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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2598

✧ What is feared for one who judges without right

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وَقَالَ عَبْدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ، ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو سِنَانٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَوْهَبٍ، قَالَ:

إِنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ ؓ، قَالَ لِابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ: اقْضِ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ، فَقَالَ: لَا أَقْضِي بَيْنَ رَجُلَيْنِ، وَلَا أَؤُمُّهُمَا، قَالَ: فَإِنَّ أَبَاكَ ؓ كَانَ يَقْضِي، قَالَ: كَانَ أَبِي يَقْضِي، فَإِنْ أَشْكَلَ عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، وَإِنْ أَشْكَلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ سَأَلَ جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ، وَأَنَا لَا أَجِدُ مَنْ أَسْأَلُهُ، وَإِنِّي لَسْتُ مِثْلَ أَبِي، وَإِنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ الْقُضَاةَ ثَلَاثَةٌ: رَجُلٌ خَافَ فَمَالَ بِهِ هَوًى فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ، [وَرَجُلٌ تَكَلَّفَ الْقَضَاءَ فَقَضَى بِجَهْلٍ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ]، وَرَجُلٌ اجْتَهَدَ فَأَصَابَ فَذَاكَ يَنْجُو كَفَافًا لَا لَهُ وَلَا عَلَيْهِ، وَهَلْ سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ عَاذَ بِاللهِ فَقَدْ عَاذَ بِمَعَاذٍ، قَالَ: بَلَى. قَالَ: فَإِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِاللهِ مِنْكَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَنِي قَاضِيًا، فَأَعْفَاهُ، وَقَالَ: لَا تُخْبِرَنَّ أَحَدًا

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Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd
  2. Abū al-Walīd
  3. Ḥammād b. Salamah
  4. Abū Sinān
  5. Yazīd b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mawhab

✧ Uthman b. Affan ؓ said to Ibn Umar ؓ: Judge between the people. He said: I will not judge between two men, nor lead them in prayer. He said: Your father ؓ used to judge. He said: My father used to judge, and if something was unclear to him, he asked the Prophet ﷺ, and if something was unclear to the Prophet ﷺ, he asked Gabriel ﷺ. But I do not find anyone to ask, and I am not like my father. It has reached me that judges are three: a man who feared [God] but his desire swayed him, so he is in the Fire; [a man who undertook judgment and judged ignorantly, so he is in the Fire]; and a man who strove and was correct; that one escapes with neither gain nor loss. Have you heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: Whoever seeks refuge in God has sought refuge in a true refuge? He said: Yes. He said: Then I seek refuge in God from you making me a judge. So he excused him and said: Do not tell anyone.

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