al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4649
✧ The Virtues of Umar b. al-Khattab, ᴿᴬ
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وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ وَالْحُمَيْدِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، ثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ كُلَيْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ - ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ:
وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي خَرَجْتُ مِنْهَا - يَعْنِي: الْإِمَارَةَ - كَفَافًا، لَا عَلَيَّ، وَلَا لِي
Translation
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- Ibn Abū ʿUmar And -al-Ḥumaydī
- Sufyān
- ʿĀṣim b. Kulayb
- my father
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- ʿUmar
✧ I wish that I could leave it—meaning the governorship—evenly, with nothing for me and nothing against me.
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