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Sahih Muslim 1839a

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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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ

عَلَى الْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ السَّمْعُ وَالطَّاعَةُ فِيمَا أَحَبَّ وَكَرِهَ إِلاَّ أَنْ يُؤْمَرَ بِمَعْصِيَةٍ فَإِنْ أُمِرَ بِمَعْصِيَةٍ فَلاَ سَمْعَ وَلاَ طَاعَةَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
  2. Layth
  3. ʿUbaydullāh
  4. Nāfiʿ
  5. Ibn ʿUmar
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

It is obligatory upon a Muslim that he should listen (to the ruler appointed over him) and obey him whether he likes it or not, except that he is ordered to do a sinful thing. If he is ordered to do a sinful act, a Muslim should neither listen to him nor should he obey his orders.

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  1. One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AH
    نَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 144 AH or 145 AH or 146 AH or 147 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
    لَيْثٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
    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

Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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