al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3925
✧ Prioritizing the Work of the Hereafter Over the Work of This World
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ قَالَ: وَقَالَ حَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ أَبِي شَبِيبٍ قَالَ:
كَانَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ ؓ فِي رَكْبٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَمَرَّ بِهِمْ رَجُلٌ فَسَأَلَهُمْ فَأَجَابُوهُ، ثُمَّ انْتَهَى إِلَى مُعَاذٍ ؓ وَهُوَ وَاضِعٌ رَأْسَهُ عَلَى رَحْلِهِ يُحَدِّثُ نَفْسَهُ، فَقَالَ: عَمَّ سَأَلْتَهُمْ ؟ فَقَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُمْ عَنْ كَذَا، فَقَالُوا كَذَا، وَسَأَلْتُهُمْ عَنْ كَذَا، فَقَالُوا كَذَا، فَقَالَ مُعَاذٌ ؓ: كَلِمَتَانِ إِنْ أَنْتَ أَخَذْتَ بِهِمَا أَخَذْتَ بِصَالِحِ مَا قَالُوا، وَإِنْ أَنْتَ تَرَكْتَهُمَا تَرَكْتَ صَالِحَ مَا قَالُوا، إِنْ أَنْتَ ابْتَدَأْتَ بِنَصِيبِكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا يَفُتْكَ نَصِيبُكَ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ، وَعَسَى أَنْ لَا تُدْرِكَ بَيْنَهُمَا الَّذِي تُرِيدُ، وَإِنِ ابْتَدَأْتَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ يَمُرُّ بِكَ عَلَى نَصِيبِكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا فَيَنْتَظِمُ لَكَ انْتِظَامًا، ثُمَّ يَدُورُ مَعَكَ حَيْثُمَا تَدُورُ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Jarīr
- al-Aʿmash
- Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
- Maymūn b. Abū Shabīb
✧ Mu'adh b. Jabal ؓ was in a group of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ. A man passed by them and asked them, so they answered him. Then he came to Mu'adh ؓ while he had placed his head on his saddle talking to himself. He said: "What did you ask them about?" He said: "I asked them about such-and-such, so they said such-and-such; and I asked them about such-and-such, so they said such-and-such." Mu'adh ؓ said: "Two phrases: if you adopt them, you will have adopted the best of what they said, and if you abandon them, you will have abandoned the best of what they said. If you begin with your share of this world, your share of the Hereafter will elude you, and perhaps you will not attain between them what you want. But if you begin with your share of the Hereafter, it will pass by your share of this world and arrange it for you in an orderly manner, then it will revolve with you wherever you turn."
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18227Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35841Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20377
Narrators
- well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AHمُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابةفقال
- Truthful (ṣadūq), narrates mursal oftend. 83 AHمَيْمُونِ بْنِ أَبِي شَبِيبٍصدوق كثير الإرسالعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AHحَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليسقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- 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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