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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
  1. Aḥmad
  2. Abū and ʿAmmī ʿĪsá
  3. Sūwayd
  4. Sufyān b. Ḥusayn
  5. al-Ḥasan
  6. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Samurah
  7. 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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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Riyadhus Shalihin 673، "يا عبد الرحمن بن سمرة: لا تسأل الإمارة، فإنك إن أعطيتها عن غير مسألة أعنت عليها، وإن أعطيتها عن مسألةٍ وكلت إليها، وإذا حلفت على يمين، فرأيت غيرها خيراً منها، فأت الذى هو خير، وكفر عن يمينك”

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3782

Narrators

  1. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Samurah al-ʿAbshamī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 50 AH, or: 51 AH
    عَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن سَمُرَة العَبْشَمِيصحابي
    عن
  2. al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
    الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
    عن
  3. Sufyān b. Ḥusayn
    Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrations other than those from al-Zuhrī, by their agreementd. Ibn Saʿd said: during the caliphate of al-Mahdī; Ibn Khirāsh said: during the time of al-Mahdī; and Ibn Ḥibbān said: during the rule of Hārūn
    سُفْيَانَ بْنِ حُسَيْنٍثقة في غير الزهري باتفاقهم
    عن
  4. Suwayd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
    Very weak (ḍaʿīf jiddan).d. 194 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 167 AH, Abū al-Qāsim said: this is a mistake regarding his death
    سُوَيْدٌضعيف جدا
    نا
  5. ʿĪsá b. Musāwir al-Jawharī
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 244 AH, or 245 AH
    عِيسَىصدوق
    نا
  6. Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim
    d. 293 AH
    أَحْمَدُ
    حدثنا
  7. al-Ṭabarānī
    d. 360 AH
    الطبراني

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