Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2029b
"عن أَبى نَضرة قال: قال رجلٌ منا يقال له: جابر أو جويبر قال: طَلبْتُ حاجةً إلى عمر في خلافتِه فانتهيتُ إلى المدينة ليلًا فَقدمت عليه، وقد أُعطيتُ فِطنةً ولسانًا -أو قال منطقًا- فأخذتُ في الدُّنيا فصغرتها، فتركتها لا تسوى شيئًا، وإلى جنبه رجل أبيضُ الشعر فقال لما فرغتُ: كل قولك كان مقاربًا إلا وقوعَك في الدنيا، وهل تدرى ما الدُّنيا؟ إن الدنيا فيها بلاغُنا -أو قال -زادُنا- إلى الآخرة وفيها أعمالُك التى تُجزى بها في الآخرة، قال: فأخذَ في الدنيا رجلٌ هو أعلمُ بها منى، فقلت: يا أمير المؤمنين مَنْ هذا الرجل الذى إلى جنبك؟ قال: سيد المسلمين أُبىُّ بْن كعب".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abá Naḍrh
- Qāl Rjl Mnā Yqāl Lh Jābr w Jwybr
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Abu Nadrah said: A man among us called Jabir, or Juwaybir, said: I needed something from 'Umar during his caliphate, so I reached Madinah at night and came before him. I had been given cleverness and eloquence, or he said speech, so I began to belittle the world until I made it seem worth nothing. Beside him was a white-haired man, and when I finished he said: All your speech was close to the mark except your disparaging of the world. Do you know what the world is? In it is our provision, or he said our sustenance, for the Hereafter, and in it are your deeds by which you will be recompensed in the Hereafter. He said: Then a man who knows it better than I do took up the subject of the world. I said: O Commander of the Believers, who is the man beside you? He said: The master of the Muslims, Ubayy ibn Ka'b."
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[خ] البخاري في الأدب
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