Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 570-24b
✧ Mu'adh b. Jabal
"عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ قَالَ: سَيَلِى عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَراءُ يَقْطَعُونَ عَلَى مَنَابِرِكُمْ الْحِكْمَةَ فَإِذَا نَزَلُوا أَنْكَرْتُمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ، فَخُذوا أَحْسَنَ مَا تَسْمَعُونَ وَدَعُوا مَا أَنْكَرْتُمْ مِنْ أَعْمَالِهِمْ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muʿādh b. Jabal
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Muʿādh b. Jabal, who said: Rulers will soon be set over you who will deliver wisdom from your pulpits, but when they step down you will disapprove of their deeds. So take the best of what you hear, and leave what you disapprove of in their deeds."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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