Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1765
✧ He said: "The seeker of knowledge should learn, and the scholar should teach, for the sake of Allah, exalted is He"
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ، أخبرنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ، حدثنا حَفْصُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نَجِيحٍ الْبَصْرِيُّ، حدثنا بِشْرُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ، عَنْ شَرِيكِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ النَّخَعِيِّ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ
قَالَ: خَطَبَ عَلِيٌّ النَّاسَ بِالْكُوفَةِ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ فِي خُطْبَتِهِ: " أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِِنَّهُ مَنْ يَتَفَقَّرْ افْتَقَرَ، وَمَنْ يُعَمَّرْ يُبْتَلَ، وَمَنْ لَا يَسْتَعِدَّ لِلْبَلَاءِ إِِذَا ابْتُلِيَ لَا يَصْبِرْ، وَمَنْ مَلَكَ اسْتَأْثَرَ، وَمَنْ لَا يَسْتَشِرْ يَنْدَمْ " وَكَانَ يَقُولُ مِنْ وَرَاءِ هَذَا الْكَلَامِ: " يُوشِكُ أَنْ لَا يَبْقَى مِنَ الْإِِسْلَامِ إِِلَّا اسْمُهُ، وَمِنَ الْقُرْآنِ إِِلَّا رَسْمُهُ ". وَكَانَ يَقُولُ: " أَلَا لَا يَسْتَحْيِي الرَّجُلُ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ متى سُئِلَ عَمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنْ يَقُولَ: لَا أَعْلَمُ، مَسَاجِدُكُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَامِرَةٌ، وَقُلُوبُكُمْ وَأَبْدَانُكُمْ مُخَرَّبَةٌ مِنَ الْهوى، شَرُّ مَنْ تَحْتَ ظِلِّ السَّمَاءِ فُقَهَاؤُكُمْ، مِنْهُمْ تَبْدَأُ الْفِتْنَةُ، وَفِيهِمْ تَعُودُ "، فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: فَفِيمَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ؟ قَالَ: " إِِذَا كَانَ الْفِقْهُ فِي رُذَّالِكُمْ وَالْفَاحِشَةُ فِي خِيَارِهِمْ، وَالْمُلْكُ فِي صِغَارِكُمْ فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ " " هَذَا مَوْقُوفٌ، إِسْنَادُهُ إِلَى شَرِيكٍ مَجْهُولٌ، وَالْأَوَّلُ مُنْقَطِعٌ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ "
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Chain of narrators
machine translationʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān informed us, Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār informed us, Ḥafṣ b. Muḥammad b. Najīḥ al-Baṣrī narrated to us, Bishr b. Mihrān narrated to us, from Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nakhaʿī, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil.
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He said: ʿAlī addressed the people in Kufa, and I heard him say in his sermon: "O people, whoever feigns poverty becomes poor, and whoever is granted a long life is tested, and whoever does not prepare for affliction when he is afflicted will not be patient, and whoever gains power monopolizes, and whoever does not seek counsel will regret." And after these words he would say: "It is near that nothing of Islam will remain except its name, and nothing of the Qur'an except its script." And he would say: "Let no man be ashamed, when he is asked about what he does not know, to say: I do not know. Your mosques on that day will be flourishing, while your hearts and your bodies will be ruined by desire. The worst of those under the shade of the sky will be your jurists; from them the trial begins, and to them it returns." A man stood and said: "When, O Commander of the Believers?" He said: "When knowledge of the law is among your lowest, and indecency among their best, and sovereignty is in your youngest, then at that time the Hour will come." "This is mawqūf (halted at the Companion); its chain of transmission up to Sharīk contains an unknown person, and the first is interrupted (munqaṭiʿ), and God knows best."
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