al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5328
✧ Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Abi Khaythama
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ: نَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ قَزَعَةَ قَالَ: نَا مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ قَالَ: نَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي هِنْدٍ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ الشَّعْبِيِّ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
مَا تَقُولُونَ لِأُمَرِائِكُمْ إِذَا دَخَلْتُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ ؟ " قَالُوا: نَقُولُ لَهُمْ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ. قَالَ: " فَإِذَا خَرَجْتُمْ مِنْ عِنْدِهِمْ مَا تَقُولُونَ ؟ " قَالُوا: نَقُولُ مَا لَا يَشْتَهُونَ. قَالَ: " هَذَا الَّذِي كُنَّا نَعُدُّهُ النِّفَاقَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abū Khaythamah
- al-Ḥasan b. Qazaʿah
- Maslamah b. ʿAlqamah
- Dāwud b. Abū Hind
- ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar
✧ What do you say to your rulers when you enter upon them? They said: We say to them what they like. He said: Then when you leave them, what do you say? They said: We say what they do not like. He said: This is what we used to consider hypocrisy at the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmīعَامِرٍ الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- Trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah mutqin), though he would make mistakes (yahim) toward the end of his lifed. 139 AH, or 140 AH, or: 141 AH, also said: 127 AHدَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي هِنْدٍثقة متقن ، كان يهم بآخرهنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. between 171 AH and 180 AHمَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَصدوق له أوهامنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AH approximatelyالْحَسَنُ بْنُ قَزَعَةَصدوقنا
- d. 297 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي خَيْثَمَةَحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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