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al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4526

✧ The assassination of Umar, in short

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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الثَّقَفِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْجَلَّابُ قَالَا ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ شَبِيبٍ الْمَعْمَرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ ثنا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ مَوْلَى عُفْرَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَصْحَابِ الشُّورَى «لِلَّهِ دَرُّهُمْ لَوْ وَلَّوْهَا الْأُصَيْلِعَ كَيْفَ يَحْمِلُهُمْ عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَإِنْ حُمِلَ عَلَى عُنُقِهِ بِالسَّيْفِ» قَالَ فَقُلْتُ تَعْلَمُ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ وَلَا تُوَلِّيِهِ؟ قَالَ «إِنْ أَسْتَخْلِفْ فَقَدِ اسْتَخْلَفَ مَنْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي وَإِنْ أَتْرُكْ فَقَدْ تَرَكَ مَنْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Thaqafī and Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Jallāb
  2. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Shabīb al-Maʿmarī
  3. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ
  4. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad
  5. ʿUmar a freed slave of ʿUfrah
  6. Muḥammad b. Kaʿb
  7. Ibn ʿUmar

✧ Umar said to the members of the shura, “How excellent they are! If they were to entrust it to the little bald one, how he would carry them upon the truth, even if the sword were held to his neck.” I said, “You know that of him and yet you would not appoint him?” He said, “If I appoint a successor, then one better than me appointed a successor, and if I leave it, then one better than me left it.”

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Narrators

  1. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    قال
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    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 AH
    ابْنِ عُمَرَأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
    عن
  3. Muḥammad b. Kaʿb b. Sulaym al-Quraẓī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. 108 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍثقة عالم
    عن
  4. ʿUmar mawlā Ghufrah
    Weak (ḍaʿīf), and he often narrated in mursal form (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 145 AH, or 146 AH
    عُمَرَ ، مَوْلَى عُفْرَةَضعيف ، وكان كثير الإرسال
    عن
  5. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad
    Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to narrate from the books of others and would make mistakes.d. 182 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH, or 189 AH
    عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍصدوق ، كان يحدث من كتب غيره فيخطئ
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  6. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 240 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِصدوق
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  7. Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Shabīb
    d. 295 AH
    الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ شَبِيبٍ الْمَعْمَرِيُّ
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  8. Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Bālawayh
    d. 340 AH
    وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْجَلَّابُ
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  9. al-Ḥākim
    d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
    الحاكم

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