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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2538

✧ The minister and the minister's rejection of the ruler's command if he sees the interest in opposing it

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قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُحَارِبِيُّ، عَنْ حَجَّاجِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ، قَالَ:

جَاءَ عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ حِصْنٍ وَالْأَقْرَعُ بْنُ حَابِسٍ ؓ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ، فَقَالَا: يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ، إِنَّ عِنْدَنَا أَرْضًا سَبِخَةً لَيْسَ فِيهَا كَلَأٌ وَلَا مَنْفَعَةٌ، فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ أَنْ تُقْطِعَنَاهَا ؟ قَالَ: فَأَقْطَعَهَا إِيَّاهُمَا وَكَتَبَ لَهُمَا عَلَيْهِ كِتَابًا، وَأَشْهَدَ فِيهِ عُمَرَ ؓ، وَلَيْسَ فِي الْقَوْمِ، فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَى عُمَرَ ؓ لِيُشْهِدَاهُ، فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ عُمَرُ ؓ مَا فِي الْكِتَابِ تَنَاوُلَهُ مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمَا، ثُمَّ تَفَلَ فِيهِ فَمَحَاهُ، فَتَذَمَّرَا وَقَالَا لَهُ مَقَالَةً سَيِّئَةً. فَقَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَتَأَلَّفُ وَالْإِسْلَامُ يَوْمَئِذٍ قَلِيلٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī
  3. Ḥajjāj b. Dīnār
  4. Ibn Sīrīn
  5. ʿAbīdah

✧ ʿUyayna b. Ḥiṣn and al-Aqraʿ b. Ḥābis ؓ came to Abū Bakr ؓ and said: 'O successor of the Messenger of God, we have salty land with no pasture and no benefit. If you see fit to grant it to us?' He said: He granted it to them and wrote them a document, and he had ʿUmar ؓ witness it, though he was not among the people. They went to ʿUmar ؓ to have him witness it. When ʿUmar ؓ heard what was in the document, he took it from their hands, spat on it, and erased it. They became angry and spoke harshly to him. He said: 'The Messenger of God ﷺ used to win hearts, but Islam then was small.'

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