Musnad Ahmad 1697
Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah
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حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبَانُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ رَابِّهِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ كَانَ خَلَفَ عَلَى أُمِّهِ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ كَانَ شَهِدَ طَاعُونَ عَمَوَاسَ قَالَ
لَمَّا اشْتَعَلَ الْوَجَعُ قَامَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ فِي النَّاسِ خَطِيبًا، فَقَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّ هَذَا الْوَجَعَ رَحْمَةُ رَبِّكُمْ، وَدَعْوَةُ نَبِيِّكُمْ، وَمَوْتُ الصَّالِحِينَ قَبْلَكُمْ، وَإِنَّ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ يَسْأَلُ اللهَ أَنْ يَقْسِمَ لَهُ مِنْهُ حَظَّهُ. قَالَ: فَطُعِنَ، فَمَاتَ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ، وَاسْتُخْلِفَ عَلَى النَّاسِ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ، فَقَامَ خَطِيبًا بَعْدَهُ، فَقَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّ هَذَا الْوَجَعَ رَحْمَةُ رَبِّكُمْ، وَدَعْوَةُ نَبِيِّكُمْ، وَمَوْتُ الصَّالِحِينَ قَبْلَكُمْ، وَإِنَّ مُعَاذًا يَسْأَلُ اللهَ أَنْ يَقْسِمَ لِآلِ مُعَاذٍ مِنْهُ حَظَّهُ. قَالَ: فَطُعِنَ ابْنُهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ، فَمَاتَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ، فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ لِنَفْسِهِ، فَطُعِنَ فِي رَاحَتِهِ، فَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا، ثُمَّ يُقَبِّلُ ظَهْرَ كَفِّهِ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: مَا أُحِبُّ أَنَّ لِي بِمَا فِيكِ شَيْئًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَلَمَّا مَاتَ اسْتُخْلِفَ عَلَى النَّاسِ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ، فَقَامَ فِينَا خَطِيبًا، فَقَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّ هَذَا الْوَجَعَ إِذَا وَقَعَ، فَإِنَّمَا يَشْتَعِلُ اشْتِعَالَ النَّارِ، فَتَجَبَّلُوا مِنْهُ فِي الْجِبَالِ. قَالَ: فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو وَاثِلَةَ الْهُذَلِيُّ: كَذَبْتَ وَاللهِ، لَقَدْ صَحِبْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنْتَ شَرٌّ مِنْ حِمَارِي هَذَا! قَالَ: وَاللهِ مَا أَرُدُّ عَلَيْكَ مَا تَقُولُ، وَايْمُ اللهِ لَا نُقِيمُ عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ خَرَجَ وَخَرَجَ النَّاسُ، فَتَفَرَّقُوا عَنْهُ، وَدَفَعَهُ اللهُ عَنْهُمْ. قَالَ: فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ مِنْ رَأْيِ عَمْرٍو، فَوَاللهِ مَا كَرِهَهُ
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- Yaʿqūb
- my father
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Abān b. Ṣāliḥ
- Shahr b. Ḥawshab al-Ashʿarī
- Rābbih a man Min Qawmih Kān Khalaf
- Ummih Baʿd Abīh Kān Shahid Ṭāʿūn ʿAmawās
✧ When the plague broke out, Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah stood before the people as a preacher and said, 'O people, this plague is a mercy from your Lord, an answer to the supplication of your Prophet, and the death of the righteous before you. Abu Ubaydah asks Allah to apportion to him his share of it.' Then he was stricken and died, may Allah have mercy on him. Muadh b. Jabal was appointed as successor over the people. He stood as a preacher after him and said, 'O people, this plague is a mercy from your Lord, an answer to the supplication of your Prophet, and the death of the righteous before you. Muadh asks Allah to apportion to the family of Muadh their share of it.' Then his son Abd al-Rahman b. Muadh was stricken and died. Then he stood up and supplicated his Lord for himself. He was stricken in the palm of his hand. I saw him looking at it, then kissing the back of his hand and saying, 'I would not love to have anything of this world in exchange for what is in you.' When he died, Amr b. al-As was appointed as successor over the people. He stood among us as a preacher and said, 'O people, when this plague strikes, it blazes like fire. So seek refuge from it in the mountains.' Abu Wathilah al-Hudhali said to him, 'You lie, by Allah. I accompanied the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and you are worse than this donkey of mine.' Amr said, 'By Allah, I will not answer you for what you say, and by Allah, we will not stay before it.' Then he left and the people left, dispersing from him, and Allah pushed it away from them. This reached Umar b. al-Khattab regarding Amr's view, and by Allah, he did not dislike it.
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْن أَحْمَدَ بْن حَنْبَلٍ أَبَانُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ جَدُّ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مُشْكُدَانَةَ
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
شهر فيه كلام وشيخه لم يسم
in مسند أحمد, p. 1703
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 17 AH, or: 18 AHأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ابْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ أَمِينُ الْأُمَّةِصحابيقال
- رابه رجل من قومه كان خلف على أمه بعد أبيه كان شهد طاعون عمواسعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), frequently narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl) and made many errors (awhām)d. 98 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 111 AH, or 112 AHشَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّصدوق , كثير الإرسال والأوهامعن
- Deemed trustworthy (wathaqahu) by the Imamsd. 110-odd AHأَبَانُ بْنُ صَالِحٍوثقه الأئمةحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AHأَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادححدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AHيَعْقُوبُثقة فاضل .حدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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