al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16823
✧ Compendium of Chapters on the Rulers
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو نَصْرِ بْنُ قَتَادَةَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو الْفَضْلِ بْنُ خَمِيرَوَيْهِ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ، ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ: حَدَّثَنِي سَيْفُ بْنُ فُلَانِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْعَنَزِيُّ، حَدَّثَنِي خَالِي، عَنْ جَدِّي قَالَ:
لَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْجَمَلِ، وَاضْطَرَبَ الْخَيْلُ، وَأَغَارَ النَّاسُ، قَالَ: فَجَاءَ النَّاسُ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ؓ يَدَّعُونَ أَشْيَاءَ فَأَكْثَرُوا عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمْ يَفْهَمْ. قَالَ: أَلَا رَجُلٌ يَجْمَعُ لِي كَلَامَهُ فِي خَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ أَوْ سِتٍّ ؟ قَالَ: فَاحْتَفَزْتُ عَلَى إِحْدَى رِجْلَيَّ، قُلْتُ: إِنْ فَهِمَ قَبِلَ كَلَامِي وَإِلَّا جَلَسْتُ مِنْ قَرِيبٍ، قُلْتُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنَّ الْكَلَامَ لَيْسَ بِخَمْسٍ وَلَا سِتٍّ، وَلَكِنَّهَا كَلِمَتَانِ. قَالَ: فَنَظَرَ إِلَيَّ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: هَضْمٌ أَوْ قِصَاصٌ. قَالَ: فَعَقَدَ ثَلَاثِينَ وَقَالَ: قَالُونُ، أَرَأَيْتُمْ مَا عَدَدْتُمْ فَهُوَ تَحْتَ قَدَمِي هَاتَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Naṣr b. Qatādah Anbaʾ Abū al-Faḍl b. Khamīrawayh
- Aḥmad b. Najdah
- al-Ḥasan b. al-Rabīʿ
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak
- Maʿmar
- Sayf b. Fulān b. Muʿāwiyah al-ʿAnazī
- Khālī
- my father
Machine translation, not reviewed
When it was the Day of the Camel, and the horses were in turmoil and the people were raiding, the people came to ʿAlī ؓ claiming various things and they said a great deal to him, but he did not understand. He said: "Is there no man who can gather their speech for me into five or six words?" He said: So I sprang up on one of my feet, and said to myself: If he understands, he will accept my words, and if not, I will sit down nearby. I said: "O Commander of the Believers, the speech is not five or six words, but it is two words." He said: He looked at me. He said: I said: "Wrongdoing (haḍm) or retaliation (qiṣāṣ)." He said: Then he made the sign of thirty with his hand and said: "Qālūn! Do you see what you have counted? It is under these two feet of mine."
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- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةفي حكم العنعنة
- جديعن
- خال سيف بن فلان العنزيحدثني
- سَيْفُ بْنُ فُلَانِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْعَنَزِيُّحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٍثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 220 AH, or 221 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِثقةحدثنا
- d. 296 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَجْدَةَحدثنا
- d. 372 AHأَبُو الْفَضْلِ بْنُ خَمِيرَوَيْهِأنبأ
- أبو نصر بن قتادةأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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