Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2317b
"عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: مَا انْتَفَعْتُ بِكَلَامِ أحَدٍ بَعْدَ النَّبِىِّ ﷺ إِلَّا بِشَىْءٍ كَتَبَ بِهِ إلَىَّ ابْنُ أَبِى طَالِبٍ، فَإِنَّهُ كَتَبَ إليَّ بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحَمَن الرَّحِيم أمَّا بَعْدُ: يَا أَخِى! فإِنَّكَ تُسَرُّ بِمَا يَصِيرُ إِلَيْكَ مِمَّا لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَفُوتَكَ، وَيَسُرُّكَ مَا لَمْ تكُنْ تُدْرِكُهُ، فَمَا نِلْتَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا فَلَا تَكُنْ بِهِ فَرِحًا، وَمَا فَاتَكَ مِنْهَا فَلَا تَكُنْ عَلَيْهِ حَزِينًا، وَلْيَكُنْ عَمَلُكَ لِما بَعْدَ الْمَوتِ. وَالسَّلَام".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Mā Āntafaʿt Bikalām Ḥad Baʿd al-Nabi ﷺ Illā Bishaʾ Katab Bih La Ibn Abiá Ṭālib
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Ibn 'Abbas who said: I did not benefit from the words of anyone after the Prophet ﷺ except from something that Ibn Abi Talib wrote to me. He wrote to me: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. To proceed: O my brother! You are delighted by what comes to you that would not have escaped you, and what you could not have attained pleases you. So whatever you gain of this world, do not be exultant over it, and whatever escapes you of it, do not be grieved over it, and let your work be for what comes after death. And peace."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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