al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3669
✧ Exhortation to Spread Knowledge
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- قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ، عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو كَثِيرٍ: أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَاهُ يَقُولُ:
أَتَيْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ ؓ وَهُوَ عِنْدَ الْجَمْرَةِ الْوُسْطَى وَقَدِ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ يَسْتَفْتُونَهُ، فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ فَوَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: أَلَمْ يَنْهَكَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَنِ الْفُتْيَا ؟ قَالَ: فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: أَرَقِيبٌ أَنْتَ عَلَيَّ ؟ لَوْ وَضَعْتُمُ الصَّمْصَامَةَ عَلَى هَذِهِ وَأَشَارَ إِلَى قَفَاهُ ثُمَّ ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّنِي أُنْفِذُ كَلِمَةً سَمِعْتُهَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُجِيزُوا عَلَيَّ لَأَنْفَذْتُهَا
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- Isḥāq
- ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Dimashqī
- al-Awzāʿī
- Abū Kathīr
- his father
✧ I came to Abu Dharr ؓ while he was at the middle Jamrah and the people had gathered asking him for legal verdicts. A man came and stood before him and said: 'Did not the Commander of the Faithful forbid you from giving legal verdicts?' He raised his head to him and said: 'Are you a watcher over me? If you were to place the sword upon this'—and he pointed to the back of his neck—'then I thought that I could convey a word I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ before you passed it upon me, I would convey it.'
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا حديث صحيح
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in المطالب العالية, p. 3669
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيأتيت
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبَاهُمقبولسمع
- trustworthy (thiqah)أَبُو كَثِيرٍثقةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيِّثقة جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 200 AH, or 201 AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harawī mentioned that he died in the year 187 AH, and al-Mizzī deemed it a mistake. Also said 180 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّثقةأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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