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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2542

✧ What is obligatory upon the ruler of good conduct and not hiding

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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ، ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنِ الْجُرَيْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ الْحَارِثِيِّ:

أَنَّهُ وَفَدَ إِلَى عُمَرَ ؓ فَأَعْجَبَتْهُ هَيْئَتُهُ وَنَحْوُهُ، فَشَكَا عُمَرُ ؓ طَعَامًا غَلِيظًا أَكَلَهُ، فَقَالَ الرَّبِيعُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنَّ أَحَقَّ النَّاسِ بِمَطْعَمٍ لَيِّنٍ وَمَلْبَسٍ لَيِّنٍ وَمَرْكَبٍ وَطِيءٍ لَأَنْتَ، فَضَرَبَ رَأَسَهُ بِجَرِيدَةٍ، وَقَالَ: وَاللهِ مَا أَرَدْتَ بِهَذَا إِلَّا مُقَارَبَتِي، وَإِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَحْسَبُ فِيكَ خَيْرًا، أَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ مَثَلِي وَمَثَلُ هَؤُلَاءِ كَمَثَلِ قَوْمٍ سَافَرُوا فَدَفَعُوا نَفَقَاتِهِمْ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ، وَقَالُوا: أَنْفِقْهَا عَلَيْنَا، فَهَلْ لَهُ أَنْ يَسْتَأْثِرَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِشَيْءٍ ؟ فَقَالَ الرَّبِيعُ: لَا، قَالَ: هَذَا مَثَلِي وَمَثَلُهُمْ. فَقَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ: إِنِّي لَسْتُ أَسْتَعْمِلُ عُمَّالِي لِيَشْتِمُوا أَعْرَاضَكُمْ.

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Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. Rawḥ b. ʿUbādah
  3. Ḥammād b. Salamah
  4. al-Jurayrī
  5. Abū Naḍrah
  6. al-Rabīʿ b. Ziyād al-Ḥārithī

✧ He came as a delegate to Umar ؓ, and his appearance and manner pleased Umar. Umar ؓ complained of coarse food he had eaten, so al-Rabi said: "O Commander of the Faithful, you are the most deserving of people of soft food, soft clothing, and a comfortable mount." He struck his head with a palm branch and said: "By God, you only intended by this to flatter me. I had thought there was good in you. Shall I not tell you a parable of me and these people? It is like a people who traveled and entrusted their provisions to one of them, saying: 'Spend it on us.' Is he allowed to take anything exclusively for himself over them?" Al-Rabi said: "No." He said: "This is the parable of me and them." Then Umar ؓ said: "I do not appoint my governors to insult your honors."

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  1. Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    صريح في السماع
  2. His status as a Companion is disputed (mukhtalaf fī ṣuḥbatihi)
    الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ الْحَارِثِيِّمختلف في صحبته
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)d. During the governorship of Ibn Hubayrah (103–105 AH), or 108 AH, or 109 AH
    أَبِي نَضْرَةَثقة
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) three years before his deathd. 144 AH
    الْجُرَيْرِيِّثقة ، اختلط قبل موته بثلاث سنين
    عن
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
    حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AH
    رَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَثقة فاضل ، له تصانيف
    أخبرنا
  7. trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
    إِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد

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