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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2526

✧ Giving precedence in command to the best reciter over the nobler and older

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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، قَالَ: إِنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبِي لَيْلَى، حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ:

خَرَجْتُ مَعَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ إِلَى مَكَّةَ فَاسْتَقْبَلَنَا أَمِيرُ مَكَّةَ نَافِعُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ، وَتَسَمَّى بِنَافِعٍ عَمٍّ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: مَنِ اسْتَخْلَفْتَ عَلَى أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ ؟ قَالَ: عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبْزَى. قَالَ: عَمَدْتَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمَوَالِي وَاسْتَخْلَفْتَهُ عَلَى مَنْ بِهَا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَأَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ وَجَدْتُهُ أَقْرَأَهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللهِ، وَمَكَّةُ أَرْضٌ مُحْتَضَرَةٌ، فَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ يَسْمَعُوا كِتَابَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ رَجُلٍ حَسَنِ الْقِرَاءَةِ. فَقَالَ: نِعْمَ مَا رَأَيْتَ، إِنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبْزَى مِمَّنْ يَرْفَعُهُ اللهُ بِالْقُرْآنِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Shaqīq
  3. my father
  4. al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid
  5. Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
  6. In ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá

✧ I went out with Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ to Makkah. The governor of Makkah, Nafi' b. 'Alqamah—who was named after an uncle of his—met us. He asked: "Whom have you appointed as your successor over the people of Makkah?" He said: "Abd al-Rahman b. Abza." He said: "You chose a man from the clients and appointed him over the Quraysh and the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ who are there?" He said: "Yes, I found him to be the best reciter of the Book of God among them, and Makkah is a land that is frequently visited, so I wanted them to hear the Book of God, Mighty and Majestic, from a man with excellent recitation." He said: "What a good opinion you have. Abd al-Rahman b. Abza is among those whom God raises through the Qur'an."

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