al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 588
✧ Ahmad b. al-Qasim b. Musawir al-Jawhari
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ قَالَ: نَا أَبِي، وَعَمِّي عِيسَى، قَالَا: نَا سُوَيْدٌ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ حُسَيْنٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ. عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ، لَا تَسْأَلِ الْإِمَارَةَ، فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ أُعْطِيتَهَا عَنْ غَيْرِ مَسْأَلَةٍ، أُعِنْتَ عَلَيْهَا، وَإِنْ أُعْطِيتَهَا عَنْ مَسْأَلَةٍ وُكِلْتَ إِلَيْهَا، وَإِذَا حَلَفْتَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ، فَرَأَيْتَ غَيْرَهَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا، فَأْتِ الَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌ، وَكَفِّرْ عَنْ يَمِينِكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- Abū and ʿAmmī ʿĪsá
- Sūwayd
- Sufyān b. Ḥusayn
- al-Ḥasan
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Samurah
- Lī Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ O 'Abd al-Rahman, do not ask for authority, for if you are given it without asking, you will be helped in it, but if you are given it because of asking, you will be left to it. And if you swear an oath and then see something better than it, do that which is better and expiate for your oath.
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