كِتَابُ الزُّهْدِ وَالرَّقَائِقِ
Kitāb al-Zuhd wa-l-Raqāʾiq
The Virtue of Remembering God
Chapter 47, reports 1050–1224
١٠٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: «أَوْحَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى دَاوُدَ، اِتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَا دَاوُدُ، وَلَا يَأْخُذْكَ اللَّهُ عَلَى ذَنْبٍ لَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْكَ فِيهِ أَبَدًا، فَتَلْقَاهُ حِينَ تَلْقَاهُ وَلَا حُجَّةَ لَكَ»
1050 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾasbāṭu bnu muḥammadin qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʿalāʾu bnu al-musayyabi, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan mujāhidin qāla: «ʾawḥā Allāhu ʿazza wajalla ʾilā dāwūda, ittaqi Allāha yā dāwūdu, walā yaʾkhudhka Allāhu ʿalā dhanbin lā yanẓuru ʾilayka fīhi ʾabadan, fatalqāhu ḥīna talqāhu walā ḥujjata laka»
1050 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad informed us; al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyib related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murra, from Mujāhid, who said: ‘God Almighty and Majestic revealed to David: Fear God, David. Do not let God take you to task for a sin on account of which He will never look toward you, so that when you meet Him you have no plea.’
١٠٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ، عَنِ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: “ قَالَتْ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ لِمُوسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: هَلْ يُصَلِّي رَبُّكَ؟ فَقَالَ مُوسَى: اِتَّقُوا اللَّهَ يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ لِمُوسَى: مَاذَا قَالَ لَكَ قَوْمُكَ؟ قَالَ: يَا رَبِّي مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتَ، قَالُوا: هَلْ يُصَلِّي رَبُّكَ؟ قَالَ: فَأَخْبِرْهُمْ أَنَّ صَلَاتِي عَلَى عِبَادِي أَنْ تَسْبِقَ رَحْمَتِي غَضَبِي، لَوْلَا ذَلِكَ لَأَهْلَكْتُهُمْ ”
1051 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā saʿīdu bnu sulaymāna qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabbādu bnu al-ʿawwāmi, ʿani al-taymiyyi, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: “ qālat banū ʾisrāʾīla limūsā ʿalayhi al-salāmu: hal yuṣallī rabbuka? faqāla mūsā: ittaqū Allāha yā banī ʾisrāʾīla faqāla Allāhu limūsā: mādhā qāla laka qawmuka? qāla: yā rabbī mā qad ʿalimta, qālū: hal yuṣallī rabbuka? qāla: faʾakhbirhum ʾanna ṣalātī ʿalā ʿibādī ʾan tasbiqa raḥmatī ghaḍabī, lawlā dhālika laʾahlaktuhum ”
1051 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān related to us; ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām related to us, from al-Taymī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: ‘The Israelites asked Moses, peace be upon him: “Does your Lord pray?” Moses said, “Fear God, Children of Israel!” God asked Moses, “What did your people say to you?” He answered, “My Lord, You already know. They asked: Does your Lord pray?” God said: “Tell them that My prayer upon My servants is that My mercy precedes My wrath. Were it not for that, I would have destroyed them.”’
١٠٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْغَفُورِ، عَنْ هَمَّامٍ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: " رَأَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ قَوْمًا يَأْتُونَ النَّمْرُودَ الْجَبَّارَ فَيُصِيبُونَ مِنْهُ طَعَامًا، فَانْطَلَقَ مَعَهُمْ، فَكُلَّمَا مَرَّ بِهِ رَجُلٌ، قَالَ لَهُ: مَنْ رَبُّكَ؟ قَالَ: أَنْتَ رَبِّي وَسَجَدَ لَهُ، وَأَعْطَاهُ حَاجَتَهُ،
1052 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-ghafūri, ʿan hammāmin, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: " raʾā ʾibrāhīmu qawman yaʾtūna al-namrūda al-jabbāra fayuṣībūna minhu ṭaʿāman, fanṭalaqa maʿahum, fakullamā marra bihi rajulun, qāla lahu: man rabbuka? qāla: ʾanta rabbī wasajada lahu, waʾaʿṭāhu ḥājatahu,
1052 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghafūr related to us, from Hammām, from Kaʿb, who said: ‘Abraham saw people going to the tyrant Nimrod for food and went along. Whenever someone passed before him, Nimrod asked, “Who is your lord?” The person would say, “You are my lord,” bow down to him, and receive what he needed.’
حَتَّى مَرَّ بِهِ إِبْرَاهِيمُ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: مَنْ رَبُّكَ؟ قَالَ: رَبِّي الَّذِي يُحْيِي وَيُمِيتُ، قَالَ: فَأَنَا أُحْيِي وَأُمِيتُ، قَالَ {فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْتِي بِالشَّمْسِ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَأْتِ بِهَا مِنَ الْمَغْرِبِ فَبُهِتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ} [الْبَقَرَةِ: ٢٥٨] ،
ḥattā marra bihi ʾibrāhīmu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla: man rabbuka? qāla: rabbī al-ladhī yuḥyī wayumītu, qāla: faʾanā ʾuḥyī waʾumītu, qāla {faʾinna Allāha yaʾtī bi-l-shamsi mina al-mashriqi faʾti bihā mina al-maghribi fabuhita al-ladhī kafara} [al-baqarati: 258] ,
‘Then Abraham, God bless him and grant him peace, passed before him. Nimrod asked, “Who is your lord?” He replied, “My Lord is the One who gives life and brings death.” Nimrod said, “I give life and bring death.” Abraham said: “God brings the sun from the east; bring it from the west.” Thus the unbeliever was confounded [Q 2:258].’
فَخَرَجَ وَلَمْ يُعْطِهِ شَيْئًا، فَعَمَدَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ إِلَى تُرَابٍ، فَمَلَأَ بِهِ وِعَاءَهُ وَدَخَلَ مَنْزِلَهُ، وَأَمَرَ أَهْلَهُ أَنْ لَا يَحُلُّوهُ، فَوَضَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَنَامَ،
fakharaja walam yuʿṭihi shayʾan, faʿamada ʾibrāhīmu ʾilā turābin, famalaʾa bihi wiʿāʾahu wadakhala manzilahu, waʾamara ʾahlahu ʾan lā yaḥullūhu, fawaḍaʿa raʾsahu fanāma,
‘Abraham left without receiving anything. He filled his container with earth, returned home, instructed his family not to open it, and lay down to sleep.’
فَحَلَّتِ اِمْرَأَتُهُ الْوِعَاءَ، فَإِذَا أَجْوَدُ دَقِيقٍ رَأَتْ، فَخَبَزَتْهُ، فَقَرَّبَتْهُ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهَا: مِنْ أَيْنَ هَذَا؟ قَالَتْ: سَرَقْتُهُ مِنَ الْوِعَاءِ، قَالَ: فَضَحِكَ , ثُمَّ حَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ
faḥallati imraʾatuhu al-wiʿāʾa, faʾidhā ʾajwadu daqīqin raʾat, fakhabazathu, faqarrabathu ʾilayhi, faqāla lahā: min ʾayna hādhā? qālat: saraqtuhu mina al-wiʿāʾi, qāla: faḍaḥika , thumma ḥamida Allāha waʾathnā ʿalayhi
‘His wife opened the container and found the finest flour she had ever seen. She baked it and brought it to him. He asked, “Where did this come from?” She said, “I stole it from the container.” He laughed, then praised and extolled God.’
١٠٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْغَفُورِ، عَنْ هَمَّامٍ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: " إِنَّا نَجِدُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: طُوبَى لِمَنِ اِتَّقَانِي وَأَكْثَرَ ذِكْرِي،
1053 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-ghafūri, ʿan hammāmin, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: " ʾinnā najidu ʾanna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu: ṭūbā limani ittaqānī waʾakthara dhikrī,
1053 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghafūr related to us, from Hammām, from Kaʿb, who said: ‘We find that God Most High says: Blessed is the one who fears Me and remembers Me often.’
كَيْفَ آمُرُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ فَيَرْفَعُونَهُ رَفْعًا، وَيَحْفَظُونَهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ، وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِ، وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ، وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ؟
kayfa ʾāmuru al-malāʾikata fayarfaʿūnahu rafʿan, wayaḥfaẓūnahu min bayni yadayhi, wamin khalfihi, waʿan yamīnihi, waʿan shimālihi?
‘How I command the angels to raise him high and guard him from before him, behind him, to his right, and to his left!’
١٠٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ كَعْبٌ لِعُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ: «يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، هَلْ تَرَى فِي مَنَامِكَ شَيْئًا؟» قَالَ: فَانْتَهَرَهُ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّا نَجِدُ رَجُلًا يَرَى أَمْرَ الْأُمَّةِ فِي مَنَامِهِ»
1054 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā bishru bnu al-mufaḍḍali qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu ʿawnin, ʿan muḥammadin qāla: qāla kaʿbun liʿumara bni al-khaṭṭābi: «yā ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, hal tarā fī manāmika shayʾan?» qāla: fantaharahu, faqāla: «ʾinnā najidu rajulan yarā ʾamra al-ʾummati fī manāmihi»
1054 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal informed us; Ibn ʿAwn related to us, from Muḥammad, who said: Kaʿb asked ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ‘Commander of the Believers, do you see anything in your dreams?’ ʿUmar rebuked him. Kaʿb said: ‘We find mention of a man who sees the affairs of the community in his dreams.’
١٠٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْغَفُورِ، عَنْ هَمَّامٍ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ: إِنَّا نَجِدُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: «أَنَا اللَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنَا، خَالِقُ الْخَلْقِ، أَنَا الْمَلِكُ الْعَظِيمُ، دَيَّانُ الدِّينِ، وَرَبُّ الْمُلُوكِ، قُلُوبُهُمْ بِيَدِي، فَلَا تَشَاغَلُوا بِذِكْرِهِمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِي وَدُعَائِي وَالتَّوْبَةِ إِلَيَّ، حَتَّى أَعْطِفَهُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالرَّحْمَةِ، فَأَجْعَلَهُمْ رَحْمَةً وَإِلَّا جَعَلْتُهُمْ نِقْمَةً» ،
1055 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-ghafūri, ʿan hammāmin, ʿan kaʿbin qāla: ʾinnā najidu ʾanna Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu: «ʾanā Allāhu lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾanā, khāliqu al-khalqi, ʾanā al-maliku al-ʿaẓīmu, dayyānu al-dīni, warabbu al-mulūki, qulūbuhum biyadī, falā tashāghalū bidhikrihim ʿan dhikrī waduʿāʾī wa-l-tawbati ʾilayya, ḥattā ʾaʿṭifahum ʿalaykum bi-l-raḥmati, faʾajʿalahum raḥmatan waʾillā jaʿaltuhum niqmatan» ,
1055 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghafūr related to us, from Hammām, from Kaʿb, who said: ‘We find that God Most High says: I am God; there is no deity but Me, the Creator of creation. I am the great King, the Judge of recompense and Lord of kings. Their hearts are in My hand. Do not become so occupied with remembering them that you neglect remembering Me, calling upon Me, and turning to Me in repentance. I may then incline them toward you in mercy and make them a mercy; otherwise I shall make them an affliction.’
ثُمَّ قَالَ: " اِرْجِعُوا رَحِمَكُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى، وَمُوتُوا مِنْ قَرِيبٍ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ: {ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُمْ بَعْضَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ} [الرُّومِ: ٤١] ،
thumma qāla: " irjiʿū raḥimakumu Allāhu taʿālā, wamūtū min qarībin, faʾinna Allāha yaqūlu: {ẓahara al-fasādu fī al-barri wa-l-baḥri bimā kasabat ʾaydī al-nāsi liyudhīqahum baʿḍa al-ladhī ʿamilū laʿallahum yarjiʿūna} [al-rūmi: 41] ,
Then he said: ‘Return, may God Most High have mercy on you, and die soon. God says: “Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what people's hands have earned, so that He may let them taste some of what they have done, that perhaps they will return” [Q 30:41].’
قَالَ: ثُمَّ قَالَ: {أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنْ تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ} [الْحَدِيدِ: ١٦] ،
qāla: thumma qāla: {ʾalam yaʾni lilladhīna ʾāmanū ʾan takhshaʿa qulūbuhum lidhikri Allāhi} [al-ḥadīdi: 16] ,
He then said: ‘“Has the time not come for those who believe that their hearts should humble themselves at the remembrance of God?” [Q 57:16].’
قَالَ كَعْبٌ: فَهَلْ تَرَوْنَ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُعَاتِبُ إِلَّا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ؟
qāla kaʿbun: fahal tarawna Allāha taʿālā yuʿātibu ʾillā al-muʾminīna?
Kaʿb said: ‘Do you think God Most High reproaches anyone but the believers?’
١٠٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَبِي مَنِيعٍ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ، أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: “ أَسْرَفَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ حَتَّى إِذَا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ قَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ: إِذَا أَنَا مِتُّ فَأَحْرِقُونِي، ثُمَّ اِسْحَقُونِي، ثُمَّ اُذْرُونِي فِي الرِّيَاحِ، فَوَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ قَدَرَ عَلَيَّ لَيُعَذِّبَنِي عَذَابًا لَا يُعَذِّبُهُ أَحَدًا ”،
1056 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ḥajjāju bnu ʾabī manīʿin, ʿan jaddihi, ʿani al-zuhriyyi qāla: ʾakhbaranī ḥumaydu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʾanna ʾabā hurayrata, ʾakhbarahu qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: “ ʾasrafa rajulun ʿalā nafsihi ḥattā ʾidhā ḥaḍarathu al-wafātu qāla liʾahlihi: ʾidhā ʾanā mittu faʾaḥriqūnī, thumma isḥaqūnī, thumma udhrūnī fī al-riyāḥi, fawa-llāhi laʾin qadara ʿalayya layuʿadhdhibanī ʿadhāban lā yuʿadhdhibuhu ʾaḥadan ”,
1056 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Ḥajjāj ibn Abī Manīʿ informed us, from his grandfather, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed me that Abū Hurayra told him: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say: ‘A man had wronged himself grievously. As death approached, he told his family: When I die, burn me, grind me up, and scatter me in the winds. By God, if He has power over me, He will punish me with a punishment He has inflicted on no one else.’
قَالَ: “ فَفُعِلَ ذَلِكَ بِهِ، وَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا: أَدِّ مَا أَخَذْتَ مِنْهُ، فَإِذَا هُوَ قَائِمٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ، وَقَالَ لَهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى مَا صَنَعْتَ؟ قَالَ: خَشِيتُكَ، فَغَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ ”
qāla: “ fafuʿila dhālika bihi, waqāla Allāhu taʿālā likulli shayʾin ʾakhadha minhu shayʾan: ʾaddi mā ʾakhadhta minhu, faʾidhā huwa qāʾimun bayna yadayi Allāhi, waqāla lahu ʿazza wajalla: mā ḥamalaka ʿalā mā ṣanaʿta? qāla: khashītuka, faghafara Allāhu lahu ”
‘They did this to him. God Most High said to everything that had taken some part of him: Return what you took. Then the man stood before God Almighty and Majestic. God asked him: What drove you to do what you did? He answered: Fear of You. So God forgave him.’
١٠٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ يَقُولُ: “ بَيْنَمَا رَجُلٌ فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ فِي قَوْمٍ كُفَّارٍ، وَكَانَ فِيمَا يَلِيهِمْ قَوْمٌ صَالِحُونَ، فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ: طَالَمَا كُنْتُ فِي كُفْرِي، وَاللَّهِ لَآتِيَنَّ هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ - يَعْنِي الصَّالِحَةَ - فَأَكُونَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْهُمْ،
1057 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna qāla: samiʿtu ʾismāʿīla bna ʾabī khālidin, yuḥaddithu ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla: samiʿtu ʿabda Allāhi bna masʿūdin yaqūlu: “ baynamā rajulun fīman kāna qablakum fī qawmin kuffārin, wakāna fīmā yalīhim qawmun ṣāliḥūna, faqāla al-rajulu: ṭālamā kuntu fī kufrī, wa-llāhi laʾātiyanna hādhihi al-qaryata - yaʿnī al-ṣāliḥata - faʾakūnanna rajulan minhum,
1057 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān informed us. He said: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid relate from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd say: ‘Among the people before you was a man who lived among unbelievers. Nearby was a righteous community. The man said: I have remained in unbelief for so long. By God, I will go to that village—meaning the righteous one—and become one of its people.’
فَانْطَلَقَ، فَأَدْرَكَهُ أَجَلُهُ، وَاحْتَجَّ فِيهِ الْمَلَكُ وَالشَّيْطَانُ، قَالَ هَذَا: أَنَا أَوْلَى بِهِ، وَقَالَ هَذَا: أَنَا أَوْلَى بِهِ،
fanṭalaqa, faʾadrakahu ʾajaluhu, waḥtajja fīhi al-malaku wa-l-shayṭānu, qāla hādhā: ʾanā ʾawlā bihi, waqāla hādhā: ʾanā ʾawlā bihi,
‘He set out, but death overtook him. An angel and Satan disputed over him, each saying: I have the stronger claim to him.’
فَقَيَّضَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُمَا بَعْضَ جُنُودِهِ، فَقَالَ: قِيسُوا مَا بَيْنَ الْقَرْيَتَيْنِ، فَإِلَى أَيَّتِهِمَا كَانَ أَقْرَبَ، فَهُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا، فَقَاسُوا مَا بَيْنَهُمَا، فَكَانَ أَقْرَبَ إِلَى الْقَرْيَةِ الصَّالِحَةِ بِشِبْرٍ، فَكَانَ مِنْهُمْ ”
faqayyaḍa Allāhu taʿālā lahumā baʿḍa junūdihi, faqāla: qīsū mā bayna al-qaryatayni, faʾilā ʾayyatihimā kāna ʾaqraba, fahuwa min ʾahlihā, faqāsū mā baynahumā, fakāna ʾaqraba ʾilā al-qaryati al-ṣāliḥati bishibrin, fakāna minhum ”
‘God Most High appointed one of His hosts to judge between them. He said: Measure the distance to the two villages; he belongs to the one he was nearer. They measured and found him a handspan nearer the righteous village, so he was counted among its people.’
١٠٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ الضَّرِيرُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: «مَكْتُوبٌ فِي الْحِكْمَةِ، بُنَيَّ لِتَكُنْ كَلِمَتُكَ طَيِّبَةً، وَلْيَكُنْ وَجْهُكَ بَسِيطًا، تَكُنْ أَحَبَّ إِلَى النَّاسِ مِمَّنْ يُعْطِيهِمُ الْعَطَاءَ»
1058 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muʿāwiyata al-ḍarīru qāla: ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ʿurwata, ʿan ʾabīhi, qāla: «maktūbun fī al-ḥikmati, bunayya litakun kalimatuka ṭayyibatan, walyakun wajhuka basīṭan, takun ʾaḥabba ʾilā al-nāsi mimman yuʿṭīhimu al-ʿaṭāʾa»
1058 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū Muʿāwiya al-Ḍarīr informed us; Hishām ibn ʿUrwa related to us, from his father, who said: ‘It is written in wisdom: My son, let your speech be kind and your face welcoming. You will be dearer to people than someone who gives them gifts.’
١٠٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ الرَّازِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ الرَّبَذِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ، وَمَنْ يَشَاءُ اللَّهُ مِنْ أَشْيَاخِنَا، قَالَ: " قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ: «يَا بُنَيَّ مَنْ لَا يَمْلِكْ لِسَانَهُ يَنْدَمْ، وَمَنْ يُكْثِرِ الْمِرَاءَ يُشْتَمْ، وَمَنْ يَدْخُلْ مَدَاخِلَ السُّوءِ يُتَّهَمْ، وَمَنْ يَصْحَبْ صَاحِبَ السُّوءِ لَا يَسْلَمْ، وَمَنْ يَصْحَبِ الصَّاحِبَ الصَّالِحَ يَغْنَمْ،
1059 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-rāziyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata al-rabadhiyyu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿubaydata, waman yashāʾu Allāhu min ʾashyākhinā, qāla: " qāla luqmānu libnihi: «yā bunayya man lā yamlik lisānahu yandam, waman yukthiri al-mirāʾa yushtam, waman yadkhul madākhila al-sūʾi yuttaham, waman yaṣḥab ṣāḥiba al-sūʾi lā yaslam, waman yaṣḥabi al-ṣāḥiba al-ṣāliḥa yaghnam,
1059 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī ʿUthmān al-Rāzī informed us; Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda al-Rabadhī related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayda and whichever of our elders God willed. He said: ‘Luqmān said to his son: My son, one who cannot control his tongue will regret it. One who argues too much will be insulted. One who enters places of wrongdoing will be suspected. One who keeps bad company will not be safe; one who keeps righteous company will gain.’
وَمَنْ طَلَبَ عِزًّا بِغَيْرِ عِزٍّ يُجْزَ الذُّلَّ جَزَاءً بِغَيْرِ ظُلْمٍ،
waman ṭalaba ʿizzan bighayri ʿizzin yujza al-dhulla jazāʾan bighayri ẓulmin,
‘Whoever seeks honour by means that bring no honour will be repaid with humiliation, without anyone wronging him.’
وَمِنْ أَرْدَى الْأَخْلَاقِ لِلدِّينِ حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا وَالشَّرَفِ، وَمَنْ حَبَّ الدُّنْيَا وَالشَّرَفَ يَسْتَحِلَّ غَضَبَ اللَّهِ، وَغَضَبُ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا دَوَاءَ لَهُ إِلَّا رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى،
wamin ʾardā al-ʾakhlāqi li-l-dīni ḥubbu al-dunyā wa-l-sharafi, waman ḥabba al-dunyā wa-l-sharafa yastaḥilla ghaḍaba Allāhi, waghaḍabu Allāhi al-ladhī lā dawāʾa lahu ʾillā riḍwānu Allāhi taʿālā,
‘Among the traits most damaging to religious life are love of this world and love of rank. Whoever loves the world and rank lays himself open to God's wrath. There is no cure for God's wrath except the good pleasure of God Most High.’
وَمِنْ أَعْوَنِ الْأَخْلَاقِ عَلَى الدِّينِ الزَّهَادَةُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَمَنْ يَزْهَدْ فِي الدُّنْيَا يَعْمَلْ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى يَأْجُرْهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
wamin ʾaʿwani al-ʾakhlāqi ʿalā al-dīni al-zahādatu fī al-dunyā, waman yazhad fī al-dunyā yaʿmal lillāhi taʿālā, waman yaʿmal lillāhi taʿālā yaʾjurhu Allāhu ʿazza wajalla»
‘Among the traits most helpful to religious life is detachment from this world. Whoever renounces the world works for God Most High, and God Almighty and Majestic will reward whoever works for Him.’
١٠٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ الرَّبَذِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِابْنِهِ: «
1060 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī ʿuthmāna qāla: ḥaddathanā mūsā bnu ʿubaydata al-rabadhiyyu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni dīnārin qāla: qāla luqmānu libnihi: «
1060 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī ʿUthmān related to us; Mūsā ibn ʿUbayda al-Rabadhī related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, who said that Luqmān told his son:
يَا بُنَيَّ، كَيْفَ يَتَبَاعَدُ عَنِ النَّاسِ مَا يُوعَدُونَ؟ وَالْوَعْدُ يَدْنُو، وَهُمْ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ يَمُوتُونَ،
yā bunayya, kayfa yatabāʿadu ʿani al-nāsi mā yūʿadūna? wa-l-waʿdu yadnū, wahum kulla yawmin yamūtūna,
‘My son, how can people think the thing they have been promised is far away, when the appointed time draws near and they die every day?’
يَا بُنَيَّ، كَيْفَ يَتَبَاعَدُ عَنِ النَّاسِ مَا يُوعَدُونَ؟ وَالْوَعْدُ يَدْنُو وَهُمْ سُرَاعًا إِلَى الْوَعْدِ يَذْهَبُونَ،
yā bunayya, kayfa yatabāʿadu ʿani al-nāsi mā yūʿadūna? wa-l-waʿdu yadnū wahum surāʿan ʾilā al-waʿdi yadhhabūna,
‘My son, how can people think the thing they have been promised is far away, when the appointed time draws near and they are hastening toward it?’
يَا بُنَيَّ، إِنَّكَ اِسْتَدْبَرْتَ الدُّنْيَا يَوْمَ نَزَلْتَهَا، وَاسْتَقْبَلْتَ الْآخِرَةَ، فَأَنْتَ إِلَى دَارٍ تَدْنُو مِنْهَا أَقْرَبُ مِنْكَ إِلَى الدَّارِ الَّتِي تَبَاعَدُ عَنْهَا»
yā bunayya, ʾinnaka istadbarta al-dunyā yawma nazaltahā, wastaqbalta al-ʾākhirata, faʾanta ʾilā dārin tadnū minhā ʾaqrabu minka ʾilā al-dāri al-latī tabāʿadu ʿanhā»
‘My son, on the day you entered this world you turned your back on it and faced the Hereafter. You are closer to the home you are approaching than to the home from which you are moving away.’
١٠٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَزْمُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ: «اِنْطَلَقَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ سُلَيْمَانُ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى الْحَمَّامِ لِيَغْتَسِلَ، فَوَضَعَ خَاتَمَهُ، ثُمَّ دَخَلَ، فَجَاءَ الشَّيْطَانُ فَأَخَذَ الْخَاتَمَ، ثُمَّ اِنْطَلَقَ إِلَى نَهْرٍ كَثِيرِ الْمَاءِ، فَرَمَى بِهِ فِيهِ، فَخَرَجَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَ الْحَمَّامِ» ،
1061 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-faḍlu bnu mūsā qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥazmu bnu mihrāna qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu: «inṭalaqa nabiyyu Allāhi sulaymānu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾilā al-ḥammāmi liyaghtasila, fawaḍaʿa khātamahu, thumma dakhala, fajāʾa al-shayṭānu faʾakhadha al-khātama, thumma inṭalaqa ʾilā nahrin kathīri al-māʾi, faramā bihi fīhi, fakharaja nabiyyu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mina al-ḥammāmi» ,
1061 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā related to us; Ḥazm ibn Mihrān related to us, who said: I heard al-Ḥasan say: ‘Solomon, God's prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, went to the bathhouse to wash. He put down his ring and went in. Satan came, took the ring, and threw it into a river with abundant water. Then God's prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, emerged from the bathhouse.’
قَالَ: “ فَلَقَدْ ذُكِرَ لِي أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَأْوِهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ، وَلَمْ يُعْرَفْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، وَكَانَ يَأْوِي إِلَى اِمْرَأَةٍ مِسْكِينَةٍ، فَانْطَلَقَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فَبَيْنَا هُوَ قَائِمٌ عَلَى شَاطِئِ نَهْرٍ، إِذْ وَجَدَ سَمَكَةً، فَأَتَى بِهَا الْمَرْأَةَ، وَقَالَ لَهَا: اِصْنَعِيهَا،
qāla: “ falaqad dhukira lī ʾannahu lam yaʾwihi ʾaḥadun mina al-nāsi, walam yuʿraf ʾarbaʿīna laylatan, wakāna yaʾwī ʾilā imraʾatin miskīnatin, fanṭalaqa dhāta yawmin fabaynā huwa qāʾimun ʿalā shāṭiʾi nahrin, ʾidh wajada samakatan, faʾatā bihā al-marʾata, waqāla lahā: iṣnaʿīhā,
He said: ‘I was told that no one gave Solomon shelter or recognized him for forty nights, though a poor woman took him in. One day, while standing at a riverbank, he found a fish. He brought it to the woman and asked her to prepare it.’
فَشَقَّتْهَا، فَإِذَا هِيَ بِالْخَاتَمِ فِي جَوْفِهَا، فَأَخَذَ الْخَاتَمَ فَجَعَلَهُ فِي يَدِهِ، فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ سَأَلَ رَبَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَقَالَ: رَبِّ، هَبْ لِي مُلْكًا لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِي، إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْوَهَّابُ ”
fashaqqathā, faʾidhā hiya bi-l-khātami fī jawfihā, faʾakhadha al-khātama fajaʿalahu fī yadihi, faʿinda dhālika saʾala rabbahu ʿazza wajalla, faqāla: rabbi, hab lī mulkan lā yanbaghī liʾaḥadin min baʿdī, ʾinnaka ʾanta al-wahhābu ”
‘When she cut the fish open, she found the ring in its belly. Solomon took the ring and placed it on his hand. Then he asked his Lord Almighty and Majestic: “My Lord, grant me a kingdom that will belong to no one after me. Truly, You are the Bestower.”’
١٠٦٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ يَمْشِي ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فِي بَعْضِ أَزِقَّةِ الْمَدِينَةِ، إِذَا صَبِيَّةٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ تَقُومُ مَرَّةً، وَتَقْعُدُ أُخْرَى، فَقَالَ: «يَا بُؤْسَهَا، مَنْ لِهَذِهِ؟»
1062 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla: baynamā ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi yamshī dhāta yawmin fī baʿḍi ʾaziqqati al-madīnati, ʾidhā ṣabiyyatun bayna yadayhi taqūmu marratan, wataqʿudu ʾukhrā, faqāla: «yā buʾsahā, man lihādhihi?»
1062 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl related to us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said: One day, as ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb walked through an alley of Medina, he saw a young girl before him alternately standing and sitting. He said, ‘Poor child! Who is responsible for her?’
فَقَالَ اِبْنُ عُمَرَ: هَذِهِ إِحْدَى بَنَاتِكَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، قَالَ: «فَمَا لَهَا؟» قَالَ: مَنَعْتَهَا مَا عِنْدَكَ،
faqāla ibnu ʿumara: hādhihi ʾiḥdā banātika yā ʾamīra al-muʾminīna, qāla: «famā lahā?» qāla: manaʿtahā mā ʿindaka,
Ibn ʿUmar said, ‘Commander of the Believers, she is one of your daughters.’ ʿUmar asked, ‘What has happened to her?’ He replied, ‘You have kept from her what you possess.’
قَالَ: «أَفَعَجِزْتَ إِذْ مَنَعْتُهَا مَا عِنْدِي أَنْ تَكْسِبَ عَلَيْهَا كَمَا يَكْسِبُ الْأَقْوَامُ عَلَى بَنَاتِهِمْ؟ وَاللَّهِ مَا لَكَ عِنْدِي إِلَّا مَا لِرَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَبَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ» ،
qāla: «ʾafaʿajizta ʾidh manaʿtuhā mā ʿindī ʾan taksiba ʿalayhā kamā yaksibu al-ʾaqwāmu ʿalā banātihim? wa-llāhi mā laka ʿindī ʾillā mā lirajulin mina al-muslimīna, wabaynī wabaynaka kitābu Allāhi» ,
ʿUmar said: ‘When I kept from her what I possess, were you unable to earn for her as other men earn for their daughters? By God, your claim upon me is no greater than that of any Muslim man. The Book of God shall judge between us.’
قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: «فَخَصَمَهُ وَاللَّهِ»
qāla al-ḥasanu: «fakhaṣamahu wa-llāhi»
Al-Ḥasan said: ‘By God, he defeated him in the argument.’
١٠٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَبِي مَنِيعٍ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «لَا يَتَمَنَّيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَوْتَ، إِمَّا مُحْسِنًا فَيَزْدَادُ إِحْسَانًا، وَإِمَّا مُسِيئًا فَيُعْتِبُ»
1063 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥajjāju bnu ʾabī manīʿin, ʿan jaddihi, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydin, ʾanna ʾabā hurayrata qāla: samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: «lā yatamannayanna ʾaḥadukumu al-mawta, ʾimmā muḥsinan fayazdādu ʾiḥsānan, waʾimmā musīʾan fayuʿtibu»
1063 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ḥajjāj ibn Abī Manīʿ informed us, from his grandfather, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū ʿUbayd, that Abū Hurayra said: I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say: ‘None of you should wish for death. If he is doing good, he may increase in goodness; if he is doing wrong, he may seek to make amends.’
١٠٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَارِثُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ، إِنَّ أَمَامَكَ عَقَبَةً كَئُودًا لَا يَقْطَعُهَا إِلَّا كُلُّ مُخِفٍّ» ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، أَمِنْهُمْ أَنَا؟ قَالَ: «إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ عِنْدَكَ قُوتُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ - أَوْ إِلَّا قُوتُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ - فَأَنْتَ مِنْهُمْ»
1064 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾibrāhīmu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥārithu bnu al-nuʿmāni, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: qāla lī al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «yā ʾabā dharrin, ʾinna ʾamāmaka ʿaqabatan kaʾūdan lā yaqṭaʿuhā ʾillā kullu mukhiffin» , qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, ʾaminhum ʾanā? qāla: «ʾin lam yakun ʿindaka qūtu thalāthati ʾayyāmin - ʾaw ʾillā qūtu thalāthati ʾayyāmin - faʾanta minhum»
1064 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Jamīl related to us; Ḥārith ibn al-Nuʿmān related to us, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Abū Dharr, who said: The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, told me: ‘Abū Dharr, a steep ascent lies ahead of you. Only one who travels lightly will cross it.’ I asked, ‘Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, am I among them?’ He said: ‘If you do not have enough provision for three days—or he said, if you have no more than three days’ provision—you are among them.’
١٠٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرِو عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِ وَبِدَارِهِ الْأَرْضَ} [الْقَصَصِ: ٨١] الْآيَةَ قَالَ: “ قِيلَ لَهَا: خُذِيهِمْ فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ إِلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ،
1065 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿu bnu al-jarrāḥi qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani al-minhāli bni ʿamri ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {fakhasafnā bihi wabidārihi al-ʾarḍa} [al-qaṣaṣi: 81] al-ʾāyata qāla: “ qīla lahā: khudhīhim faʾakhadhathum ʾilā ʾaʿqābihim,
1065 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, on God's words, ‘We caused the earth to swallow him and his house’ [Q 28:81]. He said: ‘The earth was told: Take them. It took them down to their heels.’
فَقِيلَ لَهَا: خُذِيهِمْ، فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ إِلَى رُكَبِهِمْ،
faqīla lahā: khudhīhim, faʾakhadhathum ʾilā rukabihim,
‘It was told: Take them. It took them down to their knees.’
فَقِيلَ لَهَا: خُذِيهِمْ، فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ إِلَى حِقِيِّهِمْ،
faqīla lahā: khudhīhim, faʾakhadhathum ʾilā ḥiqiyyihim,
‘It was told: Take them. It took them down to their hips.’
فَقِيلَ لَهَا: خُذِيهِمْ، فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ إِلَى أَعْنَاقِهِمْ،
faqīla lahā: khudhīhim, faʾakhadhathum ʾilā ʾaʿnāqihim,
‘It was told: Take them. It took them down to their necks.’
فَقِيلَ لَهَا: خُذِيهِمْ، فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ، فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ: {فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِ وَبِدَارِهِ الْأَرْضَ} [الْقَصَصِ: ٨١] ”
faqīla lahā: khudhīhim, faʾakhadhathum, fadhālika qawlu Allāhi: {fakhasafnā bihi wabidārihi al-ʾarḍa} [al-qaṣaṣi: 81] ”
‘It was told: Take them. It took them in altogether. This is God's saying: “We caused the earth to swallow him and his house” [Q 28:81].’
١٠٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ:
1066 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla: samiʿtu mujāhidan yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin qāla:
1066 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: I heard Mujāhid narrate from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said:
“ لَمَّا أَدْرَكَ قَوْمَ نُوحٍ الْغَرَقُ كَانَتْ مِنْهُمُ اِمْرَأَةٌ مَعَهَا صَبِيٌّ لَهَا، فَلَمَّا أَدْرَكَهَا الْمَاءُ رَفَعَتْ صَبِيَّهَا إِلَى رُكْبَتَيْهَا،
“ lammā ʾadraka qawma nūḥin al-gharaqu kānat minhumu imraʾatun maʿahā ṣabiyyun lahā, falammā ʾadrakahā al-māʾu rafaʿat ṣabiyyahā ʾilā rukbatayhā,
“When the flood overtook the people of Noah, a woman among them had a small child. As the water reached her, she lifted her child to her knees.
وَلَمَّا بَلَغَهَا الْمَاءُ رَفَعَتْهُ إِلَى صَدْرِهَا، وَلَمَّا بَلَغَهَا الْمَاءُ رَفَعَتْهُ إِلَى رَأْسِهَا،
walammā balaghahā al-māʾu rafaʿathu ʾilā ṣadrihā, walammā balaghahā al-māʾu rafaʿathu ʾilā raʾsihā,
When the water reached her again, she raised him to her chest; when it reached her once more, she lifted him to her head.
وَلَمَّا بَلَغَهَا الْمَاءُ قَالَتْ بِهِ هَكَذَا - وَرَفَعَ وَكِيعٌ يَدَهُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِ -
walammā balaghahā al-māʾu qālat bihi hakadhā - warafaʿa wakīʿun yadahu fawqa raʾsihi -
When the water reached her, she held him up like this”—Wakīʿ raised his hand above his head—
فَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: لَوْ كُنْتُ رَاحِمًا مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًا لَرَحِمْتُهَا بِرَحْمَتِهَا الصَّبِيَّ ”
faqāla Allāhu taʿālā: law kuntu rāḥiman minhum ʾaḥadan laraḥimtuhā biraḥmatihā al-ṣabiyya ”
“and God Most High said: If I had shown mercy to anyone among them, I would have shown mercy to her for the compassion she had for her child.” [The supplied phrase قَالَتْ بِهِ هَكَذَا in the preceding gesture is unclear; Wakīʿ’s action guides the translation.]
١٠٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ:
1067 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿumārata bni ʿumayrin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni yazīda qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi:
1067 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿUmāra ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said:
“ اِعْتَبِرُوا الْمُنَافِقَ بِثَلَاثٍ: إِذَا حَدَّثَ كَذَبَ، وَإِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفَ، وَإِذَا اُئْتُمِنَ خَانَ،
“ iʿtabirū al-munāfiqa bithalāthin: ʾidhā ḥaddatha kadhaba, waʾidhā waʿada ʾakhlafa, waʾidhā uʾtumina khāna,
“Recognize the hypocrite by three things: when he speaks, he lies; when he promises, he breaks his promise; and when he is entrusted with something, he betrays the trust.”
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: {وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ عَاهَدَ اللَّهَ لَئِنْ آتَانَا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ لَنَصَدَّقَنَّ وَلَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ فَلَمَّا أَتَاهُمْ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ بَخِلُوا بِهِ وَتَوَلَّوْا وَهُمْ مُعْرِضُونَ فَأَعْقَبَهُمْ نِفَاقًا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ يَلْقَوْنَهُ بِمَا أَخْلَفُوا اللَّهَ مَا وَعَدُوهُ وَبِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ} ”
thumma qaraʾa ʿabdu Allāhi: {waminhum man ʿāhada Allāha laʾin ʾātānā min faḍlihi lanaṣaddaqanna walanakūnanna mina al-ṣāliḥīna falammā ʾatāhum min faḍlihi bakhilū bihi watawallaw wahum muʿriḍūna faʾaʿqabahum nifāqan fī qulūbihim ʾilā yawmi yalqawnahu bimā ʾakhlafū Allāha mā waʿadūhu wabimā kānū yakdhibūna} ”
Then ʿAbd Allāh recited: “Among them are those who pledged to God: If He grants us some of His bounty, we shall surely give charity and be among the righteous. Yet when He gave them of His bounty, they withheld it and turned away in aversion. So He caused hypocrisy to follow them in their hearts until the day they meet Him, because they broke their promise to God and because they used to lie.”
