Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-284b
"عَنْ عُمَرَ قَالَ: إِنَّ الله بَدَأَ هَذَا الأَمْرَ حينَ بَدَأَ نُبُوَّةً وَرَحْمَةً، ثُمَّ يَعُودُ إِلَى خِلَافَةٍ وَرَحْمَةٍ، ثُمَّ يَعُودُ إِلَى سُلْطَانٍ وَرَحْمَةٍ، ثُمَّ يَعُودُ مُلْكًا وَرَحْمَةً، ثُمَّ يَعُودُ جَبْرِيَّةً يَتَكَادَمُونَ تَكَادُمَ الْحَمِيرِ، أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ: عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْغَزْوِ وَالْجِهَادِ مَا كَانَ حُلْوًا خَضِرًا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُرّا عَسِرًا، وَيكُونَ ثُمَامًا () قَبْلَ أنْ يَكُونَ حُطَامًا، فَإِذَا انتَاطَتِ الْمغَازِى، وَأُكِلتِ الْغَنَائِمُ، وَاسْتُحِلَّ الحرامُ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالرَّبَاطِ فَإِنَّه خَيْرُ جِهَادِكُمْ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar
- In Allāh
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From ʿUmar, who said: Indeed, Allah began this affair, when He began it, as prophethood and mercy; then it returns to caliphate and mercy; then it returns to authority (sulṭān) and mercy; then it returns to kingship and mercy; then it returns to tyranny, in which they bite one another as donkeys bite one another. O people: hold to raiding and jihad as long as it is sweet and green, before it becomes bitter and hard, and while it is still fresh grass (thumām) () before it becomes dry debris. So when the campaigns become distant, the spoils are consumed, and the forbidden is made lawful, then hold to garrison duty (ribāṭ), for it is the best of your jihad.".
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Notes
نعيم بن حماد في الفتن، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه وابن النجار، [ك] الحاكم في المستدرك
machine translationNaʿīm b. Ḥammād in al-Fitan; [Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh, and Ibn al-Najjār; [Ka] al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak.
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