Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 441-5b
✧ Abd al-Rahman b. Samurah b. Habib al-Abshami
"عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَهُ: يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمنِ لا تَسْأَل الإمَارَةَ فإنَّكَ إِنْ تَسَألهَا ثُمَّ تُعْطَهَا تُوْكلْ إلَيْهَا وإِنْ تُحْمَلْ عَلَيْهَا تُعَنْ عَلَيْها، وإِنْ حَلَفْتَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ فَرَأيْتَ غَيْرَهَا خَيرًا مِنْهَا فَأتِ الَّذِى هُوَ خَيْرٌ ثم كَفِّر عَنْ يِمِينك، وَأنَّهُ لا نَذْرَ في يمِين ولا قطيعَة رَحَمٍ ولا فِيمَا لا تَمْلِكُ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Samurah
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"On the authority of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Samurah, that the Prophet ﷺ said to him: 'O 'Abd al-Rahman, do not ask for leadership, for if you ask for it and it is given to you, you will be left to it alone, and if it is given to you without asking, you will be helped with it. If you swear an oath and see that something other than it is better, then do what is better and make expiation for your oath. There is no vow in an oath, no severing of kinship ties, and no vow concerning what you do not own.'"
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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