Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 6993
✧ The virtue of the just ruler and what has come regarding the oppression of governors
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ، أنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، نا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّكَّرِيُّ، نا أَبُو يَعْلَى، عَنِ الْأَصْمَعِيِّ، نا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي سَوِيَّةَ،
قَالَ: قَالَ الْأَحْنَفُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ: " لَا يَنْبَغِي لِلْعَاقِلِ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ بَلَدًا لَيْسَ فِيهَا خَمْسُ خِصَالٍ: سُلْطَانٌ قَاهِرٌ، وَقَاضٍ عَدْلٌ، وَسُوقٌ قَائِمَةٌ، وَنَهَرٌ جَارٍ، وَطَبِيبٌ عَالِمٌ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī informed us, (he said:) Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb informed us, (he said:) ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sukkarī narrated to us, (he said:) Abū Yaʿlā narrated to us, from al-Aṣmaʿī, (he said:) al-Faḍl b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī Sawiyyah narrated to us,
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He said: Al-Aḥnaf b. Qays said: "It is not proper for a sensible person to settle in a land that does not have five things: a dominant ruler, a just judge, a functioning market, a flowing river, and a knowledgeable physician."
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