al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2530
✧ The leader exacting retaliation from his governor for his subjects
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، قَالَ:
كَانَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ يَأْمُرُ عُمَّالَهُ فَيُوَافُونَهُ الْمَوْسِمَ، فَيَقُولُ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي لَمْ أَسْتَعْمِلْ عُمَّالَكُمْ - أَوْ قَالَ: عُمَّالِي - لِيُصِيبُوا مِنْ أَبْشَارِكُمْ وَلَا مِنْ أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَلَا مِنْ أَعْرَاضِكُمْ، وَلَكِنِّي إِنَّمَا اسْتَعْمَلْتُهُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ لِيَحْجِزُوا بَيْنَكُمْ، وَلِيَقْسِمُوا فِيكُمْ، فَمَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ مَظْلِمَةٌ عِنْدَ أَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ فَلْيَقُمْ، فَمَا قَامَ مِنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ غَيْرُ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، عَامِلُكَ ضَرَبَنِي مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ. قَالَ: قُمْ فَاسْتَقِدْ مِنْهُ. فَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ ؓ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنَّكَ إِنْ تَفْتَحْ هَذَا عَلَى عُمَّالِكَ يَكُونُ سُنَّةً يُسْتَنُّ بِهَا بَعْدَكَ. فَقَالَ: أَنَا لَا أُقِيدُ مِنْهُ، وَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يُقِيدُ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ ؟ قَالَ عَمْرٌو: دَعْنَا فَلْنُرْضِهِ، قَالَ: فَأَرْضُوهُ، فَافْتَدَوْا مِنْهُ بِمِائَتَيْ دِينَارٍ، كُلُّ سَوْطٍ بِدِينَارَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Jarīr
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abū Sulaymān
- ʿAṭāʾ
✧ ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb ؓ used to command his governors, and they would meet him at the pilgrimage season. He would say: 'O people, I have not appointed your governors—or he said: my governors—to take from your skins, your wealth, or your honor. I appointed them over you only to restrain among you and to distribute among you. So whoever has suffered an injustice at the hands of any of them, let him stand up.' On that day none stood except one man, who said: 'O Commander of the Faithful, your governor struck me a hundred lashes.' He said: 'Stand and take retaliation from him.' ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ ؓ said: 'O Commander of the Faithful, if you open this door against your governors, it will become a precedent followed after you.' He said: 'Shall I not exact retaliation from him, when I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ exact retaliation from himself?' ʿAmr said: 'Let us appease him.' He said: 'Then appease him.' So they ransomed him for two hundred dinars, two dinars for each lash.
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