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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3328

✧ Reason and its virtue

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حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ، ثَنَا عَبَّادٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:

قُلْتُ لِابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ: أَيُّ حَاجِّ بَيْتِ اللهِ أَفْضَلُ، وَأَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا ؟ قَالَ ؓ: مَنْ جَمَعَ ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ: نِيَّةً صَادِقَةً، وَعَقْلًا وَافِرًا، وَنَفَقَةً مِنْ حَلَالٍ، فَذُكِرَ ذَلِكَ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ فَقَالَ: صَدَقَ، قُلْتُ إِذَا صَدَقَتْ نِيَّتُهُ وَكَانَتْ نَفَقَتُهُ مِنْ حَلَالٍ فَمَا يَضُرُّهُ قِلَّةُ عَقْلِهِ، قَالَ: يَا أَبَا الْحَجَّاجِ، تَسْأَلُنِي عَمَّا سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْهُ، فَقَالَ: وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، مَا أَطَاعَ الْعَبْدُ رَبَّهُ بِشَيْءٍ، وَلَا جِهَادٍ، وَلَا شَيْءٍ مِمَّا يَكُونُ مِنْهُ مِنْ أَنْوَاعِ الْبِرِّ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْقِلُهُ، وَلَوْ أَنَّ جَاهِلًا بِعَقْلِهِ فَاقَ الْمُجْتَهِدِينَ فِي الْعِبَادَةِ، كَانَ مَا يُفْسِدُ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا يُصْلِحُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Dāwud
  2. ʿAbbād
  3. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Mujāhid
  4. his father

✧ I said to Ibn Umar ؓ: Which pilgrim to the House of God is best and greatest in reward? He said ؓ: One who combines three qualities: sincere intention, abundant intellect, and spending from lawful means. This was mentioned to Ibn Abbas ؓ, and he said: He spoke truth. I said: If his intention is sincere and his spending is from lawful means, what harm does the smallness of his intellect cause him? He said: O Abu al-Hajjaj, you ask me about what I asked the Messenger of God ﷺ. He said: By the One in whose hand is my soul, a servant does not obey his Lord with anything—not jihad, nor any kind of piety among the kinds of what comes from him—if he does not understand it. If an ignorant person, by his intellect, surpassed the diligent in worship, what he corrupts would be more than what he sets right.

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