Musnad Ahmad 4312
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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ
بَيْنَمَا رَجُلٌ فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ كَانَ فِي مَمْلَكَتِهِ فَتَفَكَّرَ، فَعَلِمَ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ مُنْقَطِعٌ عَنْهُ، وَأَنَّ مَا هُوَ فِيهِ قَدْ شَغَلَهُ عَنْ عِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ، فَتَسَرَّبَ فَانْسَابَ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ قَصْرِهِ، فَأَصْبَحَ فِي مَمْلَكَةِ غَيْرِهِ. وَأَتَى سَاحِلَ الْبَحْرِ فَكَانَ بِهِ يَضْرِبُ اللَّبِنَ بِالْأَجْرِ فَيَأْكُلُ وَيَتَصَدَّقُ بِالْفَضْلِ، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى رَقِيَ أَمْرُهُ إِلَى مَلِكِهِمْ وَعِبَادَتُهُ وَفَضْلُهُ، فَأَرْسَلَ مَلِكُهُمْ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ فَأَبَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ. فَأَعَادَ الرَّسُولَ فَأَبَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ وَقَالَ: مَا لَهُ وَمَا لِي ؟ قَالَ: فَرَكِبَ الْمَلِكُ، فَلَمَّا رَآهُ الرَّجُلُ وَلَّى هَارِبًا. فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ الْمَلِكُ رَكَضَ فِي أَثَرِهِ فَلَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ، قَالَ: فَنَادَاهُ يَا عَبْدَ اللهِ، إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ مِنِّي بَأْسٌ، فَأَقَامَ حَتَّى أَدْرَكَهُ. فَقَالَ: مَنْ أَنْتَ رَحِمَكَ اللهُ؟ قَالَ: أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ صَاحِبُ مُلْكِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، تَفَكَّرْتُ فِي أَمْرِي فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّ مَا أَنَا فِيهِ مُنْقَطِعٌ فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ شَغَلَنِي عَنْ عِبَادَةِ رَبِّي، فَتَرَكْتُهُ وَجِئْتُ هَاهُنَا أَعْبُدُ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ. فَقَالَ: مَا أَنْتَ بِأَحْوَجَ إِلَى مَا صَنَعْتَ مِنِّي؟ قَالَ: ثُمَّ نَزَلَ عَنْ دَابَّتِهِ فَسَيَّبَهَا، ثُمَّ تَبِعَهُ فَكَانَا جَمِيعًا يَعْبُدَانِ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَدَعَوَا اللهَ أَنْ يُمِيتَهُمَا جَمِيعًا، قَالَ: فَمَاتَا. قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ: لَوْ كُنْتُ بِرُمَيْلَةِ مِصْرَ لَأَرَيْتُكُمْ قُبُورَهُمَا بِالنَّعْتِ الَّذِي نَعَتَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yazīd b. Hārūn
- al-Masʿūdī
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh
- Abīh Ibn Masʿūd
✧ While a man among those before you was in his kingdom, he reflected, and realized that it would be cut off from him, and that what he was in had distracted him from the worship of his Lord. So he slipped away one night from his palace and found himself in the kingdom of another. He came to the seashore and worked there making bricks for wages; he would eat and give charity from the surplus. He continued like that until his matter, his worship, and his virtue reached their king. Their king sent to him to come to him, but he refused to come to him. He sent the messenger again, but he refused to come to him and said: What does he have to do with me? He said: So the king rode out, and when the man saw him, he turned and fled. When the king saw that, he spurred after him but did not catch him. He said: Then he called out to him: O servant of God, there is no harm to you from me. So he stopped until he caught up with him. He said: Who are you, may God have mercy on you? He said: I am so-and-so son of so-and-so, the possessor of such-and-such kingdom. I reflected on my affair and realized that what I was in was cut off and had distracted me from the worship of my Lord. So I left it and came here to worship my Lord, mighty and glorious. He said: You are no more in need of what you did than I am. He said: Then he dismounted from his mount and let it go free. Then he followed him, and they both worshiped God, mighty and glorious. They prayed to God that He would cause them both to die together. He said: So they died. Abdullah said: If I were at the sands of Egypt, I would show you their graves by the description that the Messenger of God ﷺ described to us.
Notes
ﷺ. ﷺ.
machine translationﷺ. ﷺ.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفي إسنادهما المسعودي وقد اختلط
in مسند أحمد, p. 4378
Narrators
- 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 اللهِثقةعن
- 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 الاختلاطأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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