Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1782b
"عن أسلم قال: رَأَيْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ حِينَ عُرِضَ عَلَيْهِ الْكتَابُ فَجَاءَتْ بَنُو عَدِىٍّ إِلَى عُمَرَ فَقَالُوا: أَنْتَ خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّه ﷺ أَوْ خَلِيفَةُ أَبِى بَكْرٍ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّه، فَلَوْ جَعَلتَ نَفْسَكَ حَيْثُ جَعَلَكَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمُ قَالَ: بَخٍ بَخٍ بَنِى عَدِىٍّ! ! أَرَدْتُمُ الأكْلَ عَلَى ظَهْرِى لأنْ أُذْهبَ حَسَنَاتِى لَكُمْ، لَا وَاللَّه حَتَّى تَأتيَكُمُ الدَّعْوَةُ وَأنْ أُطبِقَ عَلَيكمُ الدَّفْتَرَ -يعنى ولو أن تُكتبوا آخرَ الناس- إِنَّ لِى صَاحِبَيْنِ سَلَكَا طَرِيقًا فَإِنْ خالفتُهما خُولِفَ بِى، واللَّه مَا أَدْرَكْنَا الْفَضْلَ في الدُّنْيَا وَلَا مَا نَرْجُو مِنَ الآخِرَة مِن ثَوَابِ اللَّه عَلَى مَا عَلِمْنَا إلَّا بِمُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ فَهُوَ شَرَفُنَا، وَقَوْمُهُ أشْرَفُ الْعَرَبِ، ثَمَّ الأَقْرَبُ فَالأَقْرَبُ، إِنَّ العَرَبَ شَرُفَتْ بِرَسُولِ اللَّه ﷺ وَلَوْ أنَّ بَعْضَنَا يُلْقَى إِلَى آبَاء كَثِيرَةٍ، وَمَا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ أَنْ نَلقَاهُ إِلَى نَسَبِه ثم لا نُفَارِقَهُ إِلَى آدَمَ إلَّا آبَاء يَسِيرَةٌ مَعَ ذَلِكَ، وَاللَّه لَئِنْ جَاءَتِ الأَعَاجِمُ بالأعْمَالِ وَجِئْنَا بِغَيْرِ عَمَل فَهُمْ أَوْلَى بِمُحَمَّدٍ منَّا يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ، فَلَا يَنْظُرْ رجُل إِلى الْغِوَايَةِ، وَيعْمَل لِمَا عِنَد اللَّه فَإِنَّ مَنْ قَصَّرَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَا يُسْرع به نَسَبُهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
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- Raʾayt ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Ḥīn ʿUriḍ ʿAlayh al-Ktāb Fajāʾat Banū
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Aslam said: I saw 'Umar ibn al-Khattab when the register was presented to him. The Bani 'Adi came to 'Umar and said: 'You are the successor of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, or the successor of Abu Bakr, and Abu Bakr was the successor of the Messenger of Allah. So if you placed yourself where these people placed you—' He said: 'Bakh bakh, O Bani 'Adi! You want to eat on my back so that I lose my good deeds for your sake? No, by Allah, not until the summons comes to you, and I close the register upon you' (meaning, even if you are written last among the people). 'Indeed I have two companions who followed a path, and if I oppose them, I would be opposed. By Allah, we did not attain virtue in this world, nor what we hope for of Allah's reward in the Hereafter, by what we know, except through Muhammad ﷺ. He is our honour, and his people are the most honourable of the Arabs, then the nearest and then the nearest. The Arabs were honoured by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Even if some of us traced back to many fathers, and what is between us and reaching his lineage is only a few fathers, back to Adam, with that, by Allah, if the non-Arabs come with deeds and we come without deeds, they will be closer to Muhammad than us on the Day of Resurrection. So let no man look to lineage and act for what is with Allah, for whoever his deeds fall short of, his lineage will not hasten him.'"
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Notes
ابن سعد
machine translationIbn Saʿd
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