عِنْدَهَا طَعَامٌ، فَقَالَتْ: “ آدِمُوهُ، قَالُوا: بِمَا نَأْدِمُهُ، قَالَتْ: تَحْمَدُونَ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ إِذَا فَرَغْتُمْ ”

610 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿāṣimin, ʿan ʾabī ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʿāʾishata raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā ʾannahu ʾukila ʿindahā ṭaʿāmun, faqālat: “ ʾādimūhu, qālū: bimā naʾdimuhu, qālat: taḥmadūna Allāha ʿalayhi ʾidhā faraghtum ”

610 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from ʿĀʾisha, may God be pleased with her, that food was eaten in her presence. She said, ‘Season it.’ They asked, ‘With what shall we season it?’ She replied, ‘By praising God for it when you finish.’

٦١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُفَضَّلُ بْنُ لَاحِقٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ قَالَ: كَانَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ لَا يَحْبِسُ عَنْ طَعَامِهِ بَيْنَ مَكَّةَ وَالْمَدِينَةِ مَجْذُومًا، وَلَا أَبْرَصَ، وَلَا مُبْتَلًى حَتَّى يَقْعُدُوا مَعَهُ عَلَى مَائِدَتِهِ، فَبَيْنَمَا هُوَ يَوْمًا قَاعِدٌ عَلَى مَائِدَتِهِ، أَقْبَلَ مَوْلَيَانِ مِنْ مَوَالِي أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَسَلَّمَا، فَرَحَّبُوا بِهِمَا، وَحَيَّوْهُمَا، وَأَوْسَعُوا لَهُمَا، فَضَحِكَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ، فَأَنْكَرَ الْمَوْلَيَانِ ضَحِكَهُ، فَقَالَا: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، ضَحِكْتَ أَضْحَكَ اللَّهُ سِنَّكَ، فَمَا أَضْحَكَكَ؟ قَالَ: «عَجَبًا مِنْ بَنِي هَؤُلَاءِ، يَجِيءُ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ تَدْمِي أَفْوَاهُهُمْ مِنَ الْجُوعِ، فَيُضَيِّقُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَيَتَأَذَّوْنَ بِهِمْ، حَتَّى لَوْ أَنَّ لِأَحَدِهِمْ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مَكَانَ اِثْنَيْنِ فَعَلَ تَأَذِّيًا بِهِمْ، وَتَضْيِيقًا عَلَيْهِمْ، وَجِئْتُمَا أَنْتُمَا قَدْ أَوْفَرْتُمَا الزَّادَ، فَأَوْسَعُوا لَكُمَا، وَحَيَّوْكُمَا، يُطْعِمُونَ طَعَامَهُمْ مَنْ لَا يُرِيدُهُ، وَيَمْنَعُونَهُ مِمَّنْ يُرِيدُهُ»

611 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mufaḍḍalu bnu lāḥiqin, ʿan ʾabī bakri bni ḥafṣin qāla: kāna ibnu ʿumara lā yaḥbisu ʿan ṭaʿāmihi bayna makkata wa-l-madīnati majdhūman, walā ʾabraṣa, walā mubtalan ḥattā yaqʿudū maʿahu ʿalā māʾidatihi, fabaynamā huwa yawman qāʿidun ʿalā māʾidatihi, ʾaqbala mawlayāni min mawālī ʾahli al-madīnati, fasallamā, faraḥḥabū bihimā, waḥayyawhumā, waʾawsaʿū lahumā, faḍaḥika ʿabdu Allāhi bnu ʿumara, faʾankara al-mawlayāni ḍaḥikahu, faqālā: yā ʾabā ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ḍaḥikta ʾaḍḥaka Allāhu sinnaka, famā ʾaḍḥakaka? qāla: «ʿajaban min banī hāʾulāʾi, yajīʾu hāʾulāʾi al-ladhīna tadmī ʾafwāhuhum mina al-jūʿi, fayuḍayyiqūna ʿalayhim, wayataʾadhdhawna bihim, ḥattā law ʾanna liʾaḥadihim ʾan yaʾkhudha makāna ithnayni faʿala taʾadhdhiyan bihim, wataḍyīqan ʿalayhim, wajiʾtumā ʾantumā qad ʾawfartumā al-zāda, faʾawsaʿū lakumā, waḥayyawkumā, yuṭʿimūna ṭaʿāmahum man lā yurīduhu, wayamnaʿūnahu mimman yurīduhu»

611 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Lāḥiq informed us, from Abū Bakr ibn Ḥafṣ, who said: Between Mecca and Medina, Ibn ʿUmar never kept a person with leprosy, vitiligo, or any other affliction away from his food until they sat with him at his table. One day, while he sat at his table, two clients belonging to people of Medina approached and greeted them. The people welcomed the two, greeted them warmly, and made room for them. ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar laughed. The two clients found his laughter strange and asked, ‘Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, you laughed—may God keep your teeth smiling. What made you laugh?’ He replied: ‘How strange these people’s sons are! When those whose mouths bleed from hunger come, they crowd them, take offense at them, and one of them will even occupy the space of two in order to distress them and leave them no room. But you two came with ample provisions, so they made room for you and welcomed you. They feed their food to those who do not want it and withhold it from those who do.’

٦١٢ - أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ الْعَالِمُ الزَّاهِدُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدُّلَفِيُّ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ، قَالَ: قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، عَلَى الشَّيْخِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ غَدَاةَ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ تَاسِعَ عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ وَأَنَا حَاضِرٌ أَسْمَعُ، وَأَقَرَّ بِهِ، قَالَ لَهُ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَيَوَيْهِ الْخَزَّازُ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْوَرَّاقُ قِرَاءَةً عَلَى كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِلَالٍ أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ كَانَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ كَانَ الْأَجْوَفَانِ هَمَّهُ، خَسِرَ مِيزَانَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

612 - ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu al-jalīlu al-ʿālimu al-zāhidu ʾabū ʿaliyyin al-ḥusaynu bnu muḥammadi bni al-ḥusayni bni ʾibrāhīma al-dulafiyyu al-maqdisiyyu ghafara Allāhu lahu, qāla: qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu, ʿalā al-shaykhi ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadin al-jawhariyyi bi-baghdāda bi-bābi al-marātibi ḥarasahā Allāhu ghadāta yawmi al-ʾithnayni tāsiʿa ʿashara jumādā al-ʾūlā sanata ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿi miʾatin waʾanā ḥāḍirun ʾasmaʿu, waʾaqarra bihi, qāla lahu: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadi bni zakariyyā bni ḥayawayhi al-khazzāzu, waʾabū bakrin muḥammadu bnu ʾismāʿīla al-warrāqu qirāʾatan ʿalā kulli wāḥidin minhumā waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu, qālā: ḥaddathanā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾabī ʾayyūba qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿabdu Allāhi bnu sulaymāna, ʿan saʿīdi bni ʾabī hilālin ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi kāna yaqūlu: «man kāna al-ʾajwafāni hammahu, khasira mīzānahu yawma al-qiyāmati»

612 — The venerable, learned, ascetic shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dulafī al-Maqdisī—may God forgive him—informed us. He said: Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī read to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jawharī in Baghdad, at Bāb al-Marātib—may God guard it—on Monday morning, the nineteenth of Jumādā al-Ūlā in the year 454, while I was present listening, and he acknowledged it. He said to him: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥayawayh al-Khazzāz and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq informed you, the text having been read to each of them while you were present listening. Both said: Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān related to me, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Hilāl, that Abū al-Dardāʾ used to say: ‘Whoever makes his two hollow organs his chief concern will find his balance lost on the Day of Resurrection.’

