al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2528
✧ Disapproval of a judge passing judgment while angry
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، ثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ
أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقَ ؓ، خَطَبَ فَقَالَ: أَمَا وَاللهِ مَا أَنَا بِخَيْرِكُمْ، لَقَدْ كُنْتُ لِمَقَامِي هَذَا كَارِهًا، وَلَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ فِيكُمْ مَنْ يَكْفِينِي، أَفَتَظُنُّونَ أَنِّي أَعْمَلُ فِيكُمْ بِسُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، إِذًا لَا أَقُومُ بِهَا، إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُعْصَمُ بِالْوَحْيِ، وَكَانَ مَعَهُ مَلَكٌ، وَإِنَّ لِي شَيْطَانًا يَعْتَرِينِي، فَإِذَا غَضِبْتُ فَاجْتَنِبُونِي أَنْ لَا أُؤْثِرَ فِي أَشْعَارِكُمْ وَأَبْشَارِكُمْ، أَلَا فَرَاعُونِي فَإِنِ اسْتَقَمْتُ فَأَعِينُونِي، وَإِنْ زِغْتُ فَقَوِّمُونِي قَالَ الْحَسَنُ: خُطْبَةٌ وَاللهِ مَا خُطِبَ بِهَا بَعْدَهُ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- a man
- al-Ḥasan
✧ Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq ؓ gave a sermon and said: 'By God, I am not the best of you. I was averse to this position of mine, and I wished there were among you someone who could suffice me. Do you think that I would act among you according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of God ﷺ? If so, I would not be able to establish it. The Messenger of God ﷺ was protected by revelation, and an angel was with him. But I have a devil that comes upon me. So when I become angry, avoid me, lest I affect your hair and your skin. Indeed, tend to me: if I am upright, help me; if I deviate, correct me.' Al-Ḥasan said: 'A sermon, by God, none after him gave the like of it.'
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8605Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20778al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2529
Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمخطب
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- رجلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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