Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2491b
"عن الشَّعْبِىِّ قال: لما وَلِى عمر بن الخطاب صعد المنبر فقال: ما كان اللَّهُ ليرانى أن أرى نفسى أهلًا لمجلسِ أَبى بكرٍ، فنزل مِرْقَاةً، فحمد اللَّه وأثنى عليه ثم قال: اقرأوا القرآن تعرفوا به، واعملوا به تكونوا من أهِله، وزنوا أنفسكم قبل أن توزنوا (وتزينوا) للعرضِ الأكبر يوم تعرضون على اللَّه لا تخفى منكم خافية، إنه لم يبلغ حقُّ ذى حق أن يطاع في معصية اللَّه، أَلَا وإنى أنزلتُ نفسى من مَال اللَّه بمنزلة ولى اليتيم، إن استغنيتُ عفَفْتُ، وإن افتقرتُ أَكَلْت بالمعروفِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Shaʿbi
- Lmā and Liá ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Ṣʿd al-Mnbr
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"From al-Sha'bi who said: When 'Umar ibn al-Khattab was appointed, he mounted the pulpit and said: Allah would not see me considering myself worthy of the seat of Abu Bakr. He descended one step, praised Allah and extolled Him, then said: Recite the Qur'an that you may know by it, act by it that you may be among its people, and weigh yourselves before you are weighed, and adorn yourselves for the Greatest Presentation, the Day you are presented before Allah, when nothing of you will be hidden. Indeed, the right of anyone with a right does not reach that he should be obeyed in disobedience to Allah. Indeed, I have placed myself with regard to the wealth of Allah in the position of the guardian of an orphan: if I am rich, I abstain, and if I am poor, I eat in accordance with what is reasonable."
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