Sunan an-Nasa'i 4211

Translation

"You will become keen for positions of authority, but that will become a regret and loss. What a good life they will live, but how hard it will be for them when they die."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 7148Sahih Muslim 1825Musnad Ahmad 21513Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33208al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20269

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   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. 2
   Saʿīd al-Maqburī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
   سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir said, from Ibn Abī Fudayk: 158 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said, and others: 159 AH
   ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍثقة فقيه فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   ابْنِ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   عن
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Ādam

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ آدَمَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَصدوق
   أخبرني
6. 6
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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