Sunan Ibn Majah 18

Translation

Ubadah bin Samit Al-Ansari, head of the army unit, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, went on a military campaign with Mu'awiyah in the land of the Byzantines. He saw people trading pieces of gold for Dinar and pieces of silver for Dirham. He said: "O people, you are consuming Riba (usury)! For I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Do not sell gold for gold unless it is like for like; there should be no increase and no delay (between the two transactions).'" Mu'awiyah said to him: "O Abu Walid, I do not think there is any Riba involved in this, except in cases where there is a delay." 'Ubadah said to him: "I tell you a Hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and you tell me your opinion! If Allah brings me back safely I will never live in a land in which you have authority over me." When he returned, he stayed in Al-Madinah, and 'Umar bin Khattab said to him: "What brought you here, O Abu Walid?" So he told him the story, and what he had said about not living in the same land as Mu'awiyah. 'Umar said: "Go back to your land, O Abu Walid, for what a bad land is the land from where you and people like you are absent." Then he wrote to Mu'awiyah and said: "You have no authority over him; make the people follow what he says, for he is right."

Notes

• فَقَالَ لَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ يَا أَبَا الْوَلِيدِ لاَ أَرَى الرِّبَا فِي هَذَا إِلاَّ مَا كَانَ مِنْ نَظِرَةٍ. فَقَالَ عُبَادَةُ أُحَدِّثُكَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَتُحَدِّثُنِي عَنْ رَأْيِكَ لَئِنْ أَخْرَجَنِي اللَّهُ لاَ أُسَاكِنْكَ بِأَرْضٍ لَكَ عَلَىَّ فِيهَا إِمْرَةٌ. فَلَمَّا قَفَلَ لَحِقَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ مَا أَقْدَمَكَ يَا أَبَا الْوَلِيدِ فَقَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الْقِصَّةَ وَمَا قَالَ مِنْ مُسَاكَنَتِهِ فَقَالَ ارْجِعْ يَا أَبَا الْوَلِيدِ إِلَى أَرْضِكَ فَقَبَحَ اللَّهُ أَرْضًا لَسْتَ فِيهَا وَأَمْثَالُكَ. وَكَتَبَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ لاَ إِمْرَةَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِ وَاحْمِلِ النَّاسَ عَلَى مَا قَالَ فَإِنَّهُ هُوَ الأَمْرُ

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  صحيحة مشهورة محفوظة لعبادة مع معاوية من وجوه وطرق شتى

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), well-known (mashhūr), and preserved (maḥfūẓ) from ʿUbādah with Muʿāwiyah, through various routes and chains. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 18

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 11928al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14105Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 14262Sunan al-Daraqutni 2879al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2307

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 34 AH, or: 45 AH
   عُبَادَة بْن الصَّامِتصحابي
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Qabīṣah b. Dhuʾayb al-Khuzāʿī

   He saw the Prophet (ruʾyah) but did not meet him as a Companiond. 86 AH, or: 87 AH or 88 AH, or: 89 AH
   أَبِيهِله رؤية
   عن
3. 3
   Isḥāq b. Qabīṣah b. Dhuʾayb

   truthful (ṣadūq), narrates mursald. it was around 120 AH
   إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ قَبِيصَةَصدوق يرسل
   عن
4. 4
   Burd b. Sinān

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will)d. 135 AH
   بُرْدُ بْنُ سِنَانٍصدوق ، رمي بالقدر
   حدثني
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Ḥamzah

   trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 180 AH, or 183 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 185 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ حَمْزَةَثقة ، رمي بالقدر
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Hishām b. ʿAmmār

   Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصح
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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