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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4986

✧ Merit of the first generations

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قَالَ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ قُرَّةَ الْمُزَنِيِّ، قَالَ:

أَتَيْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فِي زَمَنِ الْأَقِطِ وَالسَّمْنِ، وَالْأَعْرَابُ يَأْتُونَ بِالزِّقَاقِ يَسْتَقُونَ بِهَا، فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَجُلٍ طَامِحِ الْبَصَرِ وَهُوَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَى النَّاسِ، فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ غَرِيبٌ، فَدَنَوْتُ فَسَلَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَرَدَّ عَلَيَّ السَّلَامَ، وَقَالَ لِي: مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ أَنْتَ ؟ قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ، فَجَلَسْتُ مَعَهُ فَقُلْتُ: مِمَّنْ أَنْتَ ؟ قَالَ: مِنْ بَنِي هِلَالٍ، وَاسْمِي كَهْمَسٌ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي: أَلَا أُحَدِّثُكَ حَدِيثًا شَهِدْتُهُ مِنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ ؟ فَقُلْتُ: بَلَى، قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ جُلُوسٌ عِنْدَهُ - فَذَكَرَ الْقِصَّةَ، فَقَالَ: ثُمَّ قَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: خَيْرُ أُمَّتِي الْقَرْنُ الَّذِي أَنَا مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ الثَّانِي، ثُمَّ الثَّالِثُ، ثُمَّ يَنْشَأُ قَوْمٌ تَسْبِقُ أَيْمَانُهُمْ شَهَادَتَهُمْ، يَشْهَدُونَ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يُسْتَشْهَدُوا، لَهُمْ لَغَطٌ فِي أَسْوَاقِهِمْ. قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: قَالَ كَهْمَسٌ: أَتَخَافُ أَنْ يَكُونَ هَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ أُولَئِكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Ṭayālisī
  2. Ḥammād b. Yazīd
  3. Muʿāwiyah b. Qurrah al-Muzanī

✧ I came to Madinah during the season of dried curd and clarified butter, while the Bedouins were bringing water skins to draw water. Then I saw a man with a lofty gaze looking at the people, and I thought he was a stranger. I approached and greeted him, and he returned the greeting and said to me: "Are you from the people of Madinah?" I said, "Yes." So I sat with him and said, "Who are you from?" He said, "From Banu Hilal, and my name is Kahmas." Then he said to me, "Shall I not narrate to you a hadith that I witnessed from Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ?" I said, "Yes." He said: "While we were sitting with him" — and he mentioned the story — then he said: "Then Umar ؓ said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'The best of my nation is the generation in which I am, then the second, then the third, then a people will arise whose oaths precede their testimonies; they testify without being asked to testify; they have clamor in their markets.'" Mu'awiyah said: Kahmas said: "Do you fear that these are from those?"

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