al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5220
✧ Permissibility of monasticism during times of trial
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحِيمِ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَسْعَدَةُ بْنُ صَدَقَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
سَيَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَحِلُّ فِيهَا الْعُزْبَةُ، وَلَا يَسْلَمُ لِذِي دِينٍ دِينُهُ إِلَّا مَنْ فَرَّ بِدِينِهِ مِنْ شَاهِقٍ إِلَى شَاهِقٍ، وَمِنْ جُحْرٍ إِلَى جُحْرٍ، كَالطَّائِرِ يَفِرُّ بِفِرَاخِهِ، وَكَالثَّعْلَبِ بِأَشْبَالِهِ، فَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ، وَاعْتَزَلَ النَّاسَ إِلَّا مِنْ خَيْرٍ، وَلَمِائَةُ شَاةٍ عَفْرَاءَ أَرْعَاهَا بِسَلْعٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ مُلْكِ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ، وَذَلِكَ إِذَا كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Wāqid
- Masʿadah b. Ṣadaqah
- Sufyān al-Thawrī
- his father
- al-Rabīʿ b. Khuthaym
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ A time will come upon the people when celibacy will be permissible, and no one's religion will be safe for a person of religion except one who flees with his religion from one mountain peak to another, and from one burrow to another, like a bird fleeing with its chicks, and like a fox with its cubs. Then he establishes prayer and gives zakat and withdraws from people except for good. A hundred reddish sheep that I pasture at Sal' would be more beloved to me than the kingdom of Banu al-Nadir, and that will be when it is such and such.
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