al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3911
✧ ʿAlī b. Saʿīd b. Bashīr al-Rāzī
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الرَّازِيُّ قَالَ: نَا مُصَرِّفُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْيَامِيُّ قَالَ: نَا يُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ قَالَ: نَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي بُرَيْدَةُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْبَيْلَمَانِيِّ، عَنْ كُرْزِ بْنِ عَلْقَمَةَ قَالَ:
قَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَفْدُ نَصَارَى نَجْرَانَ، سِتُّونَ رَاكِبًا، مِنْهُمْ أَرْبَعَةٌ وَعِشْرُونَ مِنْ أَشْرَافِهِمْ، وَالْأَرْبَعَةُ وَالْعِشْرُونَ مِنْهُمْ ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ إِلَيْهِمْ يَؤُولُ أَمْرُهُمُ، الْعَاقِبُ أَمِينُ الْقَوْمِ وَذُو رَأْيِهِمْ، وَصَاحِبُ مَشُورَتِهِمْ، وَالَّذِي لَا يَصْدُرُونَ إِلَّا عَنْ رَأْيِهِ وَأَمْرِهِ، وَاسْمُهُ: عَبْدُ الْمَسِيحِ، وَالسَّيِّدُ عَالِمُهُمْ، وَصَاحِبُ رَحْلِهِمْ وَمُجْتَمَعِهِمْ، وَأَبُو حَارِثَةَ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ أَخُو بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ، أُسْقُفُهُمْ وَحَبْرُهُمْ وَإِمَامُهُمْ، وَصَاحِبُ مَرَامِيهِمْ، وَكَانَ أَبُو حَارِثَةَ قَدْ شَرُفَ فِيهِمْ حَتَّى حَسُنَ عِلْمُهُ فِي دِينِهِمْ، وَكَانَتْ مُلُوكُ الرُّومِ مِنَ النَّصْرَانِيَّةِ قَدْ شَرَّفُوهُ وَقَبِلُوهُ، وَبَنَوْا لَهُ الْكَنَائِسَ، وَبَسَطُوا عَلَيْهِ الْكَرَامَاتِ، لِمَا يَبْلُغْهُمْ عَنْهُ مِنِ اجْتِهَادِهِ فِي دِينِهِمْ، فَلَمَّا وُجِّهُوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مِنْ نَجْرَانَ، جَلَسَ أَبُو حَارِثَةَ عَلَى بَغْلَةٍ لَهُ مُوَجِّهًا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَإِلَى جَنْبِهِ أَخٌ لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهُ: كُرْزُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ يُسَايِرُهُ، إِذْ عَثَرَتْ بَغْلَةُ أَبِي حَارِثَةَ، فَقَالَ كُرْزٌ: تَعِسَ الْأَبْعَدُ - يُرِيدُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ - قَالَ: بَلْ أَنْتَ تَعِسْتَ، فَقَالَ: وَلِمَ يَا أَخُ ؟ فَقَالَ وَاللهِ إِنَّهُ لَلنَّبِيُّ الَّذِي كُنَّا نَنْتَظِرُ، قَالَ لَهُ كُرْزٌ: وَمَا يَمْنَعُكَ وَأَنْتَ تَعْلَمُ هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: مَا صَنَعَ بِنَا هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمُ: شَرَّفُونَا وَأَمَّرُونَا وَأَكْرَمُونَا، وَقَدْ أَبَوْا إِلَّا خِلَافَهُ، وَلَوْ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ نَزَعُوا مِنَّا كُلَّ مَا تَرَى، وَأَضْمَرَ عَلَيْهَا مِنْهُ أَخُوهُ كُرْزُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Saʿīd al-Rāzī
- Muṣarrif b. ʿAmr al-Yāmī
- Yūnus b. Bukayr
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Buraydah b. Sufyān
- Ibn al-Baylamānī
- Kurz b. ʿAlqamah
✧ A delegation of the Christians of Najrān came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: sixty riders, among them twenty-four of their nobles. Of those twenty-four, three were the ones to whom their affairs reverted: al-ʿĀqib, the trustee of the people and man of judgment, holder of their counsel, without whose opinion and command they acted not—his name was ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; al-Sayyid, their scholar, keeper of their baggage and gathering place; and Abū Ḥārithah b. ʿAlqamah, brother of Bakr b. Wāʾil, their bishop, learned man, imam, and keeper of their places of worship. Abū Ḥārithah had been honored among them until his knowledge of their religion was esteemed. The kings of Byzantium, being Christians, had honored him, accepted him, built churches for him, and lavished honors upon him because of what reached them of his striving in their religion. When they set out from Najrān toward the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abū Ḥārithah sat on his mule, heading toward the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, with a brother of his called Kurz b. ʿAlqamah riding at his side. When Abū Ḥārithah’s mule stumbled, Kurz said: “May the far one perish,” meaning the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: “Rather you have perished.” He said: “And why, brother?” He said: “By Allah, he is the Prophet we have been awaiting.” Kurz said to him: “What prevents you, since you know this?” He said: “What these people have done for us: they honored us, put us in command, and showed us generosity, yet they refused anything but opposition to him. If I did otherwise, they would strip from us everything you see.” His brother Kurz b. ʿAlqamah concealed this about him.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفيه بريدة بن سفيان وهو ضعيف
machine translationIt contains Burayda b. Sufyān, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 3911
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)كُرْز بْن عَلْقَمَة بْن هِلَال الخُزَاعِيصحابيعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 91 and 100 AHابْنِ الْبَيْلَمَانِيِّضعيفعن
- not strong (laysa bil-qawī), and there is Rāfiḍism in himd. between 121 and 130 AHبُرَيْدَةُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَليس بالقوي ، وفيه رفضحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 199 AHيُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍصدوق يخطئنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 240 AHمُصَرِّفُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْيَامِيُّثقةنا
- d. 299 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الرَّازِيُّحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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