٦١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، حَدَّثَنِي بَكْرُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ أَنَّ اِبْنَ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: «لَيَأْتِيَنَّ عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَكُونُ هِمَّةُ أَحَدِهِمْ فِيهِ بَطْنَهُ، وَدِينُهُ هَوَاهُ»

613 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾabī ʾayyūba, ḥaddathanī bakru bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ṣafwāna bni sulaymin ʾanna ibna ʿabbāsin qāla: «layaʾtiyanna ʿalā al-nāsi zamānun yakūnu himmatu ʾaḥadihim fīhi baṭnahu, wadīnuhu hawāhu»

613 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb informed us; Bakr ibn ʿAmr related to me, from Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, that Ibn ʿAbbās said: ‘A time will surely come upon people when a man’s sole concern will be his belly and his religion will be his whim.’

٦١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَشِيطٍ الْوَعْلَانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ قَالَ: دَخَلَ رَجُلَانِ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جَزْءٍ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ - صَاحِبِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فَقَالَ: “ مَرْحَبًا بِكُمَا، فَنَزَعَ وِسَادَةً كَانَ مُتَّكِئًا عَلَيْهَا، فَأَلْقَاهَا إِلَيْهِمَا، فَقَالَا: لَا نُرِيدُ هَذَا، إِنَّمَا جِئْنَا نَسْمَعُ شَيْئًا نَنْتَفِعُ بِهِ، قَالَ: إِنَّهُ مَنْ لَمْ يُكْرِمْ ضَيْفَهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَلَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ، طُوبَى لِعَبْدٍ أَمْسَى مُتَعَلِّقًا بِرَسَنِ فَرَسِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، أَفْطَرَ عَلَى كِسْرَةٍ، وَمَاءٍ بَارِدٍ، وَيْلٌ لِلَّوَّاثِينَ الَّذِينَ يَلُوثُونَ مِثْلَ الْبَقَرِ، اِرْفَعْ يَا غُلَامُ، ضَعْ يَا غُلَامُ، فِي ذَلِكَ لَا يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى ”

614 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾibrāhīmu bnu nashīṭin al-waʿlāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanī rajulun qāla: dakhala rajulāni ʿalā ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-ḥārithi bni jazʾin al-zubaydiyyi - ṣāḥibi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama - faqāla: “ marḥaban bikumā, fanazaʿa wisādatan kāna muttakiʾan ʿalayhā, faʾalqāhā ʾilayhimā, faqālā: lā nurīdu hādhā, ʾinnamā jiʾnā nasmaʿu shayʾan nantafiʿu bihi, qāla: ʾinnahu man lam yukrim ḍayfahu falaysa min muḥammadin, walā ʾibrāhīma ṣalawātu Allāhi ʿalayhi, ṭūbā liʿabdin ʾamsā mutaʿalliqan birasani farasihi fī sabīli Allāhi, ʾafṭara ʿalā kisratin, wamāʾin bāridin, waylun lillawwāthīna al-ladhīna yalūthūna mithla al-baqari, irfaʿ yā ghulāmu, ḍaʿ yā ghulāmu, fī dhālika lā yadhkurūna Allāha taʿālā ”

614 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Nashīṭ al-Waʿlānī informed us. He said: A man related to me: Two men entered upon ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Jazʾ al-Zubaydī, a Companion of the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace. He said, ‘Welcome to you both,’ removed the cushion against which he had been leaning, and tossed it to them. They said, ‘We do not want this; we came only to hear something from which we might benefit.’ He said: ‘Whoever does not honor his guest is not of Muḥammad or Abraham—God’s blessings be upon him. Glad tidings to a servant who passes the evening holding his horse’s rein in God’s path and breaks his fast on a crust and cold water. Woe to the gluttons who wallow like cattle: “Clear it away, boy! Set it down, boy!” Amid all that, they do not remember God Most High.’

٦١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شُرَحْبِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْخَوْلَانِيُّ أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: «بِئْسَ مَا لِأَحَدِكُمْ أَنْ يَكُونَ ضَيْفًا عَلَى أَهْلِهِ الدَّهْرَ، أَلَا لِيَأْكُلْ مَا وَجَدَ»

615 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanī shuraḥbīlu bnu muslimin al-khawlāniyyu ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi qāla: «biʾsa mā liʾaḥadikum ʾan yakūna ḍayfan ʿalā ʾahlihi al-dahra, ʾalā liyaʾkul mā wajada»

615 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; Shuraḥbīl ibn Muslim al-Khawlānī related to me that Abū al-Dardāʾ said: ‘How wretched it is for one of you to remain a guest of his own family forever. Let him eat whatever he finds.’

٦١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: «خَدَمْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ، لَيْسَ كُلُّ أَمْرِي كَمَا يَشْتَهِي صَاحِبِي يَكُونُ، مَا قَالَ لِي أُفٍّ، وَلَا قَالَ لِي لِمَ فَعَلْتَ هَذَا»

616 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan thābitin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: «khadamtu al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿashra sinīna, laysa kullu ʾamrī kamā yashtahī ṣāḥibī yakūnu, mā qāla lī ʾuffin, walā qāla lī lima faʿalta hādhā»

616 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra informed us, from Thābit, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: ‘I served the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, for ten years. Not everything I did turned out as my master wished, yet he never said “Uff” to me, nor did he ask me, “Why did you do this?”’

٦١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: «صُمْ وَلَا تَبْغِ فِي صَوْمِكَ» قِيلَ: وَمَا بَغْيِي فِي صَوْمِي؟ قَالَ: “ أَنْ يَقُولَ الرَّجُلُ: اِرْفَعُوا لِي كَذَا، اِرْفَعُوا لِي كَذَا، فَإِنِّي أُرِيدُ الصَّوْمَ غَدًا ”

617 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā hārūnu bnu ʾibrāhīma qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu: «ṣum walā tabghi fī ṣawmika» qīla: wamā baghyī fī ṣawmī? qāla: “ ʾan yaqūla al-rajulu: irfaʿū lī kadhā, irfaʿū lī kadhā, faʾinnī ʾurīdu al-ṣawma ghadan ”

617 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Hārūn ibn Ibrāhīm informed us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say: ‘Fast, but do not transgress in your fasting.’ He was asked, ‘What would transgression in my fasting be?’ He replied: ‘For a man to say, “Set aside such-and-such for me; set aside such-and-such for me, for I intend to fast tomorrow.”’

٦١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ أَنَّ عُمَرَ “ اِسْتَسْقَى، فَأُتِيَ بِإِنَاءٍ مِنْ عَسَلٍ، فَوَضَعَهُ عَلَى كَفِّهِ، فَجَعَلَ يَقُولُ: أَشْرَبُهَا، فَتَذْهَبُ حَلَاوَتُهَا، وَتَبْقَى نِقْمَتُهَا، قَالَهَا ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ رَفَعَهُ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ فَشَرِبَهُ ”

618 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan thābitin ʾanna ʿumara “ istasqā, faʾutiya biʾināʾin min ʿasalin, fawaḍaʿahu ʿalā kaffihi, fajaʿala yaqūlu: ʾashrabuhā, fatadhhabu ḥalāwatuhā, watabqā niqmatuhā, qālahā thalāthan, thumma rafaʿahu ʾilā rajulin mina al-qawmi fasharibahu ”

618 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra informed us, from Thābit, that ʿUmar asked for a drink. A vessel of honey was brought to him. He placed it on his palm and kept saying, ‘Shall I drink it, so that its sweetness passes away while its consequence remains?’ He said it three times, then passed it to a man among the people, who drank it.

٦١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ سِمَاكٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ، وَنَظَرَ إِلَى مَزْبَلَةٍ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ هَذِهِ مُذْهِبَةٌ لِدُنْيَاكُمْ وَآخِرَتِكُمْ»

619 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu bnu al-ḥajjāji, ʿan simākin, ʿan ʾabī al-rabīʿi qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā hurayrata, wanaẓara ʾilā mazbalatin, faqāla: «ʾinna hādhihi mudhhibatun lidunyākum waʾākhiratikum»

619 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj informed us, from Simāk, from Abū al-Rabīʿ, who said: I heard Abū Hurayra look at a rubbish heap and say: ‘This is what takes away your world and your Hereafter.’

