Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 10442
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ النَّحْوِيُّ، نَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَزِينٍ، نَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ خَشْرَمٍ، حَدَّثَنِي سَلَمَةُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ
قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ فَسَأَلَهُ أَنْ يَقْضِيَ دِينًا عَلَيْهِ، فَكَتَبَ لَهُ إِلَى وَكِيلٍ لَهُ، فَلَمَّا وَرَدَ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ قَالَ لَهُ الْوَكِيلُ: كَمِ الدَّيْنُ الَّذِي سَأَلْتَ فِيهِ عَبْدَ اللهِ أَنْ يَقْضِيَهُ عَنْكَ؟، قَالَ: سَبْعُمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ. فَكَتَبَ إِلَى عَبْدِ اللهِ: إِنَّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ سَأَلَكَ أَنْ تَقْضِيَ عَنْهُ سَبْعَمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ، وَكَتَبْتَ إِلَيْهِ سَبْعَةَ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ قَدْ فَنِيَتِ الْغَلَّاتِ، فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ عَبْدُ اللهِ: " إِنْ كَانَتِ الْغَلَّاتُ قَدْ فَنِيَتْ، فَإِنَّ الْعُمُرَ أَيْضًا قَدْ فَنِيَ فَأَجْرِ لَهُ مَا سَبَقَ بِهِ قَلَمِي لَهُ "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us: Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Naḥwī narrated to me: Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Razīn narrated to us: ʿAlī b. Khashram narrated to us: Salamah b. Sulaymān narrated to me
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He said: A man came to ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak and asked him to settle a debt he owed, so he wrote for him to an agent of his. When the letter reached the agent, the agent said to him: "How much is the debt for which you asked ʿAbdullāh to settle on your behalf?" He said: "Seven hundred dirhams." So he wrote to ʿAbdullāh: "This man asked you to settle seven hundred dirhams for him, yet you wrote to him for seven thousand dirhams, and the yields have run out." ʿAbdullāh wrote back to him: "If the yields have run out, then life too has run out. So carry out for him what my pen has already ordered for him."
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