Musnad Ahmad 19573
✧ Abi Musa al-Ash'ari
إِنَّ مَثَلَ مَا بَعَثَنِي اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهِ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَالْعِلْمِ، كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَصَابَ الْأَرْضَ، فَكَانَتْ مِنْهُ طَائِفَةٌ قَبِلَتْ فَأَنْبَتَتِ الْكَلَأَ وَالْعُشْبَ الْكَثِيرَ، وَكَانَتْ مِنْهَا أَجَادِبُ أَمْسَكَتِ الْمَاءَ، فَنَفَعَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهَا نَاسًا فَشَرِبُوا فَرَعَوْا وَسَقَوْا وَزَرَعُوا وَأَسْقَوْا، وَأَصَابَتْ طَائِفَةً مِنْهَا أُخْرَى إِنَّمَا هِيَ قِيعَانٌ لَا تُمْسِكُ مَاءً، وَلَا تُنْبِتُ كَلَأً، فَذَلِكَ مَثَلُ مَنْ فَقُهَ فِي دِينِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَنَفَعَهُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِمَا بَعَثَنِي بِهِ، وَنَفَعَ بِهِ فَعَلِمَ وَعَلَّمَ، وَمَثَلُ مَنْ لَمْ يَرْفَعْ بِذَلِكَ رَأْسًا، وَلَمْ يَقْبَلْ هُدَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الَّذِي أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِ
Translation
✧ The likeness of what God, Mighty and Majestic, sent me with of guidance and knowledge is like abundant rain that fell upon the earth. A portion of it received [the water] and produced abundant herbage and grass. Some of it was hard ground that held the water, so God, Mighty and Majestic, benefited people thereby: they drank, pastured, watered, cultivated, and irrigated. Another portion of it fell upon barren flats that neither hold water nor produce herbage. That is the likeness of one who has understanding in the religion of God, Mighty and Majestic, and whom God, Mighty and Majestic, benefits with what He sent me with, so he learns and teaches; and the likeness of one who does not raise his head to that at all, and does not accept the guidance of God, Mighty and Majestic, with which I was sent.
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- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AHأبو بردة بن أبي موسى الأشعريثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), makes a few mistakesd. between 141 and 150 AHبريد بن عبد الله بن أبي بردةثقة ، يخطئ قليلاعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHحماد بن أسامة القرشيثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأبو بكر ابن أبي شيبةثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297عبد الله بن أحمد بن حنبلثقة
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