٦٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حُرَيْثُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ الْأُسَيْدِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي فَوْرٍ لَهُ بِثَلَاثَةِ أَحَادِيثَ، مَرَّ عَلَى مَزْبَلَةٍ فِي طَرِيقٍ مِنْ طُرُقِ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَقَالَ: «مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا بِحَذَافِيرِهَا، فَلْيَنْظُرْ إِلَى هَذِهِ الْمَزْبَلَةِ» ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «لَوْ أَنَّ الدُّنْيَا تَعْدِلُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ جَنَاحَ ذُبَابٍ، مَا أَعْطَى كَافِرًا مِنْهَا شَيْئًا» ، ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ الْمَوْتَ وَغَمَّهُ وَكَرْبَهُ وَعَلَزَهُ، فَقَالَ: «ثَلَاثُ مِائَةِ ضَرْبَةٍ بِالسَّيْفِ»

620 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥuraythu bnu al-sāʾibi al-ʾusaydiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥasanu qāla: ḥaddatha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī fawrin lahu bithalāthati ʾaḥādītha, marra ʿalā mazbalatin fī ṭarīqin min ṭuruqi al-madīnati, faqāla: «man sarrahu ʾan yanẓura ʾilā al-dunyā biḥadhāfīrihā, falyanẓur ʾilā hādhihi al-mazbalati» , thumma qāla: «law ʾanna al-dunyā taʿdilu ʿinda Allāhi janāḥa dhubābin, mā ʾaʿṭā kāfiran minhā shayʾan» , thumma dhakara al-mawta waghammahu wakarbahu waʿalazahu, faqāla: «thalāthu miʾati ḍarbatin bi-l-sayfi»

620 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥurayth ibn al-Sāʾib al-Usaydī informed us; al-Ḥasan related to us. He said: In one burst, the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, related three sayings. He passed a rubbish heap on one of Medina’s roads and said: ‘Whoever would be pleased to see this world in its entirety, let him look at this rubbish heap.’ Then he said: ‘Had this world equaled even a fly’s wing in God’s sight, He would not have given an unbeliever any of it.’ Then he mentioned death—its grief, anguish, and agony—and said: ‘Three hundred blows of the sword.’

٦٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَطَاءٌ الْخُرَاسَانِيُّ قَالَ: “ مَرَّ نَبِيٌّ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ بِسَاحِلٍ، فَإِذَا هُوَ بِرَجُلٍ يَصْطَادُ حِيتَانًا، فَقَالَ: بِسْمِ اللَّهِ، وَأَلْقَى شَبَكَتَهُ، فَلَمْ يَخْرُجْ فِيهَا حُوتٌ وَاحِدٌ، ثُمَّ مَرَّ بِآخَرَ، فَقَالَ: بِسْمِ الشَّيْطَانِ، فَخَرَجَ فِيهَا مِنَ الْحِيتَانِ حَتَّى جَعَلَ الرَّجُلُ يَتَقَاعَسُ مِنْ كَثْرَتِهَا، فَقَالَ: أَيْ رَبِّ، هَذَا الَّذِي دَعَاكَ وَلَمْ يُشْرِكْ بِكَ شَيْئًا اِبْتَلَيْتَهُ بِأَنْ لَمْ يَخْرُجْ فِي شَبَكَتِهِ شَيْءٌ، وَهَذَا الَّذِي دَعَا غَيْرَكَ اِبْتَلَيْتَهُ وَخَرَجَ فِي شَبَكَتِهِ مَا جَعَلَ الرَّجُلَ يَتَقَاعَسُ تَقَاعُسًا مِنْ كَثْرَتِهَا، وَقَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ بِيَدِكَ، فَأَنَّى هَذَا؟ قَالَ: اِكْشِفُوا لِعَبْدِيَا عَنْ مَنْزِلِهِمَا، فَلَمَّا رَأَى مَا أَعَدَّ اللَّهُ لِهَذَا مِنَ الْكَرَامَةِ، وَمَا أَعَدَّ اللَّهُ لِهَذَا مِنَ الْهَوَانِ، قَالَ: رَضِيتُ يَا رَبِّي ”

621 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿaṭāʾun al-khurāsāniyyu qāla: “ marra nabiyyun mina al-ʾanbiyāʾi bisāḥilin, faʾidhā huwa birajulin yaṣṭādu ḥītānan, faqāla: bismi Allāhi, waʾalqā shabakatahu, falam yakhruj fīhā ḥūtun wāḥidun, thumma marra biʾākhara, faqāla: bismi al-shayṭāni, fakharaja fīhā mina al-ḥītāni ḥattā jaʿala al-rajulu yataqāʿasu min kathratihā, faqāla: ʾay rabbi, hādhā al-ladhī daʿāka walam yushrik bika shayʾan ibtalaytahu biʾan lam yakhruj fī shabakatihi shayʾun, wahādhā al-ladhī daʿā ghayraka ibtalaytahu wakharaja fī shabakatihi mā jaʿala al-rajula yataqāʿasu taqāʿusan min kathratihā, waqad ʿalimtu ʾanna kulla dhālika biyadika, faʾannā hādhā? qāla: ikshifū liʿabdiyā ʿan manzilihimā, falammā raʾā mā ʾaʿadda Allāhu lihādhā mina al-karāmati, wamā ʾaʿadda Allāhu lihādhā mina al-hawāni, qāla: raḍītu yā rabbī ”

621 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us; ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī related to us. He said: A prophet passed along a shore and found a man fishing. The man said, ‘In God’s name,’ cast his net, and caught not a single fish. The prophet then passed another man, who said, ‘In Satan’s name,’ and caught so many fish that he began to draw back under their weight. The prophet said, ‘My Lord, this man called upon You and associated nothing with You, yet You tried him by letting nothing enter his net; while that man called upon another besides You, yet You tried him with so many fish that he drew back under their weight. I know all of it lies in Your hand—how can this be?’ God said: ‘Unveil for My servant their two destinations.’ When the prophet saw the honor God had prepared for the first and the abasement He had prepared for the second, he said, ‘I am content, my Lord.’

٦٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حُمَيْدٌ الطَّوِيلُ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ قَالَ: أُرَاهُ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: “ يُؤْتَى بِأَنْعَمِ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ، فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى: اِغْمِسُوهُ غَمْسَةً فِي النَّارِ، فَيُقَالُ لَهُ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ نَعِيمًا قَطُّ؟ فَيَقُولُ: لَا، وَيُؤْتَى بِأَشَدِّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ضُرًّا، فَيَقُولُ: اِغْمِسُوهُ غَمْسَةً فِي الْجَنَّةِ، فَيَقُولُ لَهُ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ ضُرًّا قَطُّ؟ - أَوْ مَسَّكَ بَلَاءٌ قَطُّ؟ - فَيَقُولُ: لَا ”

622 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥumaydun al-ṭawīlu, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi qāla: ʾurāhu dhakarahu ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: “ yuʾtā biʾanʿami ʾahli al-dunyā mina al-kuffāri, fayaqūlu Allāhu subḥānahu wataʿālā: ighmisūhu ghamsatan fī al-nāri, fayuqālu lahu: hal raʾayta naʿīman qaṭṭu? fayaqūlu: lā, wayuʾtā biʾashaddi al-muʾminīna ḍurran, fayaqūlu: ighmisūhu ghamsatan fī al-jannati, fayaqūlu lahu: hal raʾayta ḍurran qaṭṭu? - ʾaw massaka balāʾun qaṭṭu? - fayaqūlu: lā ”

622 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl informed us, from Thābit al-Bunānī—he thought that he related it from Anas ibn Mālik—who said: ‘The unbeliever who lived most luxuriously in this world will be brought forth, and God—glorified and exalted—will say, “Dip him once into the Fire.” He will then be asked, “Did you ever see any comfort?” He will say, “No.” The believer who suffered the greatest harm will be brought forth, and He will say, “Dip him once into Paradise.” He will then ask him, “Did you ever see any harm—or did any affliction ever touch you?” He will say, “No.”’

