al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3908
✧ The Prohibition of Excessiveness in Religion
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي أُسَامَةَ: أَحَدَّثَكُمْ مِسْعَرٌ قَالَ: أَخْرَجَ إِلَيَّ مَعْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ كِتَابًا فَحَلَفَ لِي أَنَّهُ خَطُّ أَبِيهِ، فَإِذَا فِيهِ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ:
وَالَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ غَيْرُهُ مَا رَأَيْتُ أَحَدًا كَانَ أَشَدَّ خَوْفًا عَلَى الْمُتَنَطِّعِينَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، وَلَا بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ أَشَدَّ خَوْفًا مِنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ، وَإِنِّي لَأَرَى عُمَرَ ؓ كَانَ أَشَدَّ خَوْفًا عَلَيْهِمْ أَوْ لَهُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Liʾabī Usāmah Aḥaddathakum Misʿar
- Akhraj Ilay Maʿn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman Kitāb Faḥalaf Lī
- Khaṭ Abīh Faʾidhā Fīh
- ʿAbdullāh
✧ «By Him besides whom there is no god, I have not seen anyone who was more fearful for the extremists than the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ there was none who was more fearful than Abu Bakr ؓ. And indeed I see that Umar ؓ was more fearful for them or of them.»
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- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 79 AH, also said: 89 AHأَبِيهِثقةفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 and 130 AHمَعْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةأخرج إلي
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), virtuous (fāḍil).d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said: 153 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: 155 AHمِسْعَرٌثقة ثبت فاضلأحدثكم
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHلِأَبِي أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.قلت
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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