al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6605
✧ Muhammad b. Jafar b. Ayn
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، ثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، نَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
" إِنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ اسْتَخْلَفُوا عَلَيْهِمْ خَلِيفَةً، فَقَامَ يُصَلِّي فِي الْقَمَرِ عَلَى ظَهْرِ بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ، فَذَكَرَ أُمُورًا صَنَعَهَا، فَتَدَلَّى بِسَبَبٍ، فَأَصْبَحَ السَّبَبُ مُعَلَّقًا بِالْمَسْجِدِ، وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ، فَانْطَلَقَ حَتَّى أَتَى قَوْمًا عَلَى شَطِّ الْبَحْرِ، فَوَجَدَهُمْ سَيَصْنَعُونَ لَبِنًا، فَسَأَلَهُمْ: كَيْفَ يَأْخُذُونَ عَلَى هَذَا اللَّبِنِ ؟ فَأَخْبَرُوهُ، فَلَبِسَ مَعَهُمْ، فَكَانَ يَأْكُلُ مِنْ عَمَلِ يَدَيْهِ، حَتَّى إِذَا حَضَرَتِ الصَّلَاةُ تَطَهَّرَ فَصَلَّى، فَرُفِعَ ذَلِكَ الْعَامِلُ إِلَى دِهْقَانِهِمْ، أَنَّ فِينَا رَجُلًا يَصْنَعُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ، فَأَبَى أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ، قَالَ: ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ جَاءُ هُوَ، يَسِيرُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ، فَلَمَّا رَآهُ الْآخَرُ، فَرَّ، فَتَبِعَهُ، فَسَبَقَهُ، فَقَالَ: أَنْظِرْنِي أُكَلِّمْكَ كَلِمَةً، فَقَامَ حَتَّى كَلَّمَهُ، فَأَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ مَلِكًا، وَأَنَّهُ فَرَّ مِنْ رَهْبَةِ ذَنْبِهِ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي لَاحِقٌ بِكَ، فَعَبَدَ اللهَ بِرُمَيْلَةِ مِصْرَ ". قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: لَوْ كُنْتُ بِمِصْرَ لَأَرَيْتُكُمُ الْمَوْضِعَ، بِصِفَةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ الَّتِي وَصَفَ لَنَا "
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- ʿĀṣim b. ʿAlī
- Qays b. al-Rabīʿ
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- his father
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "The Children of Israel appointed a caliph over themselves. He stood praying in the moonlight on the roof of the Temple. He recalled things he had done, so he lowered himself by a rope. In the morning the rope was hanging from the mosque, and he had gone. He set off until he came to a people on the seashore. He found them making bricks. He asked them how they were paid for these bricks. They told him, so he worked with them, eating from the labor of his own hands. When prayer time came, he performed ablution and prayed. That worker was reported to their governor: 'There is among us a man who does such and such.' So the governor sent for him, but he refused to come. Then the governor came himself, riding on his mount. When the man saw him, he fled. The governor pursued him, but the man outran him. The man said: 'Wait for me so I can say a word to you.' He stopped and spoke to him, telling him that he had been a king and that he had fled out of fear for his sin. The governor said: 'I will join you.' So he worshiped God at the sands of Egypt." Abdullah b. Mas'ud said: "If I were in Egypt, I would show you the place, by the description the Messenger of God ﷺ gave us."
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Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 79 AH, also said: 89 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), changed when he grew old, his son inserted into his [material] what was not of his hadith, and he narrated itd. 165 AH, or: 166 AH, or: 167 AH, or: 168 AHقَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِصدوق تغير لما كبر ، وأدخل عليه ابنه ما ليس من حديثه فحدث بهنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 220 AH, or: 221 AHعَاصِمُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّصدوق ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- d. 293 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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