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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5367

✧ The Permissibility of Abandoning the Forbidding of Wrong for One Who Is Unable

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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْمِقْدَامِ، ثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ، ثَنَا الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ ثَعْلَبَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمَلِيحِ الْهُذَلِيِّ، عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ ؓ، قَالَ:

رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ بِمَسْجِدِ الْخَيْفِ، وَقَالَ لِي أَصْحَابُهُ: إِلَيْكَ يَا وَاثِلَةُ، أَيْ: تَنَحَّ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ، فَقَالَ: دَعُوهُ فَإِنَّمَا جَاءَ لِيَسْأَلَ، فَدَنَوْتُ، فَقُلْتُ: بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَأُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَفْتِنَا عَنْ أَمْرٍ نَأْخُذُهُ عَنْكَ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ، قَالَ ﷺ: لِتُفْتِكَ نَفْسُكَ، قُلْتُ: وَكَيْفَ لِي بِذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى مَا لَا يَرِيبُكَ، وَإِنْ أَفْتَاكَ الْمُفْتُونَ، قُلْتُ: وَكَيْفَ لِي بِعِلْمِ ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: تَضَعُ يَدَكَ عَلَى فُؤَادِكَ، فَإِنَّ الْقَلْبَ يَسْكُنُ إِلَى الْحَلَالِ، وَلَا يَسْكُنُ لِلْحَرَامِ، وَإِنَّ وَرَعَ الْمُسْلِمِ أَنْ يَدَعَ الصَّغِيرَ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَقَعَ فِي الْكَبِيرِ، قُلْتُ: فَمَنِ الْحَرِيصُ ؟ قَالَ: الَّذِي يَطْلُبُ الْمَكْسَبَ فِي غَيْرِ حِلِّهَا، قُلْتُ: فَمَنِ الْوَرِعُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: الَّذِي يَقِفُ عِنْدَ الشُّبْهَةِ، قُلْتُ: فَمَنِ الْمُؤْمِنُ ؟ قَالَ: مَنْ أَمِنَهُ النَّاسُ عَلَى أَمْوَالِهِمْ وَدِمَائِهِمْ، قُلْتُ: فَمَنِ الْمُسْلِمُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ، قُلْتُ: فَأَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: كَلِمَةُ حَقٍّ عِنْدَ إِمَامٍ جَائِرٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Aḥmad b. al-Miqdām
  3. ʿUbayd b. al-Qāsim
  4. al-ʿAlāʾ b. Thaʿlabah
  5. Abū al-Malīḥ al-Hudhalī
  6. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ

✧ I saw the Prophet ﷺ in the mosque of al-Khayf, and his companions said to me: "Move aside, O Wathilah," meaning: get out of his way. He said: "Leave him, for he has only come to ask." So I drew near and said: "May my father and mother be your ransom, O Messenger of Allah, give us a ruling about a matter that we may take from you after you are gone." He ﷺ said: "Let your own self give you a ruling." I said: "How can I do that?" He ﷺ said: "Leave what causes you doubt for what does not cause you doubt, even if the muftis give you rulings." I said: "How can I know that?" He ﷺ said: "Place your hand on your heart, for the heart is at rest with the lawful and is not at rest with the unlawful. And the scrupulousness of a Muslim is that he leaves the small sin for fear of falling into the great one." I said: "Who is the greedy?" He said: "The one who seeks earnings from what is not lawful." I said: "Who is the scrupulous?" He ﷺ said: "The one who stops at what is doubtful." I said: "Who is the believer?" He said: "The one whom people trust with their wealth and their lives." I said: "Who is the Muslim?" He ﷺ said: "The one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe." I said: "Which jihad is best?" He ﷺ said: "A word of truth in the presence of a tyrannical ruler."

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  • Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

    العلاء بن ثعلبة مجهول قاله أبو حاتم لكن للمتن شواهد مفرقة

    machine translationʿAlāʾ b. Thaʿlabah is unknown (majhūl), as Abū Ḥātim said; however, the text has supporting witnesses (shawāhid) scattered in various places.

    in المطالب العالية, p. 5367

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4209al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7805al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8543al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1635

Narrators

  1. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ al-Laythī
    a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AH
    وَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Abū al-Malīḥ b. Usāmah al-Hudhalī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 98 AH, or: 112 AH, also said: 108 AH
    أَبِي الْمَلِيحِ الْهُذَلِيِّثقة
    عن
  3. Al-ʿAlāʾ b. Thaʿlabah
    الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ ثَعْلَبَةَ
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  4. ʿUbayd b. al-Qāsim
    abandoned (matrūk), Ibn Maʿīn called him a liar, Abū Dāwūd accused him of fabricationd. between 191 AH and 200 AH
    عُبَيْدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِمتروك ، كذبه ابن معين ، واتهمه أبو داود بالوضع
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  5. Aḥmad b. al-Miqdām
    truthful (ṣadūq), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. Abū Bakr and others said: 253 AH. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 251 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْمِقْدَامِصدوق , صاحب حديث
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  6. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أَبُو يَعْلَى

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