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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

a certain assignment.

When I came back, he asked, “How did you find authority?”

I answered, “O Messenger of Allah, I truly thought that all people were my servants. By Allah, I shall never again take charge of any post as long as I live.” (1)

Baqiyyah reported: Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maysarah narrated to me; Abū Rāshid al-Ḥubrānī said:

“I met al-Miqdād, the cavalryman of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, in Ḥimṣ. He was seated on one of the money-changers’ chests, his great size spilling over it, on his way to the battlefield.

I said to him, ‘Allah has already excused you.’

He replied, ‘Surah al-Buhūth has left us no excuse: “Go forth, whether light or heavy” (Tawbah 9:41).’

Yahyā al-Ḥimmānī related: Ibn al-Mubārak told us, from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr narrated to us, from his father, who said:

We were sitting with al-Miqdād one day when a man passed by and said, “Glad tidings to those two eyes that beheld the Messenger of Allah ﷺ! By Allah, we would love to have seen what you saw.”

I listened, amazed, for he had spoken only good words.

Then al-Miqdād turned to him and said, “What makes one of you wish to witness an occasion from which Allah kept him absent? He does not know how he would have behaved had he been there. By Allah, men stood in the very presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, yet Allah flung them on their faces into Hell because they neither responded to him (3) nor affirmed him.

Will you not praise Allah—

Shuʿba reported from Mansur, from Ibrahim, from Hammam b. al-Harith that a man began praising ʿUthman. Al-Miqdad—who was a large man—dropped to his knees and started pelting the man’s face with gravel. ʿUthman asked, “What are you doing?” He replied, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘When you see those who flatter, throw dust in their faces.’” I have found no other narration of this incident in Sahih Muslim. The editor probably treated the previous report as two separate hadiths because it comes through two chains that differ slightly in wording. (1) Recorded in al-Hilya, 1/174; also by al-Hakim, 3/349–350, who declared it sound, a judgement endorsed by al-Dhahabi. (2) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, 3/1/115; Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilya, 1/176; al-Hakim, 3/349 (who graded it authentic); and Ibn Jarir, 10/139. “Surat al-Buhuth” refers to Surah al-Tawba, so named because it “searches out” the hypocrites and exposes their secrets. “Aʿdharallahu ilayk” means: God has accepted your excuse on account of your physical heaviness, waived jihad for you, and allowed you to stay behind. (3) The printed text omits the word “lam” and corrupts “yujibuhu” into “yajiʼuhu.”

عَمَلٍ. فَلَمَّا رَجَعْتُ، قَالَ: (كَيْفَ وَجَدْتَ الإِمَارَةَ؟) . قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ! مَا ظَنَنْتُ إِلاَّ أَنَّ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُم خَوَلٌ لِي، وَاللهِ لاَ أَلِي عَلَى عَمَلٍ مَا دُمْتُ حَيّاً (١) . بَقِيَّةُ: حَدَّثَنَا حَرِيْزُ بنُ عُثْمَانَ، حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ مَيْسَرَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو رَاشِدٍ الحُبْرَانِيُّ، قَالَ: وَافَيْتُ المِقْدَادَ فَارِسَ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ بِحِمْصَ عَلَى تَابُوْتٍ مِنْ تَوَابِيْتِ الصَّيَارِفَةِ، قَدْ أَفْضَلَ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ عِظَمِهِ، يُرِيْدُ الغَزْوَ. فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: قَدْ أَعْذَرَ اللهُ إِلَيْكَ. فَقَالَ: أَبَتْ عَلَيْنَا سُوْرَةُ البُحُوْثِ: ﴿انْفِرُوا خِفَافاً وَثِقَالاً﴾ [التَّوْبَةُ (٢) : ٤١] . يَحْيَى الحِمَّانِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ المُبَارَكِ، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بنِ عَمْرٍو، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ جُبَيْرِ بنِ نُفَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ، قَالَ: جَلَسْنَا إِلَى المِقْدَادِ يَوْماً، فَمَرَّ بِهِ رَجُلٌ، فَقَالَ: طُوْبَى لِهَاتَيْنِ العَيْنَيْنِ اللَّتَيْنِ رَأَتَا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ وَاللهِ لَوَدِدْنَا أَنَّا رَأَيْنَا مَا رَأَيْتَ. فَاسْتَمَعْتُ، فَجَعَلْتُ أَعْجَبُ، مَا قَالَ إِلاَّ خَيْراً. ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: مَا يَحْمِلُ أَحَدَكُم عَلَى أَنْ يَتَمَنَّى مَحْضَراً غَيَّبَهُ اللهُ عَنْهُ، لاَ يَدْرِي لَوْ شَهِدَهُ كَيْفَ كَانَ يَكُوْنُ فِيْهِ، وَاللهِ لَقَدْ حَضَرَ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ أَقْوَامٌ كَبَّهُمُ اللهُ عَلَى مَنَاخِرِهِم فِي جَهَنَّمَ، لَمْ يُجِيْبُوْهُ (٣) ، وَلَمْ يُصَدِّقُوْهُ. أَوَلاَ تَحْمَدُوْنَ اللهَ، لاَ

= شعبة، عن منصور، عن إبراهيم، عن همام بن الحارث، أن رجلا جعل يمدح عثمان، فعمد المقداد فجثا على ركبتيه، وكان رجلا ضخما، فجعل يحثو في وجهه الحصباء، فقال له عثمان: ما شأنك؟ فقال: إن رسول الله، ﷺ، قال: " إذا رأيتم المداحين، فاحثوا في وجوههم التراب ". ولم أجد عند مسلم غير هذه. ولعله عد هذا الحديث الأخير بحديثين لأنه ورد من طريقين مع اختلاف في بعض الألفاظ. (١) هو في " الحلية " ١ / ١٧٤، وأخرجه الحاكم ٣ / ٣٤٩، ٣٥٠، وصححه، ووافقه الذهبي. (٢) أخرجه ابن سعد ٣ / ١ / ١١٥، وأبو نعيم في " الحلية " ١ / ١٧٦، والحاكم ٣ / ٣٤٩، وصححه، وابن جرير ١٠ / ١٣٩. وسورة البحوث: هي التوبة سميت بذلك لما فيها من البحث عن المنافقين، وكشف أسرارهم. وأعذر الله إليك: أي عذرك لثقل بدنك فأسقط عنك الجهاد، ورخص لك في تركه. (٣) سقط من المطبوع " لم " وتحرفت " يجيبوه " إلى " يجيئوه ".