Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1954b
"عن مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مَهْرَانَ قَالَ: رُفِعَ إِلَى عُمَرَ صَكٌّ محلُّهُ شَعْبَانُ، فَقَالَ: أىُّ شَعْبَانَ: الَّذِى يَجِئُ، أَوْ الَّذِى مَضَى، أَوْ الَّذِى هُوَ آت؟ (ثُمَّ) () قَالَ لأَصْحَابِ النَّبىِّ ﷺ ضَعُوا للِنَّاسِ شيْئًا يَعْرِفُونَهُ مِنَ التَّارِيخ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُهمُ: اكتبوا عَلَى تَارِيخ الرُّوم، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّ الرُّومَ يَطُولُ تَأرِيخُهُم، يَكْتُبُونَ مِنْ ذِى القَرْنَيْن، فَقَالَ: اكتُبُوا عَلَى تَارِيخ فَارِسَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ فَارِسَ كُلَّمَا قَامَ مَلِكٌ طرح مَن كَانَ قَبْلهُ، فَأَجْمَعَ رَأيُهُم عَلَى أَنَّ الهِجْرَةَ كَانَتْ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ، فَكَتَبوا التَّارِيخَ مِن هِجْرَةِ النَّبِىِّ ﷺ ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maymūn b. Mahrān
- Rufiʿ
- ʿUmar Ṣak Mḥlluh Shaʿbān
- Shaʿbān al--Adhiá Yajiʾ or al--Adhiá Maḍá
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Maymun ibn Mihran said: A document was brought to 'Umar that was dated Sha'ban. He said: 'Which Sha'ban is it: the one that is coming, the one that has passed, or the one that is present?' Then he said to the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ: 'Set for the people something they will recognize from dating.' Some of them said: 'Write by the dating of the Romans.' They said: 'The Romans' dating is very long; they count from Dhul-Qarnayn.' He said: 'Write by the dating of Persia.' He said: 'The Persians, whenever a king rose, abandoned what was before him.' So their opinion agreed that the Hijrah was ten years earlier, and they dated from the Hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ."
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Notes
[خ] البخاري في الأدب، [ك] الحاكم في المستدرك
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