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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Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 61 AH, or 63 AH, or 64 AHالرَّبِيعِ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- مَسْعَدَةُ بْنُ صَدَقَةَحدثنا
- d. after 200 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحِيمِ بْنُ وَاقِدٍحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.