Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2249b
"عن أنس بن مالك قال: بَعَثَنِى الأشعَرِىُّ إلى عمرَ، فقال عمرُ كيفَ تَركتَ الأشْعَرِىَّ؟ فقلتُ لَهُ: تركتُهُ يعلمُ النَّاسَ القرآنَ، فقالَ: أمَا إِنَّهُ كَيِّسٌ، ولا تُسْمِعْهَا إياهُ، ثم قالَ: كيفَ تركتَ الأعرابَ؟ قلتُ: الأشعَرِيِّينَ؟ قالَ: لَا، بلْ أهلَ البصرةِ قلتُ: أمَا إنَّهمْ لَو سَمِعُوا هَذَا لشقَّ عليهِمْ، قالَ: فَلَا تبلِغْهُمْ فإنهمْ أعرابٌ إِلا أن يَرزقَ اللَّه رجلًا جهادًا فِى سبيلِ اللَّه".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ns b. Mālk
- Baʿathaniá al-Shʿari Lá ʿMr
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"Anas ibn Malik said: Al-Ash'ari sent me to 'Umar, and 'Umar said: How did you leave al-Ash'ari? I said to him: I left him teaching the people the Quran. He said: As for him, he is clever, but do not let him hear this. Then he said: How did you leave the Bedouins? I said: The Ash'aris? He said: No, but the people of Basra. I said: As for them, if they heard this it would upset them. He said: Then do not convey it to them, for they are Bedouins, unless Allah grants a man jihad in the way of Allah.'"
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