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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2540

✧ The ruler's reward when he exercises ijtihad for the truth

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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحْرِزُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ، ثَنَا فَرَجُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ ؓ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ؓ، قَالَ:

جَاءَ خَصْمَانِ يَخْتَصِمَانِ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: يَا عَمْرُو، اقْضِ بَيْنَهُمَا. قُلْتُ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ أَنْتَ أَوْلَى بِذَلِكَ. قَالَ ﷺ: وَإِنْ كَانَ. قُلْتُ: عَلَى مَاذَا أَقْضِي ؟ قَالَ: عَلَى إِنْ أَصَبْتَ الْقَضَاءَ بَيْنَهُمَا فَلَكَ عَشْرُ حَسَنَاتٍ، وَإِنِ اجْتَهَدْتَ فَأَخْطَأْتَ فَلَكَ حَسَنَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ.

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Muḥriz b. ʿAwn
  3. Faraj b. Faḍālah
  4. Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  5. his father
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
  7. his father

✧ Two litigants came disputing to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ said: "O Amr, judge between them." I said: "O Prophet of God, you are more entitled to that." He ﷺ said: "Even so." I said: "On what basis shall I judge?" He said: "If you judge correctly between them, you get ten good deeds; and if you exercise ijtihad and err, you get one good deed."

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  • Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

    وفيه فرج بن فضالة وهو ضعيف

    machine translationIn it is Faraj b. Faḍālah, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).

    in المطالب العالية, p. 2540

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 17825Musnad Ahmad 6755al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1586al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7894al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 131

Narrators

  1. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ b. Wāʾil al-Sahmī
    the well-known Companion (al-ṣaḥābī al-mashhūr)d. Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā and others said: 42 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 43 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 48 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 51 AH. Ṭalḥah al-Kūfī said: 58 AH. And from Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah: 61 AH, or 62 AH. And it is a clear error
    عَمْرُو بْن الْعَاص بْن وَائِل السَّهْمِيّالصحابي المشهور
    عن
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
    One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
    عن
  3. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá b. ʿAdī al-Bahrānī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 104 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  4. Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
    محمد بن العلاء
    عن
  5. Faraj b. Faḍālah
    weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 176 AH, or 177 AH
    فَرَجُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَضعيف
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥriz b. ʿAwn
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 231 AH
    مُحْرِزُ بْنُ عَوْنٍصدوق
    حدثنا
  7. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أَبُو يَعْلَى

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