Musnad Abi Ya'la 836

Translation

✧ Umar b. al-Khattab went out to Syria until when he was at Sargh, the commanders of the armies met him: Abu Ubayda b. al-Jarrah and his companions. They informed him that the plague had occurred in Syria. Umar said: Summon for me the earliest Muhajirun. They were summoned for him, and he consulted them. Some of them said: You have gone out for a matter, and we do not think that you should return. Others said: With you are the remainder of the people and the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ, and we do not think that you should advance them upon this plague. He said to them: Leave me. Then he said: Summon for me the Ansar. They were summoned for him, and he consulted them. They followed the path of the Muhajirun and differed as they differed. He said: Rise from me. Then he said: Summon for me whoever is here from the elders of Quraysh, from the Muhajirun of the conquest. They were summoned for him, and he consulted them. No two men differed upon him; they said: We think that you should return with the people and not advance them upon this plague. So Umar called out: I am departing in the morning upon a mount. They gathered before him, and Abu Ubayda said: Fleeing from the decree of God? He said: If someone other than you had said it, O Abu Ubayda. Yes, we flee from the decree of God to the decree of God. Do you see if you had camels and they descended into a valley with two sides, one fertile and the other barren—if you grazed the fertile one, you grazed it by the decree of God, and if you grazed the barren one, you grazed it by the decree of God? Then Abd al-Rahman came, having been absent on some errand of his, and he said: I have knowledge about this. I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: "If you hear of it in a land, do not go forward to it; and if it occurs in a land while you are in it, do not leave fleeing from it." Then Umar praised God and turned back.

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 1615al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6654Musnad al-Bazzar 1115al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7499Musnad Abi Ya'la 765

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf b. ʿAbd ʿAwf al-Qurashī

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 31 AH, or 32 AH, also said: 33 AH
   عَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن عَوْف بْن عَبْد عَوْف القُرَشِيأحد العشرة
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith b. Nawfal

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 99 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Jazarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110-odd AH
   عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِثقة
   عن
5. 5
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
6. 6
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Maʿn

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 198 AH, or: 199 AH
   مَعْنُ بْنُ عِيسَىثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Khaythamah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
   أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
9. 9
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

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