Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2178b
"عَنْ عبدِ الرحمنِ بنِ سَابطٍ قَالَ: أَرْسَلَ عُمَرُ بنُ الخطابِ إلى سَعِيدِ بْنِ عَامِرِ الجُمَحِى فَقَالَ: إِنَّا مُسْتَعْمِلُوكَ عَلَى هَؤُلَاءِ: تَسِيرُ بِهِمْ إِلَى أَرْضِ العَدُوَ، فَتُجَاهدُ بِهِمْ، فَقَالَ: يَا عُمَرُ: لَا تَفْتِنِّى، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: وَاللَّه لَا أَدَعُكُمْ، جَعَلْتُموهَا فِى عُنقى، ثُمَّ تَخَلَّيْتُمْ عَنِّى، إِنَّمَا أَبْعَثُكَ عَلَى قَوْمِ لَسْتَ أَفْضَلَهُم، وَلَسْتُ أَبْعَثُك لِتَضرِب أَبْشَارَهُمْ ()، وَلا تَنْتَهِك أَعْرَاضَهُمْ، وَلَكِنْ تُجَاهِد بِهِمْ عَدُوَّهُمْ، وَتَقْسِمُ بَيْنَهُمْ فيئهُمْ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿBd al-Rḥmn b. Sābṭ
- Arsal ʿUmar b. al-Khṭāb Lá Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir al-Jumaḥiá
- Innā
Machine translation, not reviewed
"'Abd al-Rahman ibn Sabit said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab sent for Sa'id ibn 'Amir al-Jumahi and said: 'We are appointing you over these people. You will march with them to the enemy's land and fight with them.' He said: 'O 'Umar, do not tempt me.' 'Umar said: 'By Allah, I will not leave you. You placed it around my neck, then you left me. I am only sending you to a people who are not better than you, and I am not sending you to beat their skins or violate their honor, but to fight their enemy with them and divide their booty among them.'"
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Notes
ابن سعد، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translationIbn Saʿd; [Kr] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh.
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