Musnad Abi Ya'la 5386
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ، عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبْدِ اللهِ، قَالَ:
بَيْنَمَا رَجُلٌ فِي مَمْلَكَتِهِ تَذَكَّرَ فَعَلِمَ أَنَّ مَا هُوَ فِيهِ مُنْقَطِعٌ، وَأَنَّهُ قَدْ شَغَلَهُ عَنْ عِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ، فَانْسَابَ مِنْ قَصْرِهِ لَيْلًا حَتَّى صَارَ إِلَى مَمْلَكَةِ غَيْرِهِ، فَأَتَى سَاحِلَ الْبَحْرِ فَجَعَلَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّبِنَ فَيَعِيشُ بِهِ وَيَعْبُدُ رَبَّهُ، فَبَلَغَ الْمَلِكَ الَّذِي هُوَ فِي مَمْلَكَتِهِ عِبَادَتُهُ وَحَالُهُ، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ، فَأَبَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ رَكِبَ إِلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا رَآهُ الْعَابِدُ هَرَبَ مِنْهُ، فَتَبِعَهُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا عَبْدَ اللهِ: إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ مِنِّي بَأْسٌ، ثُمَّ نَزَلَ إِلَيْهِ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ، فَقَالَ: أَنَا فُلَانٌ صَاحِبُ مَمْلَكَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، تَذَكَّرْتُ فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّ مَا كُنْتُ فِيهِ مُنْقَطِعٌ، وَأَنَّهُ قَدْ شَغَلَنِي عَنْ عِبَادَةِ رَبِّي، قَالَ: فَمَا أَنْتَ بِأَحَقَّ بِمَا صَنَعْتَ مِنِّي، ثُمَّ خَلَّى سَبِيلَ دَابَّتِهُ وَتَبِعَهُ، فَكَانَا يَعْبُدَانِ اللهَ جَمِيعًا، فَسَأَلَا اللهَ أَنْ يُمِيتَهُمَا جَمِيعًا، فَمَاتَا جَمِيعًا فَدُفِنَا، قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ: فَلَوْ كُنْتُ بِرُمَيْلَةِ مِصْرَ لَأَرَيْتُكُمْ قُبُورَهُمَا بِالنَّعْتِ الَّذِي نَعَتَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Khaythamah
- Yazīd b. Hārūn
- al-Masʿūdī
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- Abīh ʿAbdullāh
✧ While a man was in his kingdom, he reflected and knew that what he was in would come to an end, and that it had distracted him from worshiping his Lord. So he slipped away from his palace at night until he came to another's kingdom. He came to the seashore and began making bricks, living by that and worshiping his Lord. The king in whose kingdom he was learned of his worship and his condition, so he sent for him, but he refused to come to him. When he saw that, he rode to him. When the worshiper saw him, he fled from him, and he followed him on his mount. He said: 'O servant of Allah, you have nothing to fear from me.' Then he dismounted to him and asked him about his affair. He said: 'I am so-and-so, owner of such-and-such a kingdom. I reflected and knew that what I was in would come to an end, and that it had distracted me from worshiping my Lord.' He said: 'You are no more deserving of what you did than I am.' Then he let his mount go and followed him. They worshiped Allah together, and they asked Allah to cause them to die together, and they died together and were buried. Abdullah said: 'If I were at the sand dunes of Egypt, I would show you their graves by the description that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ described to us.'
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- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 79 AH, also said: 89 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) before his death, and the rule is: whoever heard from him in Baghdad heard after the confusion.d. 160 AH, also said: 165 AHالْمَسْعُودِيُّصدوق ، اختلط قبل موته ، وضابطه : أن من سمع منه ببغداد فبعد الاختلاطحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .حدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHأَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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