Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 13816a
"خِيَارُ أُمَّتِى فِى كل قَرْن خَمْسُمِائَةٍ، وَالأَبْدَالُ أَربَعُونَ، فَلَا الْخَمْسُمِائَةِ يَنْقُصُونَ، وَلَا الأَرْبَعُونَ. كُلِّمَا مَاتَ رَجُلٌ أَبْدَلَ اللَّه من الخَمْسمِائَةِ مَكَانَهُ، وأَدْخَلَ فِى الأَرْبَعِينَ مَكَانَهَ؛ يَعْفُونَ عَمَّنْ ظَلَمَهُم، وَيُحْسِنُونَ إِلَى مَنْ أَسَاءَ إِلَيْهِم، وَيَتَوَاسَوْنَ فِيمَا آتَاهُمُ اللَّه ﷻ".
Translation
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"The best of my Ummah in every century are five hundred, and the Abdāl are forty. The five hundred do not diminish, nor do the forty. Whenever a man dies, Allah substitutes in his place one of the five hundred, and admits another into the forty in his place. They pardon those who wrong them, they do good to those who treat them badly, and they share with one another what Allah ﷻ has given them.".
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Notes
[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير [حل] أبى نعيم في الحلية [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه عن ابن عمر
machine translation[Ṭab] al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr; [Ḥil] Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah; [Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh, from Ibn ʿUmar.
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