Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 447-2b
✧ Abd al-Rahman b. Uthman al-Taymi
"عن عبد الرحمن بن أبي عقيل قال: انطلقت إلى رسول الله ﷺ في وفد ثقيف فَأنَخْنَا بالْبَابِ وما في الناس أبغض إلينا من رجل نلج عليه فما خرجنا حتى ما في الناس أحد أحب إلينا من رجل دخلنا عليه، فقال قَائِلٌ منا: يا رسول الله الا سألت ربى ملكًا كملك سليمان؟ فضحك رسول الله ﷺ ثم قال: لعل لصاحبكم عند الله أفضل من ملك سليمان، إن الله لم يبعث نبيًا إلا أعطاه دعوة، فمنهم من اتخذها دنيا فأعطيها، ومنهم من دعا بها على قومه لما عصوه فأهلكوا بها، وإن الله أعطانى دعوة اختبأتها عند ربى شفاعتى لأمتى يوم القيامة".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿBd al-Rḥmn b. By ʿQyl
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"On the authority of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi 'Aqil, who said: I set out to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the delegation of Thaqif. We made our camels kneel at the door, and there was no one among the people more hateful to us than a man we would enter upon. Then we came out, and there was no one among the people more beloved to us than the man we had entered upon. A speaker among us said: O Messenger of Allah, why do you not ask your Lord for a kingdom like the kingdom of Sulayman? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ laughed, then said: Perhaps your companion has with Allah something better than the kingdom of Sulayman. Allah did not send any prophet except that He gave him a supplication. Some of them took it as worldly gain and were given it, and some supplicated against their people when they disobeyed him and they were destroyed by it. And Allah has given me a supplication which I have kept with my Lord, as my intercession for my community on the Day of Resurrection."
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البغوى وقال: لا أعلم، روى ابن أبي عقيل غير هذا الحديث، وهو غريب لم يحدث به إلا من هذا الوجه وابن منده، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
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