٦٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ ثَوْبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: “ لَا تَغْبِطَنَّ فَاجِرًا بِنِعْمَةٍ، فَإِنَّ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ طَالِبًا حَثِيثًا، طَلَبُهُ جَهَنَّمَ {كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِيرًا} [الْإِسْرَاءِ: ٩٧] ”

623 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata, ʿan ziyādi bni thawbāna, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla: “ lā taghbiṭanna fājiran biniʿmatin, faʾinna min warāʾihi ṭāliban ḥathīthan, ṭalabuhu jahannama {kullamā khabat zidnāhum saʿīran} [al-ʾisrāʾi: 97] ”

623 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda informed us, from Ziyād ibn Thawbān, from Abū Hurayra, who said: ‘Never envy a wicked person for a blessing, for a relentless pursuer lies beyond him: Hell seeks him. “Whenever it subsides, We increase for them the Blaze” [Qurʾān 17:97].’

٦٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْوَصَّافِيُّ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْمَكِّيِّ، عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ قَالَ: إِنِّي لَأَجِدُ فِيمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِي الْكِتَابِ، إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ: «لَا تَعْجَبَنَّ بِرَحْبِ الْيَدَيْنِ يَسْفِكُ الدِّمَاءَ، وَإِنَّ لَهُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ قَاتِلًا لَا يَمُوتُ، وَلَا تَعْجَبَنَّ بِامْرِئٍ أَصَابَ مَالًا مِنْ غَيْرِ حِلِّهِ، فَإِنَّ مَا أَنْفَقَ مِنْهُ لَمْ يُبَارَكْ لَهُ فِيهِ، وَمَا تَصَدَّقَ مِنْهُ لَمْ يَتَقَبَّلِ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ، وَجَعَلَهُ زَادَهُ إِلَى النَّارِ، وَلَا تَعْجَبَنَّ لِصَاحِبِ نِعْمَةٍ بِنِعْمَتِهِ، فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي إِلَى مَا يَصِيرُ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ»

624 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu al-walīdi al-waṣṣāfiyyu, ʿan ʾibrāhīma al-makkiyyi, ʿan wahbi bni munabbihin qāla: ʾinnī laʾajidu fīmā ʾanzala Allāhu fī al-kitābi, ʾinna Allāha yaqūlu: «lā taʿjabanna biraḥbi al-yadayni yasfiku al-dimāʾa, waʾinna lahu ʿinda Allāhi qātilan lā yamūtu, walā taʿjabanna bimriʾin ʾaṣāba mālan min ghayri ḥillihi, faʾinna mā ʾanfaqa minhu lam yubārak lahu fīhi, wamā taṣaddaqa minhu lam yataqabbali Allāhu minhu, wajaʿalahu zādahu ʾilā al-nāri, walā taʿjabanna liṣāḥibi niʿmatin biniʿmatihi, faʾinnaka lā tadrī ʾilā mā yaṣīru baʿda al-mawti»

624 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Walīd al-Waṣṣāfī informed us, from Ibrāhīm al-Makkī, from Wahb ibn Munabbih, who said: I find among what God revealed in the Scripture that God says: ‘Do not be impressed by a man with ample reach who sheds blood, for God has appointed for him a slayer who does not die. Do not be impressed by a man who acquires wealth unlawfully: whatever he spends from it will not be blessed for him; whatever he gives from it in charity God will not accept from him; and God will make it his provision for the Fire. Do not be impressed by a person of ease because of his blessing, for you do not know what he will come to after death.’

٦٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ الْقَاسِمَ بْنَ الْمُخَيْمِرَةِ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ أَصَابَ مَالًا مِنْ مَأْثَمٍ فَوَصَلَ بِهِ رَحِمًا، أَوْ تَصَدَّقَ بِهِ، أَوْ أَنْفَقَهُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، جُمِعَ ذَلِكَ جَمِيعًا، ثُمَّ قُذِفَ بِهِ فِي جَهَنَّمَ»

625 - ʾakhbarakum ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan mūsā bni sulaymāna ʾannahu samiʿa al-qāsima bna al-mukhaymirati yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «man ʾaṣāba mālan min maʾthamin fawaṣala bihi raḥiman, ʾaw taṣaddaqa bihi, ʾaw ʾanfaqahu fī sabīli Allāhi, jumiʿa dhālika jamīʿan, thumma qudhifa bihi fī jahannama»

625 — ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: We were informed; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Awzāʿī informed us, from Mūsā ibn Sulaymān, who heard al-Qāsim ibn Mukhaymira say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘Whoever acquires wealth through sin and then uses it to maintain kinship ties, gives it in charity, or spends it in God’s path—all of it will be gathered together and then hurled with him into Hell.’

٦٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ الْحِمْصِيُّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: «أَلَا رُبَّ مُنْعِمٍ لِنَفْسِهِ، وَهُوَ لَهَا جَدُّ مُهِينٍ، أَلَا رُبَّ مُبَيِّضٍ لِثِيَابِهِ، وَهُوَ لِدِينِهِ مُدَنِّسٌ»

626 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū salamata al-ḥimṣiyyu, ʿan yaḥyā bni jābirin, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla: «ʾalā rubba munʿimin linafsihi, wahuwa lahā jaddu muhīnin, ʾalā rubba mubayyiḍin lithiyābihi, wahuwa lidīnihi mudannisun»

626 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us; Abū Salama al-Ḥimṣī related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Jābir, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said: ‘How many a man grants himself ease while grievously humiliating it! How many a man whitens his clothes while staining his religion!’

٦٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: بَلَغَنَا عَنْ عِيسَى اِبْنِ مَرْيَمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «يُوشِكُ أَنْ يُفْضِيَ بِالصَّابِرِ الْبَلَاءُ إِلَى الرَّخَاءِ، وَبِالْفَاجِرِ الرَّخَاءُ إِلَى الْبَلَاءِ»

627 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: balaghanā ʿan ʿīsā ibni maryama ʾannahu qāla: «yūshiku ʾan yufḍiya bi-l-ṣābiri al-balāʾu ʾilā al-rakhāʾi, wa-bi-l-fājiri al-rakhāʾu ʾilā al-balāʾi»

627 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us. He said: It has reached us from Jesus son of Mary that he said: ‘Soon affliction will carry the patient person into ease, while ease will carry the wicked person into affliction.’

٦٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَشِيطٍ الْوَعْلَانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا كَعْبُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ التُّجِيبِيُّ: «إِذَا رَأَيْتَ الرَّجُلَ دُنْيَاهُ تَزْدَادُ، وَآخِرَتُهُ تَنْقُصُ، مُقِيمًا عَلَى ذَلِكَ، رَاضِيًا بِهِ، فَذَلِكَ الْمَغْبُونُ، الَّذِي يُلْعَبُ بِوَجْهِهِ وَهُوَ لَا يَشْعُرُ»

628 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾibrāhīmu bnu nashīṭin al-waʿlāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā kaʿbu bnu ʿalqamata qāla: qāla saʿdu bnu masʿūdin al-tujībiyyu: «ʾidhā raʾayta al-rajula dunyāhu tazdādu, waʾākhiratuhu tanquṣu, muqīman ʿalā dhālika, rāḍiyan bihi, fadhālika al-maghbūnu, al-ladhī yulʿabu biwajhihi wahuwa lā yashʿuru»

628 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Nashīṭ al-Waʿlānī informed us; Kaʿb ibn ʿAlqama related to us. He said: Saʿd ibn Masʿūd al-Tujībī said: ‘When you see a man whose worldly lot increases while his Hereafter diminishes, and he persists in that contentedly, he is the cheated man whose face is being toyed with while he does not realize it.’

