Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 10326
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ، أَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، نَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ، نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي زُكَيْرٍ، أَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ،
قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ لِلْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ: بِمَا سُدْتَ قَوْمَكَ، وَأَنْتَ لَسْتَ بَأَنْقَبِهِمْ وَلَا أَشْرَفِهِمْ؟ "، قَالَ: " إِنِّي لَا أَتَنَاوَلُ أَوْ قَالَ: لَا أَتَكَلَّفُ مَا كُفِيتُ، وَلَا أُضَيِّعُ مَا وُلِّيتُ
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machine translationAbū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān informed us: ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar informed us: Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān narrated to us: Muḥammad b. Abī Zukayr narrated to us: Ibn Wahb informed us: Mālik narrated to me,
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He said: It has reached me that Muʿāwiyah said to al-Aḥnaf b. Qays: "By what did you become the chief of your people, when you are not the most distinguished of them nor the noblest?" He said: "I do not take on — or he said: I do not burden myself with — what is already taken care of for me, and I do not neglect what I have been entrusted with."
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