al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20423
✧ The governor does not appoint a woman, a sinner, or an ignorant person to the matter of judgment
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ، ثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، ثَنَا أَبِي، ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، ثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ - ؓ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ - ﷺ:
" مَنِ اسْتَعْمَلَ عَامِلًا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ فِيهِمْ أَوْلَى بِذَلِكَ مِنْهُ، وَأَعْلَمُ بِكِتَابِ اللهِ وَسُنَّةِ نَبِيِّهِ، فَقَدْ خَانَ اللهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَجَمِيعَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ
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- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AHيَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسلحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 219 AH, or 239 AHأَبِيصدوقحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ), some considered him soft (layyin) because he narrated from other than his original copyd. 282 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍصدوق ، رمي بالتشيع ، ولينه بعضهم لكونه حدث من غير أصلهحدثنا
- أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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