Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3358b
"عَنْ أَسْلمَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّه بْنُ عُمَرَ بَعْدَ أَنْ طُعِنَ عُمَرُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنينَ مَا عَلَيْكَ لَو أجهدت نَفْسَكَ ثُمَّ أَمَّرْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَجُلًا، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: أَقْعِدُونِى، قال عَبْدُ اللَّه فَتَمَنَّيْتُ لَوْ أَنَّ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ عُرْضَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَرَقًا مِنْهُ حِينَ قَالَ: أَقْعِدُونِى، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَنْ أَمَّرْتُمْ بِأَفْوَاهِكُمْ؟ فَقُلْتُ: فُلَانًا، قَالَ: إِنْ تُؤَمِّرُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ ذُو شِيعَتِكُمْ، ثُمَّ أَقَبْلَ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّه فَقَالَ ثَكلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ! ! أَرَأَيْتَ الْوَلِيدَ يَنْشَأُ مَعَ الْوَلِيد وَلِيدًا أَوْ يَنْشَأُ مَعَهُ كَهْلًا؟ أَتُرَاهُ يَعْرِفُ مَنْ خَلَقَهُ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنينَ، قَالَ: فَمَا أَنَا قَائِلٌ للَّه إِذَا سَأَلَنِى عَمَّنْ أَمَّرْتُ عَلَيْهمْ؟ فَقُلْتُ: فُلَانًا وَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ مِنْهُ مَا أَعْلَمُ، فَلَا وَالَّذِى نَفْسِى بِيَدِهِ لأرُدَّنهَا إِلَى الَّذِى رَفَعَهَا إِلَىَّ أَوَلَ مَرَّةٍ، وَلَوَ دِدْتُ أَنَّ عَلَيْهَا مَنْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنىِّ، لَا ينقصنى ذَلِك مِمَّا أَعْطَانِى اللَّه شَيْئًا".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aslm
- Qāl ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar Baʿd
- Ṭuʿin ʿUmar
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Aslam said: 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar said after 'Umar was stabbed: O Commander of the Believers, what would it harm you if you exerted yourself and then appointed a man over them? 'Umar said: Seat me up. 'Abdullah said: I wished that between me and him was the width of Madinah, out of fear of him when he said: Seat me up. Then he said: Whom do you appoint by your mouths? I said: So-and-so. He said: If you appoint him, he is indeed one of your partisans. Then he turned to 'Abdullah and said: May your mother be bereaved! Do you see the boy growing up with the boy as a child, or growing up with him as a man? Do you think he knows who created him? He said: Yes, O Commander of the Believers. He said: Then what will I say to Allah when He asks me about whom I appointed over them? I said: So-and-so, and I know of him what I know. He said: No, by the One in whose hand my soul is, I will return it to the one who raised it to me the first time. I wish there were someone better than me over it; that does not diminish me at all from what Allah has given me."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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