al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 42
✧ Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-Dimashqi
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثَابِتُ بْنُ قَيْسِ بْنِ شَمَّاسٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ:
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَاللهِ لَقَدْ خَشِيتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ قَدْ هَلَكْتُ. قَالَ: " لِمَ ؟ " قُلْتُ: نَهَى اللهُ الْمَرْءَ أَنْ يُحْمَدَ بِمَا لَمْ يَفْعَلْ، وَأَجِدُنِي أُحِبُّ الْحَمْدَ، وَنَهَى اللهُ عَنِ الْخُيَلَاءِ، وَأَجِدُنِي أُحِبُّ الْجَمَالَ، وَنَهَى اللهُ أَنْ نَرْفَعَ أَصْوَاتَنَا فَوْقَ صَوْتِكَ، وَأَنَا امْرُؤٌ جَهِيرُ الصَّوْتِ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَلَا تَرْضَى أَنْ تَعِيشَ حَمِيدًا، وَتُقْتَلَ شَهِيدًا، وَتَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ حَمِيدًا ؟ " قَالَ: بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ. فَعَاشَ حَمِيدًا، وَقُتِلَ شَهِيدًا يَوْمَ مُسَيْلِمَةَ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah
- my father
- his father
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī
- al-Zuhrī
- Muḥammad b. Thābit al-Anṣārī
- Abū Thābit b. Qays b. Shammās al-Anṣārī
✧ I said: O Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I feared that I might have been doomed. He said, “Why?” I said: Allah forbade a man to be praised for what he has not done, and I find myself loving praise. Allah forbade pride, and I find myself loving beauty. Allah forbade us to raise our voices above your voice, and I am a man with a loud voice. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Would you not be pleased to live praiseworthy, be killed as a martyr, and enter Paradise praiseworthy?” He said: Of course, O Messenger of Allah. So he lived praiseworthy, and was killed as a martyr on the day of Musaylimah.
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