Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-33b
"عَنْ الزُّهْرِىِّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي السَّائِبُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ ابْنُ أُخْتِ نَمِرٍ أَنَّ حُوَيْطِبَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعُزَّى أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ السَّعْدِىِّ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ قَدِمَ عَلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ فِي خِلَافَتِهِ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: أَلَمْ أُحَدِّثْكَ أَنَّكَ تَلِى مِنْ أَعْمَال النَّاسِ أَعْمَالًا؟ فَإِذَا أُعْطِيتَ الْعُمَالَةَ فَكَرِهْتَهَا؟ فَقُلْتُ: بَلَى: قَالَ عُمَرُ: فَمَا تُرِيدُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ؟ قُلْتُ: إنَّ لِي أَفْرَاسًا وَأَعْبُدًا، وأنَا بِخَيْرٍ وَأُريدُ أَنْ يَكُونَ عُمَالَتِى صَدَقةً عَلَى المُسْلِمِينَ، قَالَ عُمَرُ: فَلاَ تَفْعَل فَإِنِّي قَدْ كُنْتُ أَرَدْتُ الَّذِى أَرَدْتَ، وَكَانَ النَّبِىُّ ﷺ يُعْطيِنىِ الْعَطَاءَ فَأَقُولُ: أعْطِهِ أَفْقَرَ إِلَيْهِ مِنِّى فَقَالَ النَّبىُّ ﷺ: خُذْهُ فَتَمَوَّلْهُ وَتَصَدَّقْ بِهِ فَمَا جَاءَ مِنْ هَذَا الْمَالِ وَأَنْتَ غَيْرُ مُسْتَشْرفٍ وَلا سَائِلٍ فَخُذْهُ وَمَا لَا فَلَا تُتْبِعْهُ نَفْسَكَ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Zuhri
- al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd Ibn Ukht Namir
- Ḥūwayṭib b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzá
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Saʿdi
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From al-Zuhrī, who said: al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd, the nephew of Namir, informed me that Ḥuwayṭib b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā informed him that ʿAbdullāh b. al-Saʿdī informed him that he came to ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb during his caliphate, and ʿUmar said: Did I not tell you that you take charge of some of the people's affairs, and when you are given your payment you dislike it? I said: Yes. ʿUmar said: What do you intend by that? I said: I have horses and slaves, and I am well-off, and I want my payment to be charity for the Muslims. ʿUmar said: Do not do so, for I once wanted what you want, and the Prophet ﷺ used to give me gifts and I would say: Give it to someone who needs it more than I. Then the Prophet ﷺ said: Take it, make it your property, and give it in charity. Whatever comes to you of this wealth while you are not craving it nor asking for it, take it; and whatever does not, do not let your soul follow after it."
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Notes
[حم] أحمد والحميدى، والعدنى، والدارمى، [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم [د] أبو داود [ن] النسائي وابن خزيمة، [حب] ابن حبّان [قط] الدارقطنى في السنن في الأفراد
machine translation[ḥm] Aḥmad, al-Ḥumaydī, al-ʿAdanī, and al-Dārimī; [kh] al-Bukhārī; [m] Muslim; [d] Abū Dāwūd; [n] al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Khuzaymah; [ḥb] Ibn Ḥibbān; [qṭ] al-Dāraquṭnī in al-Sunan, in al-Afrād.
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