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
- Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb al-Thaqafī And Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Jallāb
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Shabīb al-Maʿmarī
- Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad
- ʿUmar a freed slave of ʿUfrah
- Muḥammad b. Kaʿb
- 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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