al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5004
✧ Merit of the non-Arabs and Persia
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، قَالَ:
كُنْتُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ يَخْطُبُ عَلَى مِنْبَرٍ مِنَ الْآجُرِّ، وَخَلْفِي صَعْصَعَةُ بْنُ صُوحَانَ، فَكَلَّمَهُ رَجُلٌ بِشَيْءٍ خَفِيٍّ عَلَيْنَا، فَعَرَفْنَا الْغَضَبَ فِي وَجْهِهِ، فَسَكَتَ، فَجَاءَ الْأَشْعَثُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، فَجَعَلَ يَتَخَطَّى رِقَابَ النَّاسِ حَتَّى كَانَ قَرِيبًا، فَقَالَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، غَلَبَتْنَا هَذِهِ الْحَمْرَاءُ عَلَى وَجْهِكَ، فَضَرَبَ صَعْصَعَةُ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيَّ بِيَدِهِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّا لِلهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ، لَيُبْدِيَنَّ الْيَوْمَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْعَرَبِ أَمْرًا كَانَ يَكْتُمُهُ، قَالَ: فَغَضِبَ غَضَبًا، وَقَالَ: مَنْ يَعْذِرُنِي مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الضَّيَاطِرَةِ، يَتَمَرَّغُ أَحَدُهُمْ عَلَى حَشَايَاهُ، وَيَهْجُرُ أَقْوَامًا تَذْكُرُ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، فَيَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ أَطْرُدَهُمْ وَأَكُونَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ، وَالَّذِي فَلَقَ الْحَبَّةَ وَبَرَأَ النَّسَمَةَ لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدًا ﷺ يَقُولُ: وَاللهِ لَيَضْرِبُنَّكُمْ عَلَى الدِّينِ عَوْدًا كَمَا ضَرَبْتُمُوهُمْ عَلَيْهِ بَدْءًا.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Jarīr
- al-Aʿmash
- al-Minhāl
- a man
✧ I was in the mosque on Friday while 'Ali b. Abi Talib was giving a sermon from a brick minbar. Behind me was Sa'sa'a b. Suhan. A man spoke to him about something that was hidden from us, and we recognized anger in his face, so he fell silent. Then al-Ash'ath b. Qays came, stepping over people's necks until he was close. He said: 'O Commander of the Believers, these red-skinned ones have overcome us in your presence.' Sa'sa'a struck me between my shoulders with his hand and said: 'To God we belong and to Him we return. Today he will reveal a matter concerning the Arabs that he was concealing.' He said: 'He became very angry and said: "Who will excuse me from these fools? One of them wallows in his cushions and abandons people who remember God, Mighty and Majestic. He orders me to expel them, and that I should be among the wrongdoers. By Him who split the grain and created the soul, I heard Muhammad ﷺ say: 'By God, they will strike you back regarding the religion as you struck them regarding it in the beginning.'"
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- al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī
سئل الدارقطني عنه فقال يرويه أبو معاوية الضرير عن الأعمش عن المنهال بن عمرو عن عباد بن عبد الله الأسدي عن علي موقوفا ورفعه أبو عوانة ويحيى بن عيسى الرملي عن الأعمش ورواه شريك عن الأعمش فنحا به نحو الرفع ولم يصرح به ورفعه صحيح
machine translationAl-Dāraquṭnī was asked about it and said: Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr narrates it from al-Aʿmash, from al-Minhāl b. ʿAmr, from ʿAbbād b. ʿAbdillāh al-Asadī, from ʿAlī as a statement of his own (mawqūf). Abū ʿAwānah and Yaḥyā b. ʿĪsā al-Ramlī raised it to the Prophet (marfūʿ) from al-Aʿmash. Sharīk narrated it from al-Aʿmash and inclined toward raising it, but did not state it explicitly. Its raised (marfūʿ) version is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).
in المطالب العالية, p. 5004
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 4744Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28041Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 31212Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38401
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةصريح في السماع
- رجلعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. between 111 and 120 AHالْمِنْهَالِصدوق ربما وهمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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