al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2571
✧ The virtue of the just ruler and the censure of the unjust
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ الْمُهَاجِرِ بْنِ قُنْفُدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
أَفْضَلُ عِبَادِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عِنْدَ اللهِ تَعَالَى مَنْزِلَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِمَامٌ عَادِلٌ رَفِيقٌ، وَإِنَّ شَرَّ عِبَادِ اللهِ تَعَالَى عِنْدَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مَنْزِلَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِمَامٌ جَائِرٌ خَرِقٌ ".
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī
- Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥumayd
- Muḥammad b. Zayd b. al-Muhājir b. Qunfud
- his father
- ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The best of God's servants, Mighty and Majestic, in rank before God Almighty on the Day of Resurrection is a just and gentle ruler. The worst of God Almighty's servants in rank before God, Mighty and Majestic, on the Day of Resurrection is a tyrannical and harsh ruler.
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