Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1951b
"عن الشَّعْبِىِّ قَالَ: كَتَبَ أبُو مُوسَى إِلَى عُمَرَ أَنَّهُ يَأْتِينَا مِنْ قِبَلِكَ كُتُبٌ لَيْسَ لَهَا تَارِيخٌ فَأرِّخْ، فَاسْتَشَارَ عُمَرُ في ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: أرِّخْ لِمَبْعَثِ رَسُولِ اللَّه ﷺ، وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِوَفَاتِهِ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: بَلْ نُؤَرِّخُ لِمُهَاجَرِهِ فَإِنَّ مُهَاجَرَهُ فَرَّق بَيْنَ الحَقِّ وَالْبَاطِلِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Shaʿbi
- Katab Bū Mūsá
- ʿUmar
- Yaʾtīnā from Qibalik
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"Ash-Sha'bi said: Abu Musa wrote to 'Umar: 'Letters come to us from you that have no date, so date them.' 'Umar consulted about this. Some of them said: 'Date them from the sending of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' Others said: 'Date them from his death.' 'Umar said: 'Rather, we will date them from his migration, for his migration distinguished truth from falsehood.'"
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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