Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2339b
"عَنْ أَبِى صَالِحٍ الْحَنِفِىِّ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ عَلِىَّ بْنَ أَبِى طَالِبٍ أَخَذَ الْمُصْحَفَ فَوَضَعَهُ عَلَى رَأسِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّهُم مَنَعُونِى مَا فِيهِ، فأَعْطِنِى مَا فِيهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّى قَدْ مَللْتُهُم ومَلُّونِى، وَأَبْغَضْتُهُم وَأَبْغَضُونِى، وَحَمَلُونِى عَلَى غَيْرِ طَبِيعَتِى، وَخُلُقِى وَأَخْلَاقٍ لَمْ تُكنْ تُعْرَفُ لِى، فَأبْدِلْنِى بِهِمْ خَيْرًا مِنْهُم، وَأَبْدِلْهُمْ بِى شَرًّا مِنِّى، اللَّهُمَّ أَمِتْ قُلُوبَهُمْ مَيْتَ المِلْحِ فِى الْمَاءِ، يَعْنِى أَهْلَ الْكُوفَةِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abiá Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥanifi
- Raʾayt ʿAli b. Abiá Ṭālib Akhadh al-Muṣḥaf Fawaḍaʿah
- Raʾsih Thum
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Abu Salih al-Hanafi, who said: I saw 'Ali ibn Abi Talib take the Mushaf, place it on his head, and then say: 'O Allah, they have prevented me from what is in it, so give me what is in it.' Then he said: 'O Allah, I have grown weary of them and they have grown weary of me, I have come to hate them and they have come to hate me, and they have forced me to act against my nature and my character, and to adopt manners that were not known of me. So replace them for me with someone better than them, and replace me for them with someone worse than me. O Allah, make their hearts die like salt dissolved in water.' He meant the people of Kufa."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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