al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2539
✧ The ruler's reward when he exercises ijtihad for the truth
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، ثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ - رَجُلٍ مِنْ آلِ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ - أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ
أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؓ، حِينَ اسْتُخْلِفَ قَعَدَ فِي بَيْتِهِ حَزِينًا، فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ عُمَرُ ؓ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ يَلُومُهُ، وَقَالَ: أَنْتَ كَلَّفْتَنِي هَذَا الْأَمْرَ وَشَكَى إِلَيْهِ الْحُكْمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ. فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ ؓ: أَوَمَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: إِنَّ الْوَالِيَ إِذَا اجْتَهَدَ فَأَصَابَ الْحَقَّ فَلَهُ أَجْرَانِ، وَإِذَا اجْتَهَدَ فَأَخْطَأَ الْحَقَّ فَلَهُ أَجْرٌ وَاحِدٌ، فَكَأَنَّهُ سَهَّلَ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ حَدِيثُ عُمَرَ ؓ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- Mūsá b. Ibrāhīm a man Min Āl Abū Rabīʿah
- Balaghah
✧ When Abu Bakr ؓ was appointed as caliph, he sat in his house sorrowful. Umar ؓ entered upon him and began to reproach him, saying: "You have burdened me with this matter," and he complained to him about judging between the people. Umar ؓ said to him: "Do you not know that the Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'If a governor exercises ijtihad and reaches the truth, he gets two rewards; and if he exercises ijtihad and errs from the truth, he gets one reward'?" It was as if Umar's ؓ hadith made it easy for Abu Bakr.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17824Musnad Ahmad 17825Musnad Ahmad 6755al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8996Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20751al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2541
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبفي حكم العنعنة
- acceptable (maqbūl)مُوسَى بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ - رَجُلٍ مِنْ آلِ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَمقبولعن
- 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
- d. 284 AH or 285 AH or 287 AHإِسْحَاقُ
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