Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3031b
"عَنِ الحسن: أن قومًا أَتَوْا عمرَ بنَ الخطابِ فقالُوا: يا أميرَ المؤمنينَ! إن لنَا إمامًا شابًا إذا صلَّى لا يقومُ من مجلسِهِ حتى يتغَنَّى بِقصيدةٍ، فقال عمرُ: فامضُوا بِنَا إليه، فإِنَّا إن دعونَاهُ يظنُّ بنا أنَّا قد غضَضْنَا أمرهُ، فقامُوا حَتَّى أتوهُ فقرعُوا عليه، فخرجَ الشَّابُّ فقالَ: يا أَمِيرَ المؤمنينَ! ما الذى جَاءَ بِكَ؟ قال: بلغنِى عنكَ أمرٌ سَاءَنِى، قالَ: فإنى أُعْتِبُكَ يا أميرَ المؤمنين! ما الذى بلغكَ؟ قالَ: بلغنِى: أنَّكَ تتغنَّى، قالَ: إِنها موعظةٌ أعِظُ بهَا نفسى، قال عمرُ: قلُ إن كَانَ كلامًا حَسَنًا قلتُ معكَ، وإن يك قبيحًا نهيتُكَ عنهُ، فقال: - وفؤادى كلما عاتبتُهُ... عاد في اللَّذَّاتِ يبغِى نصَبى لا أُراه الدهرَ إلَّا لاهيًا... في تماديهِ فَقد بَرَّحَ بِى يا قرينَ السوء ما هذا الصَّبَا... فَنِى العمرُ كَذَا باللَّعب وشبَابٌ بان منى فَمَضَى... قبلَ أن أقضى منه أربى ما أُرَجِّى بعده إلَّا الفَنَا... طبَّقَ الشيبُ علىَّ مطلبِى ويح نفسِى لا أرَاها أبدًا... في جميلٍ لا ولا في أدَب نفسِى لا كنتِ ولا كان الهوى... اتق اللَّهَ وخافى وارهبى فبكى عمرُ ثم قالَ: هكذا فَلْيُغَنِّ كلُّ من غنَّى، قال عمر: وأنا أقول: - نَفْسِى لا كنتِ ولا كان الهوى... رَاقِبِى الموتَ وخافِى وارهبِى".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥsn n Qwm Atawā ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Fqālūā Yā Myr al-Mʾmnyn n Lnā Mām Shāb Dhā Ṣllá Lā Yqwm Mn
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"On the authority of al-Hasan: that some people came to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab and said: O Commander of the Believers! We have a young imam who, when he prays, does not rise from his place until he sings a qasidah. 'Umar said: Let us go to him, for if we call him he will think that we have criticized his matter. So they rose until they came to him and knocked on his door. The young man came out and said: O Commander of the Believers! What has brought you? He said: A matter has reached me about you that displeased me. He said: I beg your pardon, O Commander of the Believers! What has reached you? He said: It has reached me that you sing. He said: It is an admonition with which I admonish myself. 'Umar said: Say it. If it is good speech, I will say it with you, and if it is ugly, I will forbid you from it. So he said: My heart, whenever I rebuke it, returns to pleasures, seeking my fatigue. I do not see it, in all of time, except heedless in its arrogance, and it has wearied me. O companion of evil, what is this youthfulness, and my age has passed in play, like this? And youth departed from me and went by before I could satisfy my desire from it. What I hope for after it is only death; the white hair has overtaken my aim. Woe to my soul, I never see it in beauty, nor in good manners. My soul, you were not, nor was desire. Fear Allah, be wary and be fearful." Then 'Umar wept and said: Thus let everyone who sings sing. 'Umar said: And I say: My soul, you were not, nor was desire; watch for death, and be wary and fearful".
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