Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20747
✧ The Leader is a Shepherd
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ الْخَوْلَانِيِّ، قَالَ:
مَثَلُ الْإِمَامِ كَمَثَلِ عَيْنٍ عَظِيمَةٍ صَافِيَةٍ طَيِّبَةِ الْمَاءِ، يَجْرِي مِنْهَا إِلَى نَهَرٍ عَظِيمٍ، فَيَخُوضُ النَّاسُ النَّهَرَ، فَيُكَدِّرُونَهُ وَيَعُودُ عَلَيْهِ صَفْوُ الْعَيْنِ، قَالَ: فَإِذَا كَانَ الْكَدَرُ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْعَيْنِ فَسَدَ النَّهَرُ، قَالَ: وَمَثَلُ الْإِمَامِ وَالنَّاسِ كَمَثَلِ فُسْطَاطٍ، لَا يَسْتَقِلُّ إِلَّا بِعَمُودٍ، وَلَا يَقُومُ الْعَمُودُ إِلَّا بِأَطْنَابٍ - أَوْ قَالَ: أَوْتَادٍ، فَكُلَّمَا نُزِعَ وَتَدٌ ازْدَادَ الْعَمُودُ وَهْنًا، وَلَا يَصْلُحُ النَّاسُ إِلَّا بِالْإِمَامِ، وَلَا يَصْلُحُ الْإِمَامُ إِلَّا بِالنَّاسِ
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The likeness of the ruler is like a great, clear spring of good water, from which flows a great river. The people wade into the river and make it turbid, and the clarity of the spring returns to it. He said: "If the turbidity comes from the spring, the river is corrupted." He said: "The likeness of the ruler and the people is like a tent, which can only stand on a pole, and the pole can only stand with tent ropes—or he said: pegs. Whenever a peg is pulled out, the pole becomes weaker. The people are not made right except by the ruler, and the ruler is not made right except by the people."
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