Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2947b
"عن الهيثم بن عمار قال: سمعت جدى يقول: لما ولى عمر بن الخطاب زار أهل الشام فنزل بالجابية، وكانت دمشق تشتعل طاعونًا، فَهَمَّ أن يدخلها، فقال له أصحابه: أما علمت أن النبى ﷺ قال: إذا (دخل) بكم الطاعون فلا تهربوا منه ولا تأتوه حيث هو؟ وقد علمت أن أصحاب النبى ﷺ الذين معك فرحانين لم يصبهم طاعون قط، فأرسل عند ذلك رجلا من جديلة ولم يدخلها هو (وسار) إلى بيت المقدس فافتتحها صلحًا، ثم أتاها عمر ومعه كعب فقال: يا أبا إسحاق! الصخرة أتعرف موضعها؟ قال: اذرع من الحائط الذى يلى وادى جهنم كذا وكذا ذراعا، وهى مزبلةٌ، ثم احفر ذلك ستجدها، فحفروا فظهرت لهم، فقال عمر لكعب: أين ترى أن نجعل المسجد للَّه قال: اجعله خلف الصخرة فتجمع (بين) القبلتين: قبلة موسى وقبلة محمد ﷺ، فقال: ضاهيت اليهودية واللَّه يا أبا إسحاق، خير المساجد مقدمها، فبناه في مقدم المسجد، فبلغ أهل العراق أنه زار أهل الشام فكتبوا إليه يسألونه أن يزورهم كما زار أهل الشام، فهمَّ أن يفعل، فقال له كعب الأحبار: أعيذك باللَّه يا أمير المؤمنين أن تدخلها، قال: ولم؟ قال: فيها عصاة الجن وهاروت وماروت يعلمان الناس السحر، وفيها تسعة أعشار الشرِّ، وكل داء معضلٍ، فقال عمر: قد فهمت كل ما ذكرته غير الداء المعضل فما هو؟ قال: كثرة الأموال هو الذى ليس له شفاء، فلم يأتها عمر".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Hythm b. ʿMār
- Smʿt Jdá Yqwl Lmā Wlá ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Zār Hl al-Shām Fnzl Bi-al-Jābyh Wkānt Dmshq Tshtʿl Ṭāʿwn Faham n Ydkhlhā Fqāl Lh Ṣḥābh Mā ʿLmt n al-Nbá ﷺ
- Dhā Dkhl Bkm al-Ṭāʿwn Flā Thrbwā
Machine translation, not reviewed
"On the authority of al-Haytham ibn 'Ammar, who said: I heard my grandfather say: When 'Umar ibn al-Khattab became ruler, he visited the people of al-Sham and stopped at al-Jabiyah, while Damascus was ablaze with plague. He resolved to enter it, but his companions said to him: 'Do you not know that the Prophet ﷺ said: "If the plague breaks out among you, do not flee from it, and do not go to where it is"? You know that the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ who are with you have never been struck by plague at all.' So he sent a man from Judhaymah and did not enter it himself, and he (went) to Bayt al-Maqdis and conquered it by treaty. Then 'Umar came to it with Ka'b. He said: 'O Abu Ishaq! Do you know the location of the Rock?' Ka'b said: 'Measure from the wall that faces the Valley of Hell so many and so many cubits, and it is a dunghill; then dig there and you will find it.' They dug and it appeared to them. 'Umar said to Ka'b: 'Where do you think we should make the mosque for Allah?' He said: 'Make it behind the Rock, so that you combine (between) the two qiblahs: the qiblah of Moses and the qiblah of Muhammad ﷺ.' He said: 'By Allah, O Abu Ishaq, you have resembled the Jews! The best of mosques is the one at its front.' So he built it at the front of the mosque. News reached the people of Iraq that he had visited the people of al-Sham, so they wrote to him asking him to visit them as he had visited the people of al-Sham. He resolved to do so, but Ka'b al-Ahbar said to him: 'I seek refuge with Allah for you, O Commander of the Believers, from entering it.' He said: 'Why?' He said: 'In it are the rebellious jinn, and Harut and Marut who teach people magic, and in it are nine-tenths of evil, and every incurable disease.' 'Umar said: 'I have understood everything you mentioned except the incurable disease, so what is it?' He said: 'The abundance of wealth, which has no cure.' So 'Umar did not go there."
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[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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