Musnad al-Bazzar 233
✧ Abdullah b. Abbas from Umar
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ: نَا عُمَرُ بْنُ يُونُسَ قَالَ: نَا عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ: نَا أَبُو زُمَيْلٍ قَالَ: نَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ:
كَتَبَ حَاطِبُ بْنُ أَبِي بَلْتَعَةَ كِتَابًا إِلَى أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ فَأَطْلَعَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ نَبِيَّهُ، فَبَعَثَ عَلِيًّا وَالزُّبَيْرَ فِي أَثَرِ الْكِتَابِ فَأَدْرَكَا امْرَأَةً عَلَى بَعِيرٍ فَاسْتَخْرَجَا مِنْ قَرْنٍ مِنْ قُرُونِهَا، مَا قَالَ لَهُمْ نَبِيُّ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى حَاطِبٍ فَقَالَ: " يَا حَاطِبُ أَنْتَ كَتَبْتَ هَذَا الْكِتَابَ ؟ " قَالَ: نَعَمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَالَ: " مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ؟ " قَالَ: أَمَا وَاللهِ إِنِّي لَنَاصِحٌ لِلهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَلَكِنْ كُنْتُ غَرِيبًا فِي أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ وَكَانَ أَهْلِي بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْهِمْ فَخِفْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَكَتَبْتُ كِتَابًا لَا يَضُرُّ اللهَ وَرَسُولَهُ شَيْئًا، وَعَسَى أَنْ تَكُونَ فِيهِ مَنْفَعَةٌ لِأَهْلِي، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: فَاخْتَرَطْتُ سَيْفِي فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمْكِنِّي مِنْ حَاطِبٍ فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ كَفَرَ فَأَضْرِبَ عُنُقَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّ اللهَ اطَّلَعَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْعِصَابَةِ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَدْرٍ، فَقَالَ: اعْمَلُوا مَا شِئْتُمْ فَقَدْ غَفَرْتُ لَكُمْ
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná
- ʿUmar b. Yūnus
- ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār
- Abū Zumayl
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
✧ Hatib b. Abi Balta'ah wrote a letter to the people of Makkah, and Allah informed His Prophet of it. He sent 'Ali and al-Zubayr in pursuit of the letter, and they caught up with a woman on a camel, and extracted the letter from a braid among her braids, as the Prophet of Allah ﷺ had told them. He sent for Hatib and said, "O Hatib, did you write this letter?" He said, "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said, "What prompted you to do that?" He said, "By Allah, I am indeed sincere to Allah and His Messenger, but I was a stranger among the people of Makkah, and my family was among them, so I feared for them, and I wrote a letter that will not harm Allah and His Messenger at all, and perhaps there may be some benefit in it for my family." 'Umar said: I drew my sword and said, "O Messenger of Allah, let me deal with Hatib, for he has disbelieved, and I will strike his neck." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "O son of al-Khattab, what do you know? Perhaps Allah looked upon this band of the people of Badr and said, 'Do what you wish, for I have forgiven you.'"
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- ابن الباقلاني
أنكر هذه الرواية وقال ليست بمعروفة
machine translationHe rejected (munkar) this narration and said: "It is not well known (maʿrūfah)."
in مسند البزار, p. 233
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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 المناقبقال
- 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 الصحابةنا
- there is no harm in him (laysa bihi baʾs)d. between 111 and 120 AHأَبُو زُمَيْلٍليس به بأسنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors; there is inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in his narration from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, and he had no bookd. 159 AH, or 160 AHعِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق يغلط ، وفي روايته عن يحيى بن أبي كثير اضطراب ، ولم يكن له كتابنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 206 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ يُونُسَثقةنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 252 AH, also said: 250 AH, also said: 251 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّىثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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