al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2577

Translation

✧ Whoever appoints a man over a group while among that group is one more pleasing to Allah than him has betrayed Allah, betrayed His Messenger ﷺ, and betrayed [all] the believers.

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• عمرو بن الحصين العقيلي

  أعله بحسين بن قيس وقال إنما يعرف هذا من كلام عمر بن الخطاب

  in المطالب العالية, p. 2577

Other narrations of this report

al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20423al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7023

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥanash

   abandoned (matrūk)d. between 121 and 130 AH
   حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍمتروك
   عن
4. 4
   Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 179 AH, or 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
   خَالِدٌثقة ثبت.
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Musaddad

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
   مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ

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