Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3539b
"عن سعيد بن المسيب قال: قامَ عمرُ بن الخطاب في الناسِ فقال: أيها الناسُ! ألا إن أصحابَ الرأي أعداءُ السنَّة، أعيتهم الأحاديثُ أن يحفَظُوها وتفلتت منهم أن يَعُوها، واستَحْيَوْا إذا سألهم الناسُ أن يقولوا لا ندرى، فعارضوا السنن برأيِهم فضلوا وأضلوا كثيرًا، والذى نفس عمر بيده ما قبض الله نبيه ولا رفع الوحىَ عنهم حتى أغناهم عن الرأي ولو كان الدينُ يُؤخذُ بالرأي لكان أسفلُ الخُفّ أحقَّ بالمسحِ من ظَهرِه، فإِيَّاك وإياهم".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Sʿyd b. al-Msyb
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"On the authority of Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, who said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab stood up among the people and said: O people! Indeed the companions of opinion are the enemies of the Sunnah. The hadiths were too much for them to memorize, and they slipped from them before they could retain them, and they were too shy, when people asked them, to say: We do not know. So they opposed the Sunnah with their opinion, and they went astray and led many astray. By Him in whose hand is 'Umar's soul, Allah did not take His Prophet, nor lift the revelation from them, until He had made them independent of opinion. Had religion been taken by opinion, the underside of the leather sock would have been more deserving of wiping than its top. So beware of them."
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