Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 7044
✧ Al-Awza'i standing before al-Mansur and his admonition to him
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَعِيدِ بْنَ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ السَّعْدِيَّةَ، تَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ فَاطِمَةَ، امْرَأَةَ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَحْيَى،
تَقُولُ: قَامَ يَحْيَى لَيْلَةً لِوِرْدِهِ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْهُ قَعَدَ يَقْرَأُ مِنَ الْمُصْحَفِ فَذَكَرَ قِصَّتَهُ فِي دُخُولِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ طَاهِرٍ الْأَمِيرِ عَلَيْهِ، قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا قَرُبَ مِنْهُ وَسَلَّمَ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ والْمُصْحَفُ فِي يَدِهِ، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى قِرَاءَتِهِ حَتَّى خَتَمَ السُّورَةَ الَّتِي كَانَ افْتَتَحَهَا، ثُمَّ وَضْعَ الْمُصْحَفَ وَاعْتَذَرَ إِلَى الْأَمِيرِ، وَقَالَ: لَمْ أَشْتَغِلَ عَنْهُ تَهَاوُنًا بِحَقِّهِ، إِنَّمَا كُنْتُ افْتَتَحْتُ سُورَةً فَخَتَمْتُهَا، فَقَعَدَ عَبْدُ اللهِ سَاعَةً يُحَدِّثُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ: ارْفَعْ إِلَيْنَا حَوَائِجَكَ، فَقَالَ: " وَهَلْ يُسْتَغْنَى عَنِ السُّلْطَانِ أَيِّدْهُ اللهُ؟ وَقَدْ وَقَعَتْ لِي حَاجَةٌ فِي الْوَقْتِ، فَإِنْ قَضَاهَا رَفَعْتُهَا "، فَقَالَ: نَقْضِيهَا مَا كَانَتْ، فَقَالَ أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا: " قَدْ كُنْتُ أَسْمَعَ بِمَحَاسِنِ وَجْهِ الْأَمِيرِ، وَلَمْ أُعَايِنْهَا إِلَّا سَاعَتِي هَذِهِ، وحَاجَتِي إِلَيْهِ أَنْ لَا يَرْتَكِبَ مَا يُحْرِقُ هَذِهِ الْمَحَاسِنَ بِالنَّارِ "، فَأَخَذَ الْأَمِيرُ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ طَاهِرٍ فِي الْبُكَاءِ حَتَّى قَامَ يَبْكِي
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh informed us, he said: I heard Abū Saʿīd b. Abī Bakr b. Abī ʿUthmān say: I heard Fāṭimah bint Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdillāh al-Saʿdiyyah say: I heard Fāṭimah, the wife of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā, say:
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She said: One night Yaḥyā stood for his regular night prayer (wird). When he had finished it, he sat reading from the Muṣḥaf. Then she mentioned his story about the entry of the emir ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāhir upon him. She said: When he came near him and greeted him, he stood up to him with the Muṣḥaf in his hand, then returned to his reading until he finished the sūrah he had begun. Then he put down the Muṣḥaf and apologized to the emir, and said: "I was not occupied with it out of neglect of your right; I had only begun a sūrah and so I finished it." ʿAbdullāh sat for a while talking with him, then said to him: "Submit your needs to us." He said: "Can one do without the ruler, may God support him? I have a need right now; if he fulfils it, I will submit it." He said: "We will fulfil it, whatever it is." Then Abū Zakariyyā said: "I used to hear of the beauty of the emir's face, and I had not seen it until this very hour. My need from him is that he not commit what would burn this beauty in the Fire." So the emir ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāhir began to weep until he got up weeping.
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