Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 7037
✧ Al-Awza'i standing before al-Mansur and his admonition to him
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، نا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا، نا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ ابْنُ عَائِشَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ،
قَالَ: كَانَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ إِذَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أُفُقٍ مِنَ الْآفَاقِ، فَقَالَ: " اعْفِنِي مِنْ أَرْبَعٍ وَقُلْ بَعْدَهَا مَا شِئْتَ: لَا تَكْذِبْنِي، فَإِنَّ الْكَذُوبَ لَا رَأْيَ لَهُ، وَلَا تُجِبْنِي فِيمَا لَا أَسْأَلُكَ عَنْهُ، فَإِنَّ فِي الَّذِي أَسْأَلُكَ عَنْهُ شُغْلًا عَمَّا سِوَاهُ، وَلَا تُطْرِنِي فَإِنِّي أَعْلَمُ بِنَفْسِي مِنْكَ، وَلَا تُحَمِّنِي عَلَى الرَّعِيَّةِ فَإِنِّي إِلَى الرِّفْقِ بِهِمْ وَالرَّحْمَةِ أَحَقُّ، وَرُوِيَ: لَا تُخِفَّنِي - يَعْنِي: لَا تُغْضِبْنِي - حَتَّى يَحْمِلَنِي الْغَضَبُ عَلَى خِفَّةِ الطَّيْشِ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us, (he said) al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq informed us, (he said) Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā narrated to us, (he said) ʿUbaydullāh Ibn ʿĀʾishah narrated to us, from his father,
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He said: When a man from one of the horizons came to ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān, he would say: "Spare me four things, and after that say whatever you wish: do not lie to me, for the liar has no judgment; do not answer me concerning what I have not asked you, for in what I ask you about there is occupation enough from everything else; do not flatter me excessively, for I know myself better than you do; and do not incite me against the subjects, for I am more deserving of showing them gentleness and mercy." And it is narrated: "Do not make me light" - meaning: do not anger me - "until anger carries me to the lightness of rashness."
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