Musnad al-Bazzar 597
✧ among what Suwayd b. Ghafla narrated on the authority of Ali
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حَدَّثَنَا خَلَّادُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ، قَالَ: نَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ، عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَ، قَالَ:
أَتَى عَلِيٌّ ؓ بِزَنَادِقَةٍ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَى السُّوقِ، فَحَفَرَ حُفْرَةً، فَأَحْرَقَهُمْ بِالنَّارِ، وَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، وَقَالَ: " صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ الرَّحَبَةَ، فَتَبِعْتُهُ، فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ الْبَيْتَ، قَالَ: مَا لَكَ يَا سُوَيْدُ ؟ قُلْتُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كَلِمَةٌ سَمِعْتُهَا حِينَ حَرَقْتَ هَؤُلَاءِ الزَّنَادِقَةَ، تَقُولُ: صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، قَالَ: يَا سُوَيْدُ، إِذَا سَمِعْتَنِي أَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: فَاعْلَمْ أَنِّي لَأَنْ أَخِرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَقُولَ مَا لَمْ أَسْمَعْ مِنْهُ، وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَنِي أَتَكَلَّمُ بِأَشْبَاهِ هَذَا، فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ شَيْءٌ أَغِيظُهُمْ، أَوْ كَلِمَةٌ نَحْوُهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Khallād b. Aslam
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Ḥuṣayn
- Sūwayd b. Ghafalah
✧ Some zanādiqa (heretics) were brought to ʿAlī ؓ. He went out to the market, dug a pit, and burned them with fire. Then he raised his head to the sky and said: God and His Messenger spoke the truth. Then he left until he entered al-Raḥba, and I followed him. When he was about to enter the house, he said: What is the matter with you, O Suwayd? I said: O Commander of the Faithful, a word I heard when you burned those heretics: you said, 'God and His Messenger spoke the truth.' He said: O Suwayd, when you hear me say, 'The Messenger of God ﷺ said,' know that falling from the sky is dearer to me than saying what I did not hear from him. When you see me speak of things like this, it is only something to anger them, or a word like that.
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- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 76 AH, or: 80 AH, 81 AH, 82 AHسُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a follower of the Sunnah (sunnī), and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 127 AH, or 128 AH, or 129 AH, or 130 AHأَبِي حُصَيْنٍثقة ثبت سني ، وربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيحنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 248 AH, or 249 AH, or 250 AHخَلَّادُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَثقةحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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