Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2568b
"عن يونس بن ميسرة بن حلس أَن علىَّ بنَ أبى طالب لما بلغَ اليمن خَطَبَنَا وَبَلَغَ كعبَ الأحبارِ فأقبل وَمعهُ حَبْرٌ مِنْ أَحبارِ يَهود فَوَافَيَاهُ وَهُو يقولُ: إِنَّ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يُبْصِرُ بالليلِ ولا يُبْصِرُ بالنهارِ، ومِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يُبْصرُ بِالليلِ والنهارِ، ومِنَ الناس من لا يبصر بالليلِ ولا بالنهار، ومَنْ يُعْطِ باليد القصيرةِ يُعْطَ بِيدٍ طويلةٍ، فَقال كعبٌ: صَدَقَ، قال الحَبْرُ وكيفَ نُصدِّقُه؟ فَقَال كعبٌ: أمَّا مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يُبصرُ بالليلِ ولا يُبصرُ بالنهارِ فَهو المؤْمِنُ بالكتابِ الأولِ ولا يؤْمِنُ بالكتابِ الآخرِ، وأمَّا قوله: وَمِنَ النَّاسِ من لَا يُبْصِر بِالليْلِ وَلَا بِالنهارِ فَهُوَ الَّذِى لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِالْكِتاب الأَوَلِ وَلَا بِالْكِتَابِ الآخرِ، وَأَما قَوْلُهُ: مَنْ يُعْطِ بِاليدِ القصيرةِ يُعْطَ بِاليدِ الطويلةِ فَهُو مَا يَتَقَبَّلُ الله مِنَ الصَّدَقةِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ywns b. Mysrh b. Ḥls
- ʿL b. Bá Ṭālb Lmā Blgh al-Ymn Khaṭabanā and Balagh Kʿb al-Ḥbār Fʾqbl Wamʿh Ḥabr from Aḥbār Yahwd Fawāfayāh Wahū
Machine translation, not reviewed
"On the authority of Yunus ibn Maysarah ibn Halas: that 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, when he reached Yemen, gave us a sermon, and it reached Ka'b al-Ahbar, who came with a rabbi from the rabbis of the Jews. They met him while he was saying: Among people is one who sees at night but does not see by day, and among people is one who sees by night and by day, and among people is one who sees neither by night nor by day, and whoever gives with the short hand will be given with a long hand. Ka'b said: He has spoken the truth. The rabbi said: How can we believe him? Ka'b said: As for 'Among people is one who sees at night but does not see by day,' he is the one who believes in the first Book but does not believe in the last Book. As for his saying, 'And among people is one who does not see by night or by day,' he is the one who believes neither in the first Book nor in the last Book. As for his saying, 'Whoever gives with the short hand will be given with the long hand,' it is that Allah accepts the charity."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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