al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2572
✧ The virtue of the just ruler and the censure of the unjust
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أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، ثَنَا مُبَشِّرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ، ثَنَا مَعْمَرُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ النَّخَعِيِّ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
مَنْ وَلِيَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ شَيْئًا فَلَمْ يَعْدِلْ بَيْنَهُمْ فَعَلَيْهِ بَهْلَةُ اللهِ " وَبَهْلَةُ اللهِ لَعْنَةُ اللهِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
- Mubashhir b. ʿUbayd al-Ḥimṣī
- Maʿmar b. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī
- Masrūq
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Whoever is given authority over any affair of the Muslims and does not deal justly among them, upon him is the curse of God." And the curse of God is His damnation.
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- ابن عدي
ومبشر هذا بين الأمر في الضعف وله غير ما ذكرت من الحديث وعامة ما يرويه غير محفوظ من حديث الكوفة عن شيوخهم وشيوخ البصرة وغيرهم
in المطالب العالية, p. 2572
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AHمَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَ النَّخَعِيِّثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيراعن
- مَعْمَرُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk), Aḥmad accused him of fabricationd. between 161 and 170 AHمُبَشِّرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّمتروك ، ورماه أحمد بالوضعحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد
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