Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2042b
"عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مِهْرانَ قَالَ: أَتَى عُمَرَ بْنَ الخَطَّابِ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: يَا أَمِيرِ المُؤْمِنينِ إِنَّا لَمَّا فَتَحْنَا الْمَدَائِنَ أَصَبْتُ كِتَابًا فِيهِ كَلامٌ مُعْجبٌ، قَالَ: أَمِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّه؟ قُلْتُ: لَا، فَدَعَا بالدِّرَّةِ فَجَعَلَ يَضْربُهُ بِهَا وَيَقْرَأ {الر تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ الْمُبِينِ (1) إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا} إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: {وَإِنْ كُنْتَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ لَمِنَ الْغَافِلِينَ} ثُمَّ قَالَ: إنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلُكُمْ بِأنَّهُم أَقْبَلُوا عَلَى كُتُبِ عُلَمَائِهِم وَأسَاقِفِهمْ وَتَركُوا التَّوْراة والإِنْجِيلَ حَتَّى دَرَسَا وَذَهبَ مَا فِيهمَا مِنَ الْعِلْمِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maymūn b. Mihrān
- Atá ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb a man
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"Maymun ibn Mihran said: A man came to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab and said: O Commander of the Faithful, when we conquered the cities, I found a book in which there were admiring words. He said: Is it from the Book of Allah? I said: No. So he called for the whip and began to strike him with it, reciting {Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the Clear Book. Indeed, We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran} up to His saying: {And indeed, you were before it among the unaware} (Quran 12:1-3). Then he said: Those before you were destroyed only because they turned to the books of their scholars and their bishops, and abandoned the Torah and the Gospel, until they were effaced and what was in them of knowledge went away."
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