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Sahih Muslim 1733c

The prohibition of seeking or desiring a position of authority

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ بُرَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ

دَخَلْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَا وَرَجُلاَنِ مِنْ بَنِي عَمِّي فَقَالَ أَحَدُ الرَّجُلَيْنِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمِّرْنَا عَلَى بَعْضِ مَا وَلاَّكَ اللَّهُ ﷻ وَقَالَ الآخَرُ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ إِنَّا وَاللَّهِ لاَ نُوَلِّي عَلَى هَذَا الْعَمَلِ أَحَدًا سَأَلَهُ وَلاَ أَحَدًا حَرَصَ عَلَيْهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  2. Abū Usāmah
  3. Burayd b. ʿAbdullāh
  4. Abū Burdah
  5. Abū Mūsá

Two of my cousins and I entered the apartment of the Prophet ﷺ. One of them said: Messenger of Allah, appoint us rulers of some lands that the Almighty and Glorious God has entrusted to thy care. The other also said something similar. He said: We do not appoint to this position one who asks for it nor anyone who is covetous for the same.

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  • Misykatul Mashabih 3683وَعَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَا وَرَجُلَانِ مِنْ بَنِي عَمِّي فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمِّرْنَا عَلَى بَعْضِ مَا وَلَّاكَ اللَّهُ وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
    أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AH
    أَبِي بُرْدَةَثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), makes a few mistakesd. between 141 and 150 AH
    بُرَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ، يخطئ قليلا
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AH
    أَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.
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  5. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
    وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظ
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  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)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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