Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 4312
✧ The virtue of the intellect, which is among the great favors by which Allah has honored His servants
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَحْمَشٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْمُحَمَّدْآبَاذِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَائِشِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا صَالِحٌ الْمُرِّيُّ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ،
قَالَ: " لَمَّا خَلَقَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الْعَقْلَ، قَالَ لَهُ: أَقْبِلْ فَأَقْبَلَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ: أَدْبِرْ فَأَدْبَرَ، وَقَالَ: مَا خَلَقْتُ خَلْقًا هُوَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْكَ إِنِّي بِكَ أُعْبَدُ، وَبِكَ أُعْرَفُ، وَبِكَ آخُذُ، وَبِكَ أُعْطِي ". " هَذَا مِنْ قَوْلِ الْحَسَنِ، وَغَيْرِهِ مَشْهُورٌ، وَقَدْ رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِإِسْنَادٍ غَيْرِ قَوِيٍّ "
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Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Ṭāhir Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmash the jurist informed us, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Muḥammadābādhī informed us, al-Faḍl b. Muḥammad b. al-Musayyab narrated to us, ʿUbaydullāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿĀʾishī narrated to us, Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan,
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He said: "When God, the Mighty and Majestic, created the intellect, He said to it: 'Come forward,' and it came forward. Then He said to it: 'Turn back,' and it turned back. And He said: 'I have not created any creation more beloved to Me than you. Through you I am worshipped, through you I am known, through you I take, and through you I give.'" "This is from the saying of al-Ḥasan and others, and is well known. It has also been narrated from the Prophet ﷺ with a chain that is not strong."
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