al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2581
✧ The virtue of the just ruler and the censure of the unjust
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ خَارِجَةَ، ثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ، ثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ الْمَالِكِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ ؓ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
مَا عَدَلَ وَالٍ اتَّجَرَ فِي رَعِيَّتِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- al-Haytham b. Khārijah
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Ḥimṣī
- Khālid b. Ḥumayd
- Abū al-Aswad al-Mālikī
- his father
- his father
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ A governor who trades in his subjects is not just.
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- أبو أحمد الحاكم
حديثه ليس بالقائم
in المطالب العالية, p. 2581
Narrators
- جَدِّهِعن
- أبو أبو الأسود القرشيعن
- أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ الْمَالِكِيِّعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 169 AHخَالِدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍلا بأس بهحدثنا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. some time before Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd b. Farrūkhيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّضعيفحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 227 AH, or: 228 AHالْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ خَارِجَةَصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
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