Sahih Muslim 1855a
The best and worst of rulers
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْحَنْظَلِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ رُزَيْقِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ قَرَظَةَ عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
«خِيَارُ أَئِمَّتِكُمُ الَّذِينَ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَيُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَتُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَشِرَارُ أَئِمَّتِكُمُ الَّذِينَ تُبْغِضُونَهُمْ وَيُبْغِضُونَكُمْ وَتَلْعَنُونَهُمْ وَيَلْعَنُونَكُمْ»، قِيلَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَفَلاَ نُنَابِذُهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ؟ فَقَالَ: «لاَ مَا أَقَامُوا فِيكُمُ الصَّلاَةَ، وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمْ مِنْ وُلاَتِكُمْ شَيْئًا تَكْرَهُونَهُ فَاكْرَهُوا عَمَلَهُ وَلاَ تَنْزِعُوا يَدًا مِنْ طَاعَةٍ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanẓalī
- ʿĪsá b. Yūnus
- al-Awzāʿī
- Yazīd b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- Ruzayq b. Ḥayyān
- Muslim b. Qaraẓah
- ʿAwf b. Mālik
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who said: “The best of your leaders are those whom you love and who love you, who pray for you and you pray for them. And the worst of your leaders are those whom you hate and who hate you, whom you curse and who curse you.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, should we not oppose them with the sword?” He said: “No, for as long as they establish the prayer among you. And if you see from your rulers something you dislike, then dislike their action, but do not withdraw your hand from obedience.”
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 1855bMusnad Ahmad 24577Sunan ad-Darimi 2839al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16235al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16236Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20740
Narrators
- A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), from those who accepted Islam at the Conquest of Mecca.d. 73 AHعَوْفُ بْنُ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَبِي عَوْفٍصحابي مشهور من مسلمة الفتحعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)مُسْلِمِ بْنِ قَرَظَةَمقبولعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 105 AHرُزَيْقِ بْنِ حَيَّانَصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist.d. 134 AH, or: 134 AH.يَزِيدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقة فقيه .عن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيُّثقة جليلحدثنا
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AHعِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَثقة مأمونأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْحَنْظَلِيُّثقة حافظ مجتهدحدثنا
- 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 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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