Sahih Muslim 1855b
The best and worst of rulers
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حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ رُشَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ أَخْبَرَنِي مَوْلَى بَنِي فَزَارَةَ وَهُوَ رُزَيْقُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُسْلِمَ بْنَ قَرَظَةَ ابْنَ عَمِّ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الأَشْجَعِيِّ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَوْفَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ الأَشْجَعِيَّ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
خِيَارُ أَئِمَّتِكُمُ الَّذِينَ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَشِرَارُ أَئِمَّتِكُمُ الَّذِينَ تُبْغِضُونَهُمْ وَيُبْغِضُونَكُمْ وَتَلْعَنُونَهُمْ وَيَلْعَنُونَكُمْ قَالُوا قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَفَلاَ نُنَابِذُهُمْ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ لاَ مَا أَقَامُوا فِيكُمُ الصَّلاَةَ لاَ مَا أَقَامُوا فِيكُمُ الصَّلاَةَ أَلاَ مَنْ وَلِيَ عَلَيْهِ وَالٍ فَرَآهُ يَأْتِي شَيْئًا مِنْ مَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ فَلْيَكْرَهْ مَا يَأْتِي مِنْ مَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ وَلاَ يَنْزِعَنَّ يَدًا مِنْ طَاعَةٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Dāwud b. Rushayd
- al-Walīd / Ibn Muslim
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- a freed slave of Banī Fazārah / Ruzayq b. Ḥayyān
- Muslim b. Qaraẓah Ibn ʿAm ʿAwf b. Mālik al-Ashjaʿī
- ʿAwf b. Mālik al-Ashjaʿī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love you, upon whom you invoke God's blessings and who invoke His blessing upon you. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who hate you, who curse you and whom you curse. (Those present) said: Shouldn't we overthrow them at this? He said: No, as long as they establish prayer among you. No, as long as they establish prayer among you. Mind you! One who has a governor appointed over him and he finds that the governor indulges in an act of disobedience to God, he should condemn the governor's act, in disobedience to God, but should not withdraw himself from his obedience. Ibn Jabir said: Ruzaiq narrated to me this hadith. I asked him: Abu Miqdam, have you heard it from Muslim b. Qaraza or did he describe it to you and he heard it from 'Auf (b. Malik) and he transmitted this tradition of Messenger of Allah ﷺ? Upon this Ruzaiq sat upon his knees and facing the Qibla said: By Allah, besides Whom there is no other God, I heard it from Muslim b. Qaraza and he said that te had heard it from Auf (b. Malik) and he said that he had heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Notes
قَالَ ابْنُ جَابِرٍ فَقُلْتُ يَعْنِي لِرُزَيْقٍ حِينَ حَدَّثَنِي بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ آللَّهِ يَا أَبَا الْمِقْدَامِ لَحَدَّثَكَ بِهَذَا أَوْ سَمِعْتَ هَذَا مِنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ قَرَظَةَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَوْفًا يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ فَجَثَا عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ وَاسْتَقْبَلَ الْقِبْلَةَ فَقَالَ إِي وَاللَّهِ الَّذِي لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ لَسَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ قَرَظَةَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَوْفَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ
machine translationIbn Jābir said: I said to him, meaning to Ruzayq, when he narrated this hadith to me: "By Allah, O Abū al-Miqdām, did he really narrate this to you, or did you hear it from Muslim b. Qaraẓah, saying: I heard ʿAwf say: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say...?" He said: So he knelt on his knees, faced the qiblah, and said: "Yes, by Allah, besides whom there is no god, I heard it from Muslim b. Qaraẓah, who said: I heard ʿAwf b. Mālik say: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3670وَعَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَشْجَعِيِّ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «خِيَارُ أئمتكم الَّذين يحبونهم وَيُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَشِرَارُ أَئِمَّتِكُمُ الَّذِي تبغضونه
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 24577Sunan ad-Darimi 2839al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16234al-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 الفتحسمعت
- acceptable (maqbūl)مُسْلِمَ بْنَ قَرَظَةَ ابْنَ عَمِّ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَشْجَعِيِّمقبولسمع
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 105 AHمَوْلَى بَنِي فَزَارَةَ ، ( وَهُوَ رُزَيْقُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ )صدوقأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 239 AHدَاوُدُ بْنُ رُشَيْدٍثقةحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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