Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 478-1b
✧ 'Alqamah b. Ramathah al-Balawi
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عَن أَبِى سُلَيْمَانَ الدَّارَانِى قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنَ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ سَمعتُ أَبِى يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ جَدّىَ عَلْقَمَةَ الْحَارِثَ يَقُولُ
" قَدِمْتُ عَلَى رسُولِ الله ﷺ وَأنَا سَابِعُ سَبْعة مِنْ قَوْمِى، فَسَلَّمْنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ الله ﷺ فَرَدَّ عَلَيْنَا فَكَلَّمْنَاهُ فَأَعْجَبَهُ كَلَامُنَا وَقَالَ: مَا أَنْتُمْ؟ قُلْنَا مُؤْمِنُونَ، قَالَ: لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ حَقِيقَةٌ، فَمَا حَقِيقَةُ إِيمَانِكُمْ؟ قُلْنَا: خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ خَصْلَةً، خَمْسٌ أَمَرْتَنَا بِهَا، وَخَمْسٌ أَمَرَتْنَا بِهَا رُسُلُكَ، وَخَمْسٌ تَخَلَّقْنَا بِهَا في الْجَاهِليَّةِ، وَنَحْنُ عَلَيْهَا إِلَى الآنَ إِلَّا أَنْ تَنْهَانَا عَثهَا يَا رَسُولَ الله، قَالَ: وَمَا الْخَمْسُ الَّتِى أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِهَا؟ قُلْنَا: أَمَرْتَنَا أَنْ نُؤْمِنَ بِالله، وَمَلَائكتِه، وَكُتُبِهِ، وَرُسُلِهِ، وَالْقَدَرِ خَيْرِهِ وَشَرِّهِ، قَالَ: وَمَا الْخَمْسُ الَّتِى أَمَرَتْكُمْ رسُلِى؟ قُلْنَا أَمَرَتْنَا رُسُلُكَ أَنْ نَشْهَدَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا الله وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأنَّكَ عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُه، وَنُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةَ الْمَكْتُوبَةَ، وَنُؤدِّىَ الزَّكَاةَ الْمَفْرُوضَةَ، وَنَصُومَ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ، وَنُحِجَّ الْبَيْتَ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْنَا إِلَيْه السَّبِيلَ. قَالَ: وَمَا الْخِصَالُ الَّتِى تَخَلَّقْتُمْ بِهَا في الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ؟ قُلْنَا: الشُّكْرُ عِنْدَ الرَّخَاء، وَالصَّبْرُ عِنْدَ الْبَلَاءِ، والصِّدْقُ في مَوَاطِنِ اللِّقَاءِ، والرِّضَا بِمُرِّ الْقَضَاءِ، وَتَرْكُ الشَّمَاتَةِ بِالْمُصيبَةِ إِذَا حَلَّتْ بِالأَعْدَاءِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ الله ﷺ فُقَهَاءُ، أُدَبَاءُ، كَادُوا يَكُونُونَ أَنْبِيَاءَ مِنْ خِصَالٍ مَا أَشْرَفَهَا، وتَبَسَّمَ إِلَيْنَا وَقَالَ: وَأَنَا أُوصِيكُمْ بِخَمْسِ خِصَالٍ أخْرَى يَتَكَمَّلُ الله لَكُمْ خِصَالَ الْخَيرِ: لَا تَجْمَعُوا مَا لَا تَأكُلُونَ، وَلَا تَبْنُوا مَا لَا تَسْكُنُونَ، وَلَا تَنَافَسُوا فِيمَا غَدًا عَنْهُ تَزُولُونَ، وَاتَّقُوا الله الَّذِى إِلَيْهِ تَرْجِعُونَ وَعَليْه تقْدمُونَ، وَارْغَبُوا فِيمَا إِلَيْه تَصِيرُونَ، وَفِيهِ تُخَلَّدُونَ".
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- Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī
- ʿAlqamah b. Sūwayd b. ʿAlqamah b. al-Ḥārith from my father from my grandfather ʿAlqamah al-Ḥārith
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"I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as the seventh of seven from my people. We greeted the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he returned the greeting. We spoke with him, and he was pleased with our speech and said: 'What are you?' We said: 'Believers.' He said: 'Every people has a reality. What is the reality of your faith?' We said: 'Fifteen characteristics: five that you commanded us, five that your messengers commanded us, and five that we practised in the Jahiliyyah and still hold to, unless you forbid us from them, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'What are the five that I commanded you?' We said: 'You commanded us to believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the divine decree, both its good and its bad.' He said: 'What are the five that my messengers commanded you?' We said: 'Your messengers commanded us to testify that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, and that you are His servant and Messenger, to establish the obligatory prayer, to pay the obligatory zakat, to fast the month of Ramadan, and to perform Hajj to the House if we are able to reach it.' He said: 'What are the characteristics that you practised in the Jahiliyyah?' We said: 'Thankfulness in times of ease, patience in times of trial, truthfulness in the places of encounter, contentment with the bitter decree, and not gloating over the calamity of enemies when it befalls them.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Jurists, men of refinement, who nearly became prophets, with characteristics of such nobility!' He smiled at us and said: 'I also advise you with five other characteristics, by which Allah will complete for you the characteristics of good: Do not gather what you will not eat, do not build what you will not live in, do not compete for what you will leave behind, fear Allah, to whom you will return and before whom you will be presented, and desire what you will return to and abide in forever.'"
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