al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3830
✧ What Has Come Concerning Storytellers and Exhorters
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ قَالَ:
كَانَ كَعْبٌ ؓ يَقُصُّ، فَقَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ ؓ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: « لَا يَقُصُّ إِلَّا أَمِيرٌ، أَوْ مَأْمُورٌ، أَوْ مُخْتَالٌ » قَالَ: فَقِيلَ لِكَعْبٍ ؓ: ثَكِلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ، هَذَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ ؓ يَقُولُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَتَرَكَ الْقَصَصَ، ثُمَّ إِنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ أَمَرَهُ بِالْقَصَصِ، فَاسْتَحَلَّ ذَلِكَ بِذَلِكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Jarīr
- Muṭarrif
- al-Qāsim b. Kathīr
- a man Min Aṣḥābih
✧ Ka'b ؓ used to recount stories. Abd al-Rahman b. Awf ؓ said: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say: "No one recounts stories except a ruler, one commanded, or a self-conceited person." It was said to Ka'b ؓ: May your mother be bereaved of you! Abd al-Rahman b. Awf ؓ says such-and-such. So he stopped recounting stories. Then Mu'awiya commanded him to recount stories, and he considered it permissible because of that.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 24571Musnad Ahmad 24583al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16219al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16264al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 978
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 31 AH, or 32 AH, also said: 33 AHعَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن عَوْف بْن عَبْد عَوْف القُرَشِيأحد العشرةفقال
- رجل من أصحابهعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 133 AH, or: 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AHمُطَرِّفٍثقة فاضلعن
- 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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