al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6716
✧ The translation of "سِيدَانُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ" into English is "The Two Masters of Abu Abdullah.
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا مُعَلَّى بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ الْمَوْصِلِيُّ وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ النَّرْسِيُّ قَالَا ثنا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الزَّنْجِيُّ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْبَيْلَمَانِيِّ قَالَ كُنْتُ بِمِصْرَ فَقَالَ
لِي رَجُلٌ أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ؟ قُلْتُ بَلَى فَأَشَارَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ بِجَنْبِهِ فَقُلْتُ مَنْ أَنْتَ يَرْحَمُكَ اللهُ؟ قَالَ أَنَا سُرَّقٌ فَقُلْتُ سُبْحَانَ اللهِ مَا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ تُسَمَّى بِهَذَا الِاسْمِ وَأَنْتَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سَمَّانِي سُرَّقًا فَلَنْ أَدَعَ ذَلِكَ أَبَدًا قَالَ قُلْتُ وَلِمَ سَمَّاكَ سُرَّقًا؟ قَالَ قَدِمَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَادِيَةِ بِبَعِيرَيْنِ لَهُ يَبِيعُهُمَا فَابْتَعْتُهُمَا مِنْهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ انْطَلِقْ حَتَّى أُعْطِيَكَ فَدَخَلْتُ بَيْتِي وَقَضَيْتُ بِثَمَنِ الْبَعِيرَيْنِ حَاجَتِي وَتَغَيَّبْتُ حَتَّى ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ الْأَعْرَابِيَّ قَدْ خَرَجَ فَخَرَجْتُ فَإِذَا الْأَعْرَابِيُّ مُقِيمٌ فَأَخَذَنِي فَقَدَّمَنِي إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَخْبَرَهُ الْخَبَرَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى مَا صَنَعْتَ؟» قُلْتُ قَضَيْتُ بثَمَنِهِمَا حَاجَتِي يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ قَالَ «فَاقْضِهِ» قُلْتُ لَيْسَ عِنْدِي قَالَ «أَنْتَ سُرَّقٌ اذْهَبْ بِهِ يَا أَعْرَابِيُّ فَبِعْهُ حَتَّى تَسْتَوْفِيَ حَقَّكَ» فَجَعَلَ النَّاسُ يَسُومُونَهُ ويَلْتَفِتُ إِلَيْهِمْ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَا تُرِيدُونَ؟ قَالُوا نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَفْدِيَهُ مِنْكَ قَالَ فَوَاللهِ إِنْ مِنْكُمْ أَحَدٌ أَحْوَجُ إِلَى اللهِ مِنِّي اذْهَبْ فَقَدْ أَعْتَقْتُكَ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
- Muʿallá b. Mahdī al-Mawṣilī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
- al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd al-Narsī
- Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī
- Zayd b. Aslam
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Baylamānī
✧ A man said to me: "Shall I direct you to a man from the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?" I said: "Yes." He pointed to a man beside him. I said: "Who are you, may Allah have mercy on you?" He said: "I am Surraq." I said: "Glory be to Allah! It is not fitting that you be called by this name while you are a man from the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." He said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ named me Surraq, and I will never abandon that." I said: "Why did he name you Surraq?" He said: "A man from the desert came with two camels of his to sell them. I bought them from him and said to him: 'Go, so that I can pay you.' I entered my house and spent the price of the two camels on my needs, and I hid myself until I thought that the Bedouin had left. Then I went out, and there was the Bedouin still waiting. He seized me and brought me before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he told him the story. The Prophet ﷺ said: 'What made you do what you did?' I said: 'I spent their price on my needs, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'Then pay him.' I said: 'I do not have it.' He said: 'You are Surraq. Take him, O Bedouin, and sell him until you recover your right.' The people began to bargain for me, and he would turn to them and say: 'What do you want?' They said: 'We want to ransom him from you.' He said: 'By Allah, none of you is more in need of Allah than I am. Go, for I have freed you.'"
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