٦٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وُهَيْبٌ قَالَ: قَالَ عِيسَى اِبْنُ مَرْيَمَ: “ أَرْبَعٌ لَا تَجْتَمِعُ فِي أَحَدٍ مِنِ النَّاسِ إِلَّا يُعْجَبُ - أَوْ إِلَّا يُعْجِبُهُ -: الصَّمْتُ، وَهُوَ أَوَّلُ الْعِبَادَةِ، وَالتَّوَاضُعُ لِلَّهِ، وَالزَّهَادَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَقِلَّةُ الشَّيْءِ ”

629 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā wuhaybun qāla: qāla ʿīsā ibnu maryama: “ ʾarbaʿun lā tajtamiʿu fī ʾaḥadin mini al-nāsi ʾillā yuʿjabu - ʾaw ʾillā yuʿjibuhu -: al-ṣamtu, wahuwa ʾawwalu al-ʿibādati, wa-l-tawāḍuʿu lillāhi, wa-l-zahādatu fī al-dunyā, waqillatu al-shayʾi ”

629 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Wuhayb informed us. He said: Jesus son of Mary said: ‘Four things never come together in any person without making him admirable—or without his admiring them: silence, which is the beginning of worship; humility before God; renunciation of this world; and possessing little.’

٦٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ: «إِنَّا وَجَدْنَا خَيْرَ عَيْشِنَا بِالصَّبْرِ»

630 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi: «ʾinnā wajadnā khayra ʿayshinā bi-l-ṣabri»

630 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: ‘We found the best of our life through patience.’

٦٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ: «تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ الطَّمَعَ فَقْرٌ، وَأَنَّ الْإِيَاسَ غِنًى، وَإِنَّهُ مَنْ أَيِسَ مِمَّا عِنْدَ النَّاسِ اِسْتَغْنَى عَنْهُمْ»

631 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi fī khuṭbatihi: «taʿlamūna ʾanna al-ṭamaʿa faqrun, waʾanna al-ʾiyāsa ghinan, waʾinnahu man ʾayisa mimmā ʿinda al-nāsi istaghnā ʿanhum»

631 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Hishām ibn ʿUrwa informed us, from his father, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said in his sermon: ‘You know that covetousness is poverty and that freedom from expectation is wealth. Whoever gives up hope for what people possess becomes independent of them.’

٦٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: “ وَجَدْتُ الْأَشْيَاءَ شَيْئَيْنِ: شَيْءٌ لِي، وَشَيْءٌ لَيْسَ لِي؛ فَأَمَّا مَا كَانَ لِي، فَلَوْ كَانَ فِي ذَنَبِ الرِّيحِ لَأَدْرَكْتُهُ حَتَّى آخُذَهُ، وَأَمَّا مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ لِي، فَلَوِ اِجْتَمَعَ الْخَلْقُ عَلَى أَنْ يَجْعَلُوهُ لِي مَا قَدَرُوا عَلَيْهِ، فَفِيمَ الْهَمُّ هَهُنَا؟ ”

632 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: “ wajadtu al-ʾashyāʾa shayʾayni: shayʾun lī, washayʾun laysa lī; faʾammā mā kāna lī, falaw kāna fī dhanabi al-rīḥi laʾadraktuhu ḥattā ʾākhudhahu, waʾammā mā lam yakun lī, falawi ijtamaʿa al-khalqu ʿalā ʾan yajʿalūhu lī mā qadarū ʿalayhi, fafīma al-hammu hāhunā? ”

632 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; a man informed us, from Abū Ḥāzim, who said: ‘I found that things fall into two kinds: something meant for me and something not meant for me. If something is meant for me, I will reach it and take it even if it rides the tail of the wind. If it is not meant for me, all creation together could not make it mine. So what is there to worry about?’

٦٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ أَخِيهِ الْأَشْعَثِ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: «أَيُّكُمُ اِسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ فِي السَّمَاءِ كَنْزَهُ فَلْيَفْعَلْ، حَيْثُ لَا تَأْكُلُهُ السُّوسُ، وَلَا تَنَالُهُ السَّرِقَةُ، فَإِنَّ قَلْبَ كُلِّ اِمْرِئٍ عِنْدَ كَنْزِهِ»

633 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan ʾakhīhi al-ʾashʿathi, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata bni ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla: «ʾayyukumu istaṭāʿa ʾan yajʿala fī al-samāʾi kanzahu falyafʿal, ḥaythu lā taʾkuluhu al-sūsu, walā tanāluhu al-sariqatu, faʾinna qalba kulli imriʾin ʿinda kanzihi»

633 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from his brother al-Ashʿath, from Abū ʿUbayda ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: ‘Whoever among you can place his treasure in heaven, let him do so, where moths cannot consume it and theft cannot reach it; for every person’s heart rests with his treasure.’

٦٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْوَصَّافِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا لِي لَا أُحِبُّ الْمَوْتَ، قَالَ: «هَلْ لَكَ مَالٌ؟» قَالَ: نَعَمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: «فَقَدِّمْ مَالَكَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ» ، قَالَ: لَا أُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: «فَإِنَّ الْمَرْءَ مَعَ مَالِهِ، إِنْ قَدَّمَهُ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَلْحَقَهُ، وَإِنْ خَلَّفَهُ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَتَخَلَّفَ مَعَهُ»

634 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu al-walīdi al-waṣṣāfiyyu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿubaydin qāla: jāʾa rajulun mina al-ʾanṣāri ʾilā rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā lī lā ʾuḥibbu al-mawta, qāla: «hal laka mālun?» qāla: naʿam yā rasūla Allāhi, qāla: «faqaddim mālaka bayna yadayka» , qāla: lā ʾuṭīqu dhālika yā rasūla Allāhi, qāla: «faʾinna al-marʾa maʿa mālihi, ʾin qaddamahu ʾaḥabba ʾan yalḥaqahu, waʾin khallafahu ʾaḥabba ʾan yatakhallafa maʿahu»

634 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Walīd al-Waṣṣāfī informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd, who said: A man of the Anṣār came to the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, and asked, ‘Messenger of God, why do I not love death?’ He asked, ‘Do you possess wealth?’ The man said, ‘Yes, Messenger of God.’ He said, ‘Then send your wealth ahead of you.’ The man replied, ‘I cannot do that, Messenger of God.’ He said: ‘A person remains with his wealth: if he sends it ahead, he loves to join it; and if he leaves it behind, he loves to remain behind with it.’

٦٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ بِلَالِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: “ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ تَفْرِقَةِ الْقَلْبِ، قِيلَ: وَمَا تَفْرِقَةُ الْقَلْبِ؟ قَالَ: أَنْ يُوضَعَ لِي فِي كُلِّ وَادٍ مَالٌ ”

635 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan bilāli bni saʿdin ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi qāla: “ ʾaʿūdhu bi-llāhi min tafriqati al-qalbi, qīla: wamā tafriqatu al-qalbi? qāla: ʾan yūḍaʿa lī fī kulli wādin mālun ”

635 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Awzāʿī informed us, from Bilāl ibn Saʿd, that Abū al-Dardāʾ said: ‘I seek refuge in God from a scattered heart.’ He was asked, ‘What is a scattered heart?’ He replied, ‘That wealth should be placed for me in every valley.’

٦٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ يَتْبَعُ الْمَيِّتَ ثَلَاثَةٌ، فَيَرْجِعُ اِثْنَانِ، وَيَبْقَى وَاحِدٌ: يَتْبَعُهُ أَهْلُهُ، وَمَالُهُ، وَعَمَلُهُ، فَيَرْجِعُ أَهْلُهُ وَمَالُهُ، وَيَبْقَى مَعَهُ عَمَلُهُ ”،

636 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī bakrin qāla: samiʿtu ʾanasa bna mālikin yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ yatbaʿu al-mayyita thalāthatun, fayarjiʿu ithnāni, wayabqā wāḥidun: yatbaʿuhu ʾahluhu, wamāluhu, waʿamaluhu, fayarjiʿu ʾahluhu wamāluhu, wayabqā maʿahu ʿamaluhu ”,

636 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, who said: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘Three things follow the dead person; two return and one remains. His family, his wealth, and his deeds follow him. His family and wealth return, while his deeds remain with him.’

٦٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ مِثْلَهُ

637 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata bihādhā al-ʾisnādi mithlahu

637 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us with the same chain, reporting the same wording.