١٠٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1068 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1068 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mujāhid, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“ أُعْطِيتُ خَمْسًا لَمْ يُعْطَهُنَّ نَبِيٌّ مِنْ قَبْلِي، جُعِلَتْ لِيَ الْأَرْضُ مَسْجِدًا وَطَهُورًا، وَنُصِرْتُ بِالرُّعْبِ، فَيُرْعَبُ الْقَوْمُ مِنِّي عَلَى مَسِيرَةِ شَهْرٍ،
“ ʾuʿṭītu khamsan lam yuʿṭahunna nabiyyun min qablī, juʿilat liya al-ʾarḍu masjidan waṭahūran, wanuṣirtu bi-l-ruʿbi, fayurʿabu al-qawmu minnī ʿalā masīrati shahrin,
“I was given five things that no prophet before me was given: the earth was made for me a place of prayer and a means of purification; I was aided by awe, so that people fear me from a month’s journey away;
وَأُرْسِلْتُ إِلَى الْأَبْيَضِ وَالْأَسْوَدِ، وَأُحِلَّتْ لِيَ الْغَنَائِمُ، وَلَمْ تَحِلَّ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ قَبْلِي،
waʾursiltu ʾilā al-ʾabyaḍi wa-l-ʾaswadi, waʾuḥillat liya al-ghanāʾimu, walam taḥilla liʾaḥadin min qablī,
I was sent to the white and the black; spoils were made lawful for me, though they had not been lawful for anyone before me;
وَقِيلَ لِي: سَلْ تُعْطَهْ، فَاخْتَبَأْتُ دَعْوَتِي شَفَاعَةً لِأُمَّتِي، فَهِيَ نَائِلَةٌ مِنْهُمْ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ مَنْ مَاتَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا ”
waqīla lī: sal tuʿṭah, fakhtabaʾtu daʿwatī shafāʿatan liʾummatī, fahiya nāʾilatun minhum ʾin shāʾa Allāhu man māta lā yushriku bi-llāhi shayʾan ”
and I was told, Ask, and you shall be given. I reserved my supplication as intercession for my community. God willing, it will reach those among them who die without associating anything with God.”
١٠٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَاهُ يُوسُفُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْعَطَّارُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
1069 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanāhu yūsufu bnu mūsā al-ʿaṭṭāru qāla: ḥaddathanā jarīru bnu ʿabdi al-ḥamīdi qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin, ʿan ʾabī dharrin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
1069 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār related this to us; Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd related to us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mujāhid, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:
«أُعْطِيتُ خَمْسًا» وَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ،
«ʾuʿṭītu khamsan» wadhakara al-ḥadītha,
“I was given five things,” and he related the report.
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «رَوَاهُ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْهُمْ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَغَيْرُهُ، كَمَا قَالَ جَرِيرٌ»
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «rawāhu jamāʿatun minhum zuhayru bnu muʿāwiyata waghayruhu, kamā qāla jarīrun»
Ibn Ṣāʿid said: “A group transmitted it, among them Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiya and others, as Jarīr did.”
١٠٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ قَالَ:
1070 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ḍamrata, ʿan kaʿbin qāla:
1070 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Mujāhid, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḍamra, from Kaʿb, who said:
“ مَا مِنْ صَبَاحٍ إِلَّا وَمَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ: يَا بَاغِيَ الْخَيْرِ، هَلُمَّ، وَيَا بَاغِيَ الشَّرِّ، أَقْصِرْ،
“ mā min ṣabāḥin ʾillā wamalakāni yunādiyāni: yā bāghiya al-khayri, halumma, wayā bāghiya al-sharri, ʾaqṣir,
“Every morning two angels call out: Seeker of good, come forward! Seeker of evil, hold back!
وَمَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ: اللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِ مُنْفِقًا خَلَفًا، وَأَعْطِ مُمْسِكًا تَلَفًا،
wamalakāni yunādiyāni: Allāhumma ʾaʿṭi munfiqan khalafan, waʾaʿṭi mumsikan talafan,
And two angels call out: O God, give the one who spends a replacement, and give the one who withholds a loss.
وَمَلَكَانِ يُنَادِيَانِ يَقُولَانِ: سُبْحَانَ الْمَلِكِ الْقُدُّوسِ،
wamalakāni yunādiyāni yaqūlāni: subḥāna al-maliki al-quddūsi,
Two angels call out, saying: Glory be to the Sovereign, the Most Holy.
وَمَلَكَانِ مُوَكَّلَانِ بِالصُّورِ، يَنْتَظِرَانِ مَتَى يُؤْمَرَانِ فَيَنْفُخَانِ ”
wamalakāni muwakkalāni bi-l-ṣūri, yantaẓirāni matā yuʾmarāni fayanfukhāni ”
And two angels are assigned to the Trumpet, awaiting the command to blow it.”
١٠٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا يَقُولُ:
1071 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla: samiʿtu mujāhidan yaqūlu:
1071 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us. He said: I heard Mujāhid say:
“ الْقَلْبُ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْكَفِّ، فَإِذَا أَذْنَبَ الرَّجُلُ اِنْقَبَضَ حَتَّى قَبَضَ أَصَابِعَهُ كُلَّهَا إِصْبَعًا إِصْبَعًا،
“ al-qalbu bimanzilati al-kaffi, faʾidhā ʾadhnaba al-rajulu inqabaḍa ḥattā qabaḍa ʾaṣābiʿahu kullahā ʾiṣbaʿan ʾiṣbaʿan,
“The heart is like an open hand. When a man sins, it contracts”—and he closed all his fingers, one after another—
ثُمَّ يُطْبَعُ عَلَيْهِ، فَكَانُوا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ الرَّيْنُ،
thumma yuṭbaʿu ʿalayhi, fakānū yarawna ʾanna dhālika al-raynu,
“then it is sealed. They considered that to be the stain of sin.”
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {كَلَّا بَلْ رَانَ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: ١٤] ”
qāla Allāhu taʿālā: {kallā bal rāna ʿalā qulūbihim mā kānū yaksibūna} [al-muṭaffifīna: 14] ”
God Most High said: “No indeed! What they used to earn has covered their hearts” [Q 83:14].
١٠٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَحْوَصُ بْنُ جَوَّابٍ الضَّبِّيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
1072 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾaḥwaṣu bnu jawwābin al-ḍabbiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-jabbāri bnu ʿabbāsin al-hamdāniyyu, ʿan salamata bni kuhaylin, ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
1072 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Aḥwaṣ ibn Jawwāb al-Ḍabbī informed us; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿAbbās al-Hamdānī related to us, from Salama ibn Kuhayl, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
“ كَانَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ إِذَا صَلَّى الْغَدَاةَ طَلَعَتْ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ شَجَرَةٌ، فَيَقُولُ لَهَا: مَا أَنْتِ؟ وَلِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ طَلَعْتِ؟ فَتَقُولُ: أَنَا شَجَرَةُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، طَلَعْتُ لِكَذَا وَكَذَا،
“ kāna sulaymānu bnu dāwūda ʾidhā ṣallā al-ghadāta ṭalaʿat bayna ʿaynayhi shajaratun, fayaqūlu lahā: mā ʾanti? waliʾayyi shayʾin ṭalaʿti? fataqūlu: ʾanā shajaratu kadhā wakadhā, ṭalaʿtu likadhā wakadhā,
“When Solomon son of David performed the dawn prayer, a tree would appear before his eyes. He would ask it, ‘What are you, and why have you appeared?’ It would reply, ‘I am such and such a tree, and I appeared for such and such a purpose.’
فَصَلَّى ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ الْغَدَاةَ، فَطَلَعَتْ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ شَجَرَةٌ، فَقَالَ لَهَا : مَا أَنْتِ؟ وَلِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ طَلَعْتِ؟ قَالَتْ: أَنَا الْخَرُّوبُ، طَلَعْتُ لِخَرَابِ هَذِهِ الْأَرْضِ ”،
faṣallā dhāta yawmin al-ghadāta, faṭalaʿat bayna ʿaynayhi shajaratun, faqāla lahā: mā ʾanti? waliʾayyi shayʾin ṭalaʿti? qālat: ʾanā al-kharrūbu, ṭalaʿtu likharābi hādhihi al-ʾarḍi ”,
One day after the dawn prayer another tree appeared before him. He asked, ‘What are you, and why have you appeared?’ It replied, ‘I am the carob tree. I have appeared for the ruin of this land.’”
قَالَ: «فَعَلِمَ سُلَيْمَانُ أَنَّ بَيْتَ الْمَقْدِسِ لَنْ يَخْرَبَ وَهُوَ حَيٌّ، وَإِنَّ أَجَلَهُ قَدِ اِقْتَرَبَ،
qāla: «faʿalima sulaymānu ʾanna bayta al-maqdisi lan yakhraba wahuwa ḥayyun, waʾinna ʾajalahu qadi iqtaraba,
He said: “Solomon realized that Jerusalem would not be destroyed while he lived, and that his appointed time was near.
فَسَأَلَ رَبَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى أَنْ يُعْمِيَ عَلَى الشَّيَاطِينِ مَوْتَهُ، فَمَاتَ عَلَى عَصَاهُ،
fasaʾala rabbahu tabāraka wataʿālā ʾan yuʿmiya ʿalā al-shayāṭīni mawtahu, famāta ʿalā ʿaṣāhu,
He asked his Lord, Blessed and Most High, to conceal his death from the devils, and died while leaning on his staff.
فَسُلِّطَتِ الْأَرَضَةُ عَلَى عَصَاهُ فَسَقَطَ، فَحَقَّ عَلَى الشَّيَاطِينِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهَا بِالْمَاءِ حَيْثُ تَبْنِي شُكْرًا بِمَا صَنَعَتْ بِعَصَا سُلَيْمَانَ»
fasulliṭati al-ʾaraḍatu ʿalā ʿaṣāhu fasaqaṭa, faḥaqqa ʿalā al-shayāṭīni ʾan yaʾtiyahā bi-l-māʾi ḥaythu tabnī shukran bimā ṣanaʿat biʿaṣā sulaymāna»
A termite was set upon his staff, and he fell. In gratitude for what it did to Solomon’s staff, the devils were then obliged to bring it water wherever it built.”
١٠٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ الْأَوْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ:
1073 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿubaydin qāla: ḥaddathanā dāwūdu al-ʾawdiyyu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla:
1073 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd related to us; Dāwūd al-Awdī related to us, from his father, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:
«أَكْثَرُ مَا يَدْخُلُ النَّارَ مِنَ النَّاسِ الْأَجْوَفَانِ» قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، وَمَا الْأَجْوَفَانِ؟
«ʾaktharu mā yadkhulu al-nāra mina al-nāsi al-ʾajwafāni» qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi, wamā al-ʾajwafāni?
“The two hollow parts lead the greatest number of people into the Fire.” They asked, “Messenger of God, what are the two hollow parts?”
قَالَ: «الْفَرْجُ وَالْفَمُ، وَأَكْثَرُ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ، وَحُسْنِ الْخُلُقِ»
qāla: «al-farju wa-l-famu, waʾaktharu man yadkhulu al-jannata bitaqwā Allāhi, waḥusni al-khuluqi»
He replied: “The private parts and the mouth. The greatest number enter the Garden through reverence for God and good character.”
١٠٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ الْخَفَّافُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي مِجْلَزٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {كُلُّ الطَّعَامِ كَانَ حِلًّا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَّا مَا حَرَّمَ إِسْرَائِيلُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ} [آلِ عِمْرَانَ: ٩٣] ، قَالَ: “
1074 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-wahhābi bnu ʿaṭāʾin al-khaffāfu qāla: ḥaddathanā sulaymānu al-taymiyyu, ʿan ʾabī mijlazin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {kullu al-ṭaʿāmi kāna ḥillan libanī ʾisrāʾīla ʾillā mā ḥarrama ʾisrāʾīlu ʿalā nafsihi} [ʾāli ʿimrāna: 93], qāla: “
1074 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Khaffāf informed us; Sulaymān al-Taymī related to us, from Abū Mijlaz, concerning God Most High’s words, “All food was lawful for the Children of Israel, except what Israel forbade himself” [Q 3:93]. He said:
إِنَّ يَعْقُوبَ أَخَذَهُ وَجَعُ عِرْقِ النَّسَاءِ، فَجَعَلَ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَيْهِ، وَأَقْسَمَ أَلَّا يَأْكُلَ مِنَ الدَّوَابِّ الْعُرُوقَ كُلَّهَا،
ʾinna yaʿqūba ʾakhadhahu wajaʿu ʿirqi al-nasāʾi, fajaʿala li-llāhi ʿazza wajalla ʿalayhi, waʾaqsama ʾallā yaʾkula mina al-dawābbi al-ʿurūqa kullahā,
“Jacob suffered pain in the sciatic nerve. He made a vow to God Almighty and Majestic and swore that he would eat none of the sinews of animals.
قَالَ: فَتَتَبَّعُ لِذَلِكَ بَنُوهُ الْعُرُوقَ ”
qāla: fatatabbaʿu lidhālika banūhu al-ʿurūqa ”
He said: His sons therefore sought out the sinews.”
١٠٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمْزَةُ الزَّيَّاتُ، عَنْ سَعْدٍ الطَّائِيِّ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ:
1075 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥamzatu al-zayyātu, ʿan saʿdin al-ṭāʾiyyi ḥaddathahu ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla:
1075 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ḥamza al-Zayyāt informed us, from Saʿd al-Ṭāʾī, who had heard it from a man, from Abū Hurayra, who said:
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا لَنَا إِذَا كُنَّا عِنْدَكَ رَقَّتْ قُلُوبُنَا، وَزَهِدْنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَكُنَّا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْآخِرَةِ؟ وَإِذَا خَرَجْنَا مِنْ عِنْدَكَ أَحْبَبْنَا الدُّنْيَا، وَاشْتَهَيْنَاهَا، وَشَمَمْنَا النِّسَاءَ وَالْأَوْلَادَ،
qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā lanā ʾidhā kunnā ʿindaka raqqat qulūbunā, wazahidnā fī al-dunyā, fakunnā min ʾahli al-ʾākhirati? waʾidhā kharajnā min ʿindaka ʾaḥbabnā al-dunyā, washtahaynāhā, washamamnā al-nisāʾa wa-l-ʾawlāda,
I said: “Messenger of God, why is it that when we are with you our hearts soften, we lose interest in the world, and we become people of the hereafter; yet when we leave you, we love and desire the world and delight in the scent of women and children?” [The Arabic literally says “we smelled women and children”; its intended nuance is uncertain.]
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَوْ أَنَّكُمْ تَكُونُونَ عَلَى الْحَالِ الَّتِي أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهَا عِنْدِي لَزَارَتْكُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ فِي بُيُوتِكُمْ، وَلَوْ أَنَّكُمْ لَا تُذْنِبُونَ لَجَاءَ اللَّهُ بِخَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ لِيُذْنِبُوا فَيَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ» ،
faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «law ʾannakum takūnūna ʿalā al-ḥāli allatī ʾantum ʿalayhā ʿindī lazāratkumu al-malāʾikatu fī buyūtikum, walaw ʾannakum lā tudhnibūna lajāʾa Allāhu bikhalqin jadīdin liyudhnibū fayaghfira lahum»,
The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, replied: “If you remained as you are when you are with me, the angels would visit you in your homes. If you did not sin, God would bring forth a new creation who would sin, so that He might forgive them.”
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مِمَّ خُلِقَ الْخَلْقُ؟ قَالَ: «مِنَ الْمَاءِ» ،
qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi, mimma khuliqa al-khalqu? qāla: «mina al-māʾi»,
He said: I asked, “Messenger of God, from what was creation made?” He replied, “From water.”
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الْجَنَّةِ، مَا بِنَاؤُهَا؟
qāla: qultu: yā rasūla Allāhi, ʾakhbirnī ʿani al-jannati, mā bināʾuhā?
He said: I asked, “Messenger of God, tell me about the Garden: how is it built?”
قَالَ: «لَبِنَةٌ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ، وَلَبِنَةٌ مِنْ فِضَّةٍ، وَمِلَاطُهَا الْمِسْكُ الْأَذْفَرُ، وَتُرَابُهَا الزَّعْفَرَانُ، وَحَصْبَاؤُهَا اللُّؤْلُؤُ وَالْيَاقُوتُ،
qāla: «labinatun min dhahabin, walabinatun min fiḍḍatin, wamilāṭuhā al-misku al-ʾadhfaru, waturābuhā al-zaʿfarānu, waḥaṣbāʾuhā al-luʾluʾu wa-l-yāqūtu,
He replied: “Its bricks alternate gold and silver; its mortar is fragrant musk, its soil is saffron, and its pebbles are pearls and rubies.
مَنْ دَخَلَهَا يَنْعَمُ لَا يَبْؤُسُ، وَيُخَلَّدُ لَا يَمُوتُ، لَا تَبْلَى ثِيَابُهُ، وَلَا يَفْنَى شَبَابُهُ»
man dakhalahā yanʿamu lā yabʾusu, wayukhalladu lā yamūtu, lā tablā thiyābuhu, walā yafnā shabābuhu»
Whoever enters it will know bliss and no hardship, will live forever and never die; his clothes will not wear out, nor will his youth fade.”
قَالَ: ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ ثَلَاثَةٌ لَا تُرَدُّ دَعْوَتُهُمُ: الْإِمَامُ الْمُقْسِطُ، وَالصَّائِمُ حَتَّى يُفْطِرَ، وَالْمَظْلُومُ،
qāla: thumma qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “ thalāthatun lā turaddu daʿwatuhumu: al-ʾimāmu al-muqsiṭu, wa-l-ṣāʾimu ḥattā yufṭira, wa-l-maẓlūmu,
He said: Then the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Three people’s supplications are not rejected: a just leader, a person fasting until he breaks the fast, and someone who has been wronged.
فَإِنَّهَا تُفْتَحُ لَهَا أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ، وَتُرْفَعُ فَوْقَ الْغَمَامِ، يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا الرَّبُّ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ،
faʾinnahā tuftaḥu lahā ʾabwābu al-samāʾi, waturfaʿu fawqa al-ghamāmi, yanẓuru ʾilayhā al-rabbu ʿazza wajalla,
For that person’s supplication the gates of heaven are opened; it is raised above the clouds, and the Lord Almighty and Majestic looks upon it.
فَيَقُولُ : وَعِزَّتِي لَأَنْصُرَنَّكِ وَلَوْ بَعْدَ حِينٍ ”
fayaqūlu: waʿizzatī laʾanṣurannaki walaw baʿda ḥīnin ”
He says: “By My might, I shall surely aid you, even after a time.””
١٠٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ هُبَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ كَانَ يَقُولُ:
1076 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu hubayrata, ʾanna ʾabā hurayrata kāna yaqūlu:
1076 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿa informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hubayra related to us that Abū Hurayra used to say:
«الصَّلَاةُ قُرْبَانٌ، وَالصَّدَقَةُ فِدَاءٌ، وَالصِّيَامُ جُنَّةٌ،
«al-ṣalātu qurbānun, wa-l-ṣadaqatu fidāʾun, wa-l-ṣiyāmu junnatun,
“Prayer is an offering that draws one near, charity is a ransom, and fasting is a shield.
إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الصَّلَاةِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ أَرَادَ مِنْ إِمَامٍ حَاجَةً فَأَهْدَى لَهُ هَدِيَّةً،
ʾinnamā mathalu al-ṣalāti kamathali rajulin ʾarāda min ʾimāmin ḥājatan faʾahdā lahu hadiyyatan,
Prayer is like a man who seeks a favor from a ruler and offers him a gift.
وَمَثَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ أُسِرَ فَفَدَى نَفْسَهُ، وَمَثَلُ الصِّيَامِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ لَقِيَ عَدُوًّا وَعَلَيْهِ جُنَّةٌ حَصِينَةٌ»
wamathalu al-ṣadaqati kamathali rajulin ʾusira fafadā nafsahu, wamathalu al-ṣiyāmi kamathali rajulin laqiya ʿaduwwan waʿalayhi junnatun ḥaṣīnatun»
Charity is like a captive who pays a ransom for himself, and fasting is like a man who faces an enemy wearing a strong shield.”
وَقَالَ: «إِذَا قَامَ الْعَبْدُ يَعْنِي إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَإِنَّهُ فِي مَقَامٍ عَظِيمٍ، وَاقِفٌ عَلَى اللَّهِ يُنَاجِيهِ، وَيَتَرَضَّاهُ،
waqāla: «ʾidhā qāma al-ʿabdu yaʿnī ʾilā al-ṣalāti faʾinnahu fī maqāmin ʿaẓīmin, wāqifun ʿalā Allāhi yunājīhi, wayataraḍḍāhu,
And he said: “When a servant stands—that is, for prayer—he occupies a momentous station, standing before God, speaking privately to Him and seeking His pleasure.
قَائِمٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ الرَّحْمَنِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى يَسْمَعُ لِقِيلِهِ، وَيَرَى عَمَلَهُ، وَيَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِ نَفْسُهُ،
qāʾimun bayna yadayi al-raḥmāni subḥānahu wataʿālā yasmaʿu liqīlihi, wayarā ʿamalahu, wayaʿlamu mā tuwaswisu bihi nafsuhu,
He stands before the All-Merciful, Glorified and Most High, who hears his words, sees his deeds, and knows the thoughts whispered by his soul.
فَلْيُقْبِلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ بِقَلْبِهِ، وَجَسَدِهِ، ثُمَّ لِيَرْمِ بِبَصَرِهِ قَصْدَ وَجْهِهِ خَاشِعًا، أَوْ لِيَخْفِضْهُ فَهُوَ أَقَلُّ لِسَهْوِهِ،
falyuqbil ʿalā Allāhi subḥānahu biqalbihi, wajasadihi, thumma liyarmi bibaṣarihi qaṣda wajhihi khāshiʿan, ʾaw liyakhfiḍhu fahuwa ʾaqallu lisahwihi,
Let him turn toward God, Glorified is He, with heart and body. Let him direct his gaze straight ahead in humility, or lower it, for that makes distraction less likely.
وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ، وَلَا يُحَرِّكْ شَيْئًا بِيَدِهِ، وَلَا بِرِجْلِهِ، وَلَا شَيْئًا مِنْ جَوَارِحِهِ، حَتَّى يَفْرُغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ، وَلْيَبْشِرْ مَنْ فَعَلَ هَذَا، وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
walā yaltafit, walā yuḥarrik shayʾan biyadihi, walā birijlihi, walā shayʾan min jawāriḥihi, ḥattā yafrugha min ṣalātihi, walyabshir man faʿala hādhā, walā quwwata ʾillā bi-llāhi ʿazza wajalla»
Let him neither turn aside nor move his hand, foot, or any other limb until he finishes praying. Let whoever does this rejoice; there is no strength except through God Almighty and Majestic.”
١٠٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ:
1077 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū jaʿfarin, ʿan laythin, ʿan mujāhidin, fī qawli Allāhi:
1077 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us. He said; he said: Abū Jaʿfar informed us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, concerning God’s words:
{وَقُومُوا لِلَّهِ قَانِتِينَ} [الْبَقَرَةِ: ٢٣٨] ، قَالَ:
{waqūmū li-llāhi qānitīna} [al-baqarati: 238], qāla:
“Stand before God in devotion” [Q 2:238]. He said:
“ مِنَ الْقُنُوتِ: الرُّكُوعُ، وَالْخُشُوعُ، وَغَضُّ الْبَصَرِ، وَخَفْضُ الْجَنَاحِ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى ”
“ mina al-qunūti: al-rukūʿu, wa-l-khushūʿu, waghaḍḍu al-baṣari, wakhafḍu al-janāḥi min raḥmati Allāhi subḥānahu wataʿālā ”
“Part of devotion is bowing, humble attentiveness, lowering the gaze, and lowering one’s wing in humility through the mercy of God, Glorified and Most High.”
قَالَ: «فَكَانَتِ الْعُلَمَاءُ إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُهُمْ هَابَ الرَّحْمَنَ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى أَنْ يَشُدَّ نَظَرَهُ إِلَى شَيْءٍ، أَوْ يَلْتَفِتَ، أَوْ يُقَلِّبَ الْحَصَى، أَوْ يَعْبَثَ بِشَيْءٍ، أَوْ يُحَدِّثَ نَفْسَهُ بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا نَاسِيًا مَا دَامَ فِي صَلَاتِهِ»
qāla: «fakānati al-ʿulamāʾu ʾidhā qāma ʾaḥaduhum hāba al-raḥmāna subḥānahu wataʿālā ʾan yashudda naẓarahu ʾilā shayʾin, ʾaw yaltafita, ʾaw yuqalliba al-ḥaṣā, ʾaw yaʿbatha bishayʾin, ʾaw yuḥadditha nafsahu bishayʾin mina al-dunyā ʾillā nāsiyan mā dāma fī ṣalātihi»
He said: “When one of the scholars stood in prayer, awe of the All-Merciful, Glorified and Most High, kept him from fixing his gaze on anything, turning aside, moving pebbles, fidgeting, or speaking inwardly of worldly matters, except through forgetfulness, for as long as he prayed.”
١٠٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنِ الْأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1078 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū muʿāwiyata qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū ḥanīfata, ʿan ḥammādin, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿani al-ʾaswadi, ʿan ʿāʾishata, qālat: qāla lī rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1078 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū Muʿāwiya related to us; Abū Ḥanīfa related to us, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾisha. She said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said to me:
«إِنَّهُ لَيُهَوِّنُ عَلَيَّ الْمَوْتَ أَنْ أُرِيتُكِ زَوْجَتِي فِي الْجَنَّةِ»
«ʾinnahu layuhawwinu ʿalayya al-mawta ʾan ʾurītuki zawjatī fī al-jannati»
“It eases the prospect of death for me that I was shown you as my wife in the Garden.”
١٠٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ:
1079 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muʿāwiyata qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan muslimin, ʿan masrūqin qāla:
1079 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū Muʿāwiya informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from Muslim, from Masrūq, who said:
كَانَ إِذَا حَدَّثَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا، قَالَ: «حَدَّثَتْنِي الْمُبَرَّأَةُ الْمُصَدَّقَةُ بِنْتُ الصِّدِّيقِ، حَبِيبَةُ حَبِيبِ اللَّهِ» ،
kāna ʾidhā ḥaddatha ʿan ʿāʾishata raḥmatu Allāhi ʿalayhā, qāla: «ḥaddathatnī al-mubarraʾatu al-muṣaddaqatu bintu al-ṣiddīqi, ḥabībatu ḥabībi Allāhi»,
When he narrated from ʿĀʾisha, may God have mercy on her, he would say: “The woman declared innocent and affirmed as truthful, daughter of the Truthful One, beloved of the Beloved of God, related to me.”
قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: فَكَانَتْ تُحْسِنُ الْفَرَائِضَ؟
qāla: faqultu lahu: fakānat tuḥsinu al-farāʾiḍa?
He said: I asked him, “Did she have a sound grasp of the prescribed shares of inheritance?”
قَالَ: «لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ أَكَابِرَ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْأَلُونَهَا عَنِ الْفَرَائِضِ»
qāla: «laqad raʾaytu ʾakābira ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yasʾalūnahā ʿani al-farāʾiḍi»
He answered: “I saw senior Companions of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, ask her about the laws of inheritance.”
١٠٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ:
1080 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun min ʾahli al-madīnati, ʾanna ʿumara bna ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi qāla:
1080 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; a man from Medina informed us that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said:
«كَانَ الْعُلَمَاءُ يَهَابُ أَحَدُهُمُ الرَّحْمَنَ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى، وَيَخْشَعُ أَنْ يَشُدَّ النَّظَرَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مَا دَامَ يُصَلِّي»
«kāna al-ʿulamāʾu yahābu ʾaḥaduhumu al-raḥmāna subḥānahu wataʿālā, wayakhshaʿu ʾan yashudda al-naẓara bayna yadayhi mā dāma yuṣallī»
“The scholars were filled with awe of the All-Merciful, Glorified and Most High; each was too humbled to fix his gaze before him for as long as he prayed.”
١٠٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَاصِمٌ، ذَكَرَهُ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ مُسْلِمُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ:
1081 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿāṣimun, dhakarahu, ʿan ʾabī qilābata qāla: qāla muslimu bnu yasārin:
1081 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; ʿĀṣim informed us, mentioning it from Abū Qilāba, who said: Muslim ibn Yasār said:
«إِنَّكَ إِذَا كُنْتَ قَائِمًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ أَمِيرٍ أَحْبَبْتَ أَنْ يَرَاكَ مُتَخَشِّعًا لِيُنْجِحَ لَكَ حَاجَتَكَ»
«ʾinnaka ʾidhā kunta qāʾiman bayna yaday ʾamīrin ʾaḥbabta ʾan yarāka mutakhashshiʿan liyunjiḥa laka ḥājataka»
“When you stand before a ruler, you want him to see you in a humble posture so that he will grant your request.”
قِيلَ: فَأَيْنَ مُنْتَهَى النَّظَرِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ؟ قَالَ: «مَوْضِعُ السُّجُودِ حَسَنٌ»
qīla: faʾayna muntahā al-naẓari fī al-ṣalāti? qāla: «mawḍiʿu al-sujūdi ḥasanun»
He was asked: “Where should the gaze rest during prayer?” He answered: “The place of prostration is good.”
١٠٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي مَيْمُونُ بْنُ جَابَانَ قَالَ:
1082 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ḥaddathanī maymūnu bnu jābāna qāla:
1082 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; al-Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us; Maymūn ibn Jābān related to me. He said:
«مَا رَأَيْتُ مُسْلِمَ بْنَ يَسَارٍ، مُلْتَفِتًا فِي صَلَاةٍ قَطُّ خَفِيفَةٍ، وَلَا طَوِيلَةٍ» ،
«mā raʾaytu muslima bna yasārin, multafitan fī ṣalātin qaṭṭu khafīfatin, walā ṭawīlatin»,
“I never saw Muslim ibn Yasār turn aside during a prayer, whether it was short or long.”
قَالَ: «وَلَقَدِ اِنْهَدَمَتْ نَاحِيَةٌ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ فَفَزِعَ أَهْلُ السُّوقِ لِهَدَّتِهَا، وَأَنَّهُ لَفِي الْمَسْجِدِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَمَا الْتَفَتَ»
qāla: «walaqadi inhadamat nāḥiyatun mina al-masjidi fafaziʿa ʾahlu al-sūqi lihaddatihā, waʾannahu lafī al-masjidi fī al-ṣalāti famā iltafata»
He said: “Part of the mosque collapsed, startling the people in the market with its crash. He was praying in the mosque at the time, yet did not turn aside.”
١٠٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ قَالَ: ذُكِرَ لِمُسْلِمِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قِلَّةُ الْتِفَاتِهِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ،
1083 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna qāla: dhukira limuslimi bni yasārin qillatu iltifātihi fī al-ṣalāti,
1083 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us. He said: They mentioned to Muslim ibn Yasār how rarely he turned aside during prayer.
قَالَ: «وَمَا يُدْرِيكُمْ أَيْنَ قَلْبِي؟»
qāla: «wamā yudrīkum ʾayna qalbī?»
He replied: “How do you know where my heart is?”
١٠٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ الْخَفَّافُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَرْقَاءِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1084 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-wahhābi bnu ʿaṭāʾin al-khaffāfu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-warqāʾi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī ʾawfā qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1084 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ al-Khaffāf informed us; Abū al-Warqāʾ related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“ مَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ حَاجَةٌ إِلَى اللَّهِ، أَوْ إِلَى أَحَدٍ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ فَلْيَتَوَضَّأْ، وَلْيُحْسِنِ وُضُوءَهُ، وَلْيُصَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ،
“ man kānat lahu ḥājatun ʾilā Allāhi, ʾaw ʾilā ʾaḥadin min banī ʾādama falyatawaḍḍaʾ, walyuḥsini wuḍūʾahu, walyuṣalli rakʿatayni,
“Whoever has a need to ask of God or of another human being should perform ablution thoroughly and pray two cycles.
وَلْيُثْنِ عَلَى اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى وَجَلَّ وَعَلَا، وَلْيُصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
walyuthni ʿalā Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā wajalla waʿalā, walyuṣalli ʿalā muḥammadin al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
Let him praise God, Blessed and Most High, Majestic and Exalted, and invoke blessings upon Muḥammad the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace.
ثُمَّ لِيَقُلْ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْحَلِيمُ الْكَرِيمُ، سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ،
thumma liyaqul: lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu al-ḥalīmu al-karīmu, subḥāna Allāhi rabbi al-ʿarshi al-ʿaẓīmi, wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīna,
Then let him say: There is no god but God, the Forbearing, the Generous. Glory be to God, Lord of the mighty Throne, and praise belongs to God, Lord of all worlds.
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مُوجِبَاتِ رَحْمَتِكَ، وَعَزَائِمَ مَغْفِرَتِكَ، وَالْغَنِيمَةَ مِنْ كُلِّ بِرٍّ، وَالسَّلَامَةَ مِنْ كُلِّ ذَنْبٍ،
Allāhumma ʾinnī ʾasʾaluka mūjibāti raḥmatika, waʿazāʾima maghfiratika, wa-l-ghanīmata min kulli birrin, wa-l-salāmata min kulli dhanbin,
O God, I ask You for what brings about Your mercy, for the firm grounds of Your forgiveness, for a share in every good deed, and for safety from every sin.
اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَدَعْ لَنَا ذَنْبًا إِلَّا غَفَرْتَهُ، وَلَا هَمًّا إِلَّا فَرَّجْتَهُ، وَلَا حَاجَةً هِيَ لَكَ رِضًى إِلَّا قَضَيْتَهَا يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ ”
Allāhumma lā tadaʿ lanā dhanban ʾillā ghafartahu, walā hamman ʾillā farrajtahu, walā ḥājatan hiya laka riḍan ʾillā qaḍaytahā yā ʾarḥama al-rāḥimīna ”
O God, leave no sin of ours unforgiven, no worry unrelieved, and no need that pleases You unfulfilled, O Most Merciful of those who show mercy.”
١٠٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْخَفَّافُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَرْقَاءِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا أَصْبَحَ قَالَ:
1085 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-khaffāfu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū al-warqāʾi, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʾabī ʾawfā qāla: kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾidhā ʾaṣbaḥa qāla:
1085 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Khaffāf informed us; Abū al-Warqāʾ related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, who said: When morning came, the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, would say:
«أَصْبَحْنَا وَأَصْبَحَ الْمُلْكُ، وَالْكِبْرِيَاءُ، وَالْعَظَمَةُ، وَالْخَلْقُ، وَاللَّيْلُ، وَالنَّهَارُ، وَمَا سَكَنَ فِيهَا لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ،
«ʾaṣbaḥnā waʾaṣbaḥa al-mulku, wa-l-kibriyāʾu, wa-l-ʿaẓamatu, wa-l-khalqu, wa-l-laylu, wa-l-nahāru, wamā sakana fīhā li-llāhi waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu,
“We have entered the morning. Sovereignty, grandeur, majesty, creation, night and day, and all that dwells within them belong to God alone, who has no partner.
اللَّهُمَّ اِجْعَلْ أَوَّلَ هَذَا النَّهَارِ صَلَاحًا، وَأَوْسَطَهُ فَلَاحًا، وَآخِرَهُ نَجَاحًا، وَأَسْأَلُكَ خَيْرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ»
Allāhumma ijʿal ʾawwala hādhā al-nahāri ṣalāḥan, waʾawsaṭahu falāḥan, waʾākhirahu najāḥan, waʾasʾaluka khayra al-dunyā wa-l-ʾākhirati yā ʾarḥama al-rāḥimīna»
O God, make the beginning of this day sound, its middle fruitful, and its end successful. I ask You for the good of this world and the hereafter, O Most Merciful of those who show mercy.”
١٠٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، وَالْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لِلْهَيْثَمِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، أُرَاهُ مَرْفُوعًا قَالَ:
1086 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, wa-l-haythamu bnu jamīlin wa-l-lafẓu lilhaythami qāla: ʾakhbaranā ṣāliḥun al-murriyyu, ʿan yazīda al-raqāshiyyi, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin, ʾurāhu marfūʿan qāla:
1086 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak and al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us, with the wording here belonging to al-Haytham. Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī informed us, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas ibn Mālik. “I think he traced it to the Prophet,” he said:
“ يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَدْعُو الرَّجُلُ لِلْعَامَّةِ، فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ: اُدْعُ لِخَاصَّتِكَ أَسْتَجِبْ، وَأَمَّا الْعَامَّةُ فَلَا، فَإِنِّي عَلَيْهِمْ غَضْبَانُ ”
“ yaʾtī ʿalā al-nāsi zamānun yadʿū al-rajulu lilʿāmmati, fayaqūlu Allāhu: udʿu likhāṣṣatika ʾastajib, waʾammā al-ʿāmmatu falā, faʾinnī ʿalayhim ghaḍbānu ”
“A time will come when a man prays for the people at large, and God will say: Pray for those close to you, and I shall answer; as for the people at large, I will not, for I am angry with them.”
١٠٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ:
1087 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna, ʿan salmāna qāla:
1087 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān related to us, from his father, from Abū ʿUthmān, from Salmān, who said:
«لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى مِائَةُ رَحْمَةٍ، رَحْمَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ يَرْحَمُ بِهَا خَلْقَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَتِسْعَةٌ وَتِسْعِينَ لِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ»
«li-llāhi taʿālā miʾatu raḥmatin, raḥmatun wāḥidatun yarḥamu bihā khalqahu fī al-dunyā, watisʿatun watisʿīna liyawmi al-qiyāmati»
“God Most High has one hundred mercies: one mercy by which He shows mercy to His creation in this world, and ninety-nine for the Day of Resurrection.”
١٠٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ، عَنْ أَسْمَاءِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ قَالَ:
1088 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā sharīkun, ʿan ʿuthmāna bni ʾabī zurʿata, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni rabīʿata, ʿan ʾasmāʾi bni al-ḥakami, ʿan ʿaliyyi bni ʾabī ṭālibin qāla:
1088 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl related to us; Sharīk related to us, from ʿUthmān ibn Abī Zurʿa, from ʿAlī ibn Rabīʿa, from Asmāʾ ibn al-Ḥakam, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who said:
مَا حَدَّثَنِي أَحَدٌ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَّا اِسْتَحْلَفْتُهُ، غَيْرَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، إِنَّهُ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَصَدَقَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ:
mā ḥaddathanī ʾaḥadun ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾillā istaḥlaftuhu, ghayra ʾabī bakrin, ʾinnahu ḥaddathanī ʾabū bakrin, waṣadaqa ʾabū bakrin, ʾannahu samiʿa al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu:
Whenever anyone related something to me from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, I asked him to swear to it—with the exception of Abū Bakr. Abū Bakr related something to me, and Abū Bakr spoke truthfully: he had heard the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, say:
«مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يُذْنِبُ ذَنْبًا، فَيَتَوَضَّأُ، فَيُسْبِغُ الْوُضُوءَ، ثُمَّ يُصَلِّي رَكْعَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ يَسْتَغْفِرُ رَبَّهُ إِلَّا غَفَرَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ»
«mā min rajulin yudhnibu dhanban, fayatawaḍḍaʾu, fayusbighu al-wuḍūʾa, thumma yuṣallī rakʿatayni, thumma yastaghfiru rabbahu ʾillā ghafara Allāhu taʿālā lahu»
“No one commits a sin, then performs ablution thoroughly, prays two cycles, and asks his Lord for forgiveness without God Most High forgiving him.”
١٠٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ:
1089 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanī shuʿbatu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin qāla:
1089 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī informed us; Shuʿba related to me, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said:
«الْأَوَّابُ الْحَفِيظُ الَّذِي يَذْكُرُ الذَّنْبَ فَيَتُوبُ مِنْهُ»
«al-ʾawwābu al-ḥafīẓu alladhī yadhkuru al-dhanba fayatūbu minhu»
“The penitent one who keeps mindful is the person who remembers a sin and repents of it.”
١٠٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ:
1090 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿamri bni dīnārin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin qāla:
1090 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn ʿUyayna related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said:
“ الْأَوَّابُ الْحَفِيظُ: الَّذِي لَا يَقُومُ مِنْ مَجْلِسِهِ حَتَّى يَسْتَغْفِرَ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى ”
“ al-ʾawwābu al-ḥafīẓu: alladhī lā yaqūmu min majlisihi ḥattā yastaghfira Allāha subḥānahu wataʿālā ”
“The penitent one who keeps mindful is the person who does not rise from a gathering until he has asked God, Glorified and Most High, for forgiveness.”
