Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1973b
"عَن الشعبى: أن عمر بن الخطاب كتبَ إلى سعدِ بن أَبى وقاص، أن اتخذْ للمسلمين دارَ هجرةٍ ومنزلَ جهادٍ، فبعث سعدٌ رجلًا من الأنصار، يقال له الحارث ابن سلمة فارتاد لهم موضعًا -الكوفةَ- اليوم، فنزلها سعدٌ بالناسِ، فخطَّ مسجدها، وخط فيها الخطط، قال الشعبى: وكان ظهرُ الكوفة نَبتَ الخزامى، والشيحِ، والأقحوانِ، وشقائق النعمان، فكانت العربُ تسميه في الجاهلية: خد العذراء، فارتادوا، فكتبوا إلى عمر بن الخطاب، فكتبَ أن أنْزِلوه، فتحول النَّاسُ إلى الكوفة".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Shʿbá n ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Ktb Lá Sʿd b. Abá Wqāṣ
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"From al-Sha'bi: that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas: Take for the Muslims a house of emigration and a dwelling place of jihad. Sa'd sent a man from the Ansar, called al-Harith ibn Salamah, who scouted a place for them, which is Kufah today. Sa'd settled the people there, laid out its mosque, and marked out its plots. Al-Sha'bi said: The surface of Kufah had grown with khuzama, shih, chamomile, and anemones, and the Arabs in the Jahiliyyah called it 'the virgin's cheek'. They scouted it and wrote to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, and he wrote: Settle them there. So the people moved to Kufah."
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[ك] الحاكم في المستدرك
machine translation[Kanz al-ʿUmmāl] Al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak
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