al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20930
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرَانَ الْعَدْلُ بِبَغْدَادَ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الرَّزَّازُ، ثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ، ثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُقْرِئُ، ثَنَا كَهْمَسُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ بُرَيْدَةَ يُحَدِّثُ: أَنَّ يَحْيَى بْنَ يَعْمَرَ قَالَ:
كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ قَالَ فِي الْقَدَرِ فِي الْبَصْرَةِ مَعْبَدٌ الْجُهَنِيُّ، فَانْطَلَقْنَا حُجَّاجًا أَنَا، وَحُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا قُلْنَا: لَوْ لَقِينَا بَعْضَ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَسَأَلْنَاهُ عَمَّا يَقُولُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمُ فِي الْقَدَرِ قَالَ: فَوَافَقْنَا عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ، فَاكْتَنَفْتُهُ أَنَا وَصَاحِبِي أَحَدُنَا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ، وَالْآخَرُ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ قَالَ يَحْيَى: فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ صَاحِبِي يَكِلُ الْكَلَامَ إِلَيَّ فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنَّهُ ظَهَرَ قِبَلَنَا نَاسٌ يَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ، وَيَعْرِفُونَ الْعِلْمَ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنْ لَا قَدَرَ إِنَّمَا الْأَمْرُ أُنُفٌ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ: فَإِذَا لَقِيتُمْ أُولَئِكَ، فَأَخْبِرُوهُمْ أَنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِنْهُمْ، وَأَنَّهُمْ مِنِّي بُرَآءُ، وَالَّذِي يَحْلِفُ بِهِ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ لَوْ أَنَّ لِأَحَدِهِمْ مِثْلَ أُحُدٍ ذَهَبًا، فَأَنْفَقَهُ مَا قَبِلَهُ اللهُ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - مِنْهُ حَتَّى يُؤْمِنَ بِالْقَدَرِ كُلِّهِ خَيْرِهِ، وَشَرِّهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Bishrān al-ʿAdl Bibaghdād Anbaʾ Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAmr al-Razzāz
- ʿĪsá b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṭayālisī
- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Muqriʾ
- Kahmas b. al-Ḥasan
- ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah Yuḥaddith
- Yaḥyá b. Yaʿmar
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The first to speak about the divine decree (qadar) in Basra was Maʿbad al-Juhanī. So I and Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān set out on pilgrimage. When we arrived, we said: "If only we could meet one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and ask him about what these people say regarding the divine decree." He said: We happened upon ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar in the mosque, so my companion and I flanked him, one of us on his right and the other on his left. Yaḥyā said: I thought that my companion would leave the speaking to me, so I said: "O Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, there have appeared among us people who recite the Qur'an and pursue knowledge. They claim that there is no divine decree, and that the matter is entirely new (unprecedented)." ʿAbdullāh said: "When you meet those people, tell them that I am free of them and that they are free of me. By the One by whom ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar swears, if one of them had gold equal to Uḥud and spent it, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, would not accept it from him until he believes in the divine decree, all of it, its good and its evil." Then he said:
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- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبحدثني
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعبد الله بن عمر بن الخطابأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist.d. between 91 and 100 AHحميد بن عبد الرحمن الحميريثقة فقيه.قال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AHعَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ بُرَيْدَةَثقةسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 149 AHكَهْمَسُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُقْرِئُثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنةحدثنا
- d. 277 AHعِيسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّحدثنا
- d. 339 AHأَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الرَّزَّازُأنبأ
- d. 415 AHأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرَانَ الْعَدْلُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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