١٠٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1091 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-faḍlu bnu mūsā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni qaysin ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1091 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murra, from Abū ʿUbayda, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays, Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى بَاسِطٌ يَدَهُ لِمُسِيءِ اللَّيْلِ لِيَتُوبَ بِالنَّهَارِ، وَلِمُسِيءِ النَّهَارِ لِيَتُوبَ بِاللَّيْلِ،
«ʾinna Allāha taʿālā bāsiṭun yadahu limusīʾi al-layli liyatūba bi-l-nahāri, walimusīʾi al-nahāri liyatūba bi-l-layli,
“God Most High extends His hand to the one who does wrong at night so that he may repent by day, and to the one who does wrong by day so that he may repent by night,
حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا»
ḥattā taṭluʿa al-shamsu min maghribihā»
until the sun rises from the west.”
١٠٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ:
1092 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā hushaymun, ʿan yūnusa, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi:
1092 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym informed us, from Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, concerning God’s words:
{أُولَئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ حَسَنَاتٍ} قَالَ:
{ʾulāʾika yubaddilu Allāhu sayyiʾātihim ḥasanātin} qāla:
“God will replace their evil deeds with good deeds.” He said:
«التَّبَدُّلُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، أَبْدَلَهُمْ بِالْعَمَلِ السَّيِّئِ الْعَمَلَ الصَّالِحَ، أَبْدَلَهُمْ بِالشِّرْكِ إِخْلَاصًا، وَبِالْفُجُورِ إِحْصَانًا وَسَلَامًا»
«al-tabaddulu fī al-dunyā, ʾabdalahum bi-l-ʿamali al-sayyiʾi al-ʿamala al-ṣāliḥa, ʾabdalahum bi-l-shirki ʾikhlāṣan, wabi-l-fujūri ʾiḥṣānan wasalāman»
“The change takes place in this world: He replaced bad action with righteous action, idolatry with sincere devotion, and wantonness with chastity and peace.”
١٠٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ جُوَيْبِرٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ قَالَ: وَأَبُو بِشْرٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
1093 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā hushaymun, ʿan juwaybirin, ʿani al-ḍaḥḥāki qāla: waʾabū bishrin, ʿan saʿīdin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
1093 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym related to us, from Juwaybir, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk; he said: and Abū Bishr, from Saʿīd, concerning God Most High’s words:
{إِنَّهُ كَانَ لِلْأَوَّابِينَ غَفُورًا} قَالَ: «هُمُ الرَّاجِعُونَ إِلَى التَّوْبَةِ»
{ʾinnahu kāna lilʾawwābīna ghafūran} qāla: «humu al-rājiʿūna ʾilā al-tawbati»
“He is ever forgiving toward those who turn back.” He said: “They are the ones who return to repentance.”
١٠٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ قَالَ:
1094 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā hushaymun, ʿan yaḥyā bni saʿīdin, ʿan saʿīdi bni al-musayyibi qāla:
1094 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said:
«هُوَ الرَّجُلُ يُذْنِبُ بِالذَّنْبِ، ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ، ثُمَّ يُذْنِبُ، ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ»
«huwa al-rajulu yudhnibu bi-l-dhanbi, thumma yatūbu, thumma yudhnibu, thumma yatūbu»
“He is the man who commits a sin, then repents, then sins again, and then repents.”
١٠٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
1095 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā hushaymun, ʿan yūnusa, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
1095 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym informed us, from Yūnus, from al-Ḥasan, concerning God Most High’s words:
{إِلَّا اللَّمَمَ} [النَّجْمِ: ٣٢] ، قَالَ: اللَّمَّةُ مِنَ الذَّنْبِ، ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ، فَلَا يَعُودُ
{ʾillā al-lamama} [al-najmi: 32], qāla: al-lammatu mina al-dhanbi, thumma yatūbu, falā yaʿūdu
“Except for passing lapses” [Q 53:32]. He said: It is a lapse into sin, after which the person repents and does not return to it.
١٠٩٦ - أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ الْعَالِمُ الزَّاهِدُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدُّلَفِيُّ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ قَالَ:
1096 - ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu al-jalīlu al-ʿālimu al-zāhidu ʾabū ʿaliyyin al-ḥusaynu bnu muḥammadi bni al-ḥusayni bni ʾibrāhīma al-dulafiyyu al-maqdisiyyu qāla:
1096 — The venerable learned ascetic shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dulafī al-Maqdisī informed us. He said:
قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، عَلَى الشَّيْخِ الثِّقَةِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ الْمُقَنَّعِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْإِثْنَيْنِ ثَالِثَ عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ وَأَنَا حَاضِرٌ أَسْمَعُ، وَأَقَرَّ بِهِ،
qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu, ʿalā al-shaykhi al-thiqati ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadi bni ʿaliyyi bni al-ḥasani al-jawhariyyi al-muqannaʿiyyi bibaghdāda bibābi al-marātibi ḥarasahā Allāhu yawma al-ithnayni thālitha ʿashara jumādā al-ʾākhirati min sanati ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿimiʾatin waʾanā ḥāḍirun ʾasmaʿu, waʾaqarra bihi,
Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī read to the trustworthy Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jawharī al-Muqannaʿī in Baghdad, at Bāb al-Marātib—may God protect it—on Monday, the thirteenth of Jumādā al-Ākhira, 454 AH. I was present and listening, and he confirmed the reading.
قَالَ لَهُ: أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَيَوَيْهِ الْخَزَّازُ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ فِي شَهْرِ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ اِثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَمَانِينَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ قَالَ:
qāla lahu: ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni muḥammadi bni zakariyyā bni ḥayawayhi al-khazzāzu, qirāʾatan ʿalayhi fī shahri rabīʿin al-ʾawwali sanata ithnatayni wathamānīna wathalāthimiʾatin waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu qāla:
He said to him: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥayawayh al-Khazzāz informed you when the text was read to him in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 382 AH, while you were present and listening. He said:
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ صَاعِدٍ قَرَأَهُ عَلَيْنَا مِنْ لَفْظِهِ عِنْدَ مَنْزِلِهِ فِي شَهْرِ ذِي الْقِعْدَةِ مِنْ سَنَةِ تِسْعٍ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ قَالَ:
ḥaddathanā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu ṣāʿidin qaraʾahu ʿalaynā min lafẓihi ʿinda manzilihi fī shahri dhī al-qiʿdati min sanati tisʿin wathalāthimiʾatin qāla:
Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid related to us, reading the text aloud himself at his home in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 309 AH. He said:
حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ زِرًّا يَقُولُ:
ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿāṣimin qāla: samiʿtu zirran yaqūlu:
Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna related to us, from ʿĀṣim, who said: I heard Zirr say:
أَتَيْتُ صَفْوَانَ بْنَ عَسَّالٍ الْمُرَادِيَّ، فَقَالَ: مَا جَاءَ بِكَ؟ قُلْتُ: اِبْتِغَاءُ الْعِلْمِ، قَالَ: إِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ تَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ رِضًى بِمَا يَطْلُبُ،
ʾataytu ṣafwāna bna ʿassālin al-murādiyya, faqāla: mā jāʾa bika? qultu: ibtighāʾu al-ʿilmi, qāla: ʾinna al-malāʾikata taḍaʿu ʾajniḥatahā liṭālibi al-ʿilmi riḍan bimā yaṭlubu,
I went to Ṣafwān ibn ʿAssāl al-Murādī. He asked, “What brought you here?” I replied, “The pursuit of knowledge.” He said, “The angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, pleased with what he seeks.”
قُلْتُ: حَكَّ فِي نَفْسِي الْمَسْحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ بَعْدَ الْغَائِطِ وَالْبَوْلِ، وَأَنْتَ اِمْرُؤٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَهَلْ سَمِعْتَهُ يَذْكُرُ فِي ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا؟
qultu: ḥakka fī nafsī al-masḥu ʿalā al-khuffayni baʿda al-ghāʾiṭi wa-l-bawli, waʾanta imruʾun min ʾaṣḥābi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, fahal samiʿtahu yadhkuru fī dhālika shayʾan?
I said, “The question of wiping over leather socks after defecation or urination troubles me. You are one of the Companions of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace. Did you hear him say anything about this?”
قَالَ: نَعَمْ، كَانَ يَأْمُرُنَا إِذَا كُنَّا سَفَرًا، أَوْ مُسَافِرِينَ أَلَّا نَنْزِعَ خِفَافَنَا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِلَّا مِنْ جَنَابَةٍ، وَلَكِنْ مِنْ غَائِطٍ أَوْ بَوْلٍ،
qāla: naʿam, kāna yaʾmurunā ʾidhā kunnā safaran, ʾaw musāfirīna ʾallā nanziʿa khifāfanā thalāthata ʾayyāmin ʾillā min janābatin, walākin min ghāʾiṭin ʾaw bawlin,
He said, “Yes. When we were on a journey—or travelers—he instructed us not to remove our leather socks for three days, except in a state of major ritual impurity; ordinary defecation or urination did not require us to remove them.”
قُلْتُ: فَهَلْ سَمِعْتَهُ يَذْكُرُ فِي الْهَوَى شَيْئًا؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، بَيْنَا نَحْنُ نَسِيرُ مَعَهُ إِذَا نَادَاهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ بِصَوْتٍ لَهُ جَهُورِيٍّ، يَا مُحَمَّدُ، فَأَجَابَهُ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ صَوْتِهِ: «هَاؤُمُ» ،
qultu: fahal samiʿtahu yadhkuru fī al-hawā shayʾan? qāla: naʿam, baynā naḥnu nasīru maʿahu ʾidhā nādāhu ʾaʿrābiyyun biṣawtin lahu jahūriyyin, yā muḥammadu, faʾajābahu binaḥwin min ṣawtihi: «hāʾumu»,
I asked, “Did you hear him say anything about love?” He replied, “Yes. While we were traveling with him, a Bedouin called out loudly, ‘Muḥammad!’ He answered in a voice much like the man’s: ‘Here!’”
فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَرَأَيْتَ رَجُلًا أَحَبَّ قَوْمًا وَلَمَّا يَلْحَقْ بِهِمْ؟ قَالَ: «الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ» ،
faqāla lahu: ʾaraʾayta rajulan ʾaḥabba qawman walammā yalḥaq bihim? qāla: «al-marʾu maʿa man ʾaḥabba yawma al-qiyāmati»,
The man asked, “What of someone who loves a people but has not yet joined them?” He replied, “On the Day of Resurrection a person will be with those he loves.”
فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يُحَدِّثُنَا حَتَّى قَالَ: “ إِنَّ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَغْرِبِ بَابًا فَتَحَهُ اللَّهُ لِلتَّوْبَةِ يَوْمَ خَلَقَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ، عَرْضُهُ مَسِيرَةُ أَرْبَعِينَ عَامًا - أَوْ قَالَ: سَبْعِينَ عَامًا -
falam yazal yuḥaddithunā ḥattā qāla: “ ʾinna min qibali al-maghribi bāban fataḥahu Allāhu lil-tawbati yawma khalaqa al-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi, ʿarḍuhu masīratu ʾarbaʿīna ʿāman - ʾaw qāla: sabʿīna ʿāman -
He continued speaking to us until he said: “Toward the west there is a gate God opened for repentance on the day He created the heavens and the earth. Its width is a journey of forty years—or he said seventy years—
لَا يُغْلِقُهُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَغْرِبِهَا ”
lā yughliquhu ḥattā taṭluʿa al-shamsu min maghribihā ”
and He will not close it until the sun rises from the west.”
١٠٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: وَأَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْكِلَابِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ:
1097 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: waʾakhbaranī ʿamru bnu ʿuthmāna al-kilābiyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā zuhayrun, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni yazīda qāla: qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin:
1097 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us. He said: ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Kilābī also informed me; Zuhayr informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:
«لَا يَضُرُّ رَجُلًا لَا يَشَاءُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ إِلَّا الْقُرْآنَ، فَإِنْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ الْقُرْآنَ فَهُوَ يُحِبُّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ»
«lā yaḍurru rajulan lā yashāʾu ʿan nafsihi ʾillā al-qurʾāna, faʾin kāna yuḥibbu al-qurʾāna fahuwa yuḥibbu Allāha warasūlahu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama»
“It will not harm a man to seek to know about himself through the Qurʾān alone. [The source wording of the opening clause is obscure; this rendering is tentative.] If he loves the Qurʾān, he loves God and His Messenger, God bless him and grant him peace.”
١٠٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ مُغِيرَةَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ،
1098 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā hushaymun, ʿan mughīrata, ʿan ʾibrāhīma,
1098 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym informed us, from Mughīra, from Ibrāhīm,
أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَلْبَسُ الثَّوْبَ الْمَصْبُوغَ بِالزَّعْفَرَانِ أَوْ بِالْعُصْفُرِ، فَكَانَ مَنْ يَرَاهُ لَا يَدْرِي أَمِنَ الْقُرَّاءِ هُوَ أَوْ مِنَ النَّاسِ؟
ʾannahu kāna yalbasu al-thawba al-maṣbūgha bi-l-zaʿfarāni ʾaw bi-l-ʿuṣfuri, fakāna man yarāhu lā yadrī ʾamina al-qurrāʾi huwa ʾaw mina al-nāsi?
who wore a garment dyed with saffron or safflower. Someone seeing him could not tell whether he was among the Qurʾān reciters or among ordinary people.
١٠٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ قَالَ:
1099 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi qāla:
1099 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from al-Aʿmash, who said:
جَهِدْنَا بِإِبْرَاهِيمَ أَنْ نُسْنِدَهُ إِلَى سَارِيَةٍ، فَأَبَى
jahidnā biʾibrāhīma ʾan nusnidahu ʾilā sāriyatin, faʾabā
“We tried hard to get Ibrāhīm to lean against a pillar, but he refused.”
١١٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ:
1100 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿīsā bnu yūnusa qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu qāla:
1100 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us. He said:
كُنْتُ عِنْدَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي بَيْتِهِ، وَهُوَ يَقْرَأُ فِي مُصْحَفٍ، فَاسْتَأْذَنَ رَجُلٌ، فَخَبَّأَ الْمُصْحَفَ، فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ، قُلْتُ لَهُ، قَالَ:
kuntu ʿinda ʾibrāhīma fī baytihi, wahuwa yaqraʾu fī muṣḥafin, fastaʾdhana rajulun, fakhabbaʾa al-muṣḥafa, falammā kharaja, qultu lahu, qāla:
I was with Ibrāhīm in his house while he read from a codex. A man asked permission to enter, so Ibrāhīm hid the codex. After the man left, I spoke to him [about it]. He said:
«كَرِهْتُ أَنْ يَرَى هَذَا أَنَّا إِنَّمَا نَخْلُو لِلنَّظَرِ فِي الْمُصْحَفِ» ،
«karihtu ʾan yarā hādhā ʾannā ʾinnamā nakhlū lilnaẓari fī al-muṣḥafi»,
“I did not want this man to see that we withdraw in private just to look into the codex.”
١١٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مِثْلَهُ
1101 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun, ʿani al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾibrāhīma mithlahu
1101 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm: A similar account. The source refers to report 1100 without repeating its wording.
١١٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1102 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿubaydin qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿamri bni murrata, ʿan mujāhidin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1102 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd related to us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAmr ibn Murra, from Mujāhid, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«إِنَّ لِكُلِّ عَمَلٍ شِرَّةً، وَلِكُلِّ شِرَّةٍ فَتْرَةً، فَمَنْ كَانَ فَتْرَتُهُ إِلَى سُنَّةٍ فَقَدِ اِهْتَدَى، وَمَنْ كَانَتْ فَتْرَتُهُ إِلَى غَيْرِ سُنَّةٍ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ،
«ʾinna likulli ʿamalin shirratan, walikulli shirratin fatratan, faman kāna fatratuhu ʾilā sunnatin faqadi ihtadā, waman kānat fatratuhu ʾilā ghayri sunnatin faqad ḍalla,
“Every undertaking has a burst of zeal, and every burst of zeal a lull. Whoever’s lull leads toward the Sunna has found guidance; whoever’s lull leads away from the Sunna has gone astray.
إِنِّي أَصُومُ، وَأُفْطِرُ، وَأُصَلِّي، وَأَنَامُ، فَمَنِ اِتَّبَعَ سُنَّتِي فَهُوَ مِنِّي، وَمَنْ رَغِبَ عَنْ سُنَّتِي فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي»
ʾinnī ʾaṣūmu, waʾufṭiru, waʾuṣallī, waʾanāmu, famani ittabaʿa sunnatī fahuwa minnī, waman raghiba ʿan sunnatī falaysa minnī»
I fast and break my fast; I pray and sleep. Whoever follows my practice is of me, and whoever turns away from my practice is not of me.”
١١٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى يَعْنِي السِّينَانِيَّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَزْمُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ:
1103 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-faḍlu bnu mūsā yaʿnī al-sīnāniyya qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥazmu bnu mihrāna qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu:
1103 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā—that is, al-Sīnānī—informed us; Ḥazm ibn Mihrān related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say:
لَا يَزَالُ الْعَبْدُ بِخَيْرٍ مَا كَانَ لَهُ وَاعِظٌ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ
lā yazālu al-ʿabdu bikhayrin mā kāna lahu wāʿiẓun min nafsihi
“A servant remains in good condition so long as he has an admonisher within himself.”
١١٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ،
1104 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā hushaymun qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan ʿāmirin,
1104 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid informed us, from ʿĀmir,
أَنَّ مِعْضَدًا وَأَصْحَابًا لَهُ خَرَجُوا مِنَ الْكُوفَةِ، وَنَزَلُوا قَرِيبًا يَتَعَبَّدُونَ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ، فَأَتَاهُمْ، فَفَرِحُوا بِمَجِيئِهِ إِلَيْهِمْ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى مَا صَنَعْتُمْ؟
ʾanna miʿḍadan waʾaṣḥāban lahu kharajū mina al-kūfati, wanazalū qarīban yataʿabbadūna, fabalagha dhālika ʿabda Allāhi bna masʿūdin, faʾatāhum, fafariḥū bimajīʾihi ʾilayhim, faqāla lahum: mā ḥamalakum ʿalā mā ṣanaʿtum?
that Miʿḍad and some companions left Kufa and settled nearby to devote themselves to worship. When ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd heard, he visited them. They were pleased to see him. He asked, “What led you to do this?”
قَالُوا: أَحْبَبْنَا أَنْ نَخْرُجَ مِنْ غِمَارِ النَّاسِ نَتَعَبَّدُ،
qālū: ʾaḥbabnā ʾan nakhruja min ghimāri al-nāsi nataʿabbadu,
They answered, “We wanted to withdraw from the crowds to worship.”
فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: لَوْ أَنَّ النَّاسَ فَعَلُوا مِثْلَ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ، فَمَنْ كَانَ يُقَاتِلُ الْعَدُوَّ؟ وَمَا أَنَا بِبَارِحٍ حَتَّى تَرْجِعُوا
faqāla ʿabdu Allāhi: law ʾanna al-nāsa faʿalū mithla mā faʿaltum, faman kāna yuqātilu al-ʿaduwwa? wamā ʾanā bibāriḥin ḥattā tarjiʿū
ʿAbd Allāh replied, “If everyone did as you have done, who would fight the enemy? I will not leave until you return.”
١١٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الثَّقَفِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي فَاخِتَةَ، مَوْلَى جَعْدَةَ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ،
1105 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-thaqafiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾisḥāqu bnu suwaydin, ʿan ʾabī fākhitata, mawlā jaʿdata bni hubayrata,
1105 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Thaqafī informed us; Isḥāq ibn Suwayd related to us, from Abū Fākhita, a client of Jaʿda ibn Hubayra,
أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ مَظْعُونٍ، أَرَادَ أَنْ يُجَرِّبَ أَيَسْتَطِيعُ السِّيَاحَةَ أَمْ لَا؟ قَالَ: وَيَعُدُّونَ السِّيَاحَةَ قِيَامَ اللَّيْلِ، وَصِيَامَ النَّهَارِ،
ʾanna ʿuthmāna bna maẓʿūnin, ʾarāda ʾan yujarriba ʾayastaṭīʿu al-siyāḥata ʾam lā? qāla: wayaʿuddūna al-siyāḥata qiyāma al-layli, waṣiyāma al-nahāri,
that ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn wanted to test whether he could sustain an ascetic life. They counted keeping vigil at night and fasting by day as that practice.
قَالَ: فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى ذَهَلَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ عَنِ الْخِضَابِ، وَالطِّيبِ، وَالْكُحْلِ،
qāla: fafaʿala dhālika ḥattā dhahalati al-marʾatu ʿani al-khiḍābi, wa-l-ṭībi, wa-l-kuḥli,
He did so until his wife neglected her dye, perfume, and kohl.
وَدَخَلَتْ عَلَى بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَتْ: مَا لَكِ كَأَنَّكِ مَغِيبَةٌ؟
wadakhalat ʿalā baʿḍi ʾazwāji al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqālat: mā laki kaʾannaki maghībatun?
She visited one of the Prophet’s wives, God bless him and grant him peace. The wife asked, “What is the matter? You look as though your husband were away.”
قَالَتْ: إِنِّي مُشْهِدَةٌ كَالْمَغِيبَةِ، فَعَرَفَتْ مَا تَحْتَ ذَلِكَ،
qālat: ʾinnī mushhidatun ka-l-maghībati, faʿarafat mā taḥta dhālika,
She answered, “He is here, but I am as though he were away.” The Prophet’s wife understood what lay behind her words.
فَلَمَّا جَاءَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَخْبَرَتْهُ بِذَلِكَ، قَالَ: فَعَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَا تَحْتَ ذَلِكَ، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ مَظْعُونٍ،
falammā jāʾa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾakhbarathu bidhālika, qāla: faʿarafa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama mā taḥta dhālika, faʾarsala ʾilā ʿuthmāna bni maẓʿūnin,
When the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, arrived, she told him. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, understood what she meant and sent for ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn.
فَقَالَ: «أَلَسْتَ تُؤْمِنُ بِمَا نُؤْمِنُ بِهِ؟» قَالَ: بَلَى يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ، بِأَبِي وَأُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ،
faqāla: «ʾalasta tuʾminu bimā nuʾminu bihi?» qāla: balā yā nabiyya Allāhi, biʾabī waʾummī yā rasūla Allāhi,
He asked, “Do you not believe as we believe?” ʿUthmān replied, “Yes indeed, Prophet of God; may my father and mother be your ransom, Messenger of God.”
قَالَ: «فَإِنْ كُنْتَ تُؤْمِنُ بِمَا نُؤْمِنُ بِهَ فَأُسْوَةٌ مَا لَكَ بِنَا»
qāla: «faʾin kunta tuʾminu bimā nuʾminu biha faʾuswatun mā laka binā»
He said: “If you believe as we believe, why not take us as your example?”
١١٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ الضَّرِيرُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَنْعُمٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
1106 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muʿāwiyata al-ḍarīru qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu ziyādi bni ʾanʿumin, ʿan saʿdi bni masʿūdin qāla:
1106 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū Muʿāwiya al-Ḍarīr informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿum related to us, from Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, who said:
قَالَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مَظْعُونٍ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، لَوْ أَذِنْتَ لَنَا فِي الِاخْتِصَاءِ فَاخْتَصَيْنَا،
qāla ʿuthmānu bnu maẓʿūnin: yā rasūla Allāhi, law ʾadhinta lanā fī al-ikhtiṣāʾi fa-khtaṣaynā,
ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn said, “Messenger of God, if you permitted us to be castrated, we would do so.”
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «خِصَاءُ أُمَّتِي الصِّيَامُ»
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «khiṣāʾu ʾummatī al-ṣiyāmu»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Fasting is the castration of my community.”
١١٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنٌ الْمُعَلِّمُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ،
1107 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥusaynun al-muʿallimu, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan rajulin, ʿan jābiri bni ʿabdi Allāhi,
1107 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī related to us; Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from an unnamed man, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh,
أَنَّ شَابًّا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْتَأْذِنُهُ فِي الِاخْتِصَاءِ - أَوْ قَالَ: اِئْذَنْ لِي فِي الِاخْتِصَاءِ - فَقَالَ:
ʾanna shābban ʾatā al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yastaʾdhinuhu fī al-ikhtiṣāʾi - ʾaw qāla: iʾdhan lī fī al-ikhtiṣāʾi - faqāla:
that a young man came to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, to ask permission to be castrated—or, as the narrator put it, said, “Permit me to be castrated.” The Prophet answered:
«صُمْ، وَسَلِ اللَّهَ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ»
«ṣum, wasali Allāha min faḍlihi»
“Fast, and ask God for His bounty.”
١١٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ سُوَيْدٍ، عَنْ صِلَةَ بْنِ أَشْيَمَ، قَالَ:
1108 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾibrāhīma qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾisḥāqu bnu suwaydin, ʿan ṣilata bni ʾashyama, qāla:
1108 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; Isḥāq ibn Suwayd related to us, from Ṣila ibn Ashyam, who said:
كَانَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجُلٌ يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ «أَنْ أَرْبِعْ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ» ،
kāna ʿalā ʿahdi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama rajulun yaqūmu al-layla, faʾarsala ʾilayhi al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama «ʾan ʾarbiʿ ʿalā nafsika»,
In the time of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, a man kept vigil at night. The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, sent him word: “Take it easy on yourself.”
فَأَبَى أَنْ يَنْتَهِيَ، وَجَعَلَ يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ، فَأُوتِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: قَدْ أَبَى أَنْ يَنْتَهِيَ، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ «أَنْ أَرْبِعْ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ» ،
faʾabā ʾan yantahiya, wajaʿala yaqūmu al-layla, faʾūtiya rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqīla lahu: qad ʾabā ʾan yantahiya, faʾarsala ʾilayhi «ʾan ʾarbiʿ ʿalā nafsika»,
He refused to stop and continued his night vigil. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, was told that he would not stop, so he sent the same message again: “Take it easy on yourself.”
فَأَبَى أَنْ يَنْتَهِيَ، وَجَعَلَ يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «هَلْ عَسَيْتَ أَنْ تَنَامَ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ؟»
faʾabā ʾan yantahiya, wajaʿala yaqūmu al-layla kullahu, faʾarsala ʾilayhi al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «hal ʿasayta ʾan tanāma ʿani al-ṣalāti?»
He still refused and spent the whole night in vigil. The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, sent to ask him, “Might you then sleep through the prayer?”
فَسَأَلَ عَنْهُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ، فَقَالَ: «هَلْ أَصْبَحَ فِيكُمْ فُلَانٌ؟» قَالُوا: لَا،
fasaʾala ʿanhu dhāta yawmin, faqāla: «hal ʾaṣbaḥa fīkum fulānun?» qālū: lā,
One day he asked about the man: “Is so-and-so among you this morning?” They answered, “No.”
فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ فَوَجَدَهُ نَائِمًا، فَدَعَاهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، فَإِنِّي أَنْتَهِي
faʾarsala ʾilayhi fawajadahu nāʾiman, fadaʿāhu, faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, faʾinnī ʾantahī
He sent someone to the man, who was found asleep. When summoned, the man said, “Messenger of God, I will stop.”
١١٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ قَالَ:
1109 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna qāla: samiʿtu ʾismāʿīla bna ʾabī khālidin, yuḥaddithu, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin qāla:
1109 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān related to us. He said: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid relate, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, who said:
سَمِعْتُ الزُّبَيْرَ بْنَ الْعَوَّامِ يَقُولُ: «أَيُّكُمُ اِسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُ خَبِيئَةٌ مِنْ عَمَلٍ صَالِحٍ فَلْيَفْعَلْ»
samiʿtu al-zubayra bna al-ʿawwāmi yaqūlu: «ʾayyukumu istaṭāʿa ʾan yakūna lahu khabīʾatun min ʿamalin ṣāliḥin falyafʿal»
I heard al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām say, “Whoever among you can keep a righteous deed hidden for himself should do so.”
١١١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْدَةَ قَالَ:
1110 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan yaḥyā bni jaʿdata qāla:
1110 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿda, who said:
" كَانَ يُقَالُ: اِعْمَلْ وَأَنْتَ مُشْفِقٌ، وَدَعِ الْعَمَلَ وَأَنْتَ تُحِبُّهُ، عَمَلٌ صَالِحٌ دَائِمٌ وَإِنْ قَلَّ
"kāna yuqālu: iʿmal waʾanta mushfiqun, wadaʿi al-ʿamala waʾanta tuḥibbuhu, ʿamalun ṣāliḥun dāʾimun waʾin qalla
It used to be said: “Work while you remain mindful and cautious; leave off work while you still love it. A righteous deed done regularly is worthwhile, even if it is little.”
١١١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى قَالَ:
1111 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mihrāna qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿani al-ʿalāʾi bni al-musayyabi, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā qāla:
1111 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mihrān informed us; Sufyān related to us, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, who said:
سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ لَا خَوْفَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ، الَّذِينَ إِذَا رُؤُوا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ»
samiʿtuhu yaqūlu: «ʾinna ʿibāda Allāhi alladhīna lā khawfa ʿalayhim walā hum yaḥzanūna, alladhīna ʾidhā ruʾū dhukira Allāhu»
I heard him say, “God’s servants who have no fear and do not grieve are those whose very sight brings God to mind.”
١١١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنٌ الْمُعَلِّمُ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ شَدَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ:
1112 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥusaynun al-muʿallimu, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan shaddādi bni ʿabdi Allāhi:
1112 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī informed us; Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Shaddād ibn ʿAbd Allāh:
أَنَّ نَفَرًا مِنْ أَسْلَمَ أَتَوُا النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِيَسْتَأْذِنُوهُ فِي الِاخْتِصَاءِ، فَقَالَ: «عَلَيْكُمْ بِالصَّوْمِ، فَإِنَّهُ مَحْسَمَةٌ لِلْعِرْقِ، مُذْهِبٌ لِلْأَشَرِ»
ʾanna nafaran min ʾaslama ʾatawu al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama liyastaʾdhinūhu fī al-ikhtiṣāʾi, faqāla: «ʿalaykum bi-l-ṣawmi, faʾinnahu maḥsamatun li-l-ʿirqi, mudhhibun li-l-ʾashari»
A group from Aslam came to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, seeking permission to be castrated. He said, “Take to fasting: it checks the impulse and dispels wanton desire.”
١١١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ بُرَيْدَةَ الْأَسْلَمِيِّ قَالَ:
1113 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾibrāhīma qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿuyaynatu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan buraydata al-ʾaslamiyyi qāla:
1113 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; ʿUyayna ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, from his father, from Burayda al-Aslamī, who said:
خَرَجْتُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ لِحَاجَةٍ، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِالنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَمْشِي بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ، فَانْطَلَقْنَا نَمْشِي مَعًا، فَإِذَا نَحْنُ بِرَجُلٍ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا يُصَلِّي، يُكْثِرُ الرُّكُوعَ وَالسُّجُودَ،
kharajtu dhāta yawmin liḥājatin, faʾidhā ʾanā bi-l-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yamshī bayna yadayya, fa-nṭalaqnā namshī maʿan, faʾidhā naḥnu birajulin bayna ʾaydīnā yuṣallī, yukthiru al-rukūʿa wa-l-sujūda,
One day I went out on an errand and found the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, walking ahead of me. We walked together and saw a man praying before us, bowing and prostrating repeatedly.
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَتَرَاهُ يَرَانِي - أَوْ قَالَ يُرَائِي؟ -»
faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾatarāhu yarānī - ʾaw qāla yurāʾī? -»
The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Do you think he sees me?”—or perhaps he said, “Do you think he is showing off?”
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ،
qāla: qultu: Allāhu warasūluhu ʾaʿlamu,
I replied, “God and His Messenger know best.”
قَالَ: فَتَرَكَ يَدَهُ مِنْ يَدِي، وَجَمَعَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، وَجَعَلَ يُصَوِّبُهُمَا وَيَرْفَعُهُمَا، وَيَقُولُ: «عَلَيْكُمْ هَدْيًا قَاصِدًا، عَلَيْكُمْ هَدْيًا قَاصِدًا، عَلَيْكُمْ هَدْيًا قَاصِدًا، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ شَادَّ هَذَا الدِّينَ يَغْلِبْهُ»
qāla: fataraka yadahu min yadī, wajamaʿa bayna yadayhi, wajaʿala yuṣawwibuhumā wayarfaʿuhumā, wayaqūlu: «ʿalaykum hadyan qāṣidan, ʿalaykum hadyan qāṣidan, ʿalaykum hadyan qāṣidan, faʾinnahu man shādda hādhā al-dīna yaghlibhu»
He let go of my hand, brought his hands together before him, moved them down and up, and said three times, “Keep to a moderate course.” Then he added, “Whoever strains against this religion will be overcome by it.”
١١١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ شَدَّادِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ،
1114 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan maḥmūdi bni al-rabīʿi, ʿan shaddādi bni ʾawsin,
1114 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Maḥmūd ibn al-Rabīʿ, from Shaddād ibn Aws,
أَنَّهُ قَالَ حِينَ حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ: «يَا نَعَايَا الْعَرَبِ ثَلَاثًا إِنَّ أَخْوَفَ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمُ الرِّيَاءُ، وَالشَّهْوَةُ الْخَفِيَّةُ»
ʾannahu qāla ḥīna ḥaḍarathu al-wafātu: «yā naʿāyā al-ʿarabi thalāthan ʾinna ʾakhwafa mā ʾakhāfu ʿalaykumu al-riyāʾu, wa-l-shahwatu al-khafiyyatu»
who said as death approached him, “O heralds of death among the Arabs!” He said it three times, then added, “What I fear most for you is ostentation and hidden desire.”
١١١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ:
1115 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ʾabī salamata, ʿan ʿāʾishata, qālat:
1115 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to us, from Abū Salama, from ʿĀʾisha, who said:
كَانَ لَنَا حَصِيرَةٌ نَبْسُطُهَا بِالنَّهَارِ، وَنَحْتَجِزُهَا بِاللَّيْلِ، فَصَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ، فَسَمِعَ النَّاسُ قِرَاءَتَهُ، فَكَثُرُوا فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، فَأَشْرَفَ عَلَيْهِمْ،
kāna lanā ḥaṣīratun nabsuṭuhā bi-l-nahāri, wanaḥtajizuhā bi-l-layli, faṣallā rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama dhāta laylatin, fasamiʿa al-nāsu qirāʾatahu, fakathurū fī al-masjidi, faʾashrafa ʿalayhim,
We had a mat that we spread out during the day and used to screen ourselves at night. One night the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, prayed; people heard his recitation and gathered in the mosque. He looked out at them
فَقَالَ: «اِكْلَفُوا مِنَ الْأَعْمَالِ مَا تُطِيقُونَ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَمَلُّ حَتَّى تَمَلُّوا» ،
faqāla: «iklafū mina al-ʾaʿmāli mā tuṭīqūna, faʾinna Allāha lā yamallu ḥattā tamallū»
and said, “Take on only as much worship as you can sustain, for God does not weary until you do.”
قَالَتْ: وَكَانَ أَحَبُّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَيْهِ أَدْوَمَهُ وَإِنْ قَلَّ، قَالَتْ: وَكَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى صَلَاةً أَثْبَتَهَا
qālat: wakāna ʾaḥabbu al-ʾaʿmāli ʾilayhi ʾadwamahu waʾin qalla, qālat: wakāna ʾidhā ṣallā ṣalātan ʾathbatahā
She said: The deeds he loved most were those maintained steadily, even if small. When he performed a prayer, he kept it up.
١١١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ:
1116 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā hushaymun, ʿan yaʿlā bni ʿaṭāʾin, ʿan bishri bni ʿāṣimin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi qāla:
1116 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym related to us, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Bishr ibn ʿĀṣim, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said:
«ذِكْرُ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْعَشِيِّ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ حَطْمِ السُّيُوفِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، وَإِعْطَاءِ الْمَالِ سَحًّا»
«dhikru Allāhi subḥānahu wataʿālā bi-l-ghuduwwi wa-l-ʿashiyyi ʾafḍalu min ḥaṭmi al-suyūfi fī sabīli Allāhi, waʾiʿṭāʾi al-māli saḥḥan»
“Remembering God, Glorified and Most High, morning and evening is better than breaking swords in God’s cause and pouring out wealth freely.”
١١١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عَوْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ:
1117 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna qāla: samiʿtu ʾismāʿīla bna ʾabī khālidin, yuḥaddithu ʿan ʿawni bni ʿabdi Allāhi, ʿan rajulin qāla:
1117 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān informed us. He said: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid relate from ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from an unnamed man, who said:
قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: “ مَنْ قَالَ: سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ، وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، وَاللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ، وَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ،
qāla ʿabdu Allāhi bnu masʿūdin: “man qāla: subḥāna Allāhi, wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi, walā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu, wa-llāhu ʾakbaru, watabāraka Allāhu,
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said, “Whoever says, ‘Glory be to God; praise be to God; there is no god but God; God is greater; and blessed is God,’
صَعَدَ بِهَا مَلَكٌ - أَوْ قَالَ: عَرَجَ بِهَا مَلَكٌ - فَلَا يَمُرُّ بِهَا عَلَى مَلَأٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ إِلَّا اِسْتَغْفَرُوا لَهُ، حَتَّى يُحَيِّيَ بِهَا وَجْهَ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ ”
ṣaʿada bihā malakun - ʾaw qāla: ʿaraja bihā malakun - falā yamurru bihā ʿalā malaʾin mina al-malāʾikati ʾillā istaghfarū lahu, ḥattā yuḥayyiya bihā wajha rabbi al-ʿālamīna”
an angel carries those words upward—or, as he said, ascends with them. No company of angels he passes fails to ask forgiveness for that person, until he greets the countenance of the Lord of the worlds with those words.”
١١١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ أَبِي خَالِدٍ يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ قَالَ:
1118 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-muʿtamiru qāla: samiʿtu ʾismāʿīla bna ʾabī khālidin yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʿāmirin qāla:
1118 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir informed us. He said: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid relate, from ʿĀmir, who said:
سَمِعْتُ الرَّبِيعَ بْنَ خُثَيْمٍ يَقُولُ: “ مَنْ قَالَ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمُلْكُ، وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ، فَهُوَ عِدْلُ أَرْبَعِ رِقَابٍ ”
samiʿtu al-rabīʿa bna khuthaymin yaqūlu: “man qāla: lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu, lahu al-mulku, walahu al-ḥamdu, wahuwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun ʿashra marrātin, fahuwa ʿidlu ʾarbaʿi riqābin”
I heard al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym say, “Whoever says ten times, ‘There is no god but God alone, without partner; His is sovereignty and praise, and He has power over all things,’ receives the equivalent of freeing four people.”
فَقُلْتُ: عَمَّنْ تَرْوِيهِ؟ فَقَالَ: عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ الْأَوْدِيِّ،
faqultu: ʿamman tarwīhi? faqāla: ʿan ʿamri bni maymūnin al-ʾawdiyyi,
I asked, “From whom do you transmit this?” He answered, “From ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī.”
فَلَقِيتُ عَمْرَو بْنَ مَيْمُونٍ، فَقُلْتُ: عَمَّنْ تَرْوِيهِ؟ فَقَالَ: عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى،
falaqītu ʿamra bna maymūnin, faqultu: ʿamman tarwīhi? faqāla: ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī laylā,
I met ʿAmr ibn Maymūn and asked who had told him. He said, “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā.”
فَلَقِيتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبِي لَيْلَى، فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّ عَمْرَو بْنَ مَيْمُونٍ، يَرْوِي عَنْكَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَالَ: «لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمَلِكُ، وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ، فَهُوَ عِدْلُ أَرْبَعِ رِقَابٍ»
falaqītu ʿabda al-raḥmāni bna ʾabī laylā, faqultu: ʾinna ʿamra bna maymūnin, yarwī ʿanka ʾannahu man qāla: «lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu, lahu al-maliku, walahu al-ḥamdu, wahuwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun ʿashra marrātin, fahuwa ʿidlu ʾarbaʿi riqābin»
Then I met ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā and said, “ʿAmr ibn Maymūn reports from you that reciting ten times, ‘There is no god but God alone, without partner; His is kingship [the Arabic here is vocalized al-malik, “the King”], and His is praise, and He has power over all things,’ equals freeing four people.”
فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، أَنَا أَخْبَرْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ، فَقُلْتُ لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ: عَمَّنْ تَرْوِيهِ؟ قَالَ: عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ صَاحِبِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
faqāla: naʿam, ʾanā ʾakhbartuhu ʾiyyāhu, faqultu liʿabdi al-raḥmāni: ʿamman tarwīhi? qāla: ʿan ʾabī ʾayyūba al-ʾanṣāriyyi ṣāḥibi rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
He replied, “Yes, I told him that.” I asked ʿAbd al-Raḥmān who had told him, and he named Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, a Companion of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace.
