al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2537
✧ Disciplining the governor who conceals himself from the subjects or elevates himself above them
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَكِيعِيُّ، ثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ حَرْمَلَةَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ، عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَ، قَالَ:
إِنَّ غَرَفَةَ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ ؓ، وَكَانَتْ لَهُ صُحْبَةٌ، فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ. قَالَ: وَقَالَ غَرَفَةُ لِعَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ ؓ: إِنَّكَ إِذَا جَلَسْتَ مَعَنَا اتَّكَأْتَ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِنَا فَلَا تَفْعَلْ ; فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ عُدْتَ كَتَبْتَ إِلَى عُمَرَ ؓ، فَعَادَ عَمْرٌو ؓ فَكَتَبَ غَرَفَةُ، فَجَاءَ قَاصِدُ عُمَرَ إِلَى عَمْرٍو ؓ فَقَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ إِذَا جَلَسْتَ مَعَ أَصْحَابِكَ اتَّكَأْتَ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ كَمَا يَفْعَلُ الْأَعَاجِمُ، فَلَا تَفْعَلِ، اجْلِسْ مَعَهُمْ مَا جَلَسْتَ، فَإِذَا دَخَلْتَ بَيْتَكَ فَافْعَلْ مَا بَدَا لَكَ. قَالَ عَمْرٌو لِغَرَفَةَ ؓ: قَدْ أُثْبِتَ عَلَيَّ عِنْدَ عُمَرَ، فَقَالَ غَرَفَةُ: مَا عَهِدْتَنِي كَذَّابًا. قَالَ: فَكَانَ عَمْرٌو ؓ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَتَّكِئَ فَيَذْكُرُ فَيَجْلِسُ، وَيَقُولُ: اللهُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ غَرَفَةَ. قَالَ: وَخَرَجُوا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ، فَكَانَ يَوْمَ ضَبَابٍ، فَتَقَدَّمَ فَرَسُ غَرَفَةَ فَرَسَ عَمْرٍو. فَقَالَ عَمْرٌو: وَمَا يَوْمِي مِنْ غَرَفَةَ بِوَاحِدٍ. فَقِيلَ لِغَرَفَةَ: إِنَّ الْأَمِيرَ قَالَ: كَذَا وَكَذَا. قَالَ: إِنِّي لَمْ أُبْصِرْهُ مِنَ الضَّبَابِ. قِيلَ: فَاعْتَذِرْ لَهُ. قَالَ: لَا تُعَوِّدُوهُمْ هَذَا، فَلَمْ يَزَالُوا بِهِ حَتَّى أَتَاهُ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي لَمْ أُبْصِرْكَ مِنَ الضَّبَابِ. فَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ غُفْرًا، لَوْ شِئْتَ أَمْسَكْتَ فَرَسَكَ. فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ لَوَدِدْتُ لَوْ رَمَى بِكَ فِي أَقْصَى حَجَرٍ فِي الْمَرْجِ، أَعْتَذِرُ إِلَيْكَ بِالضَّبَابِ، وَإِنِّي لَمْ أُبْصِرْكَ وَتَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ غُفْرًا ؟ فَقَالَ عَمْرٌو: يَا أَبَا الْحَارِثِ، قَدْ رَأَيْتُكَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمَ كَذَا وَكَذَا عَلَى فَرَسٍ ذَلُولٍ، أَفَلَا نَحْمِلُكَ عَلَى فَرَسٍ ؟ قَالَ: مَا عَهِدْتُكَ يَا عَمْرُو تَحْمِلُ عَلَى الْخَيْلِ، فَمِنْ أَيْنَ هَذَا ؟
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Wakīʿī
- Yaḥyá b. Ādam
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak
- Ḥarmalah b. ʿImrān
- Kaʿb b. ʿAlqamah
✧ Ghurafa b. al-Ḥārith ؓ, who was a Companion, mentioned the ḥadīth. He said: Ghurafa said to ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ ؓ: 'When you sit with us, you recline among us. Do not do that; if you do it again, I will write to ʿUmar ؓ.' ʿAmr ؓ did it again, so Ghurafa wrote. ʿUmar's messenger came to ʿAmr ؓ and said: 'It has reached me that when you sit with your companions you recline among them as the Persians do. Do not do that; sit with them as long as you sit. When you enter your house, do what seems good to you.' ʿAmr said to Ghurafa ؓ: 'Now it is established against me before ʿUmar.' Ghurafa said: 'You have never known me to be a liar.' He said: After that, ʿAmr ؓ would intend to recline, then remember and sit up, saying: 'God is between me and Ghurafa.' He said: One day they went out on a foggy day. Ghurafa's horse advanced ahead of ʿAmr's horse. ʿAmr said: 'My day with Ghurafa is not one.' It was said to Ghurafa: 'The amir said such and such.' He said: 'I did not see him because of the fog.' It was said: 'Then apologize to him.' He said: 'Do not accustom them to this.' They kept at him until he came to him and said: 'I did not see you because of the fog.' He said: 'O God, forgive me! If you wished, you could have held back your horse.' He said: 'By God, I wish it had thrown you into the farthest stone of the meadow, and I would apologize to you because of the fog; I did not see you, and you say, "O God, forgive me?"' ʿAmr said: 'O Abū al-Ḥārith, I saw you with the Messenger of God ﷺ on such-and-such a day on a docile horse. Shall we not mount you on a horse?' He said: 'I have never known you, O ʿAmr, to mount horses. Where does this come from?'
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)غَرَفَةُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ الْكِنْدِيُّصحابيإن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 127 AH, or 130 AHكَعْبِ بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 160 AHحَرْمَلَةَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 203 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَثقة حافظ فاضلحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 235 AH, or 236 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَكِيعِيُّثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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