al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3959
✧ Urging to Enjoin Good and Forbid Evil Even if One Does Not Practice It
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ فِي الزُّهْدِ: حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، ثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ ؓ:
« إِنِّي لَآمُرُكُمْ بِمَا لَا أَفْعَلُ وَلَكِنِّي أَرْجُو أَنْ أُوجَرَ عَلَيْهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad Fī al-Zuhd
- Aswad b. ʿĀmir
- Sharīk
- ʿĀṣim
- Abū Wāʾil
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
✧ “Indeed I command you to do what I do not do, but I hope to be rewarded for it.”
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AHعَاصِمٍصدوق له أوهامعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AHأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأَحْمَدُثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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