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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Maslama ibn Mukhlad related that he said to ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, while Muʿāwiyah was eating, “This cousin of yours is certainly makhḍad—his sharpness has been blunted. Even so, I only say this having heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ pray: ‘O Allah, teach him the Book, give him firm authority in the land, and protect him from punishment (1).’

Its chain includes an unidentified narrator.

A similar wording is found in the mursal reports of al-Zuhrī, ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym, and Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān.

Marwān ibn Muḥammad reported: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us; Rabiʿah ibn Yazīd told me: I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿAmīrah say, “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say to Muʿāwiyah, ‘O Allah, make him a guide, one who is himself guided, and guide others through him (2).’”

Al-Tirmidhī graded this report ḥasan.

Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ said: al-Walīd and Marwān ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, and Saʿīd related a similar report.

Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī and ʿAbbās al-Tarqafī (3) stated: Abū Mushir narrated to us; Saʿīd transmitted a similar narration in which it says, “I heard the Messenger of Allah.”

Aḥmad ibn al-Muʿallā reported: Maḥmūd narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated from Saʿīd, from Rabiʿah, that a contingent from the people of Syria was stationed on the frontier at Āmid, and that ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd was governor of Ḥimṣ. ʿUthmān removed him and appointed Muʿāwiyah, and news of that reached the people of—

(1) Ibn Asakir, Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 16, p. 343a. – The word mukhadad is on the pattern muf‘al, derived from khad (to chew hard); it likens the person to a mere eating tool, that is, he eats roughly and rapidly. (2) Musnad Ahmad, 4/216; al-Tirmidhi, “al-Manaqib,” no. 3841; Ibn Asakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 16/343b. (3) The printed edition mistakenly gives the name as “al-Rifqi.” The correct reading is Abu Zur‘ah al-Nasri al-Dimashqi, author of Tarikh Dimashq; the nisba al-Nasri (with fatḥa on the nun and a quiescent sad) refers to Nasr b. Muʿawiyah b. Bakr b. Hawazin. One printing even has “al-Nadri,” but this form is not found in the published Tarikh Dimashq.

مَسْلَمَةَ بنِ مُخَلَّدٍ: أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِعَمْرِو بنِ العَاصِ، وَمُعَاوِيَةُ يَأْكُلُ: إِنَّ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ هَذَا لَمِخْضَدٌ، أَمَا إِنِّيْ أَقُوْلُ هَذَا، وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُوْلُ: (اللَّهُمَّ عَلِّمْهُ الكِتَابَ، وَمَكِّنْ لَهُ فِي البِلاَدِ، وَقِهِ العَذَابَ (١)) . فِيْهِ رَجُلٌ مَجْهُوْلٌ. وَجَاءَ نَحْوُهُ مِنْ مَرَاسِيْلِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، وَمَرَاسِيْلِ عُرْوَةَ بنِ رُوَيْمٍ، وَحَرِيْزِ بنِ عُثْمَانَ. مَرْوَانُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ: حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيْدُ بنُ عَبْدِ العَزِيْزِ، حَدَّثَنِي رَبِيْعَةُ بنُ يَزِيْدَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بنَ أَبِي عَمِيْرَةَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُوْلُ لِمُعَاوِيَةَ: (اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْهُ هَادِياً، مَهْدِيّاً، وَاهْدِ بِهِ (٢)) . حَسَّنَهُ: التِّرْمِذِيُّ. صَفْوَانُ بنُ صَالِحٍ: حَدَّثَنَا الوَلِيْدُ، وَمَرْوَانُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيْدٌ نَحْوَهُ. وَقَالَ أَبُو زُرْعَةَ النَّصْرِيُّ، وَعَبَّاسٌ التَّرْقُفِيُّ (٣) : حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْهِرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيْدٌ نَحْوَهُ، وَفِيْهِ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ. أَحْمَدُ بنُ المُعَلَّى: حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُوْدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بنُ عَبْدِ الوَاحِدِ، عَنْ سَعِيْدٍ، عَنْ رَبِيْعَةَ: أَنَّ بَعْثاً مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ كَانُوا مُرَابِطِيْنَ بِآمِدَ، وَأَنَّ عُمَيْرَ بنَ سَعْدٍ كَانَ عَلَى حِمْصَ، فَعَزَلَهُ عُثْمَانُ، وَوَلَّى مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ أَهْلُ

(١) ابن عساكر ١٦ / ٣٤٣ / آ. ومخضد: مفعل من الخضد شدة الاكل وسرعته، جعله كأنه آلة الاكل، أي: أنه يأكل بجفاء وسرعة. (٢) أخرجه أحمد ٤ / ٢١٦، والترمذي (٣٨٤١) في المناقب، وابن عساكر ١٦ / ٣٤٣ / ب (٣) تحرف في المطبوع إلى " الرفقي " وأبو زرعة النصري هو الدمشقي صاحب " تاريخ دمشق "، والنصري، بفتح النون وشكون الصاد نسبه إلى نصر بن معاوية بن بكر بن هوازن. وقد تصