Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2516b
"عَنْ ضَبَّةَ بْنِ مُحصنٍ قَالَ: كَتَبَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ إِلَى أَبِى مُوسَى الأَشْعَرِىِّ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ للِنَّاسِ نَفْرَةً () مِنْ سُلْطَانِهِمْ، فَأَعُوذُ بِاللَّه أَنْ تُدْرِكَنِى وَإِيَّاكَ؛ فأَقِم الْحُدُودَ وَ (لَوْ) ( ) فِى سَاعَة مِنَ النَّهار، وإِذَا عَرَضَ لَكَ أَمْرَانِ أَحَدُهُمَا للَّهِ وَالآخَرُ للدُّنْيَا فَآثِرْ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّ الدُّنْيا تنفَدُ، والآخِرَةَ تَبْقَى، وَأَخِفِ الفُسَّاقَ وَاجْعَلهُمَ يَدًا يَدًا وَرِجْلًا رِجْلًا، عُدْ مَرِيضَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَاحْضُرْ جنَائزَهُم، وافْتَح بَابَكَ، وَبَاشِرْ أُمُورَهُمْ بِنَفْسكَ، فَإِنَّمَا أَنْتَ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُم، غَيْرَ أَنَّ اللَّه جَعَلَكَ أَثْقَلَهمْ حمْلًا، وَقَدْ بَلَغَنِى أَنَّهُ نَشَأَلَكَ وَلأَهْلِ بَيْتِكَ هيْئَةٌ في لِبَاسِكَ وَمَطْعَمِكَ وَمَرْكَبِكَ، لَيْسَ لْلِمُسْلَمِينَ مثْلُهَا، فَإِيَّاكَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّه أَنْ تَكُونَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ البَهِيمَةِ مَرَّتْ بِوَادٍ خِصْبٍ، فَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهَا هَمٌّ إِلَّا التَّسَمُّنَ وَإنَّمَا حَتْفُها في السِّمَنِ، وَاعْلَمْ أَنَّ العَامِلَ إِذَا زَاغَ زَاغَتْ رَعِيَّتُهُ، وَأَشْقى النَّاسِ مَنْ شَقِيَتْ بِهِ رعِيُّتُهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḍabbah b. Muḥṣn
- Katab ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
- Abiá Mūsá al-Ashʿari Ammā Baʿd Faʾin Llinnās Nafrah from Sulṭānihim Faʾaʿūdh Bi-al-Lah
- Tudrikaniá and ʾIyyāk
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Dabbah ibn Mihsan, who said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to Abu Musa al-Ash'ari: To proceed: indeed the people have a repulsion ( ) from their rulers, so I seek refuge in Allah that it overtake me and you. So establish the prescribed punishments ( ) even if it be for an hour of the day. If two matters present themselves to you, one for Allah and the other for this world, then prefer your share from Allah, for indeed this world perishes and the Hereafter remains. Discipline the wrongdoers and make them hand to hand and foot to foot. Visit the sick among the Muslims, attend their funerals, open your door, and attend to their affairs yourself, for you are only a man among them, except that Allah has made you the heaviest of them in burden. It has reached me that a distinctive appearance has arisen for you and your household in your clothing, your food, and your mount, which the Muslims do not have the like of. So beware, O servant of Allah, of being like the beast that passed by a fertile valley, whose only concern was to grow fat, and its death was in its fatness. Know that when the ruler goes astray, his subjects go astray, and the most wretched of people is one whose subjects are made wretched because of him."
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