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Sahih Muslim 1836

The obligation of obeying leaders in matters that do not involve sin, but it is forbidden to obey them in sinful matters

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وَحَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ سَعِيدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ السَّمَّانِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

عَلَيْكَ السَّمْعَ وَالطَّاعَةَ فِي عُسْرِكَ وَيُسْرِكَ وَمَنْشَطِكَ وَمَكْرَهِكَ وَأَثَرَةٍ عَلَيْكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Saʿīd b. Manṣūr and Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
  2. Yaʿqūb
  3. Saʿīd
  4. Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  5. Abū Ḥāzim
  6. Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān
  7. Abū Hurayrah
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

It is obligatory for you to listen to the ruler and obey him in adversity and prosperity, in pleasure and displeasure, and even when another person is given (rather undue) preference over you.

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Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِي صَالِحٍ السَّمَّانِثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Khalfūn said: 132 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī: 133 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 135 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 140 AH. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 143 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said: 144 AH
    أَبِي حَازِمٍثقة عابد
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 181 AH
    يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
    عن
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), authord. 226 AH or 227 AH or 228 AH or 229 AH
    سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة مصنف
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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