al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1158
✧ Warning against asking and the virtue of giving
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى بْنُ حَمَّادٍ، وَالْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، وَنَسَخْتُهُ مِنْ كِتَابِ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ حَرْمَلَةَ
حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ جُذَامٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ يُقَالُ لَهُ عَدِيٌّ، كَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ امْرَأَتَيْنِ لَهُ حِوَارٌ، فَرَمَى إِحْدَاهُمَا بِحَجَرٍ فَقَتَلَهَا، فَرَكِبَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ بِتَبُوكَ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَأْنِ الْمَرْأَةِ الْمَقْتُولَةِ، فَقَالَ: أَدِّ لِوَارِثِهَا عَقْلَهَا. قَالَ عَدِيٌّ ؓ: فَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى نَاقَةٍ لَهُ حَمْرَاءَ جَدْعَاءَ، فَقَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، تَعْلَمُنَّ أَنَّ الْأَيْدِيَ ثَلَاثَةٌ، يَدُ اللهِ تَعَالَى هِيَ الْعُلْيَا، وَيَدُ الْمُعْطِي الْوُسْطَى، وَيَدُ الْمُعْطَى هِيَ السُّفْلَى، فَتَعَفَّفُوا، وَلَوْ بِحُزَمِ الْحَطَبِ، ثُمَّ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ هَلْ بَلَّغْتُ. ؟
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- ʿAbd al-Aʿlá b. Ḥammād And -al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd Wanasakhtuh Min Kitāb ʿAbd al-Aʿlá
- Wuhayb
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ḥarmalah
✧ A man from Judham narrated to me, from a man among them called 'Adi, that there was a dispute between him and two wives of his. He threw a stone at one of them and killed her. He rode to the Messenger of God ﷺ while he was in Tabuk and asked him about the affair of the slain woman. He said: "Pay her blood money to her heir." 'Adi ؓ said: "It is as if I am looking at the Messenger of God ﷺ on a red, crop-eared she-camel of his. He said: 'O people, know that there are three hands: the hand of God Most High is the highest, the hand of the giver is the middle, and the hand of the one given is the lowest. So abstain (from asking), even by bundles of firewood.' Then he raised his hands and said: 'O God, have I conveyed?'"
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