Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 420-448b
✧ Abdullah b. Abbas
"عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: بَعَثَ رَسُولُ الله ﷺ جَيْشًا وَأَمَّرَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَجُلًا مِنَ الأَنْصَار، وَأَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يَسْمَعُوا لَهُ وَأَنْ يُطِيعُوا، فَسَارَ فَنَزَلَ مَنْزِلًا فَوَجَدَ عَلَيْهِمْ فِي بَعْضِ الأَمْرِ فَقَالَ: أَلَيْسَ قَدْ أَمَرَكُمْ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَنْ تُطِيعُونِي؟ قَالُوا: بَلَي، قَالَ وَهُمْ عِنْدَ غَيْضَةٍ، قَالَ: فَإنِّي أَعْزِمُ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ يَقُومَ كُل رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ حَتَّى يَحْمِل وِقْرَهُ () مِنْ هَذِهِ الْغَيْضَة ( ) حَتَّى تَجْمَعُوهُ، فَجَمَعُوهُ فَأَوْقَدُوا فِيه النَّارَ حَتَّى صَارَتْ نَارًا ضَخْمَةً، ثُمَّ قَالَ: عَزَمْتُ عَلَيْكُم إِلَّا وَقَعْتُمْ فِيهَا، فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: إِنَّمَا نَفِرُ مِنَ النَّارِ، وَقَامَ آخَرُونَ لِيَقَعُوا فِيهَا فَمَنَعَهُم الآخَرُونَ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمُوا عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ ذَكَرُوا ذَلِكَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ لِلَّذِينَ أَبَوْا: مَا مَنَعَكُمْ أَنْ تَقَعُوا فِيهَا؟ فَقَالُوا: يَا نَبِيَّ الله مِنَ النَّارِ نَفِرُّ، وَقَالَ لِلآخَرِينَ: مَا حَمَلَكُمْ عَلَى أَنْ تَقَعُوا فِيهَا؟ فَقَالُوا: أَمَرْتَنَا أَنْ نُطِيعَهُ فَعَزَمَ عَلَيْنَا أَنْ نَقَعَ فِيهَا، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَقَدْ أَحْسَنْتُمْ حِينَ مَنَعْتُمُوهُمْ، وَأَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَلَوْ وَقَعْتُمْ فِيهَا مَا خَرَجْتُمْ مِنْهَا أَبَدًا، إِنَّمَا الطَّاعَةُ فِي الْمَعْرُوفِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Baʿath Rasūl Allāh
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Ibn 'Abbas, he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent an army and appointed over them a man from the Ansar, and commanded them to listen to him and obey him. He set out and they came to a halting place, and he found fault with them in some matter. He said: 'Did the Prophet ﷺ not command you to obey me?' They said: 'Yes.' He said, while they were at a thicket: 'I command you that each man of you gather what he can carry () from this thicket () until you have collected it.' They gathered it and lit a fire in it until it became a huge fire. Then he said: 'I command you, unless you throw yourselves into it.' Some of them said: 'We only flee from the fire.' Others stood up to throw themselves into it, but the others prevented them. When they came to the Prophet ﷺ, they mentioned that to him. He said to those who refused: 'What prevented you from throwing yourselves into it?' They said: 'O Prophet of Allah, we flee from the fire.' He said to the others: 'What led you to throw yourselves into it?' They said: 'You commanded us to obey him, and he commanded us to throw ourselves into it.' The Prophet ﷺ said: 'As for you, you did well when you refrained from them. As for you, if you had thrown yourselves into it, you would never have come out of it. Obedience is only in what is right.'"
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Notes
ابن جرير
machine translationIbn Jarīr
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