al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5289
✧ The killing of Ammar ᴿᴬ at Siffin and his statement ﷺ 'Ammar will be killed by the transgressing party'
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا أَسْبَاطٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ، قَالَ:
رَجَعْتُ مَعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ ؓ مِنْ صِفِّينَ، فَكَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ وَأَبُو الْأَعْوَرِ السُّلَمِيُّ يَسِيرُونَ فِي جَانِبٍ، وَعَمْرٌو وَابْنُهُ يَسِيرَانِ فِي جَانِبٍ، فَكُنْتُ بَيْنَهُمْ، لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ غَيْرِي، فَكُنْتُ أَحْيَانًا أُوضِعُ إِلَى هَؤُلَاءِ، وَأَحْيَانًا أُوضِعُ إِلَى هَؤُلَاءِ، فَسَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو ؓ، يَقُولُ لِأَبِيهِ: يَا أَبَتِ، أَمَا سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لِعَمَّارٍ ؓ حِينَ كَانَ يَبْنِي الْمَسْجِدَ: إِنَّكَ لَحَرِيصٌ عَلَى الْأَجْرِ ؟ قَالَ: أَجَلْ ؓ، وَقَالَ ﷺ: إِنَّكَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَتَقْتُلُكَ الْفِئَةُ الْبَاغِيَةُ، قَالَ: بَلَى، قَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ، قَالَ: فَلِمَ قَتَلْتُمُوهُ ؟ قَالَ: فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ ؓ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، أَلَا تَسْمَعُ إِلَى مَا يَقُولُ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: فَذَكَرَهُ، قَالَ: وَيْحَكَ، مَا تَزَالُ تَدْحَضُ فِي قَوْلِكَ، أَنَحْنُ قَتَلْنَاهُ ؟ إِنَّمَا قَتَلَهُ مَنْ جَاءَ بِهِ
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Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl b. Mūsá
- Asbāṭ
- al-Aʿmash
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Ziyād
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith b. Nawfal
✧ I returned with Muawiya ؓ from Siffin. Muawiya and Abu al-A'war al-Sulami were riding on one side, and Amr and his son were riding on another side, and I was between them, no one else but me. Sometimes I urged my mount toward these, and sometimes toward those. I heard Abdullah b. Amr ؓ say to his father: 'O my father, did you not hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say to Ammar ؓ when he was building the mosque: "You are surely keen for reward"?' He said: 'Yes, by Allah ؓ.' And he ﷺ said: 'You are from the people of Paradise, and the transgressing party will kill you.' He said: 'Yes, I heard it.' He said: 'Then why did you kill him?' He said: 'He turned to Muawiya ؓ and said: "O Abu Abd al-Rahman, do you not hear what this one is saying?" He said: 'He mentioned it.' He said: 'Woe to you, you keep slipping in your speech. Did we kill him? Only those who brought him killed him.'
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 11011Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20504al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16891Musnad Abi Ya'la 1644al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4782
Narrators
- the well-known Companion (al-ṣaḥābī al-mashhūr)d. Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā and others said: 42 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 43 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 48 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 51 AH. Ṭalḥah al-Kūfī said: 58 AH. And from Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah: 61 AH, or 62 AH. And it is a clear errorعَمْرُو بْن الْعَاص بْن وَائِل السَّهْمِيّالصحابي المشهورعن
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: They are unanimously agreed upon his trustworthiness (thiqah).d. 62 AH, or 79 AH, or 83 AH, or 84 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍقال ابن عبد البر : أجمعوا على ثقتهعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍمقبولعن
- 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), though he was considered weak (ḍuʿʿifa) in his narrations from al-Thawrī.d. 199 AH, or 200 AHأَسْبَاطٌثقة ضُعِّف في الثوريحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, accused of Rafḍd. 245 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُوسَىصدوق يخطئ ، رمي بالرفضحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأبو يعلى الموصلي
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