Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2324b
"عَنِ الأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: مَا سَمعْتُ بَعْدَ كَلَامِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ مِنْ كلَامِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤمِنينَ عَلِىٍّ حيثُ يقول: إن للنَّكَبَاتِ نهاياتٍ، لا بُدَّ لأَحدٍ إذَا نُكِبَ مِنْ أَنْ يَنْتَهِى إِلَيْهَا فَيَنْبَغِى لِلْعَاقِلِ إِذَا أَصَابْتهُ نَكْبَةٌ أَنْ ينامَ لَهَا حَتَى تَنْقَضِى مُدَّتُها، فَإِنَّ فِي دَفعِهَا قَبْلَ انْقِضَاءِ مُدَّتِهَا زِيَادَةً فِى مَكْرُوهِهَا، قَالَ الأَحَنفُ في مِثْلِه يِقول الْقَائِلُ: الدَّهْرُ أَحْيانًا قِلَادَتُهُ... فَاصْبِرْ عَليْهِ وَلَا تَجْزَعْ ولا تثبت حَتَّى يُفَرِّجَها فِى حالِ مُدَّتِها... فَقدْ يَزِيدُ اخْتِنَاقًا كلُّ مُضْطَّرِبِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Aḥnaf b. Qays
- Mā Samʿt Baʿd Kalām Rasūl
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From al-Ahnaf ibn Qays who said: I have not heard, after the words of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, anything better than the words of the Commander of the Faithful 'Ali, where he says: Indeed, calamities have endings. Whoever is struck by a calamity must reach its end, so the intelligent person, when a calamity strikes him, should lie still until its term ends, for pushing it away before its term ends increases its harshness. Al-Ahnaf said, on the same theme, the speaker says: Fate at times has its necklace... so be patient with it and do not panic, nor stand firm until it relieves you in the time of its term... for the one who struggles grows more strangled."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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