١١١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ أَبِي خَالِدٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ:
1119 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna qāla: samiʿtu ʾismāʿīla bna ʾabī khālidin yuḥaddithu ʿan saʿīdi bni jubayrin qāla:
1119 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān informed us. He said: I heard Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid relate from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who said:
" إِذَا قَالَ أَحَدُكُمْ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمَلِكُ، وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ، فَلْيَقُلِ: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ،
"ʾidhā qāla ʾaḥadukum: lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu, lahu al-maliku, walahu al-ḥamdu, wahuwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun, falyaquli: al-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīna,
“When one of you says, ‘There is no god but God alone, without partner; His is kingship [the Arabic here is vocalized al-malik, “the King”], His is praise, and He has power over all things,’ let him add, ‘Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds.’
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ {مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ} [غَافِر: ٦٥]
thumma qaraʾa {mukhliṣīna lahu al-dīna al-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīna} [ghāfir: 65]
Then he recited, “Devoting religion sincerely to Him: praise be to God, Lord of the worlds” [Ghāfir 40:65].
١١٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَرْحُومُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، وَأَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، حَدَّثَنَا مَرْحُومٌ، وَاللَّفْظُ لِلْحُسَيْنِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نَعَامَةَ السَّعْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ:
1120 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā marḥūmu bnu ʿabdi al-ʿazīzi, waʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā yaʿqūbu bnu ʾibrāhīma, ḥaddathanā marḥūmun, wa-l-lafẓu li-l-ḥusayni, ḥaddathanā ʾabū naʿāmata al-saʿdiyyu, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʿan ʾabī saʿīdin al-khudriyyi qāla:
1120 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Marḥūm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz related to us. Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh also informed you: Yaḥyā related to us; Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm related to us; Marḥūm related to us. The wording is al-Ḥusayn’s. Abū Naʿāma al-Saʿdī related it from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said:
خَرَجَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَلَى حَلْقَةٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، فَقَالَ: مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ؟ قَالُوا: جَلَسْنَا نَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ، قَالَ: آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ إِلَّا ذَلِكَ؟ قَالُوا: آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَنَا إِلَّا ذَلِكَ،
kharaja muʿāwiyatu ʿalā ḥalqatin fī al-masjidi, faqāla: mā ʾajlasakum? qālū: jalasnā nadhkuru Allāha, qāla: ʾāllāhi mā ʾajlasakum ʾillā dhālika? qālū: ʾāllāhi mā ʾajlasanā ʾillā dhālika,
Muʿāwiya came upon a circle of people in the mosque and asked, “Why are you sitting here?” They said, “To remember God.” He asked them to swear by God that this was their sole reason, and they did.
قَالَ: أَمَا إِنِّي لَمْ أَسْتَحْلِفْكُمْ تُهْمَةً لَكُمْ، وَمَا كَانَ أَحَدٌ بِمَنْزِلَتِي مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَقَلَّ حَدِيثًا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنِّي،
qāla: ʾamā ʾinnī lam ʾastaḥlifkum tuhmatan lakum, wamā kāna ʾaḥadun bimanzilatī min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾaqalla ḥadīthan ʿan rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama minnī,
He said, “I did not ask you to swear because I suspected you. Of those who stood as I did in relation to the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, none related fewer sayings from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, than I.”
خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى حَلْقَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَقَالَ: «مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ؟» قَالُوا: جَلَسْنَا نَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى، وَنَحْمَدُهُ عَلَى مَا هَدَانَا مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ،
kharaja rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā ḥalqatin min ʾaṣḥābihi, faqāla: «mā ʾajlasakum?» qālū: jalasnā nadhkuru Allāha taʿālā, wanaḥmaduhu ʿalā mā hadānā mina al-ʾislāmi,
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, came upon a circle of his Companions and asked, “Why are you sitting here?” They answered, “To remember God Most High and praise Him for guiding us to Islam.”
قَالَ: «آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ إِلَّا ذَلِكَ؟» قَالُوا: آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَنَا إِلَّا ذَلِكَ،
qāla: «ʾāllāhi mā ʾajlasakum ʾillā dhālika?» qālū: ʾāllāhi mā ʾajlasanā ʾillā dhālika,
He asked them to swear by God that this was their only reason; they swore that it was.
قَالَ: «أَمَا إِنِّي لَمْ أَسْتَحْلِفْكُمْ تُهْمَةً لَكُمْ، وَلَكِنْ أَتَانِي جَبْرَئِيلُ فَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُبَاهِي بِكُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ»
qāla: «ʾamā ʾinnī lam ʾastaḥlifkum tuhmatan lakum, walākin ʾatānī jabraʾīlu faʾakhbaranī ʾanna Allāha yubāhī bikumu al-malāʾikata»
He said, “I did not ask you to swear because I suspected you. Gabriel came to tell me that God speaks proudly of you to the angels.”
١١٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، وَيَعْقُوبُ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا مَرْحُومٌ، وَاللَّفْظُ لِلْحُسَيْنِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نَعَامَةَ السَّعْدِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ:
1121 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, wayaʿqūbu, qālā: ḥaddathanā marḥūmun, wa-l-lafẓu li-l-ḥusayni, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū naʿāmata al-saʿdiyyu, ʿan ʾabī ʿuthmāna al-nahdiyyi, ʿan ʾabī mūsā al-ʾashʿariyyi qāla:
1121 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn and Yaʿqūb both said: Marḥūm related to us. The wording is al-Ḥusayn’s. Abū Naʿāma al-Saʿdī related to us, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, who said:
كُنْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي غَزَاةٍ، فَلَمَّا أَقْبَلْنَا وَأَشْرَفْنَا عَلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، كَبَّرَ النَّاسُ تَكْبِيرَةً، وَرَفَعُوا بِهَا أَصْوَاتَهُمْ،
kuntu maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī ghazātin, falammā ʾaqbalnā waʾashrafnā ʿalā al-madīnati, kabbara al-nāsu takbīratan, warafaʿū bihā ʾaṣwātahum,
I was with the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, on a campaign. As we returned and came within sight of Medina, the people proclaimed God’s greatness aloud.
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ لَيْسَ بِأَصَمَّ، وَلَا غَائِبٍ، هُوَ بَيْنَكُمْ، وَبَيْنَ رُءُوسِ رَوَاحِلِكُمْ»
faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾinna rabbakum laysa biʾaṣamma, walā ghāʾibin, huwa baynakum, wabayna ruʾūsi rawāḥilikum»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Your Lord is neither deaf nor absent. He is between you and the heads of your mounts.”
ثُمَّ قَالَ: «يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ قَيْسٍ، أَلَا أُعَلِّمُكَ كَلِمَةً كَنْزًا مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ؟ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ»
thumma qāla: «yā ʿabda Allāhi bna qaysin, ʾalā ʾuʿallimuka kalimatan kanzan min kunūzi al-jannati? lā ḥawla walā quwwata ʾillā bi-llāhi»
Then he said, “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays, shall I teach you a phrase that is a treasure of Paradise? There is no power and no strength except through God.”
١١٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ - قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ:
1122 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu al-sāʾibi - qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin:
1122 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān related to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Sāʾib related to us. Ibn Ṣāʿid added:
«وَهُوَ اِبْنُ بَرَكَةَ مَكِّيٌّ، وَلَيْسَ بِالْكَلْبِيِّ» ،
«wahuwa ibnu barakata makkiyyun, walaysa bi-l-kalbiyyi»,
“He is Ibn Baraka of Mecca, not al-Kalbī.”
عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى كَلِمَةٍ كَنْزٍ مِنْ كُنُوزِ الْجَنَّةِ؟»
ʿan ʿamri bni maymūnin, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾalā ʾadulluka ʿalā kalimatin kanzin min kunūzi al-jannati?»
From ʿAmr ibn Maymūn, from Abū Dharr: the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Shall I point you to a phrase that is a treasure of Paradise?”
قُلْتُ: بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: «لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ»
qultu: balā yā rasūla Allāhi, qāla: «lā ḥawla walā quwwata ʾillā bi-llāhi»
I said, “Yes, Messenger of God.” He said, “There is no power and no strength except through God.”
١١٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ:
1123 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʿamrin, ʿan ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin qāla:
1123 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna related to us, from ʿAmr, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, who said:
«تَسْبِيحَةٌ بِحَمْدِ اللَّهِ فِي صَحِيفَةِ مُؤْمِنٍ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ جِبَالِ الدُّنْيَا تَسِيرُ مَعَهُ ذَهَبًا»
«tasbīḥatun biḥamdi Allāhi fī ṣaḥīfati muʾminin khayrun lahu min jibāli al-dunyā tasīru maʿahu dhahaban»
“A single utterance glorifying God with praise, recorded in a believer’s scroll, is better for him than the mountains of this world following him as gold.”
١١٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي هِنْدَ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
1124 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu hārūna qāla: ʾakhbaranā dāwūdu bnu ʾabī hinda, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī laylā, ʿan ʾabī ʾayyūba, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
1124 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Yazīd ibn Hārūn related to us; Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind informed us, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, from Abū Ayyūb, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said:
“ مَنْ قَالَ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الْمُلْكُ، وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ، بِيَدِهِ الْخَيْرُ، وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ , عَشْرَ مَرَّاتٍ؛ كُنَّ لَهُ كَعِدْلِ عَشْرِ رِقَابٍ ”
“man qāla: lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu, lahu al-mulku, walahu al-ḥamdu, biyadihi al-khayru, wahuwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun, ʿashra marrātin; kunna lahu kaʿidli ʿashri riqābin”
“Whoever says ten times, ‘There is no god but God alone, without partner; His is sovereignty and praise, in His hand is all good, and He has power over all things,’ will receive the equivalent of freeing ten people.”
أَوْ قَالَ: «رَقَبَةٍ» .
ʾaw qāla: «raqabatin».
Or the transmitter may have said, “one slave,” instead of “ten slaves.”
١١٢٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الثَّقَفِيُّ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ بِمِثْلِهِ،
1125 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ḥaddathanā al-thaqafiyyu, ʿan dāwūda, ʿan ʿāmirin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī laylā, ʿan ʾabī ʾayyūba al-ʾanṣāriyyi, ʿani al-nabiyyi bimithlihi,
1125 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Thaqafī related to us, from Dāwūd, from ʿĀmir, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, from Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, from the Prophet, with the same report as before,
إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَقُلْ فِيهِ: بِيَدِهِ الْخَيْرُ
ʾillā ʾannahu lam yaqul fīhi: biyadihi al-khayru
except that this version omits the words “in His hand is all good.”
١١٢٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ:
1126 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā muʿāwiyatu bnu ṣāliḥin, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni jubayri bni nufayrin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī al-dardāʾi qāla:
1126 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī related to us; Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from his father, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, who said:
«الَّذِينَ لَا تَزَالُ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ رَطْبَةً مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ وَهُمْ يَضْحَكُونَ»
«alladhīna lā tazālu ʾalsinatuhum raṭbatan min dhikri Allāhi yadkhulūna al-jannata wahum yaḍḥakūna»
“Those whose tongues remain moist with the remembrance of God will enter Paradise laughing.”
١١٢٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ يَعْنِي اِبْنَ عُيَيْنَةَ يَقُولُ:
1127 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: samiʿtu sufyāna yaʿnī ibna ʿuyaynata yaqūlu:
1127 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us. He said: I heard Sufyān, meaning Ibn ʿUyayna, say:
«لَوْلَا مَا عَمَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ تَسْبِيحِ خَلْقِهِ مَا تَقَارَرْتُمْ»
«lawlā mā ʿammā Allāhu ʿalaykum min tasbīḥi khalqihi mā taqārartum»
“Were God not to hide from you the praise sung by His creatures, you could not remain at rest.”
قِيلَ لِسُفْيَانَ: مَنْ ذَكَرَهُ؟ قَالَ: مِسْعَرٌ
qīla lisufyāna: man dhakarahu? qāla: misʿarun
Sufyān was asked, “Who mentioned it?” He answered, “Misʿar.”
١١٢٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ قَالَ: قَالَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ:
1128 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan yaḥyā bni saʿīdin, ʿan saʿīdi bni al-musayyibi qāla: qāla muʿādhu bnu jabalin:
1128 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said that Muʿādh ibn Jabal said:
«لِأَنْ أَذْكُرَ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَيْلَةً حَتَّى أُصْبِحَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَحْمِلَ عَلَى جِيَادِ الْخَيْلِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ»
«liʾan ʾadhkura Allāha taʿālā laylatan ḥattā ʾuṣbiḥa ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾaḥmila ʿalā jiyādi al-khayli fī sabīli Allāhi»
“Spending a night remembering God Most High until morning is dearer to me than equipping others with fine horses in God’s cause.”
١١٢٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ:
1129 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan laythin qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi:
1129 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān informed us, from Layth, who said that Abū al-Dardāʾ said:
«أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ أَعْمَالِكُمْ، وَأَرْفَعِهَا فِي دَرَجَاتِكُمْ، وَأَزْكَاهَا عِنْدَ مَلِيكِكُمْ، وَخَيْرٍ مِنْ إِعْطَاءِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ، وَخَيْرٍ لَكُمْ مِنْ قِتَالِ عَدُوِّكُمْ، وَخَيْرٍ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنْ يَضْرِبَ أَحَدُكُمْ بِسَيْفِهِ حَتَّى يَنْقَطِعَ؟»
«ʾalā ʾukhbirukum bikhayri ʾaʿmālikum, waʾarfaʿihā fī darajātikum, waʾazkāhā ʿinda malīkikum, wakhayrin min ʾiʿṭāʾi al-dhahabi wa-l-fiḍḍati, wakhayrin lakum min qitāli ʿaduwwikum, wakhayrin lakum min ʾan yaḍriba ʾaḥadukum bisayfihi ḥattā yanqaṭiʿa?»
“Shall I tell you of the best of your deeds, those that raise you highest in rank and are purest before your Sovereign—better than giving gold and silver, fighting your enemy, or striking with your sword until it breaks?”
قَالُوا: بَلَى، قَالَ: «ذِكْرُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
qālū: balā, qāla: «dhikru Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
They said, “Yes.” He answered, “The remembrance of God, mighty and majestic.”
١١٣٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ:
1130 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā dāwūdu, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿāʾishata, qālat:
1130 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī related to us; Dāwūd related to us, from al-Shaʿbī, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾisha, who said:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي آخِرِ أَمْرِهِ يُكْثِرُ مِنْ قَوْلِ: «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ، أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ» ،
kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī ʾākhiri ʾamrihi yukthiru min qawli: «subḥāna Allāhi wabiḥamdihi, ʾastaghfiru Allāha waʾatūbu ʾilayhi»,
Toward the end of his life, the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, often said, “Glory and praise be to God. I ask God’s forgiveness and turn to Him.”
فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا لِي أَرَاكَ تُكْثِرُ مِنْ قَوْلِ: «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ، أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ؟» ،
faqultu: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā lī ʾarāka tukthiru min qawli: «subḥāna Allāhi wabiḥamdihi, ʾastaghfiru Allāha waʾatūbu ʾilayhi?»
I asked, “Messenger of God, why do I see you saying so often, ‘Glory and praise be to God. I ask God’s forgiveness and turn to Him’?”
قَالَ: “ إِنَّ رَبِّي أَخْبَرَنِي أَنِّي سَأَرَى عَلَامَةً فِي أُمَّتِي، وَأَمَرَنِي إِذَا رَأَيْتُ تِلْكَ الْعَلَامَةَ أَنْ أُسَبِّحَ بِحَمْدِهِ، وَأَسْتَغْفِرَهُ، فَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهَا:
qāla: “ʾinna rabbī ʾakhbaranī ʾannī saʾarā ʿalāmatan fī ʾummatī, waʾamaranī ʾidhā raʾaytu tilka al-ʿalāmata ʾan ʾusabbiḥa biḥamdihi, waʾastaghfirahu, faqad raʾaytuhā:
He replied, “My Lord told me that I would see a sign among my community and instructed me, when I saw it, to praise and glorify Him and seek His forgiveness. I have seen it:
{إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ وَرَأَيْتَ النَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ أَفْوَاجًا} [النَّصْر: ٢] ”
{ʾidhā jāʾa naṣru Allāhi wa-l-fatḥu waraʾayta al-nāsa yadkhulūna fī dīni Allāhi ʾafwājan} [al-naṣr: 2]”
‘When God’s help and the victory come, and you see people entering God’s religion in crowds’ [al-Naṣr 110:1–2].”
١١٣١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الثَّقَفِيُّ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِمِثْلِهِ،
1131 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-thaqafiyyu, ʿan dāwūda, ʿan ʿāmirin, ʿan ʿāʾishata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bimithlihi,
1131 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Thaqafī informed us, from Dāwūd, from ʿĀmir, from ʿĀʾisha, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, with a report like the preceding one.
١١٣٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ الْعَوَّامِ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِمِثْلِهِ
1132 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu sulaymāna, ʿan ʿabbādi bni al-ʿawwāmi, ʿan dāwūda, ʿan ʿāmirin, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿāʾishata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bimithlihi
1132 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān informed us, from ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, from Dāwūd, from ʿĀmir, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾisha, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, with a report like the preceding one.
١١٣٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ بْنَ عُيَيْنَةَ يَقُولُ:
1133 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: samiʿtu sufyāna bna ʿuyaynata yaqūlu:
1133 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us. He said: I heard Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna say:
قَالَ عُثْمَانُ: «لَوْ أَنَّ قُلُوبَنَا طَهُرَتْ لَمْ تَمَلَّ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى»
qāla ʿuthmānu: «law ʾanna qulūbanā ṭahurat lam tamalla min dhikri Allāhi taʿālā»
ʿUthmān said, “If our hearts were pure, they would never tire of remembering God Most High.”
١١٣٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ زُبَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
1134 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā sufyānu, ʿan zubaydin, ʿan murrata, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla:
1134 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī informed us; Sufyān related to us, from Zubayd, from Murra, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said:
" إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَسَّمَ بَيْنَكُمْ أَرْزَاقَكُمْ، وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُعْطِي الْمَالَ مَنْ يُحِبُّ، وَمَنْ لَا يُحِبُّ، وَلَا يُعْطِي الْإِيمَانَ إِلَّا مَنْ يُحِبُّ، فَإِذَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ عَبْدًا أَعْطَاهُ الْإِيمَانَ،
"ʾinna Allāha qassama baynakum ʾarzāqakum, waʾinna Allāha taʿālā yuʿṭī al-māla man yuḥibbu, waman lā yuḥibbu, walā yuʿṭī al-ʾīmāna ʾillā man yuḥibbu, faʾidhā ʾaḥabba Allāhu ʿabdan ʾaʿṭāhu al-ʾīmāna,
“God has apportioned your livelihoods among you. God Most High grants wealth to those He loves and those He does not, but grants faith only to those He loves. When God loves a servant, He grants that servant faith.
فَمَنْ بَخِلَ بِالْمَالِ أَنْ يُنْفِقَهُ، وَهَابَ الْعَدُوَّ أَنْ يُجَاهِدَهُ، وَتَضَبَّطَهُ اللَّيْلُ أَنْ يُسَاهِرَهُ، فَلْيَسْتَكْثِرْ مِنْ قَوْلِ:
faman bakhila bi-l-māli ʾan yunfiqahu, wahāba al-ʿaduwwa ʾan yujāhidahu, wataḍabbaṭahu al-laylu ʾan yusāhirahu, falyastakthir min qawli:
So whoever is reluctant to spend wealth, fears confronting the enemy, or finds the night too overpowering to keep vigil should frequently say:
سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ، وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، وَاللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ
subḥāna Allāhi, wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi, walā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu, wa-llāhu ʾakbaru
‘Glory be to God; praise be to God; there is no god but God; God is greater.’
١١٣٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ:
1135 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿīsā bnu yūnusa qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan makḥūlin qāla:
1135 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed us; al-Awzāʿī related to us, from Makḥūl, who said:
“ مَنْ قَالَ: أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ، وَإِنْ كَانَ فَارًّا مِنَ الزَّحْفِ ”
“man qāla: ʾastaghfiru Allāha alladhī lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa al-ḥayyu al-qayyūmu waʾatūbu ʾilayhi ghafara Allāhu lahu, waʾin kāna fārran mina al-zaḥfi”
“Whoever says, ‘I seek forgiveness from God, besides whom there is no god, the Living, the Sustainer, and I turn to Him,’ will be forgiven by God, even if he fled the battlefield.”
١١٣٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ بْنِ أَبِي مُوسَى، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ أَعْجَبَنِي زُهْدُهُ، قَالَ:
1136 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā jarīru bnu ḥāzimin, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin, ʿan ʾabī burdata bni ʾabī mūsā, ʿan rajulin mina al-muhājirīna ʾaʿjabanī zuhduhu, qāla:
1136 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim related to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Abū Burda ibn Abī Mūsā, from a man among the Emigrants whose asceticism impressed me, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اِسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ، فَإِنِّي أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فِي الْيَوْمِ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ»
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «istaghfirū rabbakum, faʾinnī ʾastaghfiru Allāha fī al-yawmi miʾata marratin»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Seek your Lord’s forgiveness; I ask God’s forgiveness a hundred times a day.”
قَالَ حُمَيْدٌ: فَقُلْتُ لِأَبِي بُرْدَةَ: أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ، أَوْ أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ؟ قَالَ: «لَا أَدْرِي»
qāla ḥumaydun: faqultu liʾabī burdata: ʾastaghfiru Allāha, ʾaw ʾastaghfiru Allāha waʾatūbu ʾilayhi? qāla: «lā ʾadrī»
Ḥumayd said: I asked Abū Burda whether the wording was “I seek God’s forgiveness” or “I seek God’s forgiveness and turn to Him.” He answered, “I do not know.”
١١٣٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ الْمَدَائِنِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ:
1137 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ʾakhbaranā kathīru bnu sulaymin al-madāʾiniyyu qāla: samiʿtu ʾanasa bna mālikin yaqūlu:
1137 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; Kathīr ibn Sulaym al-Madāʾinī informed us. He said: I heard Anas ibn Mālik say:
أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إِنِّي ذَرِبُ اللِّسَانِ، وَأُكْثِرُ ذَلِكَ عَلَى أَهْلِي،
ʾatā al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama rajulun, faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, ʾinnī dharibu al-lisāni, waʾukthiru dhālika ʿalā ʾahlī,
A man came to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, and said, “Messenger of God, my tongue is sharp, and I often speak harshly to my family.”
فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَأَيْنَ أَنْتَ مِنَ الِاسْتِغْفَارِ؟ فَإِنِّي أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فِي الْيَوْمِ وَاللَّيْلَةِ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ»
faqāla lahu rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «faʾayna ʾanta mina al-istighfāri? faʾinnī ʾastaghfiru Allāha fī al-yawmi wa-l-laylati miʾata marratin»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Why not seek forgiveness? I seek God’s forgiveness a hundred times by day and night.”
١١٣٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ عَمْرُو بْنُ حُمْرَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ:
1138 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū al-naḍri ʿamru bnu ḥumrāna qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ʾabī salamata, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla:
1138 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū al-Naḍr ʿAmr ibn Ḥumrān informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to us, from Abū Salama, from Abū Hurayra, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنِّي لَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ»
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾinnī laʾastaghfiru Allāha waʾatūbu ʾilayhi fī kulli yawmin miʾata marratin»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “I ask God’s forgiveness and turn to Him a hundred times each day.”
١١٣٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ حُصَيْنٍ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍ، عَنْ زَاذَانَ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ضُحًى - أَوْ قَالَ: وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي الضُّحَى - حُصَيْنٌ يَشُكُّ،
1139 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu muslimin, ʿan ḥuṣaynin, ʿan hilāli bni yasāfin, ʿan zādhāna, ʿan rajulin min ʾaṣḥābi al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla: ʾataytu al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ḍuḥan - ʾaw qāla: wahuwa yuṣallī al-ḍuḥā - ḥuṣaynun yashukku,
1139 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim related to us, from Ḥuṣayn, from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, from Zādhān, from a Companion of the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, who said: I came to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, in the forenoon—or the wording may be “while he was praying the forenoon prayer”; Ḥuṣayn was unsure—
فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ: «اللَّهُمَّ اِغْفِرْ لِي وَارْحَمْنِي» ،
fasamiʿtuhu yaqūlu miʾata marratin: «Allāhumma ighfir lī wa-rḥamnī»,
and heard him say a hundred times, “O God, forgive me and have mercy on me.”
قَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ: «يُعْجِبُنِي الرَّجُلُ أَنْ يَقُولَ هَذَا فِي السَّحَرِ عِنْدَ وَجْهِ الصُّبْحِ»
qāla ʿabdu al-raḥmāni: «yuʿjibunī al-rajulu ʾan yaqūla hādhā fī al-saḥari ʿinda wajhi al-ṣubḥi»
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said, “I like a person to say this at the end of the night, just as dawn appears.”
١١٤٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، عَنِ الْأَغَرِّ، أَوْ قَالَ: عَنْ أَغَرِّ مُزَيْنَةَ، قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ: أَنَا أَشُكُّ
1140 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni bnu mahdiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥammādu bnu zaydin, ʿan thābitin, ʿan ʾabī burdata, ʿani al-ʾagharri, ʾaw qāla: ʿan ʾagharri muzaynata, qāla al-ḥusaynu: ʾanā ʾashukku
1140 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī informed us; Ḥammād ibn Zayd related to us, from Thābit, from Abū Burda, from al-Agharr—or, as he said, al-Agharr of Muzayna. Al-Ḥusayn said, “I am uncertain which.”
قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّهُ لَيُغَانُ عَلَى قَلْبِي، فَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فِي الْيَوْمِ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ»
qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾinnahu layughānu ʿalā qalbī, faʾastaghfiru Allāha fī al-yawmi miʾata marratin»
He said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “A veil comes over my heart, so I seek God’s forgiveness a hundred times a day.”
١١٤١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ:
1141 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā yūnusu, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla:
1141 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī related to us; Yūnus related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَيُّ الْأَعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «أَنْ تَمُوتَ يَوْمَ تَمُوتُ وَلِسَانُكَ رَطْبٌ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى»
suʾila al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾayyu al-ʾaʿmāli ʾafḍalu? qāla: «ʾan tamūta yawma tamūtu walisānuka raṭbun min dhikri Allāhi taʿālā»
The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, was asked, “Which deeds are best?” He replied, “That you die with your tongue still moist from remembering God Most High.”
١١٤٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ:
1142 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ṣafwānu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan ḍamrata bni ḥabībin, ʾanna ʾabā al-dardāʾi qāla:
1142 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr informed us, from Ḍamra ibn Ḥabīb, that Abū al-Dardāʾ said:
«إِنَّ مِنْ فِقْهِ الْمَرْءِ إِقْبَالَهُ عَلَى حَاجَتِهِ حَتَّى يُقْبِلَ عَلَى صَلَاتِهِ وَقَلْبُهُ فَارِغٌ»
«ʾinna min fiqhi al-marʾi ʾiqbālahu ʿalā ḥājatihi ḥattā yuqbila ʿalā ṣalātihi waqalbuhu fārighun»
“A sign of a person’s good understanding is attending to what needs doing first, so that he comes to prayer with an unburdened heart.”
١١٤٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ صِلَةَ بْنِ أَشْيَمَ قَالَ:
1143 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ḥammādu bnu salamata, ʿan thābitin al-bunāniyyi, ʿan ṣilata bni ʾashyama qāla:
1143 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Ḥammād ibn Salama informed us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Ṣila ibn Ashyam, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ صَلَّى صَلَاةً لَا يَذْكُرُ فِيهَا شَيْئًا مِنْ أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا، ثُمَّ سَأَلَ اللَّهَ شَيْئًا أَعْطَاهُ»
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «man ṣallā ṣalātan lā yadhkuru fīhā shayʾan min ʾamri al-dunyā, thumma saʾala Allāha shayʾan ʾaʿṭāhu»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Whoever prays without thinking of any worldly matter during the prayer, then asks God for something, will receive it.”
١١٤٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، قَالَ:
1144 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin, qāla:
1144 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from Abū Ḥāzim, who said:
اِعْتَكَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فِي رَمَضَانَ فِي قُبَّةٍ لَهُ، عَلَى بَابِهَا حَصِيرٌ، فَرَفَعَ الْحَصِيرَ، وَأَطْلَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَأَبْصَرَ النَّاسَ،
iʿtakafa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī al-masjidi fī ramaḍāna fī qubbatin lahu, ʿalā bābihā ḥaṣīrun, farafaʿa al-ḥaṣīra, waʾaṭlaʿa raʾsahu faʾabṣara al-nāsa,
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, observed retreat in the mosque during Ramadan inside a small shelter with a mat over its entrance. He lifted the mat, put his head out, and saw the people.
فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ الْمُصَلِّيَ يُنَاجِي رَبَّهُ، فَلْيَنْظُرْ أَحَدُكُمْ بِمَا يُنَاجِي رَبَّهُ تَعَالَى، وَلَا يَجْهَرْ بَعْضُكُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ بِالْقُرْآنِ» .
faqāla: «ʾinna al-muṣalliya yunājī rabbahu, falyanẓur ʾaḥadukum bimā yunājī rabbahu taʿālā, walā yajhar baʿḍukum ʿalā baʿḍin bi-l-qurʾāni».
He said, “A person at prayer speaks intimately with his Lord. Let each of you consider how he addresses his Lord Most High, and do not recite the Qurʾān so loudly that you drown one another out.”
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ يُرْوَى عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الْبَيَاضِيِّ، رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي بَيَاضَةَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: wahādhā al-ḥadīthu yurwā ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿani al-bayāḍiyyi, rajulun min banī bayāḍata mina al-ʾanṣāri, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
Ibn Ṣāʿid added that this report is also transmitted from Abū Ḥāzim through al-Bayāḍī, a man of the Anṣār from Banū Bayāḍa, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace.
١١٤٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي بَكْرُ بْنُ سَوَادَةَ أَنَّ رَجُلًا حَدَّثَهُ، عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ،
1145 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī bakru bnu sawādata ʾanna rajulan ḥaddathahu, ʿan rabīʿata bni qaysin,
1145 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us; Bakr ibn Sawāda related to me that an unnamed man had related to him, from Rabīʿa ibn Qays,
حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيَّ يَقُولُ:
ḥaddathahu ʾannahu samiʿa ʿuqbata bna ʿāmirin al-juhaniyya yaqūlu:
who related that he heard ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī say:
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ تَوَضَّأَ فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى صَلَاةً غَيْرَ سَاهٍ، وَلَا لَاهٍ، كُفِّرَ عَنْهُ مَا كَانَ قَبْلَهَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ»
samiʿtu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūlu: «man tawaḍḍaʾa faʾaḥsana wuḍūʾahu, thumma ṣallā ṣalātan ghayra sāhin, walā lāhin, kuffira ʿanhu mā kāna qablahā min shayʾin»
I heard the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, say: “Whoever performs ablution well, then prays without distraction or heedlessness, will have what preceded that prayer forgiven.”
١١٤٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
1146 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
1146 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, commenting on the words of God Most High:
{فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَانْصَبْ وَإِلَى رَبِّكَ فَارْغَبْ} [الشَّرْح: ٨] قَالَ:
{faʾidhā faraghta fa-nṣab waʾilā rabbika fa-rghab} [al-sharḥ: 8] qāla:
“When you are free, devote yourself earnestly; and turn your longing toward your Lord” [al-Sharḥ 94:7–8]. Mujāhid said:
“ إِذَا فَرَغْتَ مِنْ دُنْيَاكَ، فَانْصَبْ فِي صَلَاتِكَ، {وَإِلَى رَبِّكَ فَارْغَبْ} [الشَّرْح: ٨] ، قَالَ: اِجْعَلْ نِيَّتَكَ وَرَغْبَتَكَ إِلَى رَبِّكَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ”
“ʾidhā faraghta min dunyāka, fa-nṣab fī ṣalātika, {waʾilā rabbika fa-rghab} [al-sharḥ: 8], qāla: ijʿal niyyataka waraghbataka ʾilā rabbika ʿazza wajalla”
“When you are free of worldly concerns, apply yourself in prayer. ‘Turn your longing toward your Lord’ [94:8] means: direct your intention and desire to your Lord, mighty and majestic.”
١١٤٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
1147 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun, ʿan ʿikrimata, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
1147 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; an unnamed man informed us, from ʿIkrima, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
«رَكْعَتَانِ مُقْتَصِدَتَانِ فِي تَفَكُّرٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ قِيَامِ لَيْلَةٍ، وَالْقَلْبُ سَاهٍ»
«rakʿatāni muqtaṣidatāni fī tafakkurin khayrun min qiyāmi laylatin, wa-l-qalbu sāhin»
“Two measured cycles of prayer performed with reflection are better than standing through a whole night while the heart is distracted.”
١١٤٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنِي أَبُو سِنَانٍ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ، أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ:
1148 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-raḥmāni al-masʿūdiyyu qāla: ʾanbaʾanī ʾabū sinānin al-shaybāniyyu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan ʿaliyyin, ʾannahu suʾila ʿan qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla:
1148 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masʿūdī informed us; Abū Sinān al-Shaybānī told me, from an unnamed man, from ʿAlī, who was asked about the words of God, Almighty and Majestic:
{الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ} [الْمُؤْمِنُون: ٢] قَالَ:
{alladhīna hum fī ṣalātihim khāshiʿūna} [al-muʾminūn: 2] qāla:
“Those who are humble in their prayer” [al-Muʾminūn 23:2]. He said:
«الْخُشُوعُ فِي الْقَلْبِ، وَأَنْ تُلِينَ كَنَفَكَ لِلْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ، وَأَنْ لَا تَلْتَفِتَ فِي صَلَاتِكَ»
«al-khushūʿu fī al-qalbi, waʾan tulīna kanafaka li-l-marʾi al-muslimi, waʾan lā taltafita fī ṣalātika»
“Humility is in the heart: be gentle toward a fellow Muslim, and do not look around during prayer.”
١١٤٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:
1149 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan manṣūrin, ʿan mujāhidin, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā:
1149 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, concerning the words of God Most High:
{الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ} [الْمُؤْمِنُون: ٢] قَالَ: «السُّكُونُ»
{alladhīna hum fī ṣalātihim khāshiʿūna} [al-muʾminūn: 2] qāla: «al-sukūnu»
“Those who are humble in their prayer” [al-Muʾminūn 23:2]. He said, “Stillness.”
١١٥٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ أَيْضًا عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
1150 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu ʾayḍan ʿan sulaymāna al-ʾaʿmashi, ʿan ʾabī al-ḍuḥā, ʿan masrūqin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla:
1150 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Sufyān also informed us, from Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, from Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said:
«قَارُّوا الصَّلَاةَ»
«qārrū al-ṣalāta»
“Be settled and composed in prayer.”
١١٥١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ مُهَاجِرٍ النَّبَّالِ،
1151 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ṣafwānu bnu ʿamrin, ʿan muhājirin al-nabbāli,
1151 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr informed us, from Muhājir al-Nabbāl,
أَنَّهُ ذُكِرَ عِنْدَهُ قَبْضُ الرَّجُلِ يَمِينَهُ عَلَى شِمَالِهِ، فَقَالَ: “ مَا أَحْسَنَهُ: ذَلَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عِزِّهِ ”
ʾannahu dhukira ʿindahu qabḍu al-rajuli yamīnahu ʿalā shimālihi, faqāla: “mā ʾaḥsanahu: dhalla bayna yaday ʿizzihi”
before whom a man’s placing his right hand over his left in prayer was mentioned. He said, “How beautiful it is: a servant humbles himself before His majesty.”
١١٥٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ رَبِّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ أَبِي أَنَسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نَافِعِ بْنِ الْعَمْيَاءِ، عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
1152 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā laythu bnu saʿdin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu rabbihi bnu saʿīdin, ʿan ʿimrāna bni ʾabī ʾanasin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni nāfiʿi bni al-ʿamyāʾi, ʿan rabīʿata bni al-ḥārithi, ʿani al-faḍli bni ʿabbāsin qāla:
1152 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Layth ibn Saʿd informed us; ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd related to us, from ʿImrān ibn Abī Anas, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ ibn al-ʿAmyāʾ, from Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥārith, from al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ الصَّلَاةُ مَثْنَى مَثْنَى، تَشَهَّدُ فِي كُلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ، وَتَضَرَّعُ، وَتَخَشَّعُ، وَتَمَسْكَنُ،
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-ṣalātu mathnā mathnā, tashahhadu fī kulli rakʿatayni, wataḍarraʿu, watakhashshaʿu, watamaskanu,
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Prayer is offered in pairs of cycles. Recite the testimony in every two cycles; supplicate earnestly, show humility, and make yourself lowly.
ثُمَّ تُقَنِّعُ يَدَيْكَ، يَقُولُ: تَرْفَعُهُمَا إِلَى رَبِّكَ مُسْتَقْبِلًا بِبُطُونِهِمَا وَجْهَكَ، وَتَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ، يَا رَبِّ،
thumma tuqanniʿu yadayka, yaqūlu: tarfaʿuhumā ʾilā rabbika mustaqbilan bibuṭūnihimā wajhaka, wataqūlu: yā rabbi, yā rabbi,
Then raise your hands”—that is, lift them toward your Lord with the palms facing your face—“and say, ‘My Lord, my Lord.’
فَمَنْ لَمْ يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ فَهِيَ خِدَاجٌ ”
faman lam yafʿal dhālika fahiya khidājun”
Whoever fails to do so has offered an incomplete prayer.”
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَقَدْ رَوَى شُعْبَةُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَذْكُرِ الْفَضْلَ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: waqad rawā shuʿbatu hādhā al-ḥadītha, ʿan ʿabdi rabbihi bni saʿīdin, ʾillā ʾannahu lam yadhkuri al-faḍla bna ʿabbāsin
Ibn Ṣāʿid said: Shuʿba also transmitted this report from ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd, but did not mention al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās.
١١٥٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ بَهْرَامَ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ:
1153 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ḥamīdi bnu bahrāma, ʿan shahri bni ḥawshabin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿabdu Allāhi bnu shaddādin, qāla: qāla rajulun:
1153 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bahrām informed us, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād related to me. He said: A man asked:
يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا الْأَوَّاهُ؟ قَالَ: “ الْأَوَّاهُ: الْخَاشِعُ الدَّعَّاءُ الْمُتَضَرِّعُ ”،
yā rasūla Allāhi, mā al-ʾawwāhu? qāla: “al-ʾawwāhu: al-khāshiʿu al-daʿʿāʾu al-mutaḍarriʿu”,
“Messenger of God, what does awwāh mean?” He said, “One who is humble, constant in supplication, and pleading before God.”
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: {إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ لَأَوَّاهٌ حَلِيمٌ} [التَّوْبَةِ: ١١٤]
thumma qaraʾa: {ʾinna ʾibrāhīma laʾawwāhun ḥalīmun} [al-tawbati: 114]
Then he recited, “Abraham was indeed tenderhearted and forbearing” [al-Tawba 9:114].
١١٥٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ، وَإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
1154 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu al-ʿazīzi bnu ʾabī rawwādin qāla: ḥaddathanī ʿalqamatu bnu marthadin, waʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾumayyata, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama
1154 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād informed us; ʿAlqama ibn Marthad and Ismāʿīl ibn Umayya related to me that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace,
كَانَ إِذَا فَرَغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ وَضَمَّهُمَا، وَقَالَ:
kāna ʾidhā faragha min ṣalātihi rafaʿa yadayhi waḍammahumā, waqāla:
would raise his hands and bring them together after finishing his prayer, and say:
«رَبِّ اِغْفِرْ لِي مَا قَدَّمْتُ، وَمَا أَخَّرْتُ، وَمَا أَسْرَرْتُ، وَمَا أَعْلَنْتُ، وَمَا أَسْرَفْتُ، وَمَا أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِ مِنِّي، أَنْتَ الْمُقَدِّمُ، وَأَنْتَ الْمُؤَخِّرُ، لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، لَكَ الْمُلْكُ، وَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ»
«rabbi ighfir lī mā qaddamtu, wamā ʾakhkhartu, wamā ʾasrartu, wamā ʾaʿlantu, wamā ʾasraftu, wamā ʾanta ʾaʿlamu bihi minnī, ʾanta al-muqaddimu, waʾanta al-muʾakhkhiru, lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾanta, laka al-mulku, walaka al-ḥamdu»
“My Lord, forgive my earlier and later faults, what I have kept hidden and what I have made public, where I have exceeded bounds, and what You know about me better than I do. You are the One who brings forward and holds back. There is no god but You; Yours are sovereignty and praise.”
