Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3365b
"عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ سَعيدٍ قَالَ: أُتِى عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ بِمَالٍ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَن بْنُ عَوفِ فَقَالَ: يا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَوْ حَبْستَ مِنْ هَذَا الْمَالِ فِى بَيْتِ الْمال لِنَائِبَةٍ تَكونُ أَوْ أَمْرٍ يَحْدُثُ؟ فَقَالَ: كَلِمَةً ما عَرَضَ بِهَا إِلَّا شيْطَانٌ لقَانِى اللَّه حُجَّتَهَا وَوَقَانِى فِتْنَتَهَا، أَعْطى اللَّه الْعَامَ مَخَافَةَ قَابِلٍ؟ أُعِدُّ لَهُمْ تَقْوى اللَّه، قَالَ اللَّه تَعَالَى: {وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا (2) وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ}، وَلْتكُنْ فِتْنَةٌ عَلَى مَنْ يَكُونُ بَعْدى".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Salamah b. Saʿyd
- Utiá ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Bimāl Faqām Ilayh ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf
Machine translation, not reviewed
“Salamah ibn Sa'id said: Money was brought to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, and 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf stood up to him and said: O Commander of the Believers, what if you withheld some of this money in the treasury for a calamity that may occur or a matter that may arise? He said: A word that none has put forward except a devil. Allah has protected me from its argument and from its trial. Shall I give it all this year out of fear for next year? I prepare for them the fear of Allah. Allah the Exalted said: {And whoever fears Allah, He will make for him a way out (2) and provide for him from where he does not expect}. Let the trial be upon whoever comes after me.”
No source translates this, so this English was written by a computer model. It can be wrong; rely on the Arabic. Report a problem below.
Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
Grades by grader
No grade is recorded for this wording. Ask what scholars say about its grade