Sahih Ibn Hibban 7287
✧ The Excellence of the Companions and Followers
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُصْعَبٍ الزُّبَيْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قُدَامَةَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ
رَأَيْتُ الْحَجَّاجَ يَضْرِبُ عَبَّاسَ بْنَ سَهْلٍ فِي إِمْرَةِ ابْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ فَأَتَاهُ سَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ وَهُوَ شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ لَهُ ضَفِيرَتَانِ وَعَلَيْهِ ثَوْبَانِ إِزَارٌ وَرِدَاءٌ فَوَقَفَ بَيْنَ السِّمَاطَيْنِ فَقَالَ «يَا حَجَّاجُ أَلَا تَحْفَظُ فِينَا وَصِيَّةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ» قَالَ وَمَا أَوْصَى بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِيكُمْ؟ قَالَ «أَوْصَى أَنْ يُحْسَنَ إِلَى مُحْسِنِ الْأَنْصَارِ وَيُعْفَى عَنْ مُسِيئِهِمْ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná
- Muṣʿab b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī
- my father
- Qudāmah b. Ibrāhīm
✧ I saw al-Hajjaj beating ʿAbbas b. Sahl during the rule of Ibn al-Zubayr. Sahl b. Saʿd came to him—an old man with two braids, wearing two garments, an izār and a ridāʾ—and stood between the two rows and said, "O Hajjaj, do you not preserve among us the testament of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?" He said, "And what did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ enjoin regarding you?" He said, "He enjoined that good be done to the good-doer of the Ansar and that their wrongdoer be pardoned."
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- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. Abū Nuʿaym and more than one said: 88 AH. Al-Wāqidī and others said: 91 AH. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: he lived a hundred years or more, so on this basis he would have lived until the year 96 AH or after itسَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةفقال
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 131 and 140 AHقُدَامَةَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَمقبولعن
- d. 184 AHأَبِيحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable in genealogyd. 236 AHمُصْعَبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُصْعَبٍ الزُّبَيْرِيُّصدوق عالم بالنسبحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّىأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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