al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4642
✧ The Virtues of Umar b. al-Khattab, ᴿᴬ
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، ثَنَا جَعْفَرٌ هُوَ ابْنُ بُرْقَانَ، عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ ؓ جَاءَ، فَجَلَسَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى خَتَنَتِكَ خَطَبَهَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ فَأَبَتْهُ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: مَا مَنَعَهَا مِنْ عُمَرَ ؓ ؟ مَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ - إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ نَبِيٌّ - أَفْضَلَ مِنْ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لِلَّذِي
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- Kathīr b. Hishām
- Jaʿfar
- Ibn Burqān
- Thābit b. al-Ḥajjāj
- a man
✧ Abu Sufyan ؓ came and sat near the Prophet ﷺ and said: "Have you not seen your son-in-law? Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ proposed to her, and she refused him." The Prophet ﷺ said: "What prevented her from (marrying) Umar ؓ? There is no man in Madinah better than Umar ؓ—except if he were a prophet." He said: So I said to the one…
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