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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5364

✧ The Prohibition of Fighting the Turks Due to the Fear of Their Dominance over the Lands of Islam

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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْبَصْرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْغِمْرِ مَوْلَى سُمُوكٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ جَدِّي، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ حُدَيْجٍ، يَقُولُ:

كُنْتُ عِنْدَ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ ؓ حِينَ جَاءَهُ كِتَابُ عَامِلِهِ، يُخْبِرُهُ أَنَّهُ وَقَعَ بِالتُّرْكِ وَهَزَمَهُمْ، وَكَثْرَةَ مَنْ قَتَلَ مِنْهُمْ، وَكَثْرَةَ مَا غَنِمَ، فَغَضِبَ مُعَاوِيَةُ ؓ فِي ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ أَمَرَ أَنْ يُكْتَبَ إِلَيْهِ: قَدْ فَهِمْتُ مَا ذَكَرْتَهُ مِمَّا قَتَلْتَ وَغَنِمْتَ، فَلَا أَعْلَمَنَّ مَا عُدْتَ لِشَيْءٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، وَلَا قَاتَلْتَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ أَمْرِي، قُلْتُ لَهُ: لِمَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ؟ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ، يَقُولُ: إِنَّ التُّرْكَ تُجْلِي الْعَرَبَ، حَتَّى تُلْحِقَهَا بِمَنَابِتِ الشِّيحِ وَالْقَيْصُومِ فَأَكْرَهُ قِتَالَهُمْ لِذَلِكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Baṣrī
  3. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
  4. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm
  5. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ghimr a freed slave of Sumūk
  6. my father
  7. my father
  8. Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj

✧ I was with Mu'awiyah b. Abi Sufyan ؓ when the letter of his governor came to him, informing him that he had encountered the Turks and defeated them, and of the large number of them he had killed, and the large amount of booty he had taken. Mu'awiyah ؓ became angry at that, and then ordered that it be written to him: "I have understood what you mentioned of those you killed and the booty you took. Do not let me know that you return to any of that, nor fight them until my command comes to you." I said to him: "Why, O Commander of the Faithful?" He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'The Turks will drive out the Arabs until they make them catch up with the places where wormwood and southernwood grow.' Thus I dislike fighting them for that reason."

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