١١٥٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ:
1155 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿun qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni murrata qāla: qāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi:
1155 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Murra, who said that Abū al-Dardāʾ said:
«اُعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكُمْ تَرَوْنَهُ، وَعُدُّوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ فِي الْمَوْتَى، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ قَلِيلًا يَكْفِيكُمْ خَيْرٌ مِنْ كَثِيرٍ يُلْهِيكُمْ، وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الْبِرَّ لَا يَبْلَى، وَأَنَّ الْإِثْمَ لَا يُنْسَى»
«uʿbudū Allāha kaʾannakum tarawnahu, waʿuddū ʾanfusakum fī al-mawtā, waʿlamū ʾanna qalīlan yakfīkum khayrun min kathīrin yulhīkum, waʿlamū ʾanna al-birra lā yablā, waʾanna al-ʾithma lā yunsā»
“Worship God as though you see Him. Count yourselves among the dead. Know that a little which suffices you is better than abundance that distracts you. Know, too, that goodness does not wear away, and wrongdoing is not forgotten.”
١١٥٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَنْصُورٌ، عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ يَسَافٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ:
1156 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā jarīru bnu ʿabdi al-ḥamīdi qāla: ḥaddathanā manṣūrun, ʿan hilāli bni yasāfin, ʿan ʾabī ʿubaydata bni ʿabdi Allāhi qāla:
1156 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd informed us; Manṣūr related to us, from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, from Abū ʿUbayda ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
«سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ، وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، وَاللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ، أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ عَدَدِهَا دَنَانِيرَ أُنْفِقُهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
«subḥāna Allāhi, wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi, walā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu, wa-llāhu ʾakbaru, ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʿadadihā danānīra ʾunfiquhā fī sabīli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
“Saying ‘Glory be to God, praise be to God, there is no god but God, and God is greater’ is dearer to me than spending that many gold dinars in the cause of God, Almighty and Majestic.”
١١٥٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ:
1157 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan bishri bni ʿāṣimin, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla:
1157 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Bishr ibn ʿĀṣim, from his father, from Abū Dharr, who said:
قِيلَ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ: قُلْتُ -: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، ذَهَبَ أَهْلُ الْأَمْوَالِ الدَّثْرِ بِالْأُجُورِ، يَقُولُونَ كَمَا نَقُولُ، وَيُنْفِقُونَ، وَلَا نُنْفِقُ،
qīla li-l-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama - warubbamā qāla: qultu -: yā rasūla Allāhi, dhahaba ʾahlu al-ʾamwāli al-dathri bi-l-ʾujūri, yaqūlūna kamā naqūlu, wayunfiqūna, walā nunfiqu,
Someone said to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace—or Abū Dharr may have said, “I said”—“Messenger of God, the wealthy have taken all the rewards. They speak the words we speak, and they spend while we cannot.”
فَقَالَ: «أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِأَمْرٍ إِذَا فَعَلْتُمُوهُ أَدْرَكْتُمْ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ، وَفُتُّمْ مَنْ بَعْدَكُمْ؟ تَحْمَدُونَ اللَّهَ فِي دُبُرِ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ، وَتُسَبِّحُونَ، وَتُكَبِّرُونَ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَأَرْبَعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ»
faqāla: «ʾalā ʾukhbirukum biʾamrin ʾidhā faʿaltumūhu ʾadraktum man kāna qablakum, wafuttum man baʿdakum? taḥmadūna Allāha fī duburi kulli ṣalātin, watusabbiḥūna, watukabbirūna thalāthan wathalāthīna, waʾarbaʿan wathalāthīna»
He replied, “Shall I tell you an act by which you can catch up with those before you and surpass those after you? Praise God after each prayer, glorify Him, and proclaim His greatness, thirty-three and thirty-four times.”
لَا يَدْرِي سُفْيَانُ أَيَّتُهُنَّ أَرْبَعُ
lā yadrī sufyānu ʾayyatuhunna ʾarbaʿu
Sufyān was uncertain which of the remembrances had the count of thirty-four.
١١٥٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ لَيْثًا يُحَدِّثُ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، قَالَ:
1158 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna qāla: samiʿtu laythan yuḥaddithu ʿani al-ḥakami, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī laylā, qāla:
1158 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān informed us. He said: I heard Layth relate, from al-Ḥakam, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مُعَقِّبَاتٌ لَا يَخِيبُ فَاعِلُهُنَّ - أَوْ قَالَ قَائِلُهُنَّ - تُسَبِّحُ خَلْفَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَتُحَمِّدُ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَتُكَبِّرُ أَرْبَعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ»
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «muʿaqqibātun lā yakhību fāʿiluhunna - ʾaw qāla qāʾiluhunna - tusabbiḥu khalfa kulli ṣalātin thalāthan wathalāthīna, watuḥammidu thalāthan wathalāthīna, watukabbiru ʾarbaʿan wathalāthīna»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “There are remembrances after prayer whose doer—or, as he said, speaker—will not be disappointed: glorify God thirty-three times, praise Him thirty-three times, and proclaim His greatness thirty-four times after each prayer.”
١١٥٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْكِلَابِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، يَعْنِي اِبْنَ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍ، عَنِ الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى قَالَ:
1159 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranī ʿamru bnu ʿuthmāna al-kilābiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā zuhayrun ʾabū khaythamata qāla: ḥaddathanā al-laythu, yaʿnī ibna ʾabī sulaymin, ʿani al-ḥakami, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī laylā qāla:
1159 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Kilābī informed me; Zuhayr Abū Khaythama related to us; Layth, meaning Ibn Abī Sulaym, related to us, from al-Ḥakam, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, who said:
نَزَلَ بِأَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: أَمُقِيمٌ فَنَسْرَحُ، أَوْ ظَاعِنٌ فَنَعْلِفُ؟ قَالَ: بَلْ ظَاعِنٌ،
nazala biʾabī al-dardāʾi rajulun, faqāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: ʾamuqīmun fanasraḥu, ʾaw ẓāʿinun fanaʿlifu? qāla: bal ẓāʿinun,
A man stayed with Abū al-Dardāʾ, who asked, “Are you staying, so we can let the animals graze, or setting out, so we should feed them?” The man said he was setting out.
فَقَالَ: مَا أَجِدُ لَكَ شَيْئًا أُعَلِّمُكَهُ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ كَلِمَاتٍ سَمِعْتُهُنَّ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - أَوْ قَالَ: عَلَّمَنِيهِنَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - تُدْرِكُ بِهِ مَنْ قَبْلَكَ، وَلَا يُدْرِكُكَ مَنْ بَعْدَكَ إِلَّا مَنْ جَاءَ بِهِنَّ:
faqāla: mā ʾajidu laka shayʾan ʾuʿallimukahu ʾafḍala min kalimātin samiʿtuhunna min rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama - ʾaw qāla: ʿallamanīhinna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama - tudriku bihi man qablaka, walā yudrikuka man baʿdaka ʾillā man jāʾa bihinna:
Abū al-Dardāʾ said, “I know nothing better to teach you than words I heard from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace—or, as he said, words the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, taught me. By them you will catch up with those before you, and none after you will catch up with you unless they too say them:
«تُكَبِّرُ فِي دُبُرِ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ أَرْبَعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَتُحَمِّدُ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَتُسَبِّحُ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ»
«tukabbiru fī duburi kulli ṣalātin ʾarbaʿan wathalāthīna, watuḥammidu thalāthan wathalāthīna, watusabbiḥu thalāthan wathalāthīna»
proclaim God’s greatness thirty-four times after every prayer, praise Him thirty-three times, and glorify Him thirty-three times.”
١١٦٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الثَّقَفِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ أَفْلَحَ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
1160 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-thaqafiyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā hishāmu bnu ḥassāna, ʿan muḥammadi ʿan kathīri bni ʾaflaḥa, ʿan zaydi bni thābitin, ʾannahu qāla:
1160 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Thaqafī informed us; Hishām ibn Ḥassān informed us, from Muḥammad, from Kathīr ibn Aflaḥ, from Zayd ibn Thābit, who said:
أُمِرْنَا أَنْ نُسَبِّحَ فِي دُبُرِ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَنُحَمِّدَ ثَلَاثًا وَثَلَاثِينَ، وَنُكَبِّرَ أَرْبَعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ،
ʾumirnā ʾan nusabbiḥa fī duburi kulli ṣalātin thalāthan wathalāthīna, wanuḥammida thalāthan wathalāthīna, wanukabbira ʾarbaʿan wathalāthīna,
We were instructed to glorify God thirty-three times, praise Him thirty-three times, and proclaim His greatness thirty-four times after every prayer.
فَأَتَى رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ فِي نَوْمِهِ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: أَمَرَكُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَسَلَّمَ أَنْ تُسَبِّحُوا دُبُرَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ كَذَا وَكَذَا؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ،
faʾatā rajulun mina al-ʾanṣāri fī nawmihi, faqīla lahu: ʾamarakum rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama wasallama ʾan tusabbiḥū dubura kulli ṣalātin kadhā wakadhā? qāla: naʿam,
In a dream, an Anṣārī man was asked, “Did the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, instruct you to glorify God after every prayer in such and such a way?” He answered, “Yes.” [The supplied Arabic repeats “and grant him peace” in the preceding blessing.]
قَالَ: فَاجْعَلُوهَا خَمْسًا وَعِشْرِينَ، وَاجْعَلُوا فِيهَا التَّهْلِيلَ،
qāla: fa-jʿalūhā khamsan waʿishrīna, wa-jʿalū fīhā al-tahlīla,
He was told, “Make the count twenty-five, and include the declaration that there is no god but God.”
فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ الرَّجُلُ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَأَخْبَرَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَافْعَلُوا»
falammā ʾaṣbaḥa al-rajulu ʾatā al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama faʾakhbarahu, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «fa-fʿalū»
In the morning the man told the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Then do so.”
١١٦١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ:
1161 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabbādu bnu al-ʿawwāmi qāla: ḥaddathanā hishāmu bnu ḥassāna, ʿani al-ḥasani, qāla:
1161 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām informed us; Hishām ibn Ḥassān related to us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “ الْعِلْمُ عِلْمَانِ: عِلْمٌ فِي الْقَلْبِ، فَذَلِكَ الْعِلْمُ النَّافِعُ، وَعِلْمٌ عَلَى اللِّسَانِ، فَذَلِكَ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ ”
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: “al-ʿilmu ʿilmāni: ʿilmun fī al-qalbi, fadhālika al-ʿilmu al-nāfiʿu, waʿilmun ʿalā al-lisāni, fadhālika ḥujjatu Allāhi ʿalā khalqihi”
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Knowledge is of two kinds: knowledge in the heart is beneficial knowledge; knowledge only on the tongue is God’s proof against His creatures.”
١١٦٢ - أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنِ اِبْنِ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ، أَنَّ سُوَيْدَ بْنَ قَيْسٍ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ حُدَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ:
1162 - ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki, ʿani ibni lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ʾabī ḥabībin, ʾanna suwayda bna qaysin ʾakhbarahu ʾanna ʿabda al-raḥmāni bna muʿāwiyata bni ḥudayjin ʾakhbarahu qāla:
1162 — ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from Ibn Lahīʿa, who said: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb related to us; Suwayd ibn Qays informed him that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Ḥudayj had informed him, saying:
سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا يَحِلُّ لِي مِمَّا يَحْرُمُ عَلَيَّ؟ فَسَكَتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ،
saʾala rajulun rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, mā yaḥillu lī mimmā yaḥrumu ʿalayya? fasakata rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faradda ʿalayhi thalātha marrātin,
A man asked the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, “Messenger of God, what is permissible for me among things that are forbidden to me?” The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, remained silent. The man repeated the question three times,
كُلُّ ذَلِكَ يَسْكُتُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «أَيْنَ السَّائِلُ؟» فَقَالَ: أَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ،
kullu dhālika yaskutu rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, thumma qāla: «ʾayna al-sāʾilu?» faqāla: ʾanā yā rasūla Allāhi,
and the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, remained silent each time. Then he asked, “Where is the questioner?” The man replied, “Here I am, Messenger of God.”
فَقَالَ - وَنَقَرَ بِأُصْبُعِهِ -: «مَا أَنْكَرَ قَلْبُكَ فَدَعْهُ»
faqāla - wanaqara biʾuṣbuʿihi -: «mā ʾankara qalbuka fadaʿhu»
The Messenger tapped with his finger and said, “Leave whatever your heart rejects.”
١١٦٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبَابِ قَالَ:
1163 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʾabī ʿadiyyin qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu ʿawnin, ʿan muḥammadin, ʿan ʾabī al-rabābi qāla:
1163 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī informed us; Ibn ʿAwn related to us, from Muḥammad, from Abū al-Rabāb, who said:
كُنْتُ خَامِسَ خَمْسَةٍ فِي الَّذِينَ وُلُّوا قَبْضَ السُّوسِ، فَأَتَى رَجُلٌ وَفِيهِ لَخْلَخَانِيَّةٌ كَهَيْئَةِ الدِّيَافِيَّةِ أَوِ الْعَبَّادِيَّةِ فَقَالَ: إِنِّي قَدْ خَبَّأْتُ خَبِيئًا فَتَبِيعُونِيهِ؟
kuntu khāmisa khamsatin fī alladhīna wullū qabḍa al-sūsi, faʾatā rajulun wafīhi lakhlakhāniyyatun kahayʾati al-diyāfiyyati ʾawi al-ʿabbādiyyati faqāla: ʾinnī qad khabbaʾtu khabīʾan fatabīʿūnīhi?
I was one of five entrusted with taking Sūs. A man came whose speech had a peculiar accent, like that of the Diyāfiyya or ʿAbbādiyya, and asked, “I have hidden something away. Will you sell it to me?”
قُلْنَا: نَعَمْ، إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ، وَلَا ذَهَبًا، وَلَا فِضَّةً،
qulnā: naʿam, ʾin lam yakun kitāba Allāhi, walā dhahaban, walā fiḍḍatan,
We said, “Yes, provided it is not the Book of God, gold, or silver.”
قَالَ: فَإِنَّهُ بَعْضُ مَا اِسْتَثْنَيْتُمْ، هُوَ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ، أُحْسِنُ أَقْرَأُهُ، وَلَا تُحْسِنُونَ تَقْرَءُونَهُ،
qāla: faʾinnahu baʿḍu mā istathnaytum, huwa kitābu Allāhi, ʾuḥsinu ʾaqraʾuhu, walā tuḥsinūna taqraʾūnahu,
He answered, “It is one of the things you excluded: the Book of God. I know how to read it well, whereas you do not.”
فَقُلْنَا: فَأْتِنَا بِهِ، فَأَتَانَا بِهِ، فَنَزَعْنَا دَفَّتَيْهِ، وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُ، وَاشْتَرَاهُ مِنَّا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ بِدِرْهَمَيْنِ،
faqulnā: faʾtinā bihi, faʾatānā bihi, fanazaʿnā daffatayhi, wawahabnā lahu, wa-shtarāhu minnā baʿda dhālika bidirhamayni,
We asked him to bring it. He did, and we removed its two covers and gave them to him. He then bought the manuscript from us for two dirhams.
فَلَمَّا كَانَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ خَرَجْنَا إِلَى الشَّامِ، وَصَحِبَنَا رَجُلٌ شَيْخٌ عَلَى حِمَارٍ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مُصْحَفٌ، وَهُوَ مُكِبٌّ عَلَيْهِ يَقْرَأُ وَيَبْكِي، قَالَ: وَفِي نَاحِيَةِ الرُّفْقَةِ فَتًى شَابٌّ يَتَغَنَّى يَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهُ،
falammā kāna baʿda dhālika kharajnā ʾilā al-shāmi, waṣaḥibanā rajulun shaykhun ʿalā ḥimārin bayna yadayhi muṣḥafun, wahuwa mukibbun ʿalayhi yaqraʾu wayabkī, qāla: wafī nāḥiyati al-rufqati fatan shābbun yataghannā yarfaʿu ṣawtahu,
Later we set out for Syria. An elderly man traveled with us on a donkey, bent over a manuscript that he read while weeping. Elsewhere in the company, a young man sang loudly.
قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُهُ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ، لَا تَلُمْنَا فَإِنَّهُ فَتًى شَابٌّ، قَالَ: هُوَ صَاحِبٌ، وَلَهُ حَقٌّ،
qāla: faʾataytuhu, faqultu lahu: yā ʿabda Allāhi, lā talumnā faʾinnahu fatan shābbun, qāla: huwa ṣāḥibun, walahu ḥaqqun,
I went to the elder and said, “Please do not blame us; he is a young man.” The elder said, “He is a traveling companion and has his rights.”
قُلْتُ: مَا أَشْبَهَ هَذَا الْمُصْحَفُ بِمُصْحَفٍ كَانَ مِنْ شَأْنِهِ كَذَا، قَالَ: مَا رَأَيْتُ كَالْيَوْمِ رَجُلًا أَثْبَتَ بَصَرًا، فَإِنَّهُ ذَاكَ،
qultu: mā ʾashbaha hādhā al-muṣḥafu bimuṣḥafin kāna min shaʾnihi kadhā, qāla: mā raʾaytu ka-l-yawmi rajulan ʾathbata baṣaran, faʾinnahu dhāka,
I said that his manuscript looked very much like one I knew from an earlier encounter. He replied, “I have never seen anyone with keener eyes. It is that very manuscript.”
قُلْتُ: فَأَيْنَ تُرِيدُ الْآنَ؟ قَالَ: أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ كَعْبُ الْأَحْبَارِ عَامَ الْأَوَّلِ، فَأَتَيْتُهُ، ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ الْعَامَ، إِمَّا أَنْ تَأْتِيَنِي، وَإِمَّا أَنْ آتِيَكَ، فَهَذَا وَجْهِي إِلَيْهِ ،
qultu: faʾayna turīdu al-ʾāna? qāla: ʾarsala ʾilayya kaʿbu al-ʾaḥbāri ʿāma al-ʾawwali, faʾataytuhu, thumma ʾarsala ʾilayya al-ʿāma, ʾimmā ʾan taʾtiyanī, waʾimmā ʾan ʾātiyaka, fahādhā wajhī ʾilayhi,
I asked where he was going. He said, “Kaʿb al-Aḥbār summoned me last year and I visited him. This year he sent word: ‘Either come to me or I will come to you.’ I am on my way to him.”
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَأَنَا مَعَكَ فَانْطَلَقْنَا حَتَّى قَدِمْنَا الشَّامَ، فَقَعَدَ عِنْدَ كَعْبٍ، فَجَاءَ عِشْرُونَ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ، فِيهِمْ شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ يَرْفَعُ حَاجِبَيْهِ بِحَرِيرَةٍ، فَقَالَ: أَوْسِعُوا أَوْسِعُوا، فَأَوْسَعُوا، وَرَكِبْنَا أَعْنَاقَهُمْ،
qāla: qultu: faʾanā maʿaka fa-nṭalaqnā ḥattā qadimnā al-shāma, faqaʿada ʿinda kaʿbin, fajāʾa ʿishrūna mina al-yahūdi, fīhim shaykhun kabīrun yarfaʿu ḥājibayhi biḥarīratin, faqāla: ʾawsiʿū ʾawsiʿū, faʾawsaʿū, warakibnā ʾaʿnāqahum,
I said I would accompany him. We reached Syria and sat with Kaʿb. Twenty Jews arrived, among them an old man who held up his eyebrows with a strip of silk. At the call to make room, the people did so; the account says that we “mounted their necks.”
فَتَكَلَّمُوا، فَقَالَ كَعْبٌ: يَا نُعَيْمُ، أَتُجِيبُ هَؤُلَاءِ أَوْ أُجِيبُهُمْ؟، فَقَالَ: دَعُونِي حَتَّى أُفَقِّهَ هَؤُلَاءِ مَا قَالُوا، ثُمَّ أُجِيبَهُمْ،
fatakallamū, faqāla kaʿbun: yā nuʿaymu, ʾatujību hāʾulāʾi ʾaw ʾujībuhum? faqāla: daʿūnī ḥattā ʾufaqqiha hāʾulāʾi mā qālū, thumma ʾujībahum,
They spoke. Kaʿb asked, “Nuʿaym, will you answer them, or shall I?” He replied, “Let me explain to these people what they have said, then I will answer.”
إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ أَثْنَوْا عَلَى أَهْلِ مِلَّتِنَا خَيْرًا، ثُمَّ قَلَبُوا أَلْسِنَتَهُمْ، فَزَعَمُوا أَنَّا بِعْنَا الْآخِرَةَ بِالدُّنْيَا، هَلُمَّ فَلْنُوَاثِقْكُمْ، فَإِنْ جِئْتُمْ بِأَهْدَى مِمَّا نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ اِتَّبَعْنَاكُمْ، وَإِنْ جِئْنَا بِأَهْدَى مِمَّا أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ لَتَتَّبِعُنَّنَا،
ʾinna hāʾulāʾi ʾathnaw ʿalā ʾahli millatinā khayran, thumma qalabū ʾalsinatahum, fazaʿamū ʾannā biʿnā al-ʾākhirata bi-l-dunyā, halumma falnuwāthiqkum, faʾin jiʾtum biʾahdā mimmā naḥnu ʿalayhi ittabaʿnākum, waʾin jiʾnā biʾahdā mimmā ʾantum ʿalayhi latattabiʿunnanā,
“They praised the people of our faith, then changed their tune and claimed that we had sold the Hereafter for this world. Come, let us make a pact: if you bring better guidance, we will follow you; if we bring better guidance, you will follow us.”
قَالَ: فَتَوَاثَقُوا، فَقَالَ كَعْبٌ: «أَرْسِلْ إِلَيَّ ذَلِكَ الْمُصْحَفَ» ، فَأُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِ فَجِيءَ بِهِ، فَقَالَ: «أَتَرْضَوْنَ أَنْ يَكُونَ هَذَا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ؟»
qāla: fatawāthaqū, faqāla kaʿbun: «ʾarsil ʾilayya dhālika al-muṣḥafa», faʾursila ʾilayhi fajīʾa bihi, faqāla: «ʾatarḍawna ʾan yakūna hādhā baynanā wabaynakum?»
They made their pact. Kaʿb asked for the manuscript; when it was brought, he asked, “Will you accept this as the judge between us?”
قَالُوا: نَعَمْ، لَا يُحْسِنُ أَحَدٌ يَكْتُبُ مِثْلَ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، فَدُفِعَ إِلَى شَابٍّ مِنْهُمْ، فَقَرَأَ كَأَسْرَعِ قَارِئٍ،
qālū: naʿam, lā yuḥsinu ʾaḥadun yaktubu mithla hādhā al-yawmi, fadufiʿa ʾilā shābbin minhum, faqaraʾa kaʾasraʿi qāriʾin,
They agreed, saying that no one nowadays could write anything like it. A young man among them was given the text, and he read it very quickly.
فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ إِلَى مَكَانٍ مِنْهُ نَظَرَ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ كَالرَّجُلِ يُؤْذِنُ صَاحِبَهُ بِالشَّيْءِ قَدْ دَنَا مِنْهُ، قَالَ: ثُمَّ جَمَعَ يَدَيْهِ، فَقَالَ بِهِ، فَنَبَذَهُ،
falammā balagha ʾilā makānin minhu naẓara ʾilā ʾaṣḥābihi ka-l-rajuli yuʾdhinu ṣāḥibahu bi-l-shayʾi qad danā minhu, qāla: thumma jamaʿa yadayhi, faqāla bihi, fanabadhahu,
When he reached a certain passage, he looked toward his companions as though signaling that he had come upon something significant. He then brought his hands together and cast the text aside. [The supplied phrase فَقَالَ بِهِ is unclear; the surrounding gesture guides this rendering.]
فَقَالَ كَعْبٌ: «آهٍ» ، وَأَخَذَهُ، وَوَضَعَهُ فِي حِجْرِهِ، فَقَرَأَ، وَأَتَى عَلَى آيَةٍ مِنْهُ فَخَرُّوا سُجَّدًا، فَلَمْ يَرْفَعُوا حَتَّى قِيلَ لَهُمُ: اِرْفَعُوا، فَرَفَعُوا،
faqāla kaʿbun: «ʾāhin», waʾakhadhahu, wawaḍaʿahu fī ḥijrihi, faqaraʾa, waʾatā ʿalā ʾāyatin minhu fakharrū sujjadan, falam yarfaʿū ḥattā qīla lahumu: irfaʿū, farafaʿū,
Kaʿb exclaimed “Ah!”, took the manuscript onto his lap, and read. At a verse, the group fell in prostration and did not rise until they were told to do so.
وَبَقِيَ الشَّيْخُ يَبْكِي، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: مَا لَكَ لَا تَرْفَعُ؟ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ وَهُوَ يَبْكِي، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: مَا يُبْكِيكَ؟ قَالَ: وَمَا لِي لَا أَبْكِي، رَجُلٌ عَمِلَ فِي الضَّلَالَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا سَنَةً، وَلَمْ أَعْرِفِ الْإِسْلَامَ حَتَّى كَانَ الْيَوْمُ،
wabaqiya al-shaykhu yabkī, faqīla lahu: mā laka lā tarfaʿu? farafaʿa raʾsahu wahuwa yabkī, faqīla lahu: mā yubkīka? qāla: wamā lī lā ʾabkī, rajulun ʿamila fī al-ḍalālati kadhā wakadhā sanatan, walam ʾaʿrifi al-ʾislāma ḥattā kāna al-yawmu,
The elder remained in tears. Asked why he did not rise and why he wept, he answered, “How could I not weep? I spent so many years in error and did not know Islam until today.”
قَالَ اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ: فَنُبِّئْتُ أَنَّ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ: فَقِيلَ لَهُ: فَإِنَّ مَجْلِسَكَ هَذَا كَفَّارَةٌ لِمَا مَضَى مِنْ عُمُرِكَ، قَالَ اِبْنُ عَوْنٍ: وَأَظُنُّهُ فِي حَدِيثِ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَهِيَ الْآيَةُ الَّتِي فِي آلِ عِمْرَانَ {إِنَّ الدِّينَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ الْإِسْلَامُ} [آلِ عِمْرَانَ: ١٩]
qāla ibnu ʿawnin: fanubbiʾtu ʾanna ʾayyūba qāla: faqīla lahu: faʾinna majlisaka hādhā kaffāratun limā maḍā min ʿumurika, qāla ibnu ʿawnin: waʾaẓunnuhu fī ḥadīthi muḥammadin, wahiya al-ʾāyatu allatī fī ʾāli ʿimrāna {ʾinna al-dīna ʿinda Allāhi al-ʾislāmu} [ʾāli ʿimrāna: 19]
Ibn ʿAwn said he was told that Ayyūb added: The elder was told, “This gathering expiates what has passed of your life.” Ibn ʿAwn thought this also belonged to Muḥammad’s account. The verse was, “The religion with God is Islam” [Āl ʿImrān 3:19].
قَالَ: فَأَتَيْنَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ، فَدَخَلْنَا عَلَيْهِ، وَهُوَ يَشْتَكِي، فَجَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ،
qāla: faʾataynā ʾabā al-dardāʾi, fadakhalnā ʿalayhi, wahuwa yashtakī, fajāʾa ʾaʿrābiyyun,
We visited Abū al-Dardāʾ while he was ill. A Bedouin came in
فَقَالَ: مَا صُدِعْتُ قَطُّ، وَلَا حُمِمْتُ، وَلَا، وَلَا،
faqāla: mā ṣudiʿtu qaṭṭu, walā ḥumimtu, walā, walā,
and said, “I have never had a headache or a fever, or this or that.”
فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ: «أَخْرِجُوهُ، إِنَّ خَطَايَاكَ عَلَيْكَ كَمَا هِيَ، مَا يَسُرُّنِي بِوَصَبٍ وَاحِدٍ أُصِبْتُهُ حُمْرُ النَّعَمِ، إِنَّ وَصَبَ الْمُسْلِمِ كَفَّارَةٌ لِخَطَايَاهُ»
faqāla ʾabū al-dardāʾi: «ʾakhrijūhu, ʾinna khaṭāyāka ʿalayka kamā hiya, mā yasurrunī biwaṣabin wāḥidin ʾuṣibtuhu ḥumru al-naʿami, ʾinna waṣaba al-muslimi kaffāratun likhaṭāyāhu»
Abū al-Dardāʾ said, “Take him out. Your sins remain upon you as they were. I would not exchange even one illness I suffered for red camels. A Muslim’s illness atones for his sins.”
١١٦٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سِنَانُ بْنُ هَارُونَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو صَخْرَةَ جَامِعُ بْنُ شَدَّادٍ قَالَ:
1164 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu sulaymāna qāla: ḥaddathanā sinānu bnu hārūna qāla: ḥaddathanā yazīdu bnu ziyādi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi qāla: ḥaddathanī ʾabū ṣakhrata jāmiʿu bnu shaddādin qāla:
1164 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān informed us; Sinān ibn Hārūn related to us; Yazīd ibn Ziyād ibn Abī al-Jaʿd related to us; Abū Ṣakhra Jāmiʿ ibn Shaddād related to me, saying:
كَانَ رَجُلٌ مِنَّا يُقَالُ لَهُ طَارِقٌ، فَقَالَ: رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّتَيْنِ:
kāna rajulun minnā yuqālu lahu ṭāriqun, faqāla: raʾaytu al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama marratayni:
There was a man among us named Ṭāriq. He said, “I saw the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, twice.
رَأَيْتُهُ بِسُوقِ ذِي الْمَجَازِ قَدْ دَمِيَتْ عُرْقُوبَاهُ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: “ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، قُولُوا: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ تُفْلِحُوا ”،
raʾaytuhu bisūqi dhī al-majāzi qad damiyat ʿurqūbāhu wahuwa yaqūlu: “yā ʾayyuhā al-nāsu, qūlū: lā ʾilāha ʾillā Allāhu tufliḥū”,
I saw him in the market of Dhū al-Majāz, his heels bleeding, calling out, ‘People, say: There is no god but God, and you will prosper.’
وَرَجُلٌ مِنْ خَلْفِهِ يَرْمِيهِ، وَيَقُولُ: هَذَا الْكَذَّابُ فَلَا تَسْمَعُوا مِنْهُ، فَقُلْتُ: مَنْ هَذَا؟ فَقَالُوا: هَذَا مُحَمَّدٌ، وَهَذَا أَبُو لَهَبٍ عَمُّهُ،
warajulun min khalfihi yarmīhi, wayaqūlu: hādhā al-kadhdhābu falā tasmaʿū minhu, faqultu: man hādhā? faqālū: hādhā muḥammadun, wahādhā ʾabū lahabin ʿammuhu,
A man behind him was throwing things at him and saying, ‘He is a liar; do not listen to him.’ I asked who they were. The people said, ‘That is Muḥammad, and the other man is his uncle Abū Lahab.’
قَالَ: ثُمَّ قَدِمْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْنَا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «مَنِ الْقَوْمُ؟» فَقُلْنَا: مُحَارِبٌ، فَقَالَ: «مِنْ أَيْنَ أَقْبَلْتُمْ؟» قُلْنَا: مِنَ الرَّبَذَةِ، أَوْ مِنْ حَوْلِهَا،
qāla: thumma qadimnā al-madīnata baʿda dhālika, fakharaja ʾilaynā al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla: «mani al-qawmu?» faqulnā: muḥāribun, faqāla: «min ʾayna ʾaqbaltum?» qulnā: mina al-rabadhati, ʾaw min ḥawlihā,
Later we arrived in Medina. The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, came out to us and asked what people we belonged to. “Muḥārib,” we said. He asked where we had come from. We said, “From al-Rabadha, or somewhere near it.”
فَقَالَ: «مَعَكُمْ شَيْءٌ تَبِيعُونَ؟» فَقُلْنَا: نَعَمْ، هَذَا الْبَعِيرُ، فَقَالَ: «بِكَمْ؟» قُلْنَا: بِكَذَا وَكَذَا وَسْقًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ،
faqāla: «maʿakum shayʾun tabīʿūna?» faqulnā: naʿam, hādhā al-baʿīru, faqāla: «bikam?» qulnā: bikadhā wakadhā wasqan min tamrin,
He asked if we had anything to sell. We offered a camel, quoting a price of so many loads of dates.
فَأَخَذَ خِطَامَهُ وَانْطَلَقَ بِهِ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَقُلْنَا: مَا صَنَعْنَا بِعْنَا الْبَعِيرَ مِنْ رَجُلٍ لَا نَدْرِي مَنْ هُوَ؟
faʾakhadha khiṭāmahu wa-nṭalaqa bihi ʾilā al-madīnati, faqulnā: mā ṣanaʿnā biʿnā al-baʿīra min rajulin lā nadrī man huwa?
He took its halter and led it into Medina. We asked ourselves, “What have we done? We sold the camel to a man we do not know!”
فَقَالَ: وَمَعَنَا ظَعِينَةٌ فِي جَانِبِ الْخِبَاءِ، فَقَالَتْ: أَنَا ضَامِنَةٌ لِثَمَنِ الْبَعِيرِ، رَأَيْتُ وَجْهَ رَجُلٍ مِثْلَ الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ، لَا يَخِيسُ بِكُمْ،
faqāla: wamaʿanā ẓaʿīnatun fī jānibi al-khibāʾi, faqālat: ʾanā ḍāminatun lithamani al-baʿīri, raʾaytu wajha rajulin mithla al-qamari laylata al-badri, lā yakhīsu bikum,
A woman traveling with us, standing by the tent, said, “I guarantee the camel’s price. I saw the face of a man like the full moon; he will not let you down.”
قَالَ: فَأَصْبَحْنَا، فَجَاءَنَا رَجُلٌ مَعَهُ تَمْرٌ، فَقَالَ: أَنَا رَسُولُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَيْكُمْ يَأْمُرُكُمْ «أَنْ تَأْكُلُوا مِنْ هَذَا التَّمْرِ، وَأَنْ تَكْتَالُوا حَتَّى تَسْتَوْفُوا»
qāla: faʾaṣbaḥnā, fajāʾanā rajulun maʿahu tamrun, faqāla: ʾanā rasūlu rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʾilaykum yaʾmurukum «ʾan taʾkulū min hādhā al-tamri, waʾan taktālū ḥattā tastawfū»
The next morning a man brought dates. He said, “I am an envoy of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, to you. He instructs you to eat some of these dates and measure out your full due.”
قَالَ: فَفَعَلْنَا، ثُمَّ دَخَلْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ، فَرَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ:
qāla: fafaʿalnā, thumma dakhalnā al-madīnata, faraʾaytu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama ʿalā al-minbari wahuwa yaqūlu:
We did so and entered Medina. I saw the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, on the pulpit saying:
«يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، الْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى، وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُولُ، أُمَّكَ وَأَبَاكَ، وَأُخْتَكَ وَأَخَاكَ، وَأَدْنَاكَ أَدْنَاكَ» ،
«yā ʾayyuhā al-nāsu, al-yadu al-ʿulyā khayrun mina al-yadi al-suflā, wa-bdaʾ biman taʿūlu, ʾummaka waʾabāka, waʾukhtaka waʾakhāka, waʾadnāka ʾadnāka»,
“People, the giving hand is better than the receiving hand. Begin with those you support: your mother and father, your sister and brother, then your nearest relatives in order.”
قَالَ: وَضَجَّ نَاسٌ حَوْلَ الْمِنْبَرِ، فَقَالُوا لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: هَؤُلَاءِ بَنُو ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ يَرْبُوعٍ، أَصَابُوا مِنَّا دَمًا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، فَخُذْ لَنَا بِثَأْرِنَا،
qāla: waḍajja nāsun ḥawla al-minbari, faqālū lirasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: hāʾulāʾi banū thaʿlabata bni yarbūʿin, ʾaṣābū minnā daman fī al-jāhiliyyati, fakhudh lanā bithaʾrinā,
A group near the pulpit raised their voices and said to the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace: “Those are the descendants of Thaʿlaba ibn Yarbūʿ. They shed our people’s blood before Islam. Secure vengeance for us.”
قَالَ: فَرَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَافِعًا يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى نَظَرْتُ إِلَى بَيَاضِ إِبِطَيْهِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: «أَلَا لَا تَجْنِي أُمٌّ عَلَى وَلَدٍ»
qāla: faraʾaytu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama rāfiʿan yadayhi ḥattā naẓartu ʾilā bayāḍi ʾibiṭayhi wahuwa yaqūlu: «ʾalā lā tajnī ʾummun ʿalā waladin»
I saw the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, raise his hands so high that I could see the whiteness of his armpits. He said, “A mother’s wrongdoing is not to be laid upon her child.”
١١٦٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَزْمُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ يَقُولُ:
1165 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-faḍlu bnu mūsā qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥazmu bnu mihrāna qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana yaqūlu:
1165 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā related to us; Ḥazm ibn Mihrān related to us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan say:
حُدِّثْنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ يُدْخِلُهُ عَمَلُهُ الْجَنَّةَ» ،
ḥuddithnā ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla: «mā minkum min ʾaḥadin yudkhiluhu ʿamaluhu al-jannata»,
We were told that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “None of you will enter Paradise by virtue of his deeds.”
قَالُوا: وَلَا أَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «وَلَا أَنَا إِلَّا أَنْ يَتَغَمَّدَنِي اللَّهُ مِنْهُ بِرَحْمَةٍ وَفَضْلٍ» ، وَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى ذَوَائِبِهِ
qālū: walā ʾanta yā rasūla Allāhi? qāla: «walā ʾanā ʾillā ʾan yataghammadanī Allāhu minhu biraḥmatin wafaḍlin», wawaḍaʿa yadahu ʿalā dhawāʾibihi
They asked, “Not even you, Messenger of God?” He replied, “Not even I, unless God enfolds me in His mercy and grace.” He placed his hand on his forelocks.
١١٦٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ قَالَ: أَبُو بِشْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَ قَالَ:
1166 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā hushaymun qāla: ʾabū bishrin ʾakhbaranā ʿan yūsufa bni māhaka qāla:
1166 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Hushaym informed us; Abū Bishr informed us, from Yūsuf ibn Māhak, who said:
رَأَيْتُ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ، وَهُوَ عِنْدَ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ يَقُصُّ، «فَرَأَيْتُ اِبْنَ عُمَرَ عَيْنَاهُ تُهْرَاقَانِ دَمْعًا»
raʾaytu ibna ʿumara, wahuwa ʿinda ʿubaydi bni ʿumayrin yaquṣṣu, «faraʾaytu ibna ʿumara ʿaynāhu tuhrāqāni damʿan»
I saw Ibn ʿUmar while ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr was preaching. “I saw tears streaming from Ibn ʿUmar’s eyes.”
١١٦٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ عَمْرُو بْنُ حُمْرَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ وَاصِلٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي عُيَيْنَةَ، قَالَ:
1167 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū al-naḍri ʿamru bnu ḥumrāna qāla: ḥaddathanā hishāmun, ʿan wāṣilin mawlā ʾabī ʿuyaynata, qāla:
1167 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū al-Naḍr ʿAmr ibn Ḥumrān informed us; Hishām related to us, from Wāṣil, a client of Abū ʿUyayna, who said:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَسْتَغْنِي أَحَدُكُمْ بِغِنَى اللَّهِ» ،
qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «yastaghnī ʾaḥadukum bighinā Allāhi»,
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Let one of you be content with the sufficiency God provides.”
قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، وَمَا غِنَى اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «غِذَاءُ يَوْمِهِ، وَعَشَاءُ لَيْلَتِهِ»
qālū: yā rasūla Allāhi, wamā ghinā Allāhi? qāla: «ghidhāʾu yawmihi, waʿashāʾu laylatihi»
They asked, “Messenger of God, what is God’s sufficiency?” He replied, “A day’s food and an evening meal.”
