al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17243
✧ Miswar b. Yazid al-Asadi, then al-Kahili
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ ثنا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْأَزْرَقُ ثنا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ الْفَزَارِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُوقَةَ قَالَ أَتَيْتُ نُعَيْمَ بْنَ أَبِي هِنْدٍ فَأَخْرَجَ إِلَيَّ صَحِيفَةً فَإِذَا فِيهَا مِنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ وَمُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ إِلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّا عَهِدْنَاكَ وَأَمْرُ نَفْسِكَ لَكَ مُهِمٌّ فَأَصْبَحَتَ قَدْ وَلَّيْتَ أَمْرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَحْمَرِهَا وَأَسْوَدِهَا يَجْلِسُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ الْوَضِيعُ وَالشَّرِيفُ وَالْعَدُوُّ وَالصَّدِيقُ وَلِكُلٍّ حِصَّتُهُ مِنَ الْعَدْلِ فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَا عُمَرُ فَإِنَّا نُحَذِّرُكَ يَوْمًا تَعْنِي فِيهِ الْوُجُوهُ وَتَجِفُّ فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَتَنْقَطِعُ فِيهِ الْحُجَجُ لِحَجَّةِ مَلِكٍ قَدْ قَهَرَهُمْ بِجَبَرُوتِهِ وَالْخَلْقُ دَاخِرُونَ لَهُ يَرْجُونَ رَحْمَتَهُ وَيَخَافُونَ عَذَابَهُ وَإِنَّا كُنَّا نَتَحَدَّثُ
أَنَّ أَمْرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ فِي آخِرِ زَمَانِهَا سَيَرْجِعُ إِلَى أَنْ يَكُونُوا إِخْوَانَ الْعَلَانِيَةِ أَعْدَاءَ السَّرِيرَةِ وَإِنَّا نَعُوذُ بِاللهِ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ كِتَابُنَا سِوَى الْمَنْزِلِ الَّذِي نَزَلَ مِنْ قُلُوبِنَا فَإِنَّا إِنَّمَا كَتَبْنَا بِهِ نَصِيحَةً لَكَ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِمَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ مِنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ وَمُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ ؓماُ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمَا أَمَّا بَعْدُ أَتَانِي كِتَابُكُمَا تَذْكُرَانِ أَنَّكُمَا عَهِدْتُمَانِي وَأَمَرُ نَفْسِي لِي مُهِمٌّ فَأَصْبَحَتُ قَدْ وُلِّيتُ أَمَرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَحْمَرِهَا وَأَسْوَدِهاَ يَجْلِسُ بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ الشَّرِيفُ وَالْوَضِيعُ وَالْعَدُوُّ وَالصَّدِيقُ وَلِكُلٍّ حِصَّةٌ مِنَ الْعَدْلِ كَتَبْتُمَا فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَا عُمَرُ وَإِنَّهُ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ لَهُمْ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ وَكَتَبْتُمَا تُحَذِّرَانِي مَا حُذِّرَتْ مِنْهُ الْأُمَمُ قَبْلِنَا وَقَدِيمًا وَإِنَّ اخْتِلَافَ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ بِآجَالِ النَّاسِ يُقَرِّبَانِ كُلَّ بَعِيدٍ وَيَأْتِيَانِ بِكُلِّ جَدِيدٍ وَيَأْتِيَانِ بِكُلِّ مَوْعُودٍ حَتَّى يَصِيرَ النَّاسُ إِلَى مَنَازِلِهِمْ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ وَالنَّارِ كَتَبْتُمَا تُحَذِّرَانِي أَنَّ أَمَرَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ سَيَرْجِعُ فِي آخِرِ زَمَانِهَا إِلَى أَنْ يَكُونُوا إِخْوَانَ الْعَلَانِيَةِ أَعْدَاءَ السَّرِيرَةِ وَلَسْتُمْ بِأُولَئِكَ وَلَيْسَ هَذَا بِزَمَانِ ذَلِكَ وَذَلِكَ زَمَانٌ تَظْهَرُ فِيهِ الرَّغْبَةُ وَالرَّهْبَةُ يَكُونُ رَغْبَةُ بَعْضِ النَّاسِ إِلَى بَعْضٍ لِصَلَاحِ دُنْيَاهُمْ كَتَبْتُمَا تَعُوذَانِ بِاللهِ أَنْ أُنْزِلَ كِتَابَكُمَا سِوَى الْمَنْزِلِ الَّذِي نَزَلَ مِنْ قُلُوبِكُمَا وَأَنَّكُمَا كَتَبْتُمَا بِهِ نَصِيحَةً لِي وَقَدْ صَدَقْتُمَا فَلَا تَدَعَا الْكِتَابَ إِلَيَّ فَإِنَّهُ لَا غِنَى بِي عَنْكُمَا وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī
- Ḥajjāj b. Ibrāhīm al-Azraq
- Marwān b. Muʿāwiyah al-Fazārī
- Muḥammad b. Sūqah
- Atayt
✧ That the affair of this community in its latter time will return to being brothers openly and enemies in secret. And we seek refuge with God from our letter descending other than the place it descended from our hearts, for we wrote it only as sincere counsel to you. Peace be upon you. Then 'Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ wrote back to them: From 'Umar b. al-Khattab to Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah and Mu'adh b. Jabal ؓ. Peace be upon you both. Now then, your letter reached me in which you mention that you had admonished me and that my own affairs are important to me. I have become the one entrusted with the affair of this community, its red and its black; the noble and the lowly, the enemy and the friend sit before me, and for everyone there is a share of justice. You wrote: Look how you are in that situation, O 'Umar. Indeed, there is no power and no strength for them in that except through God. You wrote warning me of what the nations before us were warned of, and it is ancient. Indeed, the alternation of night and day, with the death terms of people, brings near every distant thing and brings every new thing and brings every promised thing until people come to their abodes of Paradise or the Fire. You wrote warning me that the affair of this community will return in its latter time to being brothers openly and enemies in secret. But you are not those people, and this is not the time of that; that is a time when desire and fear appear, when some people's desire for one another will be for the good of their worldly affairs. You wrote seeking refuge with God from your letter descending other than the place it descended from your hearts, and that you wrote it as sincere counsel to me. You have spoken truly, so do not stop writing to me, for I cannot do without you. Peace be upon you both.
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