al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4877
✧ Virtue of Abu Ka'b al-Harithi ᴿᴬ
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، ثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ، عَنْ أَبِي كَعْبٍ الْحَارِثِيِّ، هُوَ ذُو الْإِدَاوَةِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ:
خَرَجْتُ فِي طَلَبِ إِبِلٍ لِي ضَوَالَّ، فَتَزَوَّدْتُ لَبَنًا فِي إِدَاوَةٍ، ثُمَّ قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: مَا أَنْصَفْتُ، فَأَيْنَ الْوَضُوءُ ؟ فَأَهْرَقْتُ اللَّبَنَ وَمَلَأْتُهَا مَاءً، وَقُلْتُ: هَذَا وَضُوءٌ، وَهَذَا شَرَابٌ. فَكُنْتُ أَبْغِي إِبِلِي فَإِذَا أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَتَوَضَّأَ اصْطَبَبْتُ مِنَ الْإِدَاوَةِ مَاءً فَتَوَضَّأْتُ، وَإِذَا أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَشْرَبَ اصْطَبَبْتُ لَبَنًا فَشَرِبْتُهُ، فَمَكَثْتُ بِذَلِكَ ثَلَاثًا، فَقَالَتْ لَهُ أَسْمَاءُ الْبَحْرَانِيَّةُ: يَا أَبَا كَعْبٍ، أَحَقِيبًا كَانَ أَمْ حَلِيبًا ؟ فَقَالَ: إِنَّكِ لَبَطَّالَةٌ، بَلْ كَانَ يَعْصِمُ مِنَ الْجُوعِ، وَيَرْوِي مِنَ الظَّمَأِ. أَمَا إِنِّي حَدَّثْتُ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ نَفَرًا مِنْ قَوْمِي فِيهِمْ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ سَيِّدُ بَنِي قِيَانٍ، قَالَ: مَا أَظُنُّ الَّذِي تَقُولُ كَمَا قُلْتَ. قُلْتُ: اللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِذَلِكَ. ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِي، فَنِمْتُ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِهِ صَلَاةَ الصُّبْحِ عَلَى بَابِي، فَقُلْتُ: يَرْحَمُكَ اللهُ، لِمَ تَعَنَّيْتَ إِلَيَّ ؟ أَلَا أَرْسَلْتَ إِلَيَّ فَآتِيَكَ ؟ قَالَ: أَنَا أَحَقُّ بِذَلِكَ أَنْ آتِيَكَ، مَا نِمْتُ اللَّيْلَةَ إِلَّا أَتَانِي آتٍ فَقَالَ: أَنْتَ الَّذِي تُكَذِّبُ مَنْ يُحَدِّثُ بِأَنْعُمِ اللهِ تَعَالَى. ثُمَّ خَرَجْتُ حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَأَتَيْتُ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ ؓ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ مِنْ أَمْرِ دِينِي، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، إِنِّي رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي الْحَارِثِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ، أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ، فَمُرْ حَاجِبَكَ أَنْ لَا يَحْجُبَنِي. فَقَالَ ؓ: يَا وَثَّابُ، إِذَا جَاءَ الْحَارِثِيُّ فَأْذَنْ لَهُ. فَكُنْتُ إِذَا جِئْتُ فَقَرَعْتُ الْبَابَ فَقَالَ: مَنْ ذَا ؟ فَقُلْتُ: الْحَارِثِيُّ، قَالَ: ادْخُلْ. فَدَخَلْتُ فَإِذَا عُثْمَانُ ؓ جَالِسٌ، وَحَوْلَهُ نَفَرٌ سُكُوتٌ لَا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ، كَأَنَّمَا عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمُ الطَّيْرُ، فَسَلَّمْتُ ثُمَّ جَلَسْتُ وَلَمْ أَسْأَلْهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ لِمَا رَأَيْتُ مِنْ حَالِهِمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- Ziyād b. Jabal
- Abū Kaʿb al-Ḥārithī
- Dhū al-Idāwah
- Samiʿtuh
✧ I went out seeking my stray camels, and I took with me milk in a leather water-skin. Then I said to myself: "I have not been fair. Where is the water for ablution?" So I poured out the milk and filled it with water. I said: "This is for ablution, and this is for drinking." I kept seeking my camels. Whenever I wanted to perform ablution, I poured water from the skin and performed ablution, and whenever I wanted to drink, I poured milk and drank it. I continued like that for three days. Asma' al-Bahraniyyah said to him: "O Abu Ka'b, was it a skin or a milk-skin?" He said: "You are indeed idle. Rather, it protected from hunger and quenched thirst. Indeed, I narrated this hadith to a group of my people, among them Ali ibn al-Harith, the chief of Banu Qiyan. He said: 'I do not think what you say is as you said.' I said: 'Allah knows best about that.' Then I returned to my dwelling and slept that night. At dawn prayer, he was at my door. I said: 'May Allah have mercy on you. Why did you trouble yourself to come to me? Could you not have sent for me and I would come to you?' He said: 'I am more entitled to come to you. No sooner did I sleep last night than someone came to me and said: "You are the one who denies the one who narrates the blessings of Allah, the Exalted."' Then I went out until I came to Madinah. I came to Uthman ibn Affan ؓ and asked him about something concerning my religion. I said: "O Commander of the Faithful, I am a man from Banu al-Harith from the people of Yemen. I want to ask you about some matters, so instruct your doorkeeper not to bar me." He ؓ said: "O Waththab, when the Harithi comes, permit him." So whenever I came, I knocked on the door. He said: "Who is this?" I said: "The Harithi." He said: "Enter." I entered, and Uthman ؓ was sitting with a group of silent men around him who did not speak, as if birds were on their heads. I greeted and sat down, but I did not ask him about anything because of what I saw of their state.
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)أَبِي كَعْبٍ الْحَارِثِيِّصحابيعن
- زِيَادِ بْنِ جَبَلٍعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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