Sunan ad-Darimi 163
✧ al-Futya and Its Intensity
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّلْتِ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ بُرْقَانَ حَدَّثَنَا مَيْمُونُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ
كَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِذَا وَرَدَ عَلَيْهِ الْخَصْمُ نَظَرَ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ وَجَدَ فِيهِ مَا يَقْضِي بَيْنَهُمْ قَضَى بِهِ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي الْكِتَابِ وَعَلِمَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي ذَلِكَ الْأَمْرِ سُنَّةً قَضَى بِهِ فَإِنْ أَعْيَاهُ خَرَجَ فَسَأَلَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَقَالَ «أَتَانِي كَذَا وَكَذَا فَهَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَضَى فِي ذَلِكَ بِقَضَاءٍ؟» فَرُبَّمَا اجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ النَّفَرُ كُلُّهُمْ يَذْكُرُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِيهِ قَضَاءً فَيَقُولُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ «الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلَ فِينَا مَنْ يَحْفَظُ عَلَى نَبِيِّنَا» ﷺ فَإِنْ أَعْيَاهُ أَنْ يَجِدَ فِيهِ سُنَّةً مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ جَمَعَ رُءُوسَ النَّاسِ وَخِيَارَهُمْ فَاسْتَشَارَهُمْ فَإِذَا اجْتَمَعَ رَأْيُهُمْ عَلَى أَمْرٍ قَضَى بِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Ṣalt
- Zuhayr
- Jaʿfar b. Burqān
- Maymūn b. Mihrān
✧ When a dispute came to Abu Bakr, he would look into the Book of Allah. If he found in it something by which to judge between them, he judged by it. If it was not in the Book and he knew a Sunnah from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ concerning that matter, he judged by it. If it eluded him, he went out and asked the Muslims, saying: "Such and such has come to me. Do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ judged in that matter with a judgment?" Sometimes a group would gather to him, each mentioning a judgment of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ concerning it. Abu Bakr would say: "Praise be to Allah who has placed among us those who preserve the Sunnah of our Prophet ﷺ." If finding a Sunnah from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ eluded him, he gathered the leaders and the best of the people and consulted them. When their opinion agreed on a matter, he judged by it.
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