al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3797
✧ Virtue of reducing worldly possessions and praising the ascetics among them
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَابِطٍ الْجُمَحِيِّ قَالَ:
دَعَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي جُمَحَ يُقَالُ لَهُ: سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَامِرِ بْنِ حِذْيَمٍ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: إِنِّي مُسْتَعْمِلُكَ عَلَى أَرْضِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، قَالَ: أَوَتُقِيلُنِي يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ؟ فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ، لَا أَفْعَلُ، قَلَّدْتُمُوهَا فِي عُنُقِي وَتَتْرُكُونِي، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ: أَلَا نَفْرِضُ لَكَ رِزْقًا ؟ قَالَ: فَإِنَّكَ قَدْ جَعَلْتَ لِي فِي عَطَائِي مَا يَكْفِينِي دُونَهُ، وَفَضْلًا عَلَى مَا أُرِيدُ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ إِذَا خَرَجَ عَطَاؤُهُ ابْتَاعَ لِأَهْلِهِ قُوتَهُمْ، وَتَصَدَّقَ بِبَقِيَّتِهِ، فَتَقُولُ لَهُ امْرَأَتُهُ: أَيْنَ فَضْلُ عَطَائِكَ ؟ فَيَقُولُ: قَدْ أَقْرَضْتُهُ، فَأَتَاهُ نَاسٌ، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّ لِأَهْلِكَ عَلَيْكَ حَقًّا، وَلِأَصْهَارِكَ عَلَيْكَ حَقًّا، فَقَالَ: مَا أَنَا بِمُسْتَأْثِرٍ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا بِمُلْتَمِسٍ رِضَا أَحَدٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ لِطَلَبِ الْحُورِ الْعِينِ، لَوِ اطَّلَعَتْ خَيْرَةٌ مِنْ خَيْرَاتِ الْجَنَّةِ لَأَشْرَقَتْ لَهَا الْأَرْضُ كَمَا تُشْرِقُ الشَّمْسُ، وَمَا أَنَا بِمُتَخَلِّفٍ عَنِ الْعِتْقِ الْأَوَّلِ بَعْدَ إِذْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: « يُجْمَعُ النَّاسُ لِلْحِسَابِ فَيَجِيءُ فُقَرَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَيَدُفُّونَ كَمَا يَدُفُّ الْحَمَامُ فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ: قِفُوا عِنْدَ الْحِسَابِ فَيَقُولُونَ: مَا عِنْدَنَا مِنْ حِسَابٍ وَلَا آتَيْتُمُونَا، فَيَقُولُ لَهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ جَلَّ وَعَلَا: صَدَقَ عِبَادِي، فَيُفْتَحُ لَهُمْ بَابُ الْجَنَّةِ فَيَدْخُلُونَهَا قَبْلَ النَّاسِ بِسَبْعِينَ عَامًا
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Jarīr
- Yazīd b. Abū Ziyād
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Sābiṭ al-Jumaḥī
✧ 'Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ summoned a man from Banu Jumah called Sa'id b. 'Amir b. Hidhyam and said to him: "I am appointing you over such-and-such a land." He said: "Will you excuse me, O Commander of the Faithful?" He said: "By Allah, I will not. You have placed it upon my neck and then you leave me?" 'Umar ؓ said: "Should we not assign a stipend for you?" He said: "You have already made for me in my 'ata' what suffices me without it, and more than what I want." He said: When his 'ata' came out, he would buy provisions for his family and give the rest as charity. His wife would say to him: "Where is the surplus of your 'ata'?" He would say: "I have loaned it." Then some people came to him and said: "Your family has a right over you, and your in-laws have a right over you." He said: "I am not one to prefer them over the pursuit of the maidens of Paradise. If one of the best women of Paradise were to appear, the earth would shine for her as the sun shines. And I am not one to lag behind the first emancipation after I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'People will be gathered for the reckoning, and the poor believers will come walking quickly like doves. It will be said to them: "Stop for the reckoning." They will say: "We have no reckoning and you did not give us anything." Their Lord, Mighty and Exalted, will say to them: "My servants have spoken the truth." Then a gate of Paradise will be opened for them, and they will enter it seventy years before the rest of the people.'"
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5516al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5517
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 20 AH, also said: 19 AH, also said: 21 AHسعيد بن عامر بن حذيم الجمحيصحابيقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 118 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَابِطٍ الْجُمَحِيِّثقة ، كثير الإرسالعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf); he grew old and his memory changed, and he came to accept prompting (talqīn); he was a Shiite.d. 136 AH or 137 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍضعيف ، كبر فتغير وصار يتلقن ، وكان شيعيا .عن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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