Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 574-29b
✧ Mu'awiyah b. Abi Sufyan
"عَنْ مُعَاوِيةَ بْن أَبِى سُفْيَانَ قَالَ: بَيْنَا أنَا عِنْدَ رسُولِ الله ﷺ إِذْ قَالَ: إِنَّ الله فَاتِحُ لَكُمْ وَمُمَكِّنُ لَكُم، فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ خِرْ لِى، قَالَ: عَلَيْكَ بِالشَّامِ، فَإنَّهَا خِيَرةُ الله مِنْ بِلادِهِ يَجْتَبِى إليْهَا خِيَرتَهُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muʿāwīh b. Abiá Sufyān
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān, who said: While I was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he said: 'Indeed Allah will open conquests for you and give you power.' A man said: 'Choose for me.' He said: 'Go to al-Shām, for it is Allah's chosen land among His lands, and to it He draws His chosen ones from among His servants.'"
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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