١١٦٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ، عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ، وَأَبِي الدَّهْمَاءِ، قَالَا:
1168 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā saʿīdu bnu sulaymāna qāla: ḥaddathanā sulaymānu bnu al-mughīrati, ʿan ḥumaydi bni hilālin, ʿan ʾabī qatādata, waʾabī al-dahmāʾi, qālā:
1168 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān informed us; Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra related to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from Abū Qatāda and Abū al-Dahmāʾ. They said:
أَتَيْنَا عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَادِيَةِ، فَقَالَ الْبَدَوِيُّ: أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِيَدِي، فَعَلَّمَنِي مِمَّا عَلَّمَهُ اللَّهُ، فَكَانَ مِمَّا حَفِظْتُ عَنْهُ أَنْ قَالَ:
ʾataynā ʿalā rajulin min ʾahli al-bādiyati, faqāla al-badawiyyu: ʾakhadha rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama biyadī, faʿallamanī mimmā ʿallamahu Allāhu, fakāna mimmā ḥafiẓtu ʿanhu ʾan qāla:
We came upon a man of the desert. He said, “The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, took my hand and taught me some of what God had taught him. One saying I retained was:
«إِنَّكَ لَنْ تَدَعَ شَيْئًا اِتِّقَاءً لِلَّهِ إِلَّا أَعْطَاكَ اللَّهُ خَيْرًا مِنْهُ»
«ʾinnaka lan tadaʿa shayʾan ittiqāʾan li-llāhi ʾillā ʾaʿṭāka Allāhu khayran minhu»
‘Whenever you give something up out of reverence for God, He will give you something better in its place.’”
١١٦٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا نُوحُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ الْعَسْقَلَانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ كَيْسَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ:
1169 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā nūḥu bnu al-haythami al-ʿasqalāniyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā khālidu bnu khalīfata, ʿan yazīda bni kaysāna, ʿan ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʾabī hurayrata qāla:
1169 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Nūḥ ibn al-Haytham al-ʿAsqalānī informed us; Khālid ibn Khalīfa related to us, from Yazīd ibn Kaysān, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayra, who said:
خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَلَقِيَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرَ، فَقَالَ: «مَا أَخْرَجَكُمَا؟» قَالَا: الْجُوعُ،
kharaja rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama walaqiya ʾabā bakrin, waʿumara, faqāla: «mā ʾakhrajakumā?» qālā: al-jūʿu,
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, went out and met Abū Bakr and ʿUmar. He asked, “What brought you both out?” They replied, “Hunger.”
فَقَالَ: «وَأَنَا وَالَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالْحَقِّ مَا أَخْرَجَنِي إِلَّا الَّذِي أَخْرَجَكُمَا» ، قَالَ: «قُومُوا» ، فَقَامُوا مَعَهُ،
faqāla: «waʾanā wa-alladhī baʿathanī bil-ḥaqqi mā ʾakhrajanī ʾillā alladhī ʾakhrajakumā», qāla: «qūmū», faqāmū maʿahu,
He said, “And I swear by the One who sent me with the truth: only what brought you both out brought me out.” He said, “Come,” and they went with him.
فَأَتَى بَيْتَ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، وَالرَّجُلُ لَيْسَ ثَمَّةَ، فَقَالَتِ اِمْرَأَتُهُ: مَرْحَبًا، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَأَيْنَ أَبُو فُلَانٍ؟» قَالَتْ: خَرَجَ يَسْتَعْذِبُ لَنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ،
faʾatā bayta rajulin mina al-ʾanṣāri, wa-al-rajulu laysa thammata, faqālati imraʾatuhu: marḥaban, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «faʾayna ʾabū fulānin?» qālat: kharaja yastaʿdhibu lanā mina al-māʾi,
He went to the house of a man of the Anṣār, who was away. His wife welcomed them. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, asked, “Where is the man of the house?” She said, “He went out to fetch us fresh water.”
فَجَاءَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ وَمَعَهُ قِرْبَةٌ مِنْ مَاءٍ، وَلَمَّا بَصَرَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَصَاحِبَيْهِ، قَالَ: اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ، مَا أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ الْيَوْمَ أَكْرَمَ مِنِّي أَضْيَافًا، وَوَضَعَ الْقِرْبَةَ،
fajāʾa al-ʾanṣāriyyu wamaʿahu qirbatun min māʾin, walammā baṣara ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama waṣāḥibayhi, qāla: Allāhu ʾakbaru, mā ʾaḥadun mina al-nāsi al-yawma ʾakrama minnī ʾaḍyāfan, wawaḍaʿa al-qirbata,
The Anṣārī returned with a waterskin. When he saw the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, and his two companions, he exclaimed, “God is greatest! No one today has more honored guests than I do.” He set down the waterskin.
ثُمَّ اِنْطَلَقَ فَأَتَاهُمْ بِعِذْقٍ مِنْ تَمْرٍ، وَرُطَبٍ، وَبُسْرٍ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَهَلَّا اِجْتَنَيْتَهُ» فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، تَخَيَّرُوا عَلَى أَعْيُنِكُمْ،
thumma inṭalaqa faʾatāhum biʿidhqin min tamrin, waruṭabin, wabusrin, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «fahallā ijtanaytahu» faqāla: yā rasūla Allāhi, takhayyarū ʿalā ʾaʿyunikum,
Then he brought them a date cluster bearing dates at different stages of ripeness. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, asked, “Why did you not pick them?” He replied, “Messenger of God, choose the ones you like for yourselves.”
ثُمَّ أَخَذَ الْمُدْيَةَ ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِيَّاكَ وَالْحَلُوبَ» ، فَذَبَحَ لَهُمْ شَاةً، فَأَكَلُوا وَشَرِبُوا،
thumma ʾakhadha al-mudyata, faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «ʾiyyāka wal-ḥalūba», fadhabaḥa lahum shātan, faʾakalū washaribū,
Then he took a knife. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, told him, “Spare the one that gives milk.” So he slaughtered a sheep for them, and they ate and drank.
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، لَتُسْأَلُنَّ عَنْ هَذَا النَّعِيمِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، أَخْرَجَكُمْ مِنْ بُيُوتِكُمُ الْجُوعُ، فَلَمْ تَرْجِعُوا حَتَّى أَصَبْتُمْ هَذَا النَّعِيمَ»
faqāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «wa-alladhī nafsī biyadihi, latusʾalunna ʿan hādhā al-naʿīmi yawma al-qiyāmati, ʾakhrajakum min buyūtikumu al-jūʿu, falam tarjiʿū ḥattā ʾaṣabtum hādhā al-naʿīma»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “By the One in whose hand my soul rests, you will surely be asked about this comfort on the Day of Resurrection. Hunger drove you from your homes; before you returned, you received these blessings.”
١١٧٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا نُوحُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ، وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، وَاللَّفْظُ لِنُوحٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا خَلَفُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ نُبَيْطٍ قَالَ:
1170 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā nūḥu bnu al-haythami, wasaʿīdu bnu sulaymāna, wa-al-lafẓu linūḥin, qāla: ḥaddathanā khalafu bnu khalīfata, ʿan salamata bni nubayṭin qāla:
1170 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Nūḥ ibn al-Haytham and Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān informed us, with the wording from Nūḥ. He said: Khalaf ibn Khalīfa related to us, from Salama ibn Nubayṭ, who said:
كُنَّا بِخُرَاسَانَ جُلُوسًا عِنْدَ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ، فَأَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى: {إِنَّا نَرَاكَ مِنَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ} [يُوسُف: ٣٦] ، مَا كَانَ إِحْسَانُ يُوسُفَ؟ قَالَ:
kunnā bikhurāsāna julūsan ʿinda al-ḍaḥḥāki bni muzāḥimin, faʾatāhu rajulun fasaʾalahu ʿan qawli Allāhi tabāraka wataʿālā: {ʾinnā narāka mina al-muḥsinīna} [yūsuf: 36], mā kāna ʾiḥsānu yūsufa? qāla:
We were sitting with al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim in Khurāsān when a man came and asked him about the words of God, Blessed and Most High, “We see that you are one of those who do good” [Joseph 12:36]: “How did Joseph show kindness?” He answered:
إِذَا كَانَ ضَاقَ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ مَكَانُهُ وَسَّعَ لَهُ، وَإِنِ اِحْتَاجَ جَمَعَ لَهُ، أَوْ سَأَلَ لَهُ، وَإِنِ مَرِضَ قَامَ عَلَيْهِ
ʾidhā kāna ḍāqa ʿalā al-rajuli makānuhu wassaʿa lahu, waʾini iḥtāja jamaʿa lahu, ʾaw saʾala lahu, waʾini mariḍa qāma ʿalayhi
“If a man had too little space, Joseph made room for him. If he was in need, Joseph gathered provisions for him or asked others on his behalf. If he became ill, Joseph cared for him.”
١١٧١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا نُوحٌ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا خَلَفُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ اِبْنُ أَخِي أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ:
1171 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā nūḥun qāla: ʾakhbaranā khalafu bnu khalīfata qāla: ḥaddathanā ḥafṣu ibnu ʾakhī ʾanasi bni mālikin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla:
1171 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Nūḥ informed us; Khalaf ibn Khalīfa informed us; Ḥafṣ, the nephew of Anas ibn Mālik, related to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، وَرَجُلٌ يُصَلِّي، فَقَالَ:
kuntu jālisan maʿa al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī al-masjidi, warajulun yuṣallī, faqāla:
I was sitting with the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, in the mosque while a man was praying. The man said:
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِأَنَّ لَكَ الْحَمْدَ، لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ الْمَنَّانُ، بَدِيعُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ، يَا ذَا الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ، يَا حَيُّ، يَا قَيُّومُ، أَسْأَلُكَ،
Allāhumma ʾinnī ʾasʾaluka biʾanna laka al-ḥamda, lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾanta al-mannānu, badīʿu al-samawāti wal-ʾarḍi, yā dhā al-jalāli wal-ʾikrāmi, yā ḥayyu, yā qayyūmu, ʾasʾaluka,
“O God, I ask You, for all praise belongs to You. There is no god but You, the Generous Giver, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Possessor of majesty and honor, Ever Living, Sustainer of all. I ask You.”
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «هَلْ تَدْرُونَ بِمَا دَعَا؟» فَقَالُوا: اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ، فَقَالَ: «دَعَا اللَّهَ بِاسْمِهِ الْعَظِيمِ الَّذِي إِذَا دُعِيَ بِهِ أَجَابَ، وَإِذَا سُئِلَ بِهِ أَعْطَى»
faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «hal tadrūna bimā daʿā?» faqālū: Allāhu warasūluhu ʾaʿlamu, faqāla: «daʿā Allāha bismihi al-ʿaẓīmi alladhī ʾidhā duʿiya bihi ʾajāba, waʾidhā suʾila bihi ʾaʿṭā»
The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, asked, “Do you know by what he invoked God?” They said, “God and His Messenger know best.” He replied, “He invoked God by His great name: when He is invoked by it, He answers, and when He is asked by it, He gives.”
١١٧٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَبَانَ بْنِ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِنَحْوِهِ
1172 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata, ʿan ʾabāna bni ʾabī ʿayyāshin, ʿan ʾanasi bni mālikin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama binaḥwihi
1172 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us, from Abān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh, from Anas ibn Mālik, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, with wording similar to the preceding report.
١١٧٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَوْنُ بْنُ مُوسَى، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ قَالَ:
1173 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿawnu bnu mūsā, ʿan muʿāwiyata bni qurrata qāla:
1173 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; ʿAwn ibn Mūsā related to us, from Muʿāwiya ibn Qurra, who said:
كَانَ لِأَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ جَمَلٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ دَمُّونٌ، فَكَانَ إِذَا أَعَارَهُ قَالَ: هُوَ يَحْمِلُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَلَا تَحْمِلُوا عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا كَذَا وَكَذَا،
kāna liʾabī al-dardāʾi jamalun yuqālu lahu dammūnun, fakāna ʾidhā ʾaʿārahu qāla: huwa yaḥmilu kadhā wakadhā, falā taḥmilū ʿalayhi ʾillā kadhā wakadhā,
Abū al-Dardāʾ had a camel named Dammūn. When he lent it out, he would say, “It can carry only such and such a load, so put no more than that on it.”
فَلَمَّا كَانَ عِنْدَ اِنْقِضَاءِ هَلَاكِهِ، قَالَ: " دَمُّونُ، لَا تُخَاصِمْنِي عِنْدَ رَبِّي، فَإِنِّي كُنْتُ لَا أُحَمِّلُكَ إِلَّا طَاقَتَكَ
falammā kāna ʿinda inqiḍāʾi halākihi, qāla: "dammūnu, lā tukhāṣimnī ʿinda rabbī, faʾinnī kuntu lā ʾuḥammiluka ʾillā ṭāqataka
When death drew near, he said, “Dammūn, do not bring a claim against me before my Lord. I never made you carry more than you were able.”
١١٧٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى بْنِ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ آلِ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ:
1174 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-muthannā bni ʾanasi bni mālikin qāla: ḥaddathanī rajulun min ʾāli ʾanasi bni mālikin, ʾannahu samiʿa ʾanasa bna mālikin yaqūlu:
1174 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muthannā ibn Anas ibn Mālik informed us. He said: A man from the family of Anas ibn Mālik related to me that he heard Anas ibn Mālik say:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَتَنَاوَلُ الْمِرْآةَ فَيَنْظُرُ فِيهَا، وَيَقُولُ: «الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ أَكْمَلَ خَلْقِي، وَحَسَّنَ صُورَتِي، وَزَانَ مِنِّي مَا شَانَ مِنْ غَيْرِي»
kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yatanāwalu al-mirʾāta fayanẓuru fīhā, wayaqūlu: «al-ḥamdu li-llāhi ʾakmala khalqī, waḥassana ṣūratī, wazāna minnī mā shāna min ghayrī»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, would take a mirror, look into it, and say, “Praise be to God, who perfected my form, made my appearance beautiful, and made beautiful in me what is unattractive in others.”
١١٧٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْوَرْدِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَطَاءَ بْنَ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ يَقُولُ:
1175 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-jabbāri bnu al-wardi qāla: samiʿtu ʿaṭāʾa bna ʾabī rabāḥin yaqūlu:
1175 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl related to us; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Ward related to us. He said: I heard ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ say:
«مَا رَأَيْتُ مَجْلِسًا قَطُّ أَكْرَمَ مِنْ مَجْلِسِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَكْثَرَ فِقْهًا، وَلَا أَعْظَمَ جَفْنَةً، أَصْحَابُ الْقُرْآنِ عِنْدَهُ يَسْأَلُونَهُ، وَأَصْحَابُ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ عِنْدَهُ يَسْأَلُونَهُ، وَأَصْحَابُ الشِّعْرِ عِنْدَهُ يَسْأَلُونَهُ، فَكُلُّهُمْ يُصْدِرُ فِي رَأْيٍ وَاسِعٍ»
«mā raʾaytu majlisan qaṭṭu ʾakrama min majlisi ibni ʿabbāsin, ʾakthara fiqhan, walā ʾaʿẓama jafnatan, ʾaṣḥābu al-qurʾāni ʿindahu yasʾalūnahu, waʾaṣḥābu al-ʿarabiyyati ʿindahu yasʾalūnahu, waʾaṣḥābu al-shiʿri ʿindahu yasʾalūnahu, fakulluhum yuṣdiru fī raʾyin wāsiʿin»
“I have never seen a gathering more generous than Ibn ʿAbbās’s: rich in learning and with a great serving dish. Students of the Qurʾān came to question him; students of Arabic came to question him; students of poetry came to question him. All left with ample guidance.”
١١٧٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ الْوَرْدِ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ،
1176 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin, ʿan ʿabdi al-jabbāri bni al-wardi, ʿan ʿaṭāʾi bni ʾabī rabāḥin,
1176 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl related to us, from ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Ward, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ.
فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ: {طَهِّرَا بَيْتِيَ لِلطَّائِفِينَ وَالْعَاكِفِينَ وَالرُّكَّعِ السُّجُودِ} [الْبَقَرَةِ: ١٢٥] قَالَ:
fī qawli Allāhi: {ṭahhirā baytiya lil-ṭāʾifīna wal-ʿākifīna wal-rukkaʿi al-sujūdi} [al-baqarati: 125] qāla:
On God’s words, “Purify My House for those who circle it, remain there in devotion, bow and prostrate” [The Cow 2:125], he said:
أَمَا وَاللَّهِ مَا هُوَ بِالطِّيبِ وَلَكِنَّهُ مِنَ الذَّنْبِ
ʾamā wa-Allāhi mā huwa bil-ṭībi walākinnahu mina al-dhanbi
“By God, the purification meant here is not with perfume; it is purification from sin.”
١١٧٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ:
1177 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā zuhayrun, ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa qāla:
1177 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā informed us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; Zuhayr related to us, from Abū Isḥāq, who said:
كَانَ بَيْنَ أَصْحَابِ الْإِبِلِ وَالْغَنَمِ تَنَازُعٌ، فَاسْتَطَالَ أَصْحَابُ الْإِبِلِ عَلَى أَصْحَابِ الْغَنَمِ، فَبَلَغَنَا أَنَّ ذَلِكَ ذُكِرَ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
kāna bayna ʾaṣḥābi al-ʾibili wal-ghanami tanāzuʿun, fastaṭāla ʾaṣḥābu al-ʾibili ʿalā ʾaṣḥābi al-ghanami, fabalaghanā ʾanna dhālika dhukira lil-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
There was a dispute between the owners of camels and the owners of sheep, and the camel owners looked down on the sheep owners. We heard that the matter was mentioned to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace.
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «بُعِثَ مُوسَى وَهُوَ رَاعِي غَنَمٍ، وَبُعِثَ دَاوُدُ وَهُوَ رَاعِي غَنَمٍ، وَبُعِثْتُ أَنَا، وَأَنَا أَرْعَى غَنَمًا لِأَهْلِي بِأَجْيَادٍ»
faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «buʿitha mūsā wahuwa rāʿī ghanamin, wabuʿitha dāwūdu wahuwa rāʿī ghanamin, wabuʿithtu ʾanā, waʾanā ʾarʿā ghanaman liʾahlī biʾajyādin»
The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Moses was sent while he was a shepherd of sheep, and David was sent while he was a shepherd of sheep. I too was sent, and I was tending my family’s sheep at Ajyād.”
١١٧٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْفَزَارِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُوقَةَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1178 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā marwānu bnu muʿāwiyata al-fazāriyyu, ʿan muḥammadi bni sūqata qāla: ʾakhbaranī muḥammadu bnu al-munkadiri, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1178 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya al-Fazārī informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Sūqa. He said: Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir informed me. He said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«إِنَّ هَذَا الدِّينَ مَتِينٌ، فَأَوْغِلْ فِيهِ بِرِفْقٍ، وَلَا تُبَغِّضْ إِلَى نَفْسِكَ عِبَادَةَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى،
«ʾinna hādhā al-dīna matīnun, faʾawghil fīhi birifqin, walā tubaghghiḍ ʾilā nafsika ʿibādata Allāhi taʿālā,
“This religion is firm and strong, so enter into it gently. Do not make worship of God, exalted is He, hateful to yourself.
فَإِنَّ الْمُنْبَتَّ لَا أَرْضًا قَطَعَ، وَلَا ظَهْرًا أَبْقَى» ،
faʾinna al-munbatta lā ʾarḍan qaṭaʿa, walā ẓahran ʾabqā»,
A traveler who drives his mount to exhaustion neither covers the distance nor spares its back.”
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ أَبُو عُقَيْلٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ سُوقَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ قَالَ: عَنْ جَابِرٍ.
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: waqad rawāhu ʾabū ʿuqaylin, ʿan muḥammadi bnu sūqata, ʿan muḥammadi bni al-munkadiri qāla: ʿan jābirin.
Ibn Ṣāʿid said: Abū ʿUqayl also transmitted it from Muḥammad ibn Sūqa, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, who said: from Jābir.
١١٧٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الْجَوَّازُ، وَهَارُونُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا خَلَّادُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمَكِّيُّ قَالَ:
1179 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu manṣūrin al-jawwāzu, wahārūnu bnu al-nuʿmāni, qālā: ḥaddathanā khallādu bnu yaḥyā al-makkiyyu qāla:
1179 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Jawwāz and Hārūn ibn al-Nuʿmān related to us. They said: Khallād ibn Yaḥyā al-Makkī related to us. He said:
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُقَيْلٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُوقَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ فَذَكَرَهُ
ḥaddathanā ʾabū ʿuqaylin, ʿan muḥammadi bni sūqata, ʿan muḥammadi bni al-munkadiri, ʿan jābirin, ʿani al-nabiyyi fadhakarahu
Abū ʿUqayl related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sūqa, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir, from the Prophet; he then mentioned the report. The source gives no further wording here.
١١٨٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مِسْعَرٌ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَعْدَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ:
1180 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā muḥammadu bnu ʿubaydin qāla: ḥaddathanā misʿarun, ʿan ḥabībi bni ʾabī thābitin, ʿan yaḥyā bni jaʿdata qāla: qāla ʿumaru bnu al-khaṭṭābi:
1180 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd informed us; Misʿar related to us, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿda, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:
«لَوْلَا أَنِّي أَسِيرُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، وَأَضَعُ جَبِينِي فِي التُّرَابِ، وَأُجَالِسُ قَوْمًا يَلْتَقِطُونَ طَيِّبَ الْقَوْلِ كَمَا يُلْتَقَطُ طَيِّبُ التَّمْرِ، لَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ قَدْ لَحِقْتُ بِاللَّهِ»
«lawlā ʾannī ʾasīru fī sabīli Allāhi, waʾaḍaʿu jabīnī fī al-turābi, waʾujālisu qawman yaltaqiṭūna ṭayyiba al-qawli kamā yultaqaṭu ṭayyibu al-tamri, laʾaḥbabtu ʾan ʾakūna qad laḥiqtu bi-Allāhi»
“If I were not able to travel in God’s cause, place my forehead on the ground, and sit with people who gather the best words as carefully as the best dates are picked, I would wish to have already gone to God.”
١١٨١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنَا إِيَاسُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ سَمَّاهُ الْمُعْتَمِرُ قَالَ:
1181 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-muʿtamiru bnu sulaymāna qāla: ʾanbaʾanā ʾiyāsu bnu fulānin sammāhu al-muʿtamiru qāla:
1181 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān informed us. He said: Iyās ibn a certain man, whom al-Muʿtamir named, informed us. He said:
اِنْطَلَقَ الْحَسَنُ، فَانْطَلَقْنَا مَعَهُ إِلَى أَبِي نَضْرَةَ نَعُودُهُ، فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو نَضْرَةَ: اُدْنُ يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ، فَدَنَا مِنْهُ، فَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى عُنُقِهِ، وَقَبَّلَ خَدَّهُ،
inṭalaqa al-ḥasanu, fanṭalaqnā maʿahu ʾilā ʾabī naḍrata naʿūduhu, fadakhala ʿalayhi, faqāla lahu ʾabū naḍrata: udnu yā ʾabā saʿīdin, fadanā minhu, fawaḍaʿa yadahu ʿalā ʿunuqihi, waqabbala khaddahu,
Al-Ḥasan set out, and we went with him to visit Abū Naḍra in his illness. Al-Ḥasan went in to him. Abū Naḍra said, “Come closer, Abū Saʿīd.” He came close, put his hand around his neck, and kissed his cheek.
فَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ: «يَا أَبَا نَضْرَةَ، إِنَّهُ وَاللَّهِ لَوْلَا هَوْلُ الْمَطْلَعِ لَسَرَّ رِجَالًا مِنْ إِخْوَانِكَ أَنْ يَكُونُوا قَدْ فَارَقُوا مَا هَاهُنَا» ،
faqāla al-ḥasanu: «yā ʾabā naḍrata, ʾinnahu wa-Allāhi lawlā hawlu al-maṭlaʿi lasarra rijālan min ʾikhwānika ʾan yakūnū qad fāraqū mā hāhunā»,
Al-Ḥasan said, “Abū Naḍra, by God, were it not for the dread of what awaits at death, some of your brothers would be glad to have already left this world.”
قَالَ: يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ، اِقْرَأْ سُورَةً، وَادْعُ بِدَعَوَاتٍ، فَقَرَأَ: قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ وَالْمُعَوِّذَتَيْنِ،
qāla: yā ʾabā saʿīdin, iqraʾ sūratan, wadʿu bidaʿawātin, faqaraʾa: qul huwa Allāhu ʾaḥadun wal-muʿawwidhatayni,
He said, “Abū Saʿīd, recite a sura and offer supplications.” So al-Ḥasan recited “Say: He is God, One” and the two suras of refuge.
وَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ، وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ وَصَلَّى عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ:
waḥamida Allāha, waʾathnā ʿalayhi waṣallā ʿalā muḥammadin ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, qāla:
He praised God, extolled Him, and invoked blessings upon Muḥammad, God bless him and grant him peace. Then he said:
«اللَّهُمَّ مَسَّ أَخَانَا الضُّرُّ، وَأَنْتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ» ،
«Allāhumma massa ʾakhānā al-ḍurru, waʾanta ʾarḥamu al-rāḥimīna»,
“O God, harm has touched our brother, and You are the most merciful of those who show mercy.”
قَالَ: وَبَكَى الْحَسَنُ وَدَخَلَ أَهْلُ الْبَيْتِ رَحْمَةً لِأَخِيهِمْ، قَالَ: فَمَا رَأَيْتُ الْحَسَنَ بَكَى بُكَاءً أَشَدَّ مِنْهُ،
qāla: wabakā al-ḥasanu wadakhala ʾahlu al-bayti raḥmatan liʾakhīhim, qāla: famā raʾaytu al-ḥasana bakā bukāʾan ʾashadda minhu,
Al-Ḥasan wept, and the household came in out of compassion for their brother. I had never seen al-Ḥasan weep so intensely.
قَالَ: فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ كُنْ أَنْتَ الَّذِي تُصَلِّي عَلَيَّ
qāla: faqāla: yā ʾabā saʿīdin kun ʾanta alladhī tuṣallī ʿalayya
Then he said, “Abū Saʿīd, I want you to lead the funeral prayer over me.”
١١٨٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ قَبِيصَةَ بْنَ جَابِرٍ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ يَقُولُ:
1182 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu bnu ʿuyaynata qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿabdu al-maliki bnu ʿumayrin qāla: samiʿtu qabīṣata bna jābirin yaqūlu: samiʿtu ʿumara bna al-khaṭṭābi yaqūlu:
1182 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna informed us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr related to us. He said: I heard Qabīṣa ibn Jābir say: I heard ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb say:
«مَا الدُّنْيَا كُلُّهَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا كَنَفْجَةِ أَرْنَبٍ» قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ:
«mā al-dunyā kulluhā fī al-ʾākhirati ʾillā kanafjati ʾarnabin» qāla al-ḥusaynu:
“All of this world, set beside the Hereafter, is no more than a rabbit’s quick leap.” Al-Ḥusayn said:
“ فَقِيلَ لِسُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ، فَإِنَّ الثَّوْرِيَّ وَأَبَا عَوَانَةَ، لَا يَقُولَانِ قَبِيصَةُ، وَاخْتَلَفَا فِي رَجُلَيْنِ غَيْرِ قَبِيصَةَ، قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: لَمْ يَصْنَعَا شَيْئًا، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ قَبِيصَةَ بْنَ جَابِرٍ ”
“faqīla lisufyāna bni ʿuyaynata, faʾinna al-thawriyya waʾabā ʿawānata, lā yaqūlāni qabīṣatu, wakhtalafā fī rajulayni ghayri qabīṣata, qāla sufyānu: lam yaṣnaʿā shayʾan, ḥaddathanī ʿabdu al-maliki bnu ʿumayrin, qāla: samiʿtu qabīṣata bna jābirin ”
“Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna was told, ‘Al-Thawrī and Abū ʿAwāna do not name Qabīṣa in this chain; each gives a different man instead.’ Sufyān replied, ‘They have got it wrong. ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr related it to me and said, “I heard Qabīṣa ibn Jābir.”’”
١١٨٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ أَبُو هِلَالٍ الرَّاسِبِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، قَالَ:
1183 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla: ḥaddathanā muḥammadu bnu sulaymin ʾabū hilālin al-rāsibiyyu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni buraydata, qāla:
1183 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us; Muḥammad ibn Sulaym, Abū Hilāl al-Rāsibī, related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Burayda, who said:
قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ سَفَرٍ، فَبَدَأَ بِفَاطِمَةَ فَرَآهَا قَدْ أَحْدَثَتْ فِي الْبَيْتِ سِتْرًا وَزَوَائِدَ فِي يَدَيْهَا،
qadima rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama min safarin, fabadaʾa bifāṭimata faraʾāhā qad ʾaḥdathat fī al-bayti sitran wazawāʾida fī yadayhā,
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, returned from a journey and went first to Fāṭima. He saw that she had put up a curtain in the house and had ornaments on her hands.
فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ رَجَعَ وَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ، ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فَجَعَلَ يَنْكُتُ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَقُولُ: «مَا لِي وَلِلدُّنْيَا، مَا لِي وَلِلدُّنْيَا»
falammā raʾā dhālika rajaʿa walam yadkhul, thumma jalasa fajaʿala yankutu fī al-ʾarḍi yaqūlu: «mā lī walil-dunyā, mā lī walil-dunyā»
When he saw this, he turned back without entering. Then he sat down, marking the ground as he said, “What have I to do with this world? What have I to do with this world?”
فَرَأَتْ فَاطِمَةُ أَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا رَجَعَ مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ السِّتْرِ، فَأَخَذَتِ السِّتْرَ وَالزَّوَائِدَ، فَأَرْسَلَتْ بِهِمَا مَعَ بِلَالٍ،
faraʾat fāṭimatu ʾannahu ʾinnamā rajaʿa min ʾajli dhālika al-sitri, faʾakhadhati al-sitra wal-zawāʾida, faʾarsalat bihimā maʿa bilālin,
Fāṭima understood that he had turned back because of the curtain. She took down the curtain and gathered the ornaments, then sent both with Bilāl.
وَقَالَتْ لَهُ: اِذْهَبْ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَقُلْ لَهُ: قَدْ تَصَدَّقْتُ بِهِ، فَضَعْهُ حَيْثُ شِئْتَ،
waqālat lahu: idhhab ʾilā al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama waqul lahu: qad taṣaddaqtu bihi, faḍaʿhu ḥaythu shiʾta,
She told him, “Go to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, and say: I have given it in charity. Put it wherever you wish.”
فَأَتَى بِهِ بِلَالٌ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: قَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ: تَصَدَّقْتُ بِهِ، فَضَعْهُ حَيْثُ شِئْتَ،
faʾatā bihi bilālun al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla: qālat fāṭimatu: taṣaddaqtu bihi, faḍaʿhu ḥaythu shiʾta,
Bilāl brought it to the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, and said, “Fāṭima said: I have given it in charity. Put it wherever you wish.”
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «قَدْ فَعَلَتْ بِأَبِي وَأُمِّي، قَدْ فَعَلَتْ بِأَبِي وَأُمِّي، اِذْهَبْ فَبِعْهُ»
faqāla al-nabiyyu ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: «qad faʿalat biʾabī waʾummī, qad faʿalat biʾabī waʾummī, idhhab fabiʿhu»
The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said, “She has done it—may my father and mother be her ransom! She has done it—may my father and mother be her ransom! Go and sell it.”
١١٨٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ سُفْيَانَ بْنَ عُيَيْنَةَ يَقُولُ: خَرَجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ وَاسْتَقْبَلَهُ قَوْمٌ، فَقَالُوا: أَيْنَ تُرِيدُ؟
1184 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: samiʿtu sufyāna bna ʿuyaynata yaqūlu: kharaja rajulun min ʾahli al-shāmi wastaqbalahu qawmun, faqālū: ʾayna turīdu?
1184 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us. He said: I heard Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna say: A man from Syria set out, and some people met him. They asked, “Where are you going?”
فَقَالَ: «أُرِيدُ الْعَيْشَ» ، قَالُوا: تَرَكْتَ الْعَيْشَ، وَرَاءَكَ الْقَرْيَةُ وَالْخِصْبُ وَالنَّاسُ، وَأَنْتَ تَدْخُلُ الْفَيَافِيَ، قَالَ: «فَمَا تَعُدُّونَ الْعَيْشَ؟»
faqāla: «ʾurīdu al-ʿaysha», qālū: tarakta al-ʿaysha, warāʾaka al-qaryatu wal-khiṣbu wal-nāsu, waʾanta tadkhulu al-fayāfiya, qāla: «famā taʿuddūna al-ʿaysha?»
He said, “I seek a life worth living.” They replied, “You have left it behind: the town, fertile land and people are behind you, while you are entering the wastes.” He asked, “What do you count as living well?”
قَالُوا: الطَّعَامَ، وَالشَّرَابَ، وَاللِّبَاسَ، قَالَ: «لَا، الْعَيْشُ أَنْ تُجِيبَكَ أَطْوَارُكَ إِلَى طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ»
qālū: al-ṭaʿāma, wal-sharāba, wal-libāsa, qāla: «lā, al-ʿayshu ʾan tujībaka ʾaṭwāruka ʾilā ṭāʿati Allāhi ʿazza wajalla»
They answered, “Food, drink and clothing.” He said, “No. True living is when every stage of your life answers your call to obey God, mighty and majestic.”
١١٨٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مِنَ الزُّهْرِيِّ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1185 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʾannahu samiʿa mina al-zuhriyyi yuḥaddithu ʿan ʾabī al-ʾaḥwaṣi, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1185 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us that he heard al-Zuhrī relate from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from Abū Dharr, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ، فَإِنَّ الرَّحْمَةَ تُوَاجِهُهُ، فَلَا يُحَرِّكَنَّ الْحَصَى»
«ʾidhā qāma ʾaḥadukum ʾilā al-ṣalāti, faʾinna al-raḥmata tuwājihuhu, falā yuḥarrikanna al-ḥaṣā»
“When one of you stands to pray, mercy faces him. So let him refrain from moving the pebbles.”
وَأَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يُونُسُ بِمِثْلِهِ
waʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: waḥaddathanī yūnusu bimithlihi
Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh also informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us. He said: Yūnus also related the same account to me.
١١٨٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا يُونُسُ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْأَحْوَصِ، مَوْلَى بَنِي لَيْثٍ يُحَدِّثُنَا فِي مَجْلِسِ اِبْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، وَابْنُ الْمُسَيِّبِ جَالِسٌ
1186 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan yūnusu, ʿani al-zuhriyyi qāla: samiʿtu ʾabā al-ʾaḥwaṣi, mawlā banī laythin yuḥaddithunā fī majlisi ibni al-musayyibi, wabnu al-musayyibi jālisun
1186 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us. He said: Yūnus also informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who said: I heard Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, a client of Banū Layth, relate to us in Ibn al-Musayyib’s gathering, while Ibn al-Musayyib was sitting there.
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
ʾannahu samiʿa ʾabā dharrin yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
He had heard Abū Dharr say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«لَا يَزَالُ اللَّهُ مُقْبِلًا عَلَى الْعَبْدِ فِي صَلَاتِهِ، مَا لَمْ يَلْتَفِتْ، فَإِذَا صَرَفَ وَجْهَهُ اِنْصَرَفَ عَنْهُ»
«lā yazālu Allāhu muqbilan ʿalā al-ʿabdi fī ṣalātihi, mā lam yaltafit, faʾidhā ṣarafa wajhahu inṣarafa ʿanhu»
“God continues to turn toward the servant during his prayer so long as he does not look away. When he turns his face away, God turns away from him.”
١١٨٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ صَاحِبُ الدَّسْتُوَائِيِّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، أَنَّ رَجُلًا، حَدَّثَهُ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ:
1187 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā hishāmun ṣāḥibu al-dastuwāʾiyyi, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʾibrāhīma al-taymiyyi, ʾanna rajulan, ḥaddathahu, ʾanna ʿabda Allāhi bna masʿūdin qāla:
1187 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Hishām, the dealer in Dastuwāʾī cloth, informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī. A man related to him that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said:
«لَا يَزَالُ اللَّهُ مُقْبِلًا إِلَى الْعَبْدِ فِي صَلَاتِهِ مَا لَمْ يَلْتَفِتْ» ،
«lā yazālu Allāhu muqbilan ʾilā al-ʿabdi fī ṣalātihi mā lam yaltafit»,
“God continues to turn toward the servant during prayer so long as he does not look away.”
قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ: «فَكَانَ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي حَدَّثَنِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ إِذَا قَامَ فِي الصَّلَاةِ كَأَنَّهُ وَدٌّ»
qāla muḥammadun: «fakāna dhālika al-rajulu alladhī ḥaddathanī hādhā al-ḥadītha ʾidhā qāma fī al-ṣalāti kaʾannahu waddun»
Muḥammad said, “When the man who related this report to me stood in prayer, he was as motionless as Wadd.”
١١٨٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، أَنَّهُ رَأَى رَجُلًا عَبَثَ فِي صَلَاتِهِ، فَقَالَ:
1188 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan rajulin, ʿan saʿīdi bni al-musayyibi, ʾannahu raʾā rajulan ʿabatha fī ṣalātihi, faqāla:
1188 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from an unnamed man, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, that he saw a man fidgeting during prayer, and said:
«لَوْ خَشَعَ قَلْبُ هَذَا خَشَعَتْ جَوَارِحُهُ»
«law khashaʿa qalbu hādhā khashaʿat jawāriḥuhu»
“If this man’s heart were humble and attentive, his limbs would be still as well.”
١١٨٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا الْخَيْرِ أَخْبَرَهُ قَالَ: سَأَلْنَا عُقْبَةَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيَّ، عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ:
1189 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā ibnu lahīʿata qāla: ḥaddathanī yazīdu bnu ʾabī ḥabībin, ʾanna ʾabā al-khayri ʾakhbarahu qāla: saʾalnā ʿuqbata bna ʿāmirin al-juhaniyya, ʿan qawli Allāhi:
1189 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa related to us; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb related to me. He said: Abū al-Khayr informed him: We asked ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī about God’s words:
{الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَى صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ} [الْمَعَارِج: ٢٣] أَهُمُ الَّذِينَ يُصَلُّونَ أَبَدًا؟
{alladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim dāʾimūna} [al-maʿārij: 23] ʾahumu alladhīna yuṣallūna ʾabadan?
“Those who persevere in their prayer” [The Ascending Ways 70:23]. “Does this mean people who pray without ceasing?”
قَالَ: «لَا، وَلَكِنَّهُ الَّذِي إِذَا صَلَّى لَمْ يَلْتَفِتْ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ، وَلَا عَنْ شِمَالِهِ، وَلَا خَلْفِهِ»
qāla: «lā, walākinnahu alladhī ʾidhā ṣallā lam yaltafit ʿan yamīnihi, walā ʿan shimālihi, walā khalfihi»
He said, “No. It means the person who, when praying, does not look to his right, his left or behind him.”
١١٩٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ تَمَّامِ بْنِ نَجِيحٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
1190 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʿayyāshin, ʿan tammāmi bni najīḥin, ʿani al-ḥasani, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
1190 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us, from Tammām ibn Najīḥ, from al-Ḥasan, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«مَثَلُ الصَّلَاةِ الْمَكْتُوبَةِ كَالْمِيزَانِ، مَنْ أَوْفَى اِسْتَوْفَى»
«mathalu al-ṣalāti al-maktūbati kal-mīzāni, man ʾawfā istawfā»
“The prescribed prayer is like a balance: whoever gives its full measure receives his full due.”
