al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6133
✧ Muhammad b. Zakariyya al-Ghallabi
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا الْغَلَّابِيُّ، قَالَ: ثَنَا الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي سَوِيَّةَ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ، قَالَ:
شَهِدْتُ قَيْسَ بْنَ عَاصِمٍ وَهُوَ يُوصِي، فَجَمَعَ بَنِيهِ، وَهُمُ اثْنَانِ وَثَلَاثُونَ ذَكَرًا، فَقَالَ: يَا بَنِيَّ إِذَا أَنَا مُتُّ، فَسَوِّدُوا أَكْبَرَكُمْ تَخْلُفُوا أَبَاكُمْ، وَلَا تُسَوِّدُوا أَصْغَرَكُمْ فَيُزْرِيَ بِكُمْ ذَاكَ عِنْدَ أَكْفَائِكُمْ، وَلَا تُقِيمُوا عَلَيَّ نَائِحَةً، فَإِنِّي " رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى عَنِ النِّيَاحَةِ "، وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِإِصْلَاحِ الْمَالِ، فَإِنَّهَا مَنْبَهَةٌ لِلْكَرِيمِ، وَيُسْتَغْنَى بِهِ عَنِ اللَّئِيمِ، وَلَا تُعْطُوا رِقَابَ الْإِبِلِ إِلَّا فِي حَقِّهَا، وَلَا تَمْنَعُوهَا مِنْ حَقِّهَا، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَكُلَّ عِرْقِ سُوءٍ، فَمَهْمَا سَرَّكُمْ يَوْمٌ فَمَا يَسُوؤُكُمْ أَكْثَرُ، وَاحْذَرُوا أَبْنَاءَ أَعْدَائِكُمْ، فَإِنَّهُمْ لَكُمْ أَعْدَاءٌ عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ آبَائِهِمْ. وَإِذَا أَنَا مُتُّ فَادْفِنُونِي فِي مَوْضِعٍ لَا يَطَّلِعُ عَلَيَّ أَهْلُ هَذَا الْحَيِّ مِنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ، فَإِنَّهَا كَانَتْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُمْ خُمَاشَاتٌ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، فَأَخَافُ أَنْ يَنْبُشُونِي مِنْ قَبْرِي فَتُفْسِدُوا عَلَيْهِمْ دُنْيَاهُمْ، فَيُفْسِدُوا عَلَيْكُمْ آخِرَتَكُمْ، ثُمَّ دَعَا بِكِنَانَتِهِ، فَأَمَرَ ابْنَهُ الْأَكْبَرَ، وَكَانَ يُسَمَّى عَلِيًّا، فَقَالَ: أَخْرِجْ سَهْمًا مِنْ كِنَانَتِي، فَأَخْرَجَهُ، فَقَالَ: اكْسِرْهُ، فَكَسَرَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَخْرِجْ سَهْمَيْنِ، فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا، فَقَالَ: اكْسِرْهُمَا، فَكَسَرَهُمَا، قَالَ: أَخْرِجْ ثَلَاثَةَ أَسْهُمٍ، فَأَخْرَجَهَا، فَقَالَ: اعْصِبْهَا بِوَتَرٍ فَعَصَبَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: اكْسِرْهَا، فَلَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ كَسْرَهَا، فَقَالَ: يَا بَنِيَّ هَكَذَا أَنْتُمْ بِالِاجْتِمَاعِ، وَكَذَلِكَ أَنْتُمْ بِالْفُرْقَةِ، ثُمَّ أَنْشَأَ يَقُولُ: إِنَّمَا الْمَجْدُ مَا بَنَى وَالِدُ الصِّدْ قِ وَأَحْيَى فِعَالَهُ الْمَوْلُودُ وَكَفَى الْمَجْدُ، وَالشَّجَاعَةُ، وَالْحِلْـ مُ إِذَا زَانَهَا عَفَافٌ وَجُودُ وَثَلَاثُونَ يَا بَنِيَّ إِذَا مَا عَقَدَتْهُمْ لِلنَّائِبَاتِ الْعُقُودُ كَثَلَاثِينَ مِنْ قِدَاحٍ إِذَا مَا شَدَّهَا لِلزَّادِ عَقْدٌ شَدِيدُ لَمْ تُكْسَرْ، وَإِنْ تَبَدَّدَتِ الْأَسْـ ـهُمُ أَوْدَى بِجَمْعِهَا التَّبْدِيدُ وَذَوُو السِّنِّ وَالْمُرُوءَةِ أَوْلَى إِنْ يَكُنْ مِثْلُهُمْ لَهُمْ تَسْوِيدُ وَعَلَيْهِمْ حِفْظُ الْأَصَاغِرِ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ الْحِنْثَ الْأَصْغَرُ الْمَجْهُودُ
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā al-Ghallābī
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Faḍl b. ʿAbd al-Malik
- Abīh ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abū Sawiyyah al-Minqarī
✧ I witnessed Qays b. ʿAsim while he was giving his last instructions. He gathered his sons, and they were thirty-two males, and said: “O my sons, when I die, appoint your eldest as your leader, and you will succeed your father. Do not appoint your youngest, lest that bring you low in the eyes of your peers. Do not set up a wailing woman over me, for I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbid wailing. Attend to improving wealth, for it ennobles the generous and makes one independent of the vile. Give the necks of the camels only in their due right, and do not withhold them from their right. Beware of every vein of evil, for whatever day pleases you, what displeases you is more. Beware of the sons of your enemies, for they are enemies to you on the path of their fathers. When I die, bury me in a place where the people of this quarter of Bakr b. Waʾil cannot see me, for there were scratches between me and them in the pre-Islamic era, and I fear they might dig me up from my grave, and you would spoil their worldly life, and they would spoil your hereafter.” Then he called for his quiver and ordered his eldest son, who was named ʿAli, and said: “Take out an arrow from my quiver.” He took it out, and he said: “Break it.” He broke it. Then he said: “Take out two arrows.” He took them out, and he said: “Break them.” He broke them. He said: “Take out three arrows.” He took them out, and he said: “Bind them with a bowstring.” He bound them. Then he said: “Break them.” He could not break them. So he said: “O my sons, thus are you in unity, and thus are you in division.” Then he began to recite: “Glory is only what the truthful father built, and the offspring revived his deeds. Glory suffices, along with courage and forbearance, when chastity and generosity adorn them. And thirty, O my sons, when they are bound by covenants for calamities, are like thirty arrows when a strong binding for provision ties them: they do not break. But if the arrows scatter, dispersal destroys their gathering. The elders and those of manly virtue are more deserving, if their like are to be made leaders. Upon them is the care of the young until the youngest reaches the age of accountability, striving.”
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 41 AHقَيْس بْن عَاصِم بْن سِنَان السَّعْدِيصحابيشهدت
- عن
- حدثناضعيفd. 220 AH
- حدثنا
- d. 360 AH
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