Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 430-355b
✧ Abdullah b. Mas'ud
"عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ (أَيِّكُمْ يُحِبُّ سَلْسَلَ ()) الأَلْسُن (سِرَّ ( )) بَابِل وَالْحِيرَةِ، وَإنَّ تِسْعَةَ أَعْشَارِ الْخَيْرِ بالشَّامِ، وَعُشْر بِغَيْرهَا، وَإنَّ تِسْعَةَ أَعْشَارِ الشَّرِّ بِغَيْرهِا، وَعُشْر مِنَ الشَّرِّ بِهَا وَسَيَأتِى عَلَيْكُمْ زَمَانٌ يَكُونُ أَحَبّ مَالِ الرَّجُلِ فِيهِ أحْمره ينتقل عَلَيْهَا إِلَى الشَّامِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Masʿūd
- Ayyikum Yuḥib Salsal al-Alsun Sir Bābil and al-Ḥīrah Waʾn Tisʿah Aʿshār al-Khayr Bi-al-Shhām Waʿushr Bighayrhā Waʾn
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Ibn Mas'ud who said: Which of you loves (...) the tongues (...) Babylon and al-Hirah. Indeed nine-tenths of the good is in al-Sham, and one-tenth elsewhere, and nine-tenths of the evil is elsewhere, and one-tenth of the evil is in it. And there will come upon you a time when the most beloved property of a man will be his mare, on which he travels to al-Sham."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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