١١٩١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي سِنَانٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الْعَبْدِيِّ قَالَ: كَانَ يُذْكَرُ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنِ الِالْتِفَاتِ فِي الصَّلَاةِ، فَقَالَ:
1191 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan ʾabī sinānin, ʿani ibni ʾabī al-hudhayli, ʿan ʾabī ʿamrin al-ʿabdiyyi qāla: kāna yudhkaru ʿan ʿaliyyin ʾannahu suʾila ʿani al-iltifāti fī al-ṣalāti, faqāla:
1191 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Abū Sinān, from Ibn Abī al-Hudhayl, from Abū ʿAmr al-ʿAbdī. He said: It was reported from ʿAlī that, when asked about looking around in prayer, he said:
هُوَ كَيْلُكَ فَأَوْفِهِ، أَوِ اِمْحَقْهُ
huwa kayluka faʾawfihi, ʾawi imḥaqhu
“It is your measure to give: give it in full, or squander it.”
١١٩٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ: قَالَ سَلْمَانُ:
1192 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan rajulin, ʿan sālimi bni ʾabī al-jaʿdi qāla: qāla salmānu:
1192 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from an unnamed man, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, who said: Salmān said:
«الصَّلَاةُ مِكْيَالٌ، فَمَنْ أَوْفَى أُوفِيَ لَهُ، وَمَنْ طَفَّفَ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ مَا قَالَ اللَّهُ فِي الْمُطَفِّفِينَ»
«al-ṣalātu mikyālun, faman ʾawfā ʾūfiya lahu, waman ṭaffafa faqad ʿalimtum mā qāla Allāhu fī al-muṭaffifīna»
“Prayer is a measure. Whoever gives full measure will receive it in full. As for whoever gives short measure, you know what God has said about those who cheat in measuring.”
١١٩٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي جَمْرَةَ الضُّبَعِيِّ أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَهُ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: إِنِّي رَجُلٌ فِي قِرَاءَتِي وَكَلَامِي عَجَلَةٌ، فَقَالَ اِبْنُ عَبَّاسٍ:
1193 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan ʾabī jamrata al-ḍubaʿiyyi ʾannahu ʾakhbarahu, qāla: qultu li-bni ʿabbāsin: ʾinnī rajulun fī qirāʾatī wakalāmī ʿajalatun, faqāla ibnu ʿabbāsin:
1193 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Abū Jamra al-Ḍubaʿī, who informed him. He said: I told Ibn ʿAbbās, “I tend to hurry in my recitation and speech.” Ibn ʿAbbās replied:
«لَأَنْ أَقْرَأَ الْبَقَرَةَ أُرَتِّلُهَا؛ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَقْرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ كُلَّهُ»
«laʾan ʾaqraʾa al-baqarata ʾurattiluhā; ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾaqraʾa al-qurʾāna kullahu»
“I would rather recite the Cow slowly and distinctly than recite the whole Qurʾān.”
١١٩٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ زَيْدَ بْنَ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ قِرَاءَةِ الْقُرْآنِ فِي سَبْعٍ، فَقَالَ:
1194 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu saʿīdin al-ʾanṣāriyyu qāla: samiʿtu rajulan yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʾannahu saʾala zayda bna thābitin, ʿan qirāʾati al-qurʾāni fī sabʿin, faqāla:
1194 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī informed us. He said: I heard a man relate from his father that he asked Zayd ibn Thābit about completing the Qurʾān in seven days. Zayd said:
«لَأَنْ أَقْرَأَهُ فِي عِشْرِينَ، أَوْ نِصْفٍ - يَعْنِي نِصْفَ شَهْرٍ - أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَقْرَأَهُ فِي سَبْعٍ،
«laʾan ʾaqraʾahu fī ʿishrīna, ʾaw niṣfin - yaʿnī niṣfa shahrin - ʾaḥabbu ʾilayya min ʾan ʾaqraʾahu fī sabʿin,
“I would rather read it over twenty days, or half a month, than read it in seven.”
وَسَلْنِي لِمَ ذَلِكَ؟ أَقِفُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَتَدَبَّرُهُ»
wasalnī lima dhālika? ʾaqifu ʿalayhi waʾatadabbaruhu»
“Ask me why: so I can pause over it and reflect on it.”
١١٩٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ مَمْلَكٍ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ قِرَاءَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَصَلَاتِهِ فَقَالَتْ:
1195 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ḥaddathanā laythu bnu saʿdin, ʿani ibni ʾabī mulaykata, ʾannahu ḥaddathahu ʿan yaʿlā bni mamlakin ʾannahu saʾala ʾumma salamata, ʿan qirāʾati rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama waṣalātihi faqālat:
1195 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Layth ibn Saʿd related to us, from Ibn Abī Mulayka, who related to him from Yaʿlā ibn Mamlak. He asked Umm Salama about the recitation and prayer of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace. She replied:
«مَا لَكُمْ وَلِصَلَاتِهِ؟ كَانَ يُصَلِّي ثُمَّ يَنَامُ قَدْرَ مَا يُصَلِّي، ثُمَّ يُصَلِّي قَدْرَ مَا يَنَامُ، ثُمَّ يَنَامُ قَدْرَ مَا صَلَّى، فَتِلْكَ صَلَاتُهُ، حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ،
«mā lakum waliṣalātihi? kāna yuṣallī thumma yanāmu qadra mā yuṣallī, thumma yuṣallī qadra mā yanāmu, thumma yanāmu qadra mā ṣallā, fatilka ṣalātuhu, ḥattā yuṣbiḥa,
“What would you make of his prayer? He would pray, then sleep for as long as he had prayed, then pray for as long as he had slept, then sleep for as long as he had prayed. That was how he prayed until morning.”
وَنَعَتَتْ لَهُ قِرَاءَتَهُ، فَإِذَا هِيَ تَنْعَتْ قِرَاءَةً مُفَسَّرَةً حَرْفًا حَرْفًا»
wanaʿatat lahu qirāʾatahu, faʾidhā hiya tanʿat qirāʾatan mufassaratan ḥarfan ḥarfan»
She described his recitation to him, giving the impression of a clear, deliberate recitation, letter by letter.
١١٩٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ، عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ مِخْرَاقٍ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِعَائِشَةَ: يَا أُمَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنَّ أُنَاسًا يَقْرَأُ أَحَدُهُمُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثًا، فَقَالَتْ:
1196 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿani al-ḥārithi bni yazīda, ʿan ziyādi bni nuʿaymin al-ḥaḍramiyyi, ʿan muslimi bni mikhrāqin qāla: qultu liʿāʾishata: yā ʾumma al-muʾminīna, ʾinna ʾunāsan yaqraʾu ʾaḥaduhumu al-qurʾāna fī laylatin marratayni ʾaw thalāthan, faqālat:
1196 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us, from al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd, from Ziyād ibn Nuʿaym al-Ḥaḍramī, from Muslim ibn Mikhrāq, who said: I told ʿĀʾisha, “Mother of the Believers, some people recite the Qurʾān twice or three times in one night.” She replied:
«قَرَأُوا، وَلَمْ يَقْرَأُوا، كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُومُ لَيْلَهُ التَّمَامَ، فَيَقْرَأُ سُورَةَ الْبَقَرَةَ، وَسُورَةَ آلِ عِمْرَانَ، وَسُورَةَ النِّسَاءِ،
«qaraʾū, walam yaqraʾū, kāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama yaqūmu laylahu al-tamāma, fayaqraʾu sūrata al-baqarata, wasūrata ʾāli ʿimrāna, wasūrata al-nisāʾi,
“They have recited it, yet they have not truly recited it. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, would stand in prayer all night and recite the Cow, the Family of ʿImrān and Women.
لَا يَمُرُّ بِآيَةٍ فِيهَا اِسْتِبْشَارٌ إِلَّا دَعَا اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَرَغِبَ، وَلَا يَمُرُّ بِآيَةٍ فِيهَا تَخْوِيفٌ إِلَّا دَعَا اللَّهَ وَاسْتَعَاذَ»
lā yamurru biʾāyatin fīhā istibshārun ʾillā daʿā Allāha taʿālā waraghiba, walā yamurru biʾāyatin fīhā takhwīfun ʾillā daʿā Allāha wastaʿādha»
When he came to a verse promising glad tidings, he called upon God, exalted is He, and longed for its promise. When he came to a verse containing a warning, he called upon God and sought refuge.”
١١٩٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ أَبِي عِيسَى الْمَدَنِيُّ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّهَا سَمِعَتْ رَجُلًا يَقْرَأُ يَهُذُّ الْقُرْآنَ هَذًّا، فَقَالَتْ:
1197 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿīsā bnu ʾabī ʿīsā al-madaniyyu, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi, ʿan ʿāʾishata, ʾannahā samiʿat rajulan yaqraʾu yahudhdhu al-qurʾāna hadhdhan, faqālat:
1197 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿĪsā ibn Abī ʿĪsā al-Madanī related to us, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿĀʾisha. She heard a man racing through the Qurʾān and said:
«مَا قَرَأَ هَذَا، وَمَا سَكَتَ»
«mā qaraʾa hādhā, wamā sakata»
“He has neither recited it nor kept silent.”
١١٩٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا، يَعْنِي عِيسَى بْنَ أَبِي عِيسَى، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ:
1198 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾayḍan, yaʿnī ʿīsā bna ʾabī ʿīsā, ʿani al-shaʿbiyyi qāla:
1198 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; he also informed us, meaning ʿĪsā ibn Abī ʿĪsā, from al-Shaʿbī, who said:
«إِذَا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ فَاقْرَأْهُ قِرَاءَةً تُسْمِعُ أُذُنَيْكَ، وَيَفْقَهُ قَلْبُكَ، فَإِنَّ الْأُذُنَ عَدْلٌ بَيْنَ اللِّسَانِ، وَالْقَلْبِ»
«ʾidhā qaraʾta al-qurʾāna faqraʾhu qirāʾatan tusmiʿu ʾudhunayka, wayafqahu qalbuka, faʾinna al-ʾudhuna ʿadlun bayna al-lisāni, wal-qalbi»
“When you recite the Qurʾān, recite so that your ears can hear and your heart can understand. The ear is an arbiter between tongue and heart.”
١١٩٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سَلَّامُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ، قَرَأَ: {أَفَمَنْ يُلْقَى فِي النَّارِ خَيْرٌ أَمَّنْ} الْآيَةَ،
1199 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sallāmu bnu miskīnin qāla: samiʿtu al-ḥasana, qaraʾa: {ʾafaman yulqā fī al-nāri khayrun ʾamman} al-ʾāyata,
1199 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sallām ibn Miskīn informed us. He said: I heard al-Ḥasan recite the verse beginning, “Is one cast into the Fire better, or one who…?”
قَالَ: “ سَمِعَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ رَجُلًا يَقْرَؤُهَا يُعِيدُهَا، وَيُبْدِيهَا، فَقَالَ:
qāla: “samiʿa rajulun mina al-muhājirīna rajulan yaqraʾuhā yuʿīduhā, wayubdīhā, faqāla:
He said: “A man from among the Emigrants heard another man reciting it repeatedly, turning it over again and again. He said:
أَوَ مَا سَمِعْتُمُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: {وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا} [الْمُزَّمِّل: ٤] هَذَا التَّرْتِيلُ ”
ʾawa mā samiʿtumu Allāha taʿālā yaqūlu: {warattili al-qurʾāna tartīlan} [al-muzzammil: 4] hādhā al-tartīlu ”
‘Have you not heard God, exalted is He, say, “Recite the Qurʾān with measured recitation” [The Enshrouded One 73:4]? This is measured recitation.’”
١٢٠٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ الْحَكَمَ بْنَ عُتَيْبَةَ، عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ:
1200 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā rajulun mina al-ʾanṣāri, qāla: saʾaltu al-ḥakama bna ʿutaybata, ʿan qawli Allāhi:
1200 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; a man of the Anṣār informed us. He said: I asked al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtayba about God’s words:
{وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا} [الْمُزَّمِّل: ٤] ، قَالَ: “ التَّرْتِيلُ: التَّرَسُّلُ ”
{warattili al-qurʾāna tartīlan} [al-muzzammil: 4], qāla: “al-tartīlu: al-tarassulu ”
“Recite the Qurʾān with measured recitation” [The Enshrouded One 73:4]. He replied, “Measured recitation means proceeding without haste.”
قَالَ: «وَكُنْتُ آتِي عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَعْقِلٍ بَيْنَ الْمَغْرِبِ وَالْعِشَاءِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَعْظَمِ، فَأَقْعُدُ عِنْدَهُ، فَأَسْتَمِعُ كَيْفَ يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ،
qāla: «wakuntu ʾātī ʿabda Allāhi bna maʿqilin bayna al-maghribi wa-al-ʿishāʾi fī al-masjidi al-ʾaʿẓami, faʾaqʿudu ʿindahu, faʾastamiʿu kayfa yaqraʾu al-qurʾāna,
The unnumbered continuation begins: He said, “I used to visit ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿqil between the sunset and night prayers in the main mosque. I sat beside him and listened to how he recited the Qurʾān.
فَلَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا شَاءَ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ مِنْهُ لَتَعَلَّمَ، وَكَانَ يُصَلِّي مَا بَيْنَ الْمَغْرِبِ وَالْعِشَاءِ، وَبَيْنَ الظُّهْرِ وَالْعَصْرِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَعْظَمِ،
falaw ʾanna rajulan shāʾa ʾan yataʿallama minhu lataʿallama, wakāna yuṣallī mā bayna al-maghribi wa-al-ʿishāʾi, wabayna al-ẓuhri wa-al-ʿaṣri fī al-masjidi al-ʾaʿẓami,
Anyone who wished could have learned from him. He prayed in the main mosque between the sunset and night prayers, and between the noon and afternoon prayers.
وَيُصَلِّي غُدْوَةً حَتَّى يَكُونَ قَرِيبًا مِنْ نِصْفِ النَّهَارِ ، ثُمَّ يَرْجِعَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ فَيَقِيلَ، ثُمَّ يَرُوحَ،
wayuṣallī ghudwatan ḥattā yakūna qarīban min niṣfi al-nahāri, thumma yarjiʿa ʾilā ʾahlihi fayaqīla, thumma yarūḥa,
He prayed from early morning until close to midday, then returned to his family for a midday rest before going out again.
وَكَانُوا يُسَمُّونَهُ الْمُحْسَرَ، أَيْ إِنَّ قَوْمًا كَانُوا يَأْخُذُونَ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا فَيَنْقَطِعُونَ وَهُوَ عَلَى حَالِهِ»
wakānū yusammūnahu al-muḥsara, ʾay ʾinna qawman kānū yaʾkhudhūna fī mithli hādhā fayanqaṭiʿūna wahuwa ʿalā ḥālihi»
They called him al-Muḥsar: others would undertake a practice like his and then give up, while he kept to his accustomed way.”
١٢٠١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ:
1201 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā sufyānu, ʿan sulaymāna, ʿan ʾibrāhīma, ʿan baʿḍi ʾaṣḥābi ʿabdi Allāhi, qāla:
1201 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Sufyān informed us, from Sulaymān, from Ibrāhīm, from one of ʿAbd Allāh’s companions, who said:
«أَتَيْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَاكِعًا، فَافْتَتَحْتُ الْغُرَفَ، فَمَا زَالَ رَاكِعًا حَتَّى فَرَغْتُ» ،
«ʾataytu al-masjida, faʾidhā ʾanā biʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin rākiʿan, faftataḥtu al-ghurafa, famā zāla rākiʿan ḥattā faraghtu»,
“I came to the mosque and found ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd bowing in prayer. I began reciting al-Ghuraf, and he remained bowed until I finished.”
أَوْ قَالَ: فَرَفَعْتُ وَلَمْ يَرْفَعْ
ʾaw qāla: farafaʿtu walam yarfaʿ
Or he said, “I rose from the bow while he had still not risen.”
١٢٠٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْفُقَيْمِيُّ، عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو - قَالَ: أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ، وَهُوَ أَخُوهُ - قَالَ:
1202 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ḥasanu bnu ʿamrin al-fuqaymiyyu, ʿan fuḍayli bni ʿamrin - qāla: ʾabū muḥammadin, wahuwa ʾakhūhu - qāla:
1202 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr al-Fuqaymī informed us, from Fuḍayl ibn ʿAmr. The source interjects: “Abū Muḥammad said, and he was his brother.” Then he said:
كُنْتُ آتِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ ضُحًى وَهُوَ فِي الْبَيْتِ يُصَلِّي، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا عِمْرَانَ، إِنَّ أَصْحَابَكَ يَكْرَهُونَ هَذِهِ الصَّلَاةَ،
kuntu ʾātī ʾibrāhīma ḍuḥan wahuwa fī al-bayti yuṣallī, faqultu: yā ʾabā ʿimrāna, ʾinna ʾaṣḥābaka yakrahūna hādhihi al-ṣalāta,
“I used to visit Ibrāhīm in the forenoon and find him praying in his house. I told him, ‘Abū ʿImrān, your companions disapprove of this prayer.’”
قَالَ: إِنِّي لَأَدَعُ جُزْئِي مِنَ اللَّيْلِ رَجَاءَ أَنْ يَحُثَّنِي عَلَى صَلَاةِ النَّهَارِ
qāla: ʾinnī laʾadaʿu juzʾī mina al-layli rajāʾa ʾan yaḥuththanī ʿalā ṣalāti al-nahāri
He said, “I leave aside my portion of prayer at night in the hope that it will spur me to pray during the day.”
١٢٠٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
1203 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿani al-zuhriyyi, ʿan sālimi bni ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿumara, ʿan ʾabīhi, ʾanna al-nabiyya ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
1203 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from his father, that the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“ لَا حَسَدَ إِلَّا عَلَى اِثْنَتَيْنِ: رَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا، فَهُوَ يُنْفِقُ مِنْهُ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ وَآنَاءَ النَّهَارِ، وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ، فَهُوَ يَقُومُ بِهِ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ، وَآنَاءَ النَّهَارِ ”
“lā ḥasada ʾillā ʿalā ithnatayni: rajulun ʾātāhu Allāhu mālan, fahuwa yunfiqu minhu ʾānāʾa al-layli waʾānāʾa al-nahāri, warajulun ʾātāhu Allāhu hādhā al-qurʾāna, fahuwa yaqūmu bihi ʾānāʾa al-layli, waʾānāʾa al-nahāri ”
“There are only two kinds of people whose gifts one may wish to share: someone to whom God has given wealth and who spends from it through the hours of night and day, and someone to whom God has given this Qurʾān and who stands reciting it through the hours of night and day.”
١٢٠٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ:
1204 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi qāla: ʾakhbaranā mūsā bnu ʿaliyyi bni rabāḥin qāla: samiʿtu ʾabī yuḥaddithu, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi qāla:
1204 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Mūsā ibn ʿAlī ibn Rabāḥ informed us. He said: I heard my father relate from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said:
“ إِنَّمَا الْحَسَدُ فِي اِثْنَتَيْنِ: الْقُرْآنِ يُعَلِّمُهُ اللَّهُ الرَّجُلَ لِيَقْرَأَهُ وَيَعْمَلَ بِمَا فِيهِ، فَيَقُولُ الرَّجُلُ: لَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَعْطَانِي مِثْلَ مَا أَعْطَى فُلَانًا،
“ʾinnamā al-ḥasadu fī ithnatayni: al-qurʾāni yuʿallimuhu Allāhu al-rajula liyaqraʾahu wayaʿmala bimā fīhi, fayaqūlu al-rajulu: lawadidtu ʾanna Allāha ʾaʿṭānī mithla mā ʾaʿṭā fulānan,
“There are only two gifts one may wish to share. God teaches a man the Qurʾān so that he recites it and acts on it; another man says, ‘I wish God had given me what He gave him.’
وَرَجُلٌ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا فَيَصِلُ بِهِ رَحِمَهُ، وَيَضَعُهُ فِي حَقِّهِ، فَيَقُولُ الرَّجُلُ: لَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَعْطَانِي مِثْلَ مَا أَعْطَى فُلَانًا،
warajulun ʾātāhu Allāhu mālan fayaṣilu bihi raḥimahu, wayaḍaʿuhu fī ḥaqqihi, fayaqūlu al-rajulu: lawadidtu ʾanna Allāha ʾaʿṭānī mithla mā ʾaʿṭā fulānan,
And God gives a man wealth, with which he supports his relatives and fulfills its rightful claims; another says, ‘I wish God had given me what He gave him.’
وَأَرْبَعُ خِلَالٍ إِذَا أُعْطِيتَهُنَّ لَمْ يَضُرَّكَ مَا عُزِلَ عَنْكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا: حُسْنُ خَلِيقَةٍ، وَعَفَافُ طُعْمَةٍ، وَصِدْقُ حَدِيثٍ، وَحِفْظُ أَمَانَةٍ ”
waʾarbaʿu khilālin ʾidhā ʾuʿṭītahunna lam yaḍurraka mā ʿuzila ʿanka mina al-dunyā: ḥusnu khalīqatin, waʿafāfu ṭuʿmatin, waṣidqu ḥadīthin, waḥifẓu ʾamānatin ”
Four qualities, if granted to you, make the worldly things withheld from you harmless: good character, an honorable livelihood, truthful speech and faithful care of what is entrusted to you.”
١٢٠٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1205 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾabī khālidin, ʿan qaysi bni ʾabī ḥāzimin, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni masʿūdin qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1205 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid related to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
“ لَا حَسَدَ إِلَّا فِي اِثْنَتَيْنِ: رَجُلٌ أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ مَالًا، فَسَلَّطَهُ عَلَى هَلَكَتِهِ فِي الْحَقِّ، وَرَجُلٌ أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ حِكْمَةً فَهُوَ يَقْضِي بِهَا وَيُعَلِّمُهَا ”
“lā ḥasada ʾillā fī ithnatayni: rajulun ʾaʿṭāhu Allāhu mālan, fasallaṭahu ʿalā halakatihi fī al-ḥaqqi, warajulun ʾaʿṭāhu Allāhu ḥikmatan fahuwa yaqḍī bihā wayuʿallimuhā ”
“There are only two people whose gifts one may wish to share: a man whom God has given wealth and enabled to spend it fully for what is right, and a man whom God has given wisdom, who judges by it and teaches it.”
١٢٠٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا} [الْفُرْقَانِ: ٦٣] قَالَ: «حُلَمَاءُ» ،
1206 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā jaʿfaru bnu ḥayyāna, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {alladhīna yamshūna ʿalā al-ʾarḍi hawnan} [al-furqāni: 63] qāla: «ḥulamāʾu»,
1206 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayyān informed us, from al-Ḥasan. On the words of God Most High, “Those who walk gently upon the earth” [The Criterion 25:63], al-Ḥasan said, “They are forbearing.”
{وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَامًا} [الْفُرْقَانِ: ٦٣] قَالَ: «وَإِنْ جُهِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَلُمُوا، فَهَذَا نَهَارُهُمْ إِذَا اِنْتَشَرُوا فِي النَّاسِ، وَلَيْلُهُمْ خَيْرُ لَيْلٍ» ،
{waʾidhā khāṭabahumu al-jāhilūna qālū salāman} [al-furqāni: 63] qāla: «waʾin juhila ʿalayhim ḥalumū, fahādhā nahāruhum ʾidhā intasharū fī al-nāsi, walayluhum khayru laylin»,
On “When the ignorant address them, they speak peace” [25:63], he said, “Even when treated ignorantly, they remain forbearing. This is their day as they go among people; their night is the best of nights.”
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {وَالَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًا وَقِيَامًا} [الْفُرْقَانِ: ٦٤] ،
qāla Allāhu taʿālā: {wa-alladhīna yabītūna lirabbihim sujjadan waqiyāman} [al-furqāni: 64],
God, exalted is He, says, “Those who spend the night before their Lord, prostrating and standing” [The Criterion 25:64].
«فَهَذَا لَيْلُهُمْ إِذَا دَخَلُوا فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ رَبِّهِمْ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُرَاوِحُونَ بَيْنَ أَطْرَافِهِمْ»
«fahādhā layluhum ʾidhā dakhalū fīmā baynahum wabayna rabbihim ʿazza wajalla yurāwiḥūna bayna ʾaṭrāfihim»
“This is how they spend their night when they turn to what is between them and their Lord, mighty and majestic, alternating among their postures of worship.”
١٢٠٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ، وَالْأَسْوَدِ، قَالَا:
1207 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu ʿan ʾabī ʾisḥāqa, ʿan muḥammadi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni yazīda, ʿan ʿalqamata, wal-ʾaswadi, qālā:
1207 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from ʿAlqama and al-Aswad. They said:
«التَّهَجُّدُ بَعْدَ نَوْمَةٍ»
«al-tahajjudu baʿda nawmatin»
“Night prayer comes after a period of sleep.”
١٢٠٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {كَانُوا قَلِيلًا مِنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ} [الذَّارِيَاتِ: ١٧] ، قَالَ: «قَلِيلًا مِنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَنَامُونَ» ،
1208 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā mubāraku bnu faḍālata, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī qawli Allāhi taʿālā: {kānū qalīlan mina al-layli mā yahjaʿūna} [al-dhāriyāti: 17], qāla: «qalīlan mina al-layli mā yanāmūna»,
1208 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Mubārak ibn Faḍāla informed us, from al-Ḥasan. On the words of God Most High, “They slept but little of the night” [The Scattering Winds 51:17], he said, “They slept only a little of the night.”
{وَبِالْأَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ} [الذَّارِيَاتِ: ١٨] ، قَالَ: «مَدُّوا الصَّلَاةَ إِلَى الْأَسْحَارِ، ثُمَّ أَخَذُوا بِالْأَسْحَارِ فِي الِاسْتِغْفَارِ»
{wabil-ʾasḥāri hum yastaghfirūna} [al-dhāriyāti: 18], qāla: «maddū al-ṣalāta ʾilā al-ʾasḥāri, thumma ʾakhadhū bil-ʾasḥāri fī al-istighfāri»
On “And before dawn they sought forgiveness” [51:18], he said, “They continued praying into the hours before dawn, then devoted those hours to asking forgiveness.”
١٢٠٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ قَالَ:
1209 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā shuʿbatu, ʿan qatādata, ʿani al-ḥasani, fī hādhihi al-ʾāyati qāla:
1209 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Shuʿba informed us, from Qatāda, from al-Ḥasan. On this verse he said:
“ كَابَدُوا اللَّيْلَ، يَعْنِي بِالْآيَةِ {كَانُوا قَلِيلًا مِنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ} [الذَّارِيَاتِ: ١٧] ”
“kābadū al-layla, yaʿnī bil-ʾāyati {kānū qalīlan mina al-layli mā yahjaʿūna} [al-dhāriyāti: 17] ”
“They struggled through the night,” referring to the verse “They slept but little of the night” [The Scattering Winds 51:17].
١٢١٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي السَّائِبُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، أَنَّ شُرَيْحَ الْحَضْرَمِيَّ ذُكِرَ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ:
1210 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā yūnusu bnu yazīda, ʿani al-zuhriyyi qāla: ʾakhbaranī al-sāʾibu bnu yazīda, ʾanna shurayḥa al-ḥaḍramiyya dhukira ʿinda al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, faqāla:
1210 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who said: al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd informed me that Shurayḥ al-Ḥaḍramī was mentioned in the Prophet’s presence. The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«ذَاكَ رَجُلٌ لَا يَتَوَسَّدُ الْقُرْآنَ» ،
«dhāka rajulun lā yatawassadu al-qurʾāna»,
“That man does not use the Qurʾān as a pillow.”
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «مَعْنَاهُ لَا يَنَامُ عَنْهُ»
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «maʿnāhu lā yanāmu ʿanhu»
Ibn Ṣāʿid explained, “It means he does not sleep through it.”
١٢١١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1211 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾawzāʿiyyu, ʿan yaḥyā bni ʾabī kathīrin, ʿan ʾabī salamata bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʿabdi Allāhi bni ʿamri bni al-ʿāṣi qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1211 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Awzāʿī informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salama ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو، لَا تَكُنْ مِثْلَ فُلَانٍ كَانَ يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ، فَتَرَكَ قِيَامَ اللَّيْلِ»
«yā ʿabda Allāhi bna ʿamrin, lā takun mithla fulānin kāna yaqūmu al-layla, fataraka qiyāma al-layli»
“ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, do not be like the man who used to stand in prayer at night and then gave up night prayer.”
١٢١٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الشِّخِّيرِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ:
1212 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā maʿmarun, ʿan rajulin ʿan ʾabī al-ʿalāʾi bni al-shikhkhīri, ʿan ʾabī dharrin qāla:
1212 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from an unnamed man, from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from Abū Dharr, who said:
“ ثَلَاثَةٌ يَضْحَكُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى إِلَيْهِمْ، وَيَتَبَشْبَشُ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ: رَجُلٌ قَامَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ وَتَرَكَ فِرَاشَهُ وَدِفَاءَهُ، ثُمَّ تَوَضَّأَ فَأَحْسَنَ الْوُضُوءَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ،
“thalāthatun yaḍḥaku Allāhu taʿālā ʾilayhim, wayatabashbashu Allāhu lahum: rajulun qāma mina al-layli wataraka firāshahu wadifāʾahu, thumma tawaḍḍaʾa faʾaḥsana al-wuḍūʾa, thumma qāma ʾilā al-ṣalāti,
“There are three to whom God, exalted is He, laughs and whom He greets with delight. One is a man who rises at night, leaves his bed and its warmth, performs ablution thoroughly, then stands to pray.
فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ لِمَلَائِكَتِهِ: مَا حَمَلَ عَبْدِي هَذَا عَلَى مَا صَنَعَ؟ فَتَقُولُ: أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ، فَيَقُولُ: أَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِهِ، وَلَكِنْ أَخْبِرُونِي،
fayaqūlu Allāhu limalāʾikatihi: mā ḥamala ʿabdī hādhā ʿalā mā ṣanaʿa? fataqūlu: ʾanta ʾaʿlamu, fayaqūlu: ʾanā ʾaʿlamu bihi, walākin ʾakhbirūnī,
God asks His angels, ‘What moved this servant of Mine to do this?’ They say, ‘You know best.’ He says, ‘I know, but tell Me.’
فَيَقُولُونَ: خَوَّفْتَهُ شَيْئًا فَخَافَهُ، وَرَجَّيْتَهُ شَيْئًا فَرَجَاهُ، فَيَقُولُ: أُشْهِدُكُمْ أَنِّي قَدْ أَمَّنْتُهُ مِمَّا خَافَ، وَأَوْجَبْتُ لَهُ مَا رَجَا،
fayaqūlūna: khawwaftahu shayʾan fakhāfahu, warajjaytahu shayʾan farajāhu, fayaqūlu: ʾushhidukum ʾannī qad ʾammantuhu mimmā khāfa, waʾawjabtu lahu mā rajā,
They say, ‘You warned him of something, so he feared it, and You offered him hope of something, so he hoped for it.’ God says, ‘I call you to witness that I have secured him from what he feared and granted him what he hoped for.’
قَالَ: وَرَجُلٌ كَانَ فِي سَرِيَّةٍ، وَلَقَوُا الْعَدُوَّ فَانْهَزَمَ أَصْحَابُهُ، وَثَبَتَ هُوَ حَتَّى قُتِلَ، أَوْ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ،
qāla: warajulun kāna fī sariyyatin, walaqawu al-ʿaduwwa fanhazama ʾaṣḥābuhu, wathabata huwa ḥattā qutila, ʾaw fataḥa Allāhu ʿalayhi,
He continued: Another is a man in a military detachment whose companions flee on encountering the enemy, while he stands firm until he is killed or God grants him victory.
وَرَجُلٌ سَرَّى لَيْلَتَهُ حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ فِي آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ نَزَلَ هُوَ وَأَصْحَابُهُ، فَنَامَ أَصْحَابُهُ وَقَامَ هُوَ يُصَلِّي ”
warajulun sarrā laylatahu ḥattā ʾidhā kāna fī ʾākhiri al-layli nazala huwa waʾaṣḥābuhu, fanāma ʾaṣḥābuhu waqāma huwa yuṣallī ”
The third travels through the night with companions. Near its end they stop and his companions sleep, but he stands in prayer.”
١٢١٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُبَارَكُ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ:
1213 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-mubāraku, ʿani al-ḥasani qāla:
1213 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; al-Mubārak informed us, from al-Ḥasan, who said:
“ أُنْبِئْتُ أَنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا نَامَ وَهُوَ سَاجِدٌ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ: اُنْظُرُوا إِلَى عَبْدِي رُوحُهُ عِنْدِي، وَجَسَدُهُ فِي طَاعَتِي ”
“ʾunbiʾtu ʾanna al-ʿabda ʾidhā nāma wahuwa sājidun ʾanna Allāha yaqūlu: unẓurū ʾilā ʿabdī rūḥuhu ʿindī, wajasaduhu fī ṭāʿatī ”
“I was told that when a servant falls asleep while prostrating, God says, ‘Look at My servant: his spirit is with Me, and his body remains in My obedience.’”
١٢١٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ أَبِي بِشْرٍ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ إِيَاسٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ حُمَيْدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1214 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki, ʿan shuʿbata bni al-ḥajjāji, ʿan ʾabī bishrin jaʿfari bni ʾiyāsin, ʾannahu samiʿa ḥumayda bna ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, yaqūlu: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1214 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj, from Abū Bishr Jaʿfar ibn Iyās, who heard Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān say: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«أَفْضَلُ الصَّلَاةِ بَعْدَ الْفَرِيضَةِ قِيَامُ اللَّيْلِ، وَأَفْضَلُ الصَّوْمِ بَعْدَ رَمَضَانَ صَوْمُ الْمُحَرَّمِ» ،
«ʾafḍalu al-ṣalāti baʿda al-farīḍati qiyāmu al-layli, waʾafḍalu al-ṣawmi baʿda ramaḍāna ṣawmu al-muḥarrami»,
“The best prayer after the obligatory prayer is prayer at night, and the best fasting after Ramadan is fasting in Muḥarram.”
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: «حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ بَصْرِيٌّ رَجُلٌ مِنَ التَّابِعِينَ لَيْسَ هُوَ اِبْنَ عَوْفٍ»
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: «ḥumaydu bnu ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-ḥimyariyyu baṣriyyun rajulun mina al-tābiʿīna laysa huwa ibna ʿawfin»
Ibn Ṣāʿid said, “This Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān is the Ḥimyarī from Basra, a man of the Successor generation; he is not Ibn ʿAwf.”
١٢١٥ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، وَحُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،
1215 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā yaʿqūbu al-dawraqiyyu qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾismāʿīlu bnu ʾibrāhīma, ʿan ʾayyūba, ʿan muḥammadi bni sīrīna, ʿan ʿabdi al-raḥmāni bni ʾabī bakrata, waḥumaydi bni ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, ʿan ʾabī bakrata, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama,
1215 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī related to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm related to us, from Ayyūb, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakra and Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Bakra, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace.
«أَنَّهُ وَقَفَ بِمِنًى» ، وَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ وَقَالَ فِيهِ:
«ʾannahu waqafa biminan», wadhakara al-ḥadītha waqāla fīhi:
It says, “He stood at Minā,” then refers to the rest of the report without giving its wording, adding:
وَكَانَ أَيُّوبُ بِحُمَيْدٍ مُعْجَبًا
wakāna ʾayyūbu biḥumaydin muʿjaban
“Ayyūb was impressed by Ḥumayd.”
١٢١٦ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
1216 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu lahīʿata, ʿan ʾabī al-zubayri, ʿan jābirin, ʾanna rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama qāla:
1216 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn Lahīʿa informed us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, that the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«مِنَ اللَّيْلِ سَاعَةٌ لَا يُوَافِقُهَا عَبْدٌ مُسْلِمٌ، يَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ خَيْرًا إِلَّا أَعْطَاهُ إِيَّاهُ، وَهِيَ فِي كُلِّ لَيْلَةٍ»
«mina al-layli sāʿatun lā yuwāfiquhā ʿabdun muslimun, yasʾalu Allāha khayran ʾillā ʾaʿṭāhu ʾiyyāhu, wahiya fī kulli laylatin»
“There is an hour in the night when any Muslim servant who reaches it and asks God for good will be given it. It occurs every night.”
١٢١٧ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَوْفٌ، عَنِ الْمُهَاجِرِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ - قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: كَذَا قَالَ، وَغَيْرُهُ يَقُولُ: أَبُو مَخْلَدٍ - عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ قَالَ:
1217 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿawfun, ʿani al-muhājiri ʾabī khālidin - qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: kadhā qāla, waghayruhu yaqūlu: ʾabū makhladin - ʿan ʾabī al-ʿāliyati qāla:
1217 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ʿAwf informed us, from al-Muhājir Abū Khālid. Ibn Ṣāʿid notes: “That is how he said it; others say Abū Makhlad.” The chain continues from Abū al-ʿĀliya, who said:
حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ، أَيُّ قِيَامِ اللَّيْلِ أَفْضَلُ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ:
ḥaddathanī ʾabū muslimin qāla: saʾaltu ʾabā dharrin, ʾayyu qiyāmi al-layli ʾafḍalu? faqāla ʾabū dharrin:
Abū Muslim related to me: “I asked Abū Dharr which part of night prayer is best.” Abū Dharr replied:
سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَمَا سَأَلْتَنِي، فَقَالَ: «نِصْفُ اللَّيْلِ - أَوْ آخِرُ اللَّيْلِ، شَكَّ عَوْفٌ - وَقَلِيلٌ فَاعِلُهُ»
saʾaltu rasūla Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama kamā saʾaltanī, faqāla: «niṣfu al-layli - ʾaw ʾākhiru al-layli, shakka ʿawfun - waqalīlun fāʿiluhu»
“I asked the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, just as you have asked me. He said, ‘Halfway through the night—or its latter part; ʿAwf was uncertain—and few people do it.’”
١٢١٨ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عُقَيْلٌ، عَنِ اِبْنِ شِهَابٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
1218 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā laythu bnu saʿdin qāla: ḥaddathanā ʿuqaylun, ʿani ibni shihābin, qāla: qāla rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
1218 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Layth ibn Saʿd informed us; ʿUqayl related to us, from Ibn Shihāb, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said:
«إِذَا قَامَ الرَّجُلُ فَتَوَضَّأَ لَيْلًا، أَوْ نَهَارًا فَأَحْسَنَ وُضُوءَهُ، وَاسْتَنَّ، ثُمَّ قَامَ فَصَلَّى،
«ʾidhā qāma al-rajulu fatawaḍḍaʾa laylan, ʾaw nahāran faʾaḥsana wuḍūʾahu, wastanna, thumma qāma faṣallā,
“When a man rises, makes a thorough ablution by night or day, cleans his teeth, and then stands to pray,
أَطَافَ بِهِ مَلَكٌ، وَدَنَا مِنْهُ، حَتَّى يَضَعَ فَاهُ عَلَى فِيهِ، فَمَا يَقْرَأُ إِلَّا فِي فِيهِ،
ʾaṭāfa bihi malakun, wadanā minhu, ḥattā yaḍaʿa fāhu ʿalā fīhi, famā yaqraʾu ʾillā fī fīhi,
an angel circles him and draws near until it places its mouth upon his. Whatever the man recites then passes into the angel’s mouth.
وَإِذَا لَمْ يَسْتَنَّ أَطَافَ بِهِ، وَلَمْ يَضَعْ فَاهُ عَلَى فِيهِ،
waʾidhā lam yastanna ʾaṭāfa bihi, walam yaḍaʿ fāhu ʿalā fīhi,
If he has not cleaned his teeth, the angel circles him but does not place its mouth upon his.
وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا يَقُومُ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى يَسْتَنَّ»
wakāna rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama lā yaqūmu ʾilā al-ṣalāti ḥattā yastanna»
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, would not rise to prayer without first cleaning his teeth.”
أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ الْعَالِمُ الزَّاهِدُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدُّلَفِيُّ الْمَقْدِسِيُّ قَالَ: قَرَأَ الشَّيْخُ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ظَاهِرٌ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ،
ʾakhbaranā al-shaykhu al-jalīlu al-ʿālimu al-zāhidu ʾabū ʿaliyyin al-ḥusaynu bnu muḥammadi bni al-ḥusayni bni ʾibrāhīma al-dulafiyyu al-maqdisiyyu qāla: qaraʾa al-shaykhu ʾabū muḥammadin ẓāhirun al-naysābūriyyu,
An unnumbered reading certificate before report 1219: The distinguished, learned, ascetic shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dulafī al-Maqdisī informed us. He said: Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ẓāhir al-Naysābūrī read
عَلَى الشَّيْخِ الثِّقَةِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ بِبَغْدَادَ بِبَابِ الْمَرَاتِبِ حَرَسَهَا اللَّهُ
ʿalā al-shaykhi al-thiqati ʾabī muḥammadin al-ḥasani bni ʿaliyyi bni muḥammadi bni al-ḥasani al-jawhariyyi bibaghdāda bibābi al-marātibi ḥarasahā Allāhu
to the trustworthy shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jawharī, in Baghdad at Bāb al-Marātib—may God protect the city—
يَوْمَ الْإِثْنَيْنِ ثَالِثَ عَشَرَ جُمَادَى الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ سَنَةِ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَأَرْبَعِمِائَةٍ وَأَنَا حَاضِرٌ أَسْمَعُ، وَأَقَرَّ بِهِ، قَالَ لَهُ:
yawma al-ithnayni thālitha ʿashara jumādā al-ʾākhirati min sanati ʾarbaʿin wakhamsīna waʾarbaʿimiʾatin waʾanā ḥāḍirun ʾasmaʿu, waʾaqarra bihi, qāla lahu:
on Monday, the thirteenth of Jumādā al-Ākhira in the year 454, while I was present and listening. He acknowledged it, and said to him:
١٢١٩ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ حَيَوَيْهِ،
1219 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara muḥammadu bnu al-ʿabbāsi bni zakariyyā bni ḥayawayhi,
1219 — Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Zakariyyā ibn Ḥayawayh informed you,
قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ فِي شَهْرِ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ اِثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَمَانِينَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ وَأَنْتَ حَاضِرٌ تَسْمَعُ قَالَ:
qirāʾatan ʿalayhi fī shahri rabīʿin al-ʾawwali sanata ithnatayni wathamānīna wathalāthimiʾatin waʾanta ḥāḍirun tasmaʿu qāla:
as it was read to him in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 382, while you were present and listening. He said:
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ قَرَأَهُ عَلَيْنَا مِنْ لَفْظِهِ عِنْدَ مَنْزِلِهِ فِي شَهْرِ ذِي الْقِعْدَةِ مِنْ سَنَةِ تِسْعٍ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ قَالَ:
ḥaddathanā ʾabū muḥammadin yaḥyā bnu muḥammadi bni ṣāʿidin qaraʾahu ʿalaynā min lafẓihi ʿinda manzilihi fī shahri dhī al-qiʿdati min sanati tisʿin wathalāthimiʾatin qāla:
Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid related to us, reading it aloud to us himself at his home in Dhū al-Qaʿda of the year 309. He said:
حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ الضَّرِيرُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ زَاذَانَ أَبِي عُمَرَ،
ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu bnu al-ḥasani al-marwaziyyu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʾabū muʿāwiyata al-ḍarīru qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿani al-minhāli bni ʿamrin, ʿan zādhāna ʾabī ʿumara,
Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Marwazī related to us. He said: Abū Muʿāwiya al-Ḍarīr informed us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, from Zādhān Abū ʿUmar,
عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ: خَرَجْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي جِنَازَةِ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَانْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى الْقَبْرِ ، وَلَمَّا يُلْحَدْ لَهُ،
ʿani al-barāʾi bni ʿāzibin qāla: kharajnā maʿa rasūli Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama fī jināzati rajulin mina al-ʾanṣāri, fantahaynā ʾilā al-qabri, walammā yulḥad lahu,
from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, who said: We went with the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, to the funeral of an Anṣārī man. We reached the grave before the burial niche had been dug for him.
فَجَلَسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَجَلَسْنَا حَوْلَهُ كَأَنَّ عَلَى رُءُوسِنَا الطَّيْرَ، فِي يَدِهِ عُودٌ يَنْكُتُ بِهِ فِي الْأَرْضِ، فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ، فَقَالَ:
fajalasa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama, wajalasnā ḥawlahu kaʾanna ʿalā ruʾūsinā al-ṭayra, fī yadihi ʿūdun yankutu bihi fī al-ʾarḍi, farafaʿa raʾsahu, faqāla:
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, sat down, and we sat around him so still that it was as though birds were perched on our heads. He had a stick with which he tapped the ground. Then he raised his head and said:
«اِسْتَعِيذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنْ عَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ» مَرَّتَيْنِ، أَوْ ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: “ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ الْمُؤْمِنَ إِذَا كَانَ فِي إِقْبَالٍ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ، وَانْقِطَاعٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا،
«istaʿīdhū bi-Allāhi min ʿadhābi al-qabri» marratayni, ʾaw thalāthan, thumma qāla: “ʾinna al-ʿabda al-muʾmina ʾidhā kāna fī ʾiqbālin mina al-ʾākhirati, wanqiṭāʿin mina al-dunyā,
“Seek God’s protection from the punishment of the grave.” He said it twice, or three times. Then he said: “When a believing servant approaches the next life and leaves this world,
نَزَلَ إِلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بِيضُ الْوُجُوهِ، كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الشَّمْسُ، مَعَهُمْ كَفَنٌ مِنْ كَفَنِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَحَنُوطٌ مِنْ حَنُوطِ الْجَنَّةِ، فَيَجْلِسُونَ مِنْهُ مَدَّ الْبَصَرِ،
nazala ʾilayhi al-malāʾikatu bīḍu al-wujūhi, kaʾanna wujūhahumu al-shamsu, maʿahum kafanun min kafani al-jannati, waḥanūṭun min ḥanūṭi al-jannati, fayajlisūna minhu madda al-baṣari,
angels with radiant faces descend to him, their faces like the sun. They bring a shroud and embalming perfume from Paradise and sit as far away as the eye can see.
ثُمَّ يَجِيءُ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ حَتَّى يَجْلِسَ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ، فَيَقُولُ: أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ الطَّيِّبَةُ اُخْرُجِي إِلَى مَغْفِرَةٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانٍ،
thumma yajīʾu malaku al-mawti ḥattā yajlisa ʿinda raʾsihi, fayaqūlu: ʾayyatuhā al-nafsu al-muṭmaʾinnatu al-ṭayyibatu ukhrujī ʾilā maghfiratin mina Allāhi wariḍwānin,
Then the angel of death comes and sits by his head, saying, ‘O tranquil, good soul, come forth to forgiveness and favor from God.’
فَتَخْرُجُ تَسِيلُ كَمَا تَسِيلُ الْقَطْرَةُ مِنْ فِي السِّقَاءِ، فَيَأْخُذُهَا، فَإِذَا أَخَذَهَا لَمْ يَدَعُوهَا فِي يَدِهِ طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ حَتَّى يَأْخُذُوهَا، فَيَجْعَلُوهَا فِي ذَلِكَ الْكَفَنِ،
fatakhruju tasīlu kamā tasīlu al-qaṭratu min fī al-siqāʾi, fayaʾkhudhuhā, faʾidhā ʾakhadhahā lam yadaʿūhā fī yadihi ṭarfata ʿaynin ḥattā yaʾkhudhūhā, fayajʿalūhā fī dhālika al-kafani,
It comes out, flowing like a drop from the mouth of a waterskin. The angel takes it, but the others do not leave it in his hand for even the blink of an eye. They take it and place it in that shroud,
وَفِي ذَلِكَ الْحَنُوطِ، وَيَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا كَأَطْيَبِ نَفْحَةِ مِسْكٍ وُجِدَتْ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ، فَيَصْعَدُونَ بِهَا، وَلَا يَمُرُّونَ بِهَا عَلَى مَلَأٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ إِلَّا قَالُوا:
wafī dhālika al-ḥanūṭi, wayakhruju minhā kaʾaṭyabi nafḥati miskin wujidat ʿalā wajhi al-ʾarḍi, fayaṣʿadūna bihā, walā yamurrūna bihā ʿalā malaʾin mina al-malāʾikati ʾillā qālū:
together with that perfume. From it comes the loveliest scent of musk to be found on earth. They ascend with the soul, and whenever they pass a gathering of angels, those angels ask:
مَا هَذِهِ الرُّوحُ الطَّيِّبَةُ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ بِأَحْسَنِ أَسْمَائِهِ الَّتِي كَانُوا يُسَمُّونَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، حَتَّى يَنْتَهُوا بِهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، فَيَسْتَفْتِحُونَ لَهُ،
mā hādhihi al-rūḥu al-ṭayyibatu? fayaqūlūna: fulānu bnu fulānin biʾaḥsani ʾasmāʾihi allatī kānū yusammūnahu fī al-dunyā, ḥattā yantahū bihi ʾilā al-samāʾi al-dunyā, fayastaftiḥūna lahu,
‘Whose good soul is this?’ They reply, ‘So-and-so, son of so-and-so,’ using the finest names by which he was known in this world. They reach the lowest heaven and ask for it to be opened to him.
فَيُفْتَحُ لَهُ، فَيُشَيِّعُهُ مِنْ كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ مُقَرَّبُوهَا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الَّتِي تَلِيهَا، حَتَّى يُنْتَهَى بِهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ السَّابِعَةِ، فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ: اُكْتُبُوا كِتَابَ عَبْدِي فِي عِلِّيِّينَ،
fayuftaḥu lahu, fayushayyiʿuhu min kulli samāʾin muqarrabūhā ʾilā al-samāʾi allatī talīhā, ḥattā yuntahā bihi ʾilā al-samāʾi al-sābiʿati, fayaqūlu Allāhu: uktubū kitāba ʿabdī fī ʿilliyyīna,
It is opened, and the angels nearest to God in each heaven escort him to the next, until he reaches the seventh heaven. God says, ‘Record My servant’s register in ʿIlliyyīn,
وَأَعِيدُوهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ، فَإِنِّي مِنْهَا خَلَقْتُهُمْ، وَفِيهَا أُعِيدُهُمْ، وَمِنْهَا أُخْرِجُهُمْ تَارَةً أُخْرَى، قَالَ: فَيُعَادُ رُوحُهُ فِي جَسَدِهِ، وَيَأْتِيهِ مَلَكَانِ فَيُجْلِسَانِهِ، فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ:
waʾaʿīdūhu fī al-ʾarḍi, faʾinnī minhā khalaqtuhum, wafīhā ʾuʿīduhum, waminhā ʾukhrijuhum tāratan ʾukhrā, qāla: fayuʿādu rūḥuhu fī jasadihi, wayaʾtīhi malakāni fayujlisānihi, fayaqūlāni lahu:
and return him to the earth. From it I created them; to it I return them; and from it I will bring them forth once more.’ He said: The soul is returned to his body, and two angels come, sit him up, and ask:
مَا دِينُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: دِينِيَ الْإِسْلَامُ، فَيَقُولَانِ: مَا هَذَا الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي بُعِثَ فِيكُمْ؟ فَيَقُولُ: هُوَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ: مَا عَمَلُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: قَرَأْتُ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ،
mā dīnuka? fayaqūlu: dīniya al-ʾislāmu, fayaqūlāni: mā hādhā al-rajulu alladhī buʿitha fīkum? fayaqūlu: huwa rasūlu Allāhi, fayaqūlāni lahu: mā ʿamaluka? fayaqūlu: qaraʾtu kitāba Allāhi,
‘What is your religion?’ He says, ‘My religion is Islam.’ They ask, ‘Who is this man sent among you?’ He says, ‘He is God’s Messenger.’ They ask, ‘What did you do?’ He says, ‘I read God’s Book,
فَآمَنْتُ بِهِ وَصَدَّقْتُ، فَيُنَادِي مُنَادٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ أَنْ صَدَقَ عَبْدِي أَفْرِشُوهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ، وَأَلْبِسُوهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ، وَافْتَحُوا لَهُ بَابًا إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ،
faʾāmantu bihi waṣaddaqtu, fayunādī munādin mina al-samāʾi ʾan ṣadaqa ʿabdī ʾafrishūhu mina al-jannati, waʾalbisūhu mina al-jannati, waftaḥū lahu bāban ʾilā al-jannati,
believed in it, and affirmed its truth.’ A caller from heaven announces: ‘My servant has spoken truly. Spread a bed for him from Paradise, clothe him from Paradise, and open a gate for him to Paradise.’
فَيَأْتِيهِ مِنْ رَوْحِهَا وَطِيبِهَا، فَيُفْسَحُ لَهُ فِي قَبْرِهِ مَدَّ بَصَرِهِ، وَيَأْتِيهِ رَجُلٌ حَسَنُ الْوَجْهِ طَيِّبُ الرِّيحِ، فَيَقُولُ لَهُ: أَبْشِرْ بِالَّذِي يَسُرُّكَ،
fayaʾtīhi min rawḥihā waṭībihā, fayufsaḥu lahu fī qabrihi madda baṣarihi, wayaʾtīhi rajulun ḥasanu al-wajhi ṭayyibu al-rīḥi, fayaqūlu lahu: ʾabshir bi-alladhī yasurruka,
Its comfort and fragrance reach him, and his grave is widened as far as his sight reaches. A man with a handsome face and pleasant scent comes to him and says, ‘Rejoice in what will delight you.
وَهَذَا يَوْمُكَ الَّذِي كُنْتَ تُوعَدُ، فَيَقُولُ لَهُ: مَنْ أَنْتَ؟ فَوَجْهُكَ الْوَجْهُ يَجِيءُ بِالْخَيْرِ، فَيَقُولُ: أَنَا عَمَلُكَ الصَّالِحُ، فَيَقُولُ: رَبِّي أَقِمِ السَّاعَةَ، رَبِّ أَقِمِ السَّاعَةَ ثَلَاثًا،
wahādhā yawmuka alladhī kunta tūʿadu, fayaqūlu lahu: man ʾanta? fawajhuka al-wajhu yajīʾu bi-al-khayri, fayaqūlu: ʾanā ʿamaluka al-ṣāliḥu, fayaqūlu: rabbī ʾaqimi al-sāʿata, rabbi ʾaqimi al-sāʿata thalāthan,
This is the day you were promised.’ He asks, ‘Who are you? Yours is a face that brings good news.’ The man says, ‘I am your righteous deeds.’ The servant says three times, ‘My Lord, bring about the Hour! My Lord, bring about the Hour!’
حَتَّى أَرْجِعَ إِلَى أَهْلِي وَمَالِي، قَالَ: وَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ الْكَافِرَ إِذَا كَانَ فِي اِنْقِطَاعٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، وَإِقْبَالٍ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ نَزَلَ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَلَائِكَةٌ سُودُ الْوُجُوهِ،
ḥattā ʾarjiʿa ʾilā ʾahlī wamālī, qāla: waʾinna al-ʿabda al-kāfira ʾidhā kāna fī inqiṭāʿin mina al-dunyā, waʾiqbālin mina al-ʾākhirati nazala ʾilayhi mina al-samāʾi malāʾikatun sūdu al-wujūhi,
‘So that I may return to my family and possessions.’ He said: When an unbelieving servant leaves this world and approaches the next, angels with dark faces descend to him from heaven.
مَعَهُمُ الْمُسُوحُ فَيَجْلِسُونَ مِنْهُ مَدَّ الْبَصَرِ، ثُمَّ يَجِيءُ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ حَتَّى يَجْلِسَ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ، فَيَقُولُ: أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْخَبِيثَةُ، اُخْرُجِي إِلَى سَخَطٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَغَضَبٍ،
maʿahumu al-musūḥu fayajlisūna minhu madda al-baṣari, thumma yajīʾu malaku al-mawti ḥattā yajlisa ʿinda raʾsihi, fayaqūlu: ʾayyatuhā al-nafsu al-khabīthatu, ukhrujī ʾilā sakhaṭin mina Allāhi waghaḍabin,
They carry rough cloth and sit as far away as the eye can see. Then the angel of death comes and sits by his head, saying, ‘O vile soul, come forth to God’s displeasure and anger.’
فَتَفَرَّقُ فِي أَعْضَائِهِ كُلِّهَا، فَيَنْتَزِعُهَا كَمَا يُنْتَزَعُ السَّفُّودُ مِنَ الصُّوفِ الْمَبْلُولِ، فَتَتَقَطَّعُ مَعَهَا الْعُرُوقُ وَالْعَصَبُ،
fatafarraqu fī ʾaʿḍāʾihi kullihā, fayantaziʿuhā kamā yuntazaʿu al-saffūdu mina al-ṣūfi al-mablūli, fatataqaṭṭaʿu maʿahā al-ʿurūqu wa-al-ʿaṣabu,
It scatters through all his limbs, and the angel pulls it out like an iron skewer drawn from wet wool, tearing veins and sinews with it.
فَيَأْخُذُهَا فَإِذَا أَخَذَهَا لَمْ يَدَعُوهَا فِي يَدِهِ طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ حَتَّى يَأْخُذُوهَا مِنْ يَدِهِ، فَيَجْعَلُوهَا فِي تِلْكَ الْمُسُوحِ ”، قَالَ:
fayaʾkhudhuhā faʾidhā ʾakhadhahā lam yadaʿūhā fī yadihi ṭarfata ʿaynin ḥattā yaʾkhudhūhā min yadihi, fayajʿalūhā fī tilka al-musūḥi”, qāla:
He takes the soul, but the others do not leave it in his hand for even the blink of an eye. They take it from him and place it in that rough cloth.” He said:
“ وَيَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا كَأَنْتَنِ رِيحِ جِيفَةٍ وُجِدَتْ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ، فَيَصْعَدُونَ بِهَا فَلَا يَمُرُّونَ بِهَا عَلَى مَلَأٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ إِلَّا قَالُوا: مَا هَذِهِ الرُّوحُ الْخَبِيثَةُ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ:
“wayakhruju minhā kaʾantani rīḥi jīfatin wujidat ʿalā wajhi al-ʾarḍi, fayaṣʿadūna bihā falā yamurrūna bihā ʿalā malaʾin mina al-malāʾikati ʾillā qālū: mā hādhihi al-rūḥu al-khabīthatu? fayaqūlūna:
“From it comes the foulest stench of a corpse to be found on earth. They ascend with it, and whenever they pass a gathering of angels, those angels ask, ‘Whose vile soul is this?’ They answer:
فُلَانُ اِبْنُ فُلَانٍ بِأَقْبَحِ أَسْمَائِهِ الَّتِي كَانَ يُسَمَّى بِهَا فِي الدُّنْيَا، حَتَّى يَنْتَهُوا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَيَسْتَفْتِحُونَ لَهَا فَلَا يُفْتَحُ لَهَا ”،
fulānu ibnu fulānin biʾaqbaḥi ʾasmāʾihi allatī kāna yusammā bihā fī al-dunyā, ḥattā yantahū ʾilā al-samāʾi al-dunyā fayastaftiḥūna lahā falā yuftaḥu lahā”,
‘So-and-so, son of so-and-so,’ using the ugliest names by which he was known in this world. They reach the lowest heaven and ask for it to be opened to the soul, but it is not opened.”
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: {لَا تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ وَلَا يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى يَلِجَ الْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ الْخِيَاطِ} [الْأَعْرَاف: ٤٠] ، قَالَ:
thumma qaraʾa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama: {lā tufattaḥu lahum ʾabwābu al-samāʾi walā yadkhulūna al-jannata ḥattā yalija al-jamalu fī sammi al-khiyāṭi} [al-ʾaʿrāf: 40], qāla:
Then the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, recited: “The gates of heaven will not be opened to them, nor will they enter Paradise until the camel passes through the eye of the needle” [al-Aʿrāf 7:40]. He said:
“ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى: اُكْتُبُوا كِتَابَهُ فِي سِجِّينٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى، فَيُطْرَحُ رُوحُهُ طَرْحًا ”، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
“thumma yaqūlu Allāhu subḥānahu wataʿālā: uktubū kitābahu fī sijjīnin fī al-ʾarḍi al-suflā, fayuṭraḥu rūḥuhu ṭarḥan”, thumma qaraʾa rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama:
“Then God, Glorified and Most High, says: ‘Record his register in Sijjīn, in the lowest earth.’ His soul is cast down forcefully.” Then the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, recited:
{وَمَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَكَأَنَّمَا خَرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَتَخْطَفُهُ الطَّيْرُ أَوْ تَهْوِي بِهِ الرِّيحُ فِي مَكَانٍ سَحِيقٍ} [الْحَجّ: ٣١] ، قَالَ: فَيُعَادُ رُوحُهُ فِي جَسَدِهِ،
{waman yushrik bi-Allāhi fakaʾannamā kharra mina al-samāʾi fatakhṭafuhu al-ṭayru ʾaw tahwī bihi al-rīḥu fī makānin saḥīqin} [al-ḥajj: 31], qāla: fayuʿādu rūḥuhu fī jasadihi,
“Whoever associates partners with God is as though he had fallen from the sky and birds had snatched him away, or the wind had blown him to a far-off place” [al-Ḥajj 22:31]. He said: His soul is returned to his body.
فَيَأْتِيهِ مَلَكَانِ فَيُجْلِسَانِهِ فَيَقُولَانِ: مَنْ رَبُّكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: هَا هَا لَا أَدْرِي، فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ: مَا دِينُكَ؟ فَيَقُولُ: هَا هَا لَا أَدْرِي، فَيَقُولَانِ لَهُ:
fayaʾtīhi malakāni fayujlisānihi fayaqūlāni: man rabbuka? fayaqūlu: hā hā lā ʾadrī, fayaqūlāni lahu: mā dīnuka? fayaqūlu: hā hā lā ʾadrī, fayaqūlāni lahu:
Two angels come, sit him up, and ask, ‘Who is your Lord?’ He says, ‘Ah, ah, I do not know.’ They ask, ‘What is your religion?’ He says, ‘Ah, ah, I do not know.’ Then they ask:
مَا هَذَا الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي بُعِثَ فِيكُمْ؟ فَيَقُولُ: هَا هَا لَا أَدْرِي، فَيُنَادِي مُنَادٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ: أَنْ كَذَبَ عَبْدِي فَأَفْرِشُوهُ مِنَ النَّارِ ، وَأَلْبِسُوهُ مِنَ النَّارِ،
mā hādhā al-rajulu alladhī buʿitha fīkum? fayaqūlu: hā hā lā ʾadrī, fayunādī munādin mina al-samāʾi: ʾan kadhaba ʿabdī faʾafrishūhu mina al-nāri, waʾalbisūhu mina al-nāri,
‘Who is this man sent among you?’ He says, ‘Ah, ah, I do not know.’ A caller from heaven announces, ‘My servant has lied. Spread a bed for him from the Fire and clothe him from the Fire.
وَافْتَحُوا لَهُ بَابًا إِلَى النَّارِ، وَيَدْخُلُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ حَرِّهَا وَسَمُومِهَا، وَيَضِيقُ عَلَيْهِ قَبْرُهُ، حَتَّى تَخْتَلِفَ فِيهِ أَضْلَاعُهُ “، قَالَ: ” وَيَأْتِيهِ رَجُلٌ قَبِيحُ الْوَجْهِ،
waftaḥū lahu bāban ʾilā al-nāri, wayadkhulu ʿalayhi min ḥarrihā wasamūmihā, wayaḍīqu ʿalayhi qabruhu, ḥattā takhtalifa fīhi ʾaḍlāʿuhu”, qāla: “wayaʾtīhi rajulun qabīḥu al-wajhi,
Open a gate for him to the Fire.’ Its heat and scorching wind enter his grave, which presses upon him until his ribs are crushed against one another.” He said: “A man with an ugly face comes to him,
قَبِيحُ الثِّيَابِ، مُنْتِنُ الرِّيحِ، فَيَقُولُ: أَبْشِرْ بِالَّذِي يَسُوءُكَ، هَذَا يَوْمُكَ الَّذِي كُنْتَ تُوعَدُ، فَيَقُولُ: مَنْ أَنْتَ؟ فَوَجْهُكَ الْوَجْهُ يَجِيءُ بِالشَّرِّ، فَيَقُولُ:
qabīḥu al-thiyābi, muntinu al-rīḥi, fayaqūlu: ʾabshir bi-alladhī yasūʾuka, hādhā yawmuka alladhī kunta tūʿadu, fayaqūlu: man ʾanta? fawajhuka al-wajhu yajīʾu bi-al-sharri, fayaqūlu:
dressed in ugly clothes and smelling foul. He says, ‘Here is news that will distress you: this is the day you were promised.’ The servant asks, ‘Who are you? Yours is a face that brings evil.’ The man says:
أَنَا عَمَلُكَ السَّيِّئُ، فَيَقُولُ: رَبِّي لَا تُقِمِ السَّاعَةَ، رَبِّ لَا تُقِمِ السَّاعَةَ "
ʾanā ʿamaluka al-sayyiʾu, fayaqūlu: rabbī lā tuqimi al-sāʿata, rabbi lā tuqimi al-sāʿata”,
‘I am your evil deeds.’ The servant says, ‘My Lord, do not bring about the Hour! My Lord, do not bring about the Hour!’”
١٢٢٠ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:
1220 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ḥaddathanā ʾabū muʿāwiyata qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ʾaʿmashu, ʿan mujāhidin, ʿan ṭāwūsin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin qāla:
1220 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Abū Muʿāwiya related to us; al-Aʿmash related to us, from Mujāhid, from Ṭāwūs, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
مَرَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِقَبْرَيْنِ، فَقَالَ:
marra rasūlu Allāhi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama biqabrayni, faqāla:
The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, passed two graves and said:
«إِنَّهُمَا لَيُعَذَّبَانِ وَمَا يُعَذَّبَانِ فِي كَبِيرٍ، أَمَّا أَحَدُهُمَا فَكَانَ لَا يَسْتَنْزِهُ مِنَ الْبَوْلِ، وَأَمَّا الْآخَرُ فَكَانَ يَمْشِي بِالنَّمِيمَةِ» ،
«ʾinnahumā layuʿadhdhabāni wamā yuʿadhdhabāni fī kabīrin, ʾammā ʾaḥaduhumā fakāna lā yastanzihu mina al-bawli, waʾammā al-ʾākharu fakāna yamshī bi-al-namīmati»,
“These two are being punished, though they are not being punished for what is regarded as a great matter. One of them did not take care to avoid urine; the other went about spreading malicious gossip.”
فَقَالَ: ثُمَّ أَخَذَ جَرِيدَةً فَشَقَّهَا بِنِصْفَيْنِ، فَغَرَزَ فِي كُلِّ قَبْرٍ وَاحِدَةً، فَقِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، لِمَ فَعَلْتَ هَذَا؟ فَقَالَ:
faqāla: thumma ʾakhadha jarīdatan fashaqqahā biniṣfayni, fagharaza fī kulli qabrin wāḥidatan, faqīla: yā rasūla Allāhi, lima faʿalta hādhā? faqāla:
He continued: Then he took a palm branch, split it into two halves, and planted one half in each grave. He was asked, “Messenger of God, why did you do that?” He replied:
«لَعَلَّهُ أَنْ يُخَفَّفَ عَنْهُمَا مَا لَمْ يَيْبَسَا»
«laʿallahu ʾan yukhaffafa ʿanhumā mā lam yaybasā»
“Perhaps their punishment will be eased while the two branches remain fresh.”
١٢٢١ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا وَكِيعُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ،
1221 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā wakīʿu bnu al-jarrāḥi qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-ʾaʿmashu,
1221 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ informed us; al-Aʿmash informed us,
عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، سَمِعَهُ يُحَدِّثُ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، عَنِ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِمِثْلِهِ
ʿan mujāhidin, samiʿahu yuḥaddithu, ʿan ṭāwūsin, ʿani ibni ʿabbāsin, ʿani al-nabiyyi ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wasallama bimithlihi
from Mujāhid, whom he heard relating it from Ṭāwūs, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, with a report like the preceding one. The source does not repeat its wording.
١٢٢٢ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ :
1222 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā yaḥyā bnu sulaymin qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu ʾabī najīḥin qāla: samiʿtu mujāhidan yaqūlu fī qawli Allāhi:
1222 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym informed us; Ibn Abī Najīḥ informed us. He said: I heard Mujāhid say about God’s words:
{كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: ٧] قَالَ:
{kallā ʾinna kitāba al-fujjāri lafī sijjīnin} [al-muṭaffifīna: 7] qāla:
“No indeed! The record of the wicked is in Sijjīn” [al-Muṭaffifīn 83:7]. He said:
“ سِجِّينٌ: صَخْرَةٌ تَحْتَ الْأَرْضِ السَّابِعَةِ، تُقْلَبُ فَيُجْعَلُ تَحْتَهَا كِتَابُ الْكَافِرِ ”
“sijjīnun: ṣakhratun taḥta al-ʾarḍi al-sābiʿati, tuqlabu fayujʿalu taḥtahā kitābu al-kāfiri”
“Sijjīn is a rock beneath the seventh earth. It is turned over, and the unbeliever’s record is placed under it.”
١٢٢٣ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ قَالَ:
1223 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu, qāla: ʾakhbaranā al-haythamu bnu jamīlin qāla:
1223 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; al-Haytham ibn Jamīl informed us. He said:
أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْقُمِّيُّ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ شِمْرٍ، عَنْ كَعْبِ الْأَحْبَارِ، أَنَّ اِبْنَ عَبَّاسٍ،
ʾakhbaranā yaʿqūbu bnu ʿabdi Allāhi al-qummiyyu, ʿan jaʿfari bni ʾabī al-mughīrati, ʿan shimrin, ʿan kaʿbi al-ʾaḥbāri, ʾanna ibna ʿabbāsin,
Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qummī informed us, from Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīra, from Shimr, from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, whom Ibn ʿAbbās
سَأَلَهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: ١٩] قَالَ:
saʾalahu ʿan qawli Allāhi ʿazza wajalla: {ʾinna kitāba al-ʾabrāri lafī ʿilliyyīna wamā ʾadrāka mā ʿilliyyūna} [al-muṭaffifīna: 19] qāla:
asked about God’s words, mighty and majestic is He: “The record of the righteous is in ʿIlliyyīn; and what will make you know what ʿIlliyyūn is?” [al-Muṭaffifīn: 19]. He replied:
“ إِنَّ رُوحَ الْمُؤْمِنِ إِذَا قُبِضَتْ عُرِجَ بِهَا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، فَيُفْتَحُ لَهَا أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ، وَتَلَقَّاهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بِالْبُشْرَى، حَتَّى يُنْتَهَى بِهَا إِلَى الْعَرْشِ،
“ʾinna rūḥa al-muʾmini ʾidhā qubiḍat ʿurija bihā ʾilā al-samāʾi, fayuftaḥu lahā ʾabwābu al-samāʾi, watalaqqāhu al-malāʾikatu bi-al-bushrā, ḥattā yuntahā bihā ʾilā al-ʿarshi,
“When the believer’s soul is taken, it is raised to heaven. Heaven’s gates are opened to it, and the angels meet it with glad tidings, until it reaches the Throne.
وَتَعْرُجُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ فَيَخْرُجُ لَهَا مِنْ تَحْتِ الْعَرْشِ رَقٌّ فَيُخْتَمُ، وَيُرْقَمُ، وَيُوضَعُ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ بِمَعْرِفَةِ النَّجَاةِ لِلْحِسَابِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ،
wataʿruju al-malāʾikatu fayakhruju lahā min taḥti al-ʿarshi raqqun fayukhtamu, wayurqamu, wayūḍaʿu taḥta al-ʿarshi bimaʿrifati al-najāti li-l-ḥisābi yawma al-qiyāmati,
The angels ascend, and a parchment comes forth for the soul from beneath the Throne. It is sealed, inscribed, and placed beneath the Throne, as a record of deliverance for the reckoning on the Day of Resurrection.
فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ كِتَابٌ مَرْقُومٌ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: ١٨] ، قَالَ: وَقَوْلُهُ:
fadhālika qawlu Allāhi taʿālā: {kallā ʾinna kitāba al-ʾabrāri lafī ʿilliyyīna wamā ʾadrāka mā ʿilliyyūna kitābun marqūmun} [al-muṭaffifīna: 18], qāla: waqawluhu:
That is the meaning of God’s words, exalted is He: “No indeed! The record of the righteous is in ʿIlliyyīn. And what will make you know what ʿIlliyyūn is? An inscribed record” [al-Muṭaffifīn: 18]. He continued, concerning His words:
{كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: ٧] ، قَالَ: ” إِنَّ رُوحَ الْفَاجِرِ يُصْعَدُ بِهَا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، فَتَأْبَى السَّمَاءُ أَنْ تَقْبَلَهَا،
{kallā ʾinna kitāba al-fujjāri lafī sijjīnin} [al-muṭaffifīna: 7], qāla: “ʾinna rūḥa al-fājiri yuṣʿadu bihā ʾilā al-samāʾi, fataʾbā al-samāʾu ʾan taqbalahā,
“No indeed! The record of the wicked is in Sijjīn” [al-Muṭaffifīn: 7], he said: “The wicked person’s soul is taken up toward heaven, but heaven refuses to receive it.
فَيُهْبَطُ بِهَا إِلَى الْأَرْضِ، وَتَأْبَى الْأَرْضُ أَنْ تَقْبَلَهَا، فَتُدْخَلُ تَحْتَ سَبْعِ أَرَضِينَ حَتَّى يُنْتَهَى بِهَا إِلَى سِجِّينٍ، وَهُوَ خَدُّ إِبْلِيسَ،
fayuhbaṭu bihā ʾilā al-ʾarḍi, wataʾbā al-ʾarḍu ʾan taqbalahā, fatudkhalu taḥta sabʿi ʾaraḍīna ḥattā yuntahā bihā ʾilā sijjīnin, wahuwa khaddu ʾiblīsa,
It is brought down to earth, and earth refuses to receive it. It is taken beneath seven earths until it reaches Sijjīn, which he describes as Iblīs’s cheek.
فَيَخْرُجُ لَهَا مِنْ تَحْتِ خَدِّ إِبْلِيسَ كِتَابٌ، فَيُخْتَمُ، وَيُوضَعُ تَحْتَ خَدِّ إِبْلِيسَ لِهَلَاكِهِ لِلْحِسَابِ، فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى:
fayakhruju lahā min taḥti khaddi ʾiblīsa kitābun, fayukhtamu, wayūḍaʿu taḥta khaddi ʾiblīsa lihalākihi li-l-ḥisābi, fadhālika qawluhu taʿālā:
A record comes forth for the soul from under Iblīs’s cheek. It is sealed and placed there, as a record of his destruction for the reckoning. That is the meaning of His words, exalted is He:
{كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ كِتَابٌ مَرْقُومٌ} [الْمُطَفِّفِينَ: ٧] “، قَالَ: فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى؟ قَالَ:
{kallā ʾinna kitāba al-fujjāri lafī sijjīnin wamā ʾadrāka mā sijjīnun kitābun marqūmun} [al-muṭaffifīna: 7]”, qāla: faʾakhbirnī ʿan sidrati al-muntahā? qāla:
“No indeed! The record of the wicked is in Sijjīn. And what will make you know what Sijjīn is? An inscribed record” [al-Muṭaffifīn: 7]. Ibn ʿAbbās asked, “Tell me about the Lote Tree of the Farthest Boundary.” He replied:
«سِدْرَةٌ فِي ظِلِّ الْعَرْشِ، إِلَيْهَا يَنْتَهِي عِلْمُ كُلِّ عَالِمٍ مَلَكٍ مُقَرَّبٍ، أَوْ نَبِيٍّ مُرْسَلٍ، وَمَا خَلْفَهَا غَيْبٌ لَا يَعْلَمُهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ» ، قَالَ:
«sidratun fī ẓilli al-ʿarshi, ʾilayhā yantahī ʿilmu kulli ʿālimin malakin muqarrabin, ʾaw nabiyyin mursalin, wamā khalfahā ghaybun lā yaʿlamuhu ʾillā Allāhu», qāla:
“It is a lote tree in the shade of the Throne. The knowledge of every knowing angel brought near, or every messenger prophet, reaches its limit there. What lies beyond it is unseen, known only to God.” He asked:
فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ {اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ} ، قَالَ: ” اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ مَثَلُ مُحَمَّدٍ،
faʾakhbirnī ʿan qawli Allāhi {Allāhu nūru al-samāwāti wa-al-ʾarḍi mathalu nūrihi}, qāla: “Allāhu nūru al-samāwāti wa-al-ʾarḍi mathalu nūrihi mathalu muḥammadin,
“Tell me about God’s words: ‘God is the light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His light ...’” He replied: “God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of His light is the likeness of Muḥammad:
يَكَادُ يَتَبَيَّنُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَنْطِقْ، {مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ مُبَارَكَةٍ} [النُّور: ٣٥] لَمْ تُصِبْهَا الشَّمْسُ فِي شَرْقٍ وَلَا غَرْبٍ "
yakādu yatabayyanu ʾannahu nabiyyun, waʾin lam yanṭiq, {min shajaratin mubārakatin} [al-nūr: 35] lam tuṣibhā al-shamsu fī sharqin walā gharbin”,
it nearly becomes apparent that he is a prophet, even before he speaks. ‘From a blessed tree’ [al-Nūr: 35], one that the sun strikes neither in the east nor in the west.”
١٢٢٤ - أَخْبَرَكُمْ أَبُو عُمَرَ بْنُ حَيَوَيْهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا اِبْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ النَّخَعِيُّ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ قَالَ:
1224 - ʾakhbarakum ʾabū ʿumara bnu ḥayawayhi qāla: ḥaddathanā yaḥyā qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥusaynu qāla: ʾakhbaranā ʿabdu Allāhi bnu al-mubāraki qāla: ʾakhbaranā ibnu ʿuyaynata qāla: ḥaddathanā al-ḥasanu bnu ʿubaydi Allāhi al-nakhaʿiyyu, ʿan saʿdi bni ʿubaydata, ʿan ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni al-sulamiyyi qāla:
1224 — Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayawayh informed you. He said: Yaḥyā related to us; al-Ḥusayn related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Ibn ʿUyayna informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Nakhaʿī related to us, from Saʿd ibn ʿUbayda, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, who said:
حَثَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ، عَلَى السِّوَاكِ، فَقَالَ:
ḥaththa ʿaliyyu bnu ʾabī ṭālibin, ʿalā al-siwāki, faqāla:
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib urged the use of the toothstick, saying:
«إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا قَامَ يُصَلِّي دَنَا الْمَلَكُ يَسْتَمِعُ الْقُرْآنَ، فَمَا زَالَ يَدْنُو مِنْهُ حَتَّى يَضَعَ فَاهُ إِلَى فِيهِ، فَمَا يَلْفِظُ مِنْ آيَةٍ إِلَّا وَقَعَتْ فِي جَوْفِ الْمَلَكِ» ،
«ʾinna al-rajula ʾidhā qāma yuṣallī danā al-malaku yastamiʿu al-qurʾāna, famā zāla yadnū minhu ḥattā yaḍaʿa fāhu ʾilā fīhi, famā yalfiẓu min ʾāyatin ʾillā waqaʿat fī jawfi al-malaki»,
“When a man rises to pray, an angel draws near to hear the Qurʾān. It keeps coming closer until it places its mouth against his; no verse he utters fails to enter the angel’s body.”
وَحَثَّ النَّاسَ عَلَى السِّوَاكِ قَالَ اِبْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ:
waḥaththa al-nāsa ʿalā al-siwāki qāla ibnu ʿuyaynata:
He urged people to use the toothstick. Ibn ʿUyayna said:
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْكَرِيمِ أَبُو أُمَيَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ الْحَكَمُ بْنُ عُتَيْبَةَ، لِشَيْخٍ: حَدِّثْ أَبَا أُمَيَّةَ، مَا سَمِعْتَ مِنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، فَذَكَرَ نَحْوًا مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ.
waḥaddathanī ʿabdu al-karīmi ʾabū ʾumayyata qāla: qāla al-ḥakamu bnu ʿutaybata, lishaykhin: ḥaddith ʾabā ʾumayyata, mā samiʿta min ʾabī ʿabdi al-raḥmāni, fadhakara naḥwan min ḥadīthi al-ḥasani bni ʿubaydi Allāhi.
ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayya also related to me that al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtayba told an elder, “Tell Abū Umayya what you heard from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.” He then related something similar to al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh’s report.
قَالَ اِبْنُ صَاعِدٍ: وَرَفَعَهُ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ النُّمَيْرِيُّ
qāla ibnu ṣāʿidin: warafaʿahu al-fuḍaylu bnu sulaymāna al-numayriyyu
Ibn Ṣāʿid said: “Al-Fuḍayl ibn Sulaymān al-Numayrī transmitted it as a Prophetic report.”
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