٦٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ كَانَ إِذَا دَخَلَ قَرْيَةً خَرِبَةً قَالَ: “ أَيْنَ أَهْلُكِ يَا قَرْيَةُ؟ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: ذَهَبُوا، وَبَقِيَتِ الْأَعْمَالُ ”

638 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi kāna ʾidhā dakhala qaryatan kharibatan qāla: “ ʾayna ʾahluki yā qaryatu? thumma yaqūlu: dhahabū, wabaqiyati al-ʾaʿmālu ”

638 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, that whenever Abū al-Dardāʾ entered a ruined village he would say, ‘Village, where are your people?’ Then he would say, ‘They have gone, while their deeds remain.’

٦٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي حَصِينٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: مَرَرْتُ مَعَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بِخَرِبَةٍ فَقَالَ: “ يَا مُجَاهِدُ، نَادِهْ: يَا خَرِبَةُ، أَيْنَ أَهْلُكِ؟ - أَوْ مَا فَعَلَ أَهْلُكِ؟ - قَالَ: فَنَادَيْتُ، فَقَالَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ: ذَهَبُوا، وَبَقِيَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ ”

639 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin, ʿan ʾabī ḥaṣīnin, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: marartu maʿa ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara bikharibatin faqāla: “ yā mujāhidu, nādih: yā kharibatu, ʾayna ʾahluki? - ʾaw mā faʿala ʾahluki? - qāla: fanādaytu, faqāla ibnu ʿumara: dhahabū, wabaqiyat ʾaʿmāluhum ”

639 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us, from Abū Ḥaṣīn, from Mujāhid, who said: I passed a ruin with ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar. He said, ‘Mujāhid, call out to it: “Ruin, where are your people?”—or, “What became of your people?”’ I called out, and Ibn ʿUmar said, ‘They have gone, while their deeds remain.’

٦٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْوَرَّاقُ قَالَا: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍ قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ عِيسَى اِبْنَ مَرْيَمَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ مَرَّ بِخَرِبَةٍ فَقَالَ: “ يَا خَرِبَةُ الْخَرِبِينَ، أَوْ قَالَ: يَا خَرِبَةُ خَرِبَتْ، أَيْنَ أَهْلُكِ؟ فَأَجَابَهُ مِنْهَا شَيْءٌ، فَقَالَ: ” يَا رُوحَ اللَّهِ، بَادُوا، فَاجْتَهِدْ - أَوْ قَالَ: فَإِنَّ أَمْرَ اللَّهِ جَدٌّ، فَجِدَّ "

641 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi, waʾabū bakrin al-warrāqu qālā: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu mighwalin qāla: balaghanī ʾanna ʿīsā ibna maryama ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi marra bikharibatin faqāla: “ yā kharibatu al-kharibīna, ʾaw qāla: yā kharibatu kharibat, ʾayna ʾahluki? faʾajābahu minhā shayʾun, faqāla: ” yā rūḥa Allāhi, bādū, fajtahid - ʾaw qāla: faʾinna ʾamra Allāhi jaddun, fajidda "

641 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh and Abū Bakr al-Warrāq informed you. Both said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mālik ibn Mighwal informed us. He said: It reached me that Jesus son of Mary—God’s blessing be upon him—passed a ruin and said, ‘Ruin of the ruined!’ or he said, ‘Ruin that has fallen to ruin! Where are your people?’ Something within it answered him: ‘Spirit of God, they have perished. Strive!’—or it said, ‘God’s command is earnest, so be earnest.’

بَابُ الصَّدَقَةِ

bābu al-ṣadaqati

Chapter on charity.

أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ صَاحِبٍ لَهُ يَذْكُرُهُ، عَنْ بَعْضِ الْعُلَمَاءِ قَالَ:

ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ṣāḥibin lahu yadhkuruhu, ʿan baʿḍi al-ʿulamāʾi qāla:

Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from a companion of his whom he mentioned, from one of the scholars, who said:

«إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَعْطَى لَكُمُ الدُّنْيَا قَرْضًا وَسَأَلَكُمُوهُ قَرْضًا، فَإِنْ أَعْطَيْتُمُوهَا طَيِّبَةً بِهَا أَنْفُسُكُمْ ضَاعَفَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ مَا بَيْنَ الْحَسَنَةِ إِلَى الْعَشْرِ، إِلَى سَبْعِ مِائَةٍ، إِلَى أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، وَإِنْ أَخَذَهَا مِنْكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ كَارِهُونَ، فَصَبَرْتُمْ، وَاحْتَسَبْتُمْ كَانَ لَكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ وَالرَّحْمَةُ، وَأَوْجَبَ لَكُمُ الْهُدَى»

«ʾinna Allāha ʾaʿṭā lakumu al-dunyā qarḍan wasaʾalakumūhu qarḍan, faʾin ʾaʿṭaytumūhā ṭayyibatan bihā ʾanfusukum ḍāʿafa Allāhu lakum mā bayna al-ḥasanati ʾilā al-ʿashri, ʾilā sabʿi miʾatin, ʾilā ʾakthara min dhālika, waʾin ʾakhadhahā minkum waʾantum kārihūna, faṣabartum, waḥtasabtum kāna lakumu al-ṣalātu wa-l-raḥmatu, waʾawjaba lakumu al-hudā»

‘God gave you this world as a loan, then asked you to lend it back to Him. If you give it while your souls are content to do so, God will multiply it for you—from one good deed to ten, to seven hundred, and to more than that. If He takes it from you while you are reluctant, but you remain patient and seek His reward, blessings and mercy will be yours, and He will assure guidance for you.’

٦٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَهُ يَقُولُ:

643 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna al-ḥārithi yuḥaddithu ʿan ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi ʾannahu samiʿahu yaqūlu:

643 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba informed us, from ʿAmr ibn Murra, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith relate from Abū Kathīr, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, that he heard him say:

“ تُجْمَعُونَ، فَيُقَالُ: أَيْنَ فُقَرَاءُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَمَسَاكِينُهَا؟ فَيَبْرُزُونَ، فَيُقَالُ: مَا عِنْدَكُمْ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا رَبَّنَا، اِبْتَلَيْتَنَا فَصَبَرْنَا، وَأَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ - وَأَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: وَوَلَّيْتَ الْأَمْوَالَ وَالسُّلْطَانَ غَيْرَنَا - فَيُقَالُ: صَدَقْتُمْ، فَيَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ قَبْلَ سَائِرِ النَّاسِ بِزَمَنٍ، وَتَبْقَى شِدَّةُ الْحِسَابِ عَلَى ذَوِي الْأَمْوَالِ وَالسُّلْطَانِ،

“ tujmaʿūna, fayuqālu: ʾayna fuqarāʾu hādhihi al-ʾummati wamasākīnuhā? fayabruzūna, fayuqālu: mā ʿindakum? fayaqūlūna: yā rabbanā, ibtalaytanā faṣabarnā, waʾanta ʾaʿlamu - waʾaḥsabuhu qāla: wawallayta al-ʾamwāla wa-l-sulṭāna ghayranā - fayuqālu: ṣadaqtum, fayadkhulūna al-jannata qabla sāʾiri al-nāsi bizamanin, watabqā shiddatu al-ḥisābi ʿalā dhawī al-ʾamwāli wa-l-sulṭāni,

‘You will be gathered, and it will be said, “Where are the poor and needy of this community?” They will come forward and be asked, “What do you have to present?” They will say, “Our Lord, You tested us and we remained patient—and You know best.” I think he also said, “You entrusted wealth and authority to others instead of us.” It will be said, “You have spoken the truth.” They will enter Paradise some time before all other people, while the severity of the reckoning will remain upon those who possessed wealth and authority.’

قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَأَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ يَوْمَئِذٍ؟ قَالَ: تُوضَعُ لَهُمْ كَرَاسِيُّ مِنْ نُورٍ، وَيُظَلَّلُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْغَمَامُ، وَيَكُونُ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمُ أَقْصَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ سَاعَةِ نَهَارٍ ”

qāla: qultu: faʾayna al-muʾminūna yawmaʾidhin? qāla: tūḍaʿu lahum karāsiyyu min nūrin, wayuẓallalu ʿalayhimu al-ghamāmu, wayakūnu dhālika al-yawmu ʾaqṣara ʿalayhim min sāʿati nahārin ”

He said: I asked, ‘Where will the believers be that day?’ He replied: ‘Chairs of light will be set out for them, and clouds will shade them. That day will be shorter for them than an hour of daylight.’

٦٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ خَيْثَمَةَ، يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،

644 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata ʾannahu samiʿa khaythamata, yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʿadiyyi bni ḥātimin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,

644 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba informed us, from ʿAmr ibn Murra, who heard Khaythama relate from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace,

أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ النَّارَ فَتَعَوَّذَ مِنْهَا، وَأَشَاحَ بِوَجْهِهِ مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةً،

ʾannahu dhakara al-nāra fataʿawwadha minhā, waʾashāḥa biwajhihi marratayni ʾaw thalāthatan,

who mentioned the Fire, sought refuge from it, and turned his face away two or three times.

ثُمَّ قَالَ: «اِتَّقُوا النَّارَ وَلَوْ بِشِقِّ تَمْرَةٍ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تَجِدُوا فَبِكَلِمَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ»

thumma qāla: «ittaqū al-nāra walaw bishiqqi tamratin, faʾin lam tajidū fabikalimatin ṭayyibatin»

Then he said: ‘Protect yourselves from the Fire, even with half a date. If you cannot find that, then with a kind word.’

٦٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ أَبَا الْخَيْرِ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:

645 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥarmalatu bnu ʿimrāna ʾannahu samiʿa yazīda bna ʾabī ḥabībin yuḥaddithu ʾanna ʾabā al-khayri ḥaddathahu ʾannahu samiʿa ʿuqbata bna ʿāmirin yaqūlu: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:

645 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥarmala ibn ʿImrān informed us that he heard Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb relate that Abū al-Khayr related to him that he heard ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir say: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say:

«كُلُّ اِمْرِئٍ فِي ظِلِّ صَدَقَتِهِ حَتَّى يُفْصَلَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ» ، أَوْ قَالَ: «يُحْكَمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ» .

«kullu imriʾin fī ẓilli ṣadaqatihi ḥattā yufṣala bayna al-nāsi» , ʾaw qāla: «yuḥkama bayna al-nāsi» .

‘Every person remains in the shade of his charity until judgment is passed between the people’—or he said, ‘until a decision is rendered between the people.’

قَالَ يَزِيدُ: كَانَ أَبُو الْخَيْرِ لَا يُخْطِئُهُ يَوْمٌ لَا يَتَصَدَّقُ فِيهِ بِشَيْءٍ، وَلَوْ كَعْكَةً، أَوْ بَصَلَةً "

qāla yazīdu: kāna ʾabū al-khayri lā yukhṭiʾuhu yawmun lā yataṣaddaqu fīhi bishayʾin, walaw kaʿkatan, ʾaw baṣalatan "

Yazīd said: Not a day passed Abū al-Khayr without his giving something in charity, even if only a small cake or an onion.

٦٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنْ اِبْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

646 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥaywatu bnu shurayḥin, ʿan ʿuqaylin, ʿan ibni shihābin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

646 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥaywa ibn Shurayḥ informed us, from ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَا أَحْسَنَ عَبْدٌ الصَّدَقَةَ إِلَّا أَحْسَنَ اللَّهُ الْخِلَافَةَ عَلَى تَرِكَتِهِ»

«mā ʾaḥsana ʿabdun al-ṣadaqata ʾillā ʾaḥsana Allāhu al-khilāfata ʿalā tarikatihi»

‘No servant gives charity well without God providing good care for what he leaves behind.’

٦٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ يَقُولُ:

647 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni al-sāʾibi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni qatādata al-muḥāribiyyi qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna masʿūdin yaqūlu:

647 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qatāda al-Muḥāribī, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd say:

“ مَا تَصَدَّقَ رَجُلٌ بِصَدَقَةٍ، إِلَّا وَقَعَتْ فِي يَدِ الرَّبِّ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَقَعَ فِي يَدِ السَّائِلِ، وَهُوَ يَضَعُهَا فِي يَدِ السَّائِلِ،

“ mā taṣaddaqa rajulun biṣadaqatin, ʾillā waqaʿat fī yadi al-rabbi qabla ʾan taqaʿa fī yadi al-sāʾili, wahuwa yaḍaʿuhā fī yadi al-sāʾili,

‘No man gives a charitable gift without its falling into the Lord’s hand before it falls into the petitioner’s hand, even though the giver places it in the petitioner’s hand.’

قَالَ: وَهُوَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ، فَقَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {أَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ يَقْبَلُ التَّوْبَةَ عَنْ عِبَادِهِ وَيَأْخُذُ الصَّدَقَاتِ} [التَّوْبَةِ: ١٠٤] ”

qāla: wahuwa fī al-qurʾāni, faqaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: {ʾalam yaʿlamū ʾanna Allāha huwa yaqbalu al-tawbata ʿan ʿibādihi wayaʾkhudhu al-ṣadaqāti} [al-tawbati: 104] ”

He said: ‘This is in the Qurʾān.’ ʿAbd Allāh then recited: ‘Do they not know that it is God who accepts repentance from His servants and takes charitable gifts?’ [Qurʾān 9:104].

٦٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي الْحُبَابِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ:

648 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿubaydu Allāhi bnu ʿumara, ʿan saʿīdin al-maqburiyyi, ʿan ʾabī al-ḥubābi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi qāla:

648 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar informed us, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū al-Ḥubāb, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, God bless him, who said:

«مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ مُسْلِمٍ يَتَصَدَّقُ بِصَدَقَةٍ مِنْ كَسْبٍ طَيِّبٍ - وَلَا يَقْبَلُ اللَّهُ إِلَّا طَيِّبًا - إِلَّا كَانَ اللَّهُ يَأْخُذُهَا بِيَمِينِهِ، فَيُرَبِّيهَا كَمَا يُرَبِّي أَحَدُكُمْ فَلُوَّهُ - أَوْ قَالَ فَصِيلَهُ - حَتَّى تَبْلُغَ التَّمْرَةُ مِثْلَ أُحُدٍ»

«mā min ʿabdin muslimin yataṣaddaqu biṣadaqatin min kasbin ṭayyibin - walā yaqbalu Allāhu ʾillā ṭayyiban - ʾillā kāna Allāhu yaʾkhudhuhā biyamīnihi, fayurabbīhā kamā yurabbī ʾaḥadukum faluwwahu - ʾaw qāla faṣīlahu - ḥattā tablugha al-tamratu mithla ʾuḥudin»

‘Whenever a Muslim servant gives charity from wholesome earnings—and God accepts only what is wholesome—God takes it in His right hand and nurtures it just as one of you raises his foal—or, he said, his weaned camel-calf—until a single date becomes as great as Mount Uḥud.’

قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ، مَا جَاءَ بِهِ إِلَّا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَأَبُو الْحُبَابِ هُوَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ مَوْلَى الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ

qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: hādhā ḥadīthun gharībun ṣaḥīḥu al-ʾisnādi, mā jāʾa bihi ʾillā ibnu al-mubāraki, waʾabū al-ḥubābi huwa saʿīdu bnu yasārin mawlā al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyin

Ibn Ṣāʿid said: ‘This is an uncommon hadith with a sound chain of transmission. No one transmitted it except Ibn al-Mubārak. Abū al-Ḥubāb is Saʿīd ibn Yasār, the client of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī.’

٦٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمَّارٍ الدُّهْنِيِّ، عَنْ رَاشِدِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ:

649 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿammārin al-duhniyyi, ʿan rāshidi bni al-ḥārithi, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla:

649 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from ʿAmmār al-Duhnī, from Rāshid ibn al-Ḥārith, from Abū Dharr, who said:

«مَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنْ صَدَقَةٍ تَخْرُجُ حَتَّى تُفَكَّ عَنْهَا لِحَى سَبْعِينَ شَيْطَانًا، كُلُّهُمْ يَنْهَاهُ عَنْهَا»

«mā ʿalā al-ʾarḍi min ṣadaqatin takhruju ḥattā tufakka ʿanhā liḥā sabʿīna shayṭānan, kulluhum yanhāhu ʿanhā»

‘No charitable gift goes forth upon the earth until the jaws of seventy devils are wrested away from it, every one of them trying to forbid the giver from it.’

٦٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

650 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla : ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi qāla: samiʿtu ʾabī yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʾabā hurayrata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

650 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh informed us. He said: I heard my father say: I heard Abū Hurayra say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«حُفَّتِ الْجَنَّةُ بِالْمَكَارِهِ، وَحُفَّتِ النَّارُ بِالشَّهَوَاتِ»

«ḥuffati al-jannatu bi-l-makārihi, waḥuffati al-nāru bi-l-shahawāti»

‘Paradise is surrounded by hardships, and the Fire is surrounded by desires.’

٦٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ الثَّقَفِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عِكْرِمَةَ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

651 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-maliki al-thaqafiyyu qāla: samiʿtu ʿikrimata yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

651 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; ʿAbd al-Malik al-Thaqafī informed us. He said: I heard ʿIkrima say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«تَصَدَّقُوا وَلَوْ بِتَمْرَةٍ، فَإِنَّهَا تَسُدُّ مِنَ الْجَائِعِ، وَتُطْفِئُ الْخَطِيئَةَ، كَمَا يُطْفِئُ الْمَاءُ النَّارَ»

«taṣaddaqū walaw bitamratin, faʾinnahā tasuddu mina al-jāʾiʿi, watuṭfiʾu al-khaṭīʾata, kamā yuṭfiʾu al-māʾu al-nāra»

‘Give charity, even if only a single date, for it satisfies the hungry person and extinguishes sin just as water extinguishes fire.’

بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي الْإِحْسَانِ إِلَى الْيَتِيمِ

bābu mā jāʾa fī al-ʾiḥsāni ʾilā al-yatīmi

Chapter on what has been related concerning kindness to the orphan.

٦٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ثَابِتَ بْنَ الْعَجْلَانِ يَقُولُ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

652 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā baqiyyatu qāla: samiʿtu thābita bna al-ʿajlāni yaqūlu: balaghanī ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

652 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Baqiyya informed us. He said: I heard Thābit ibn al-ʿAjlān say: It has reached me that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَنْ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى رَأْسِ يَتِيمٍ تَرَحُّمًا، كَانَتْ لَهُ بِكُلِّ شَعْرَةٍ تَمُرُّ بِيَدِهِ عَلَيْهَا حَسَنَةٌ»

«man waḍaʿa yadahu ʿalā raʾsi yatīmin taraḥḥuman, kānat lahu bikulli shaʿratin tamurru biyadihi ʿalayhā ḥasanatun»

‘Whoever places his hand upon an orphan’s head out of compassion will receive one good deed for every hair over which his hand passes.’

٦٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

653 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā māliku bnu ʾanasin, ʿan ṣafwāna bni sulaymin ʾannahu balaghahu ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

653 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Mālik ibn Anas informed us, from Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, that word reached him that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«أَنَا وَكَافِلُ الْيَتِيمِ لَهُ - أَوْ لِغَيْرِهِ - كَهَاتَيْنِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ إِذَا اِتَّقَى» .

«ʾanā wakāfilu al-yatīmi lahu - ʾaw lighayrihi - kahātayni fī al-jannati ʾidhā ittaqā» .

‘I and the guardian of an orphan—whether the orphan is his relative or someone else’s—will be like these two in Paradise, provided he remains mindful of God.’

وَأَشَارَ بِأُصْبُعِهِ الْوُسْطَى وَالَّتِي تَلِي الْإِبْهَامَ

waʾashāra biʾuṣbuʿihi al-wusṭā wa-allatī talī al-ʾibhāma

He gestured with his middle finger and the finger next to the thumb.

٦٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَتَّابٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

654 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu ʾabī ʾayyūba, ʿan yaḥyā bni sulaymāna, ʿan zaydi bni ʾabī ʿattābin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

654 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān, from Zayd ibn Abī ʿAttāb, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«خَيْرُ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بَيْتٌ فِيهِ يَتِيمٌ يُحْسَنُ إِلَيْهِ، وَشَرُّ بَيْتٍ فِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ بَيْتٌ فِيهِ يَتِيمٌ يُسَاءُ إِلَيْهِ» ،

«khayru baytin mina al-muslimīna baytun fīhi yatīmun yuḥsanu ʾilayhi, washarru baytin fī al-muslimīna baytun fīhi yatīmun yusāʾu ʾilayhi» ,

‘The best house among the Muslims is a house in which an orphan is treated well, and the worst house among the Muslims is a house in which an orphan is treated badly.’

ثُمَّ قَالَ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِأُصْبُعَيْهِ: «أَنَا وَكَافِلُ الْيَتِيمِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كَهَكَذَا، وَهُوَ يُشِيرُ بِأُصْبُعَيْهِ»

thumma qāla ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama biʾuṣbuʿayhi: «ʾanā wakāfilu al-yatīmi fī al-jannati ka-hākadhā, wahuwa yushīru biʾuṣbuʿayhi»

Then he, God bless him and grant him peace, gestured with his two fingers and said: ‘I and the guardian of an orphan will be like this in Paradise,’ while pointing with his two fingers.

٦٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَحْرٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:

655 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu ʾayyūba, ʿan ʿubaydi Allāhi bni zaḥrin, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni yazīda, ʿani al-qāsimi, ʿan ʾabī ʾumāmata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:

655 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zaḥr, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from Abū Umāma, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«مَنْ مَسَحَ رَأْسَ يَتِيمٍ، لَمْ يَمْسَحْهُ إِلَّا لِلَّهِ، كَانَتْ لَهُ بِكُلِّ شَعْرَةٍ مَرَّتْ عَلَيْهِ يَدُهُ حَسَنَاتٌ ,

«man masaḥa raʾsa yatīmin, lam yamsaḥhu ʾillā lillāhi, kānat lahu bikulli shaʿratin marrat ʿalayhi yaduhu ḥasanātun ,

‘Whoever strokes an orphan’s head, doing so only for God, will receive good deeds for every hair over which his hand passes.

وَمَنْ أَحْسَنَ إِلَى يَتِيمِهِ، أَوْ يَتِيمِ غَيْرِهِ، كُنْتُ أَنَا وَهُوَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كَهَاتَيْنِ» .

waman ʾaḥsana ʾilā yatīmihi, ʾaw yatīmi ghayrihi, kuntu ʾanā wahuwa fī al-jannati kahātayni» .

Whoever treats an orphan in his care, or another person’s orphan, with kindness—I and he will be like these two in Paradise.’

وَقَرَنَ بَيْنَ أُصْبُعَيْهِ

waqarana bayna ʾuṣbuʿayhi

He held his two fingers together.

٦٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَى، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو أَوْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:

656 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni zaydin, ʿan zurārata bni ʾawfā, ʿan māliki bni ʿamrin ʾaw ʿamri bni mālikin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:

656 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Sufyān informed us, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Zurāra ibn Awfā, from Mālik ibn ʿAmr—or ʿAmr ibn Mālik—who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:

«مَنْ ضَمَّ يَتِيمًا بَيْنَ أَبَوَيْنِ مُسْلِمَيْنِ حَتَّى يَسْتَغْنِيَ، فَقَدْ وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ»

«man ḍamma yatīman bayna ʾabawayni muslimayni ḥattā yastaghniya, faqad wajabat lahu al-jannatu»

‘Whoever takes an orphan into a household with two Muslim parents until the orphan becomes self-sufficient has thereby earned Paradise.’