Sunan ad-Darimi 92

Translation

✧ To proceed: Allah created the creation without need of their obedience and secure from their disobedience. People then were divided in stations and opinion: the Arabs were in the worst of those stations, the people of stone and the people of hair and the people of dung, passing by the good things of this world and the ease of its life, not asking Allah as a community nor reciting a Book to Him; their dead were in the Fire and their living were blind and impure, along with what cannot be counted of that which is shunned and despised. When Allah willed to spread His mercy upon them, He sent to them a messenger from among themselves: grievous to him is your suffering, keen for you, to the believers kind and merciful—may Allah bless him and upon him be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. That did not prevent them from wounding him in his body and nicknaming him in his name, though with him was a speaking Book from Allah, not undertaken except by His command and not journeyed to except by His leave. When he was commanded with resolve and charged with jihad, he unrolled his scroll for Allah's command, and Allah made his proof succeed, made his word prevail, and made his call manifest. He departed this world pious and pure. Then Abu Bakr succeeded him, following his sunnah and taking his path. The Arabs apostatized—or those of them who did so—and he refused to accept from them after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ anything except what was acceptable before. He drew swords from their sheaths and lit fires in their torches, then attacked the people of falsehood with the people of truth. He did not cease cutting their limbs and watering the earth with their blood until he brought them back into what they had left and settled them with what they had fled from. He had taken from Allah's wealth a young camel to ride and an Abyssinian woman who suckled a son of his; he saw that at his death as a lump in his throat, so he returned it to the caliph after him. He departed this world pious and pure, upon the path of his companion. Then after him 'Umar b. al-Khattab arose: he founded the garrison towns, blended severity with gentleness, rolled up his sleeves, tucked up his garment, prepared for affairs their equals and for war its tools. When the young man of al-Mughira b. Shu'ba struck him, he commanded Ibn 'Abbas to ask the people whether they could identify his killer. When it was said it was the young man of al-Mughira b. Shu'ba, he began praising his Lord that no one with a right in the fay' had struck him, lest he might argue that he had made his blood lawful by what he had deemed lawful of his right. He had taken from Allah's wealth seventy-some thousand, and for it he broke his teeth and disliked thereby the suretyship of his children, so he returned it to the caliph after him. He departed this world pious and pure, upon the path of his two companions. Then as for you, O 'Umar, you are the child of this world: its kings gave birth to you and gave you their breasts to suck. You grew up in it seeking its places of favor. When you were given charge of it, you cast it where Allah cast it; you abandoned it, shunned it, and loathed it except what you took as provision from it. Praise be to Allah who cleared our sin through you and removed our distress through you. Go ahead and do not turn back, for nothing is too mighty for truth, and nothing is too low for falsehood. I say this statement of mine, and I ask Allah's forgiveness for me and for the believing men and women. Abu Ayyub said: 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz would say about something: Ibn al-Ahtam said to me: Go ahead and do not turn back.

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