al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4833
✧ Virtue of Amr b. al-As ᴿᴬ
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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ هُوَ ابْنُ هَارُونَ، ثَنَا الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ شَيْبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي نَوْفَلٍ الْعُرَيْجِيِّ، قَالَ:
لَمَّا حُضِرَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ ؓ جَزِعَ جَزَعًا شَدِيدًا وَجَعَلَ يَبْكِي، فَقَالَ لَهُ ابْنُهُ: لِمَ تَجْزَعْ، وَقَدْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَسْتَعْمِلُكَ وَيُدْنِيكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: قَدْ كَانَ ﷺ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ، وَلَا أَدْرِي أَحُبًّا ذَلِكَ لِي أَمْ تَأَلُّفًا يَتَأَلَّفُنِي، وَلَكِنْ أَشْهَدُ عَلَى رَجُلَيْنِ تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ يُحِبُّهُمَا: ابْنُ سُمَيَّةَ، يَعْنِي عَمَّارًا، وَابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ فَلَمَّا جَدَّ بِهِ - يَعْنِي النَّزْعَ - جَمَعَ يَدَيْهِ وَوَضَعَهَا مَوْضِعَ الْغُلِّ مِنْ عُنُقِهِ فَجَعَلَ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ أَمَرْتَنَا فَتَرَكْنَا، وَنَهَيْتَنَا فَرَكِبْنَا، فَلَا يَسَعُنَا إِلَّا رَحْمَتُكَ. قَالَ: فَمَا زَالَتْ تِلْكَ هِجِّيرَاهُ حَتَّى قُبِضَ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Yazīd
- Ibn Hārūn
- al-Aswad b. Shaybān
- Abū Nawfal al-ʿUrayjī
✧ When Amr b. al-As ؓ was near death, he became intensely distressed and began to weep. His son said to him: “Why are you so distressed, when the Messenger of God ﷺ used to appoint you and draw you near?” He said: “He ﷺ used to do that, but I do not know whether he loved me or was simply trying to win me over. However, I bear witness to two men whom the Messenger of God ﷺ died loving: the son of Sumayya, meaning Ammar, and Ibn Mas’ud ؓ.” When his death throes intensified—meaning the final agony—he clasped his hands and placed them at his neck like a collar, saying: “O God, You commanded us and we neglected, You forbade us and we transgressed. Nothing can save us except Your mercy.” He kept repeating this until he died.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17781Musnad Ahmad 17807al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 613Musnad al-Tayalisi 1066al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8235al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5677
Narrators
- the well-known Companion (al-ṣaḥābī al-mashhūr)d. Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā and others said: 42 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 43 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 48 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 51 AH. Ṭalḥah al-Kūfī said: 58 AH. And from Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah: 61 AH, or 62 AH. And it is a clear errorعَمْرُو بْن الْعَاص بْن وَائِل السَّهْمِيّالصحابي المشهورفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AHأَبِي نَوْفَلٍ الْعُرَيْجِيِّثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 160 AH, or 165 AHالْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ شَيْبَانَثقة عابدحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.يَزِيدُ هُوَ ابْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
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