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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
  1. Isḥāq
  2. ʿAbd al-Razzāq
  3. Maʿmar
  4. Mūsá b. Ibrāhīm a man Min Āl Abū Rabīʿah
  5. 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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