Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2341b
"عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: كَانَ عَلِىٌّ يَخْرُجُ بالَّليْلِ إِلَى الْمسْجِدِ لِيُصلِّىَ تَطَوُّعًا فَجِئْنَا نَحْرُسُهُ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ أَتَانَا فَقَالَ: مَا يَحْبِسُكُم؟ قُلْنَا: نَحْرُسُكَ، فَقَالَ: أَمِنْ أَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ تَحْرُسُونَ أَمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ؟، قُلْنَا: لَا، بَلْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ، قَالَ: إِنَّهُ لَا يَكُونُ فِى الأَرْضِ شَيءٌ حَتَّى يُقْضَى فِى السَّمَاءِ، وَلَيْسَ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا وَقَدْ وُكِلَ بِهِ مَلَكَانِ يَدْفَعَانِ عَنْهُ ويَكْلَآنِهِ حَتَّى يَجِىِءَ قَدَرُهُ، فَإِذَا جَاءَ قَدَرُهُ خَلَّيَا بَيْنَهُ وبَيْنَ قَدَرِهِ، وَإِنَّ عَلَىَّ مِنَ اللهِ جُنَّةً حَصِينَةً، فَإِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلِى كَشَفَ عَنِّى وإِنَّهُ لَا يَجِدُ عَبْدٌ طَعْمَ الإِيمَانِ حَتَّى يَعْلَمَ أَنَّهُ مَا أصَابَهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيُخْطِئَهُ، وَمَا أَخْطَأَهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيْصِيبَهُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaʿlá b. Murrah
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"From Ya'la ibn Murrah, who said: 'Ali used to go out at night to the mosque to pray voluntary prayers, so we came to guard him. When he finished, he came to us and said: 'What is keeping you?' We said: 'We are guarding you.' He said: 'Are you guarding me from the people of the heavens or from the people of the earth?' We said: 'No, rather from the people of the earth.' He said: 'Indeed, nothing happens on earth until it has been decreed in heaven. There is no one except that two angels have been assigned to him, who push away from him and protect him until his decree comes. When his decree comes, they leave him between it and his decree. Indeed, from Allah I have a fortified shield. When my term comes, it will uncover me. Indeed, no servant tastes the sweetness of faith until he knows that what has afflicted him would not have missed him, and what has missed him would not have afflicted him.'"
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Notes
[د] أبو داود في القدر، وخشيش في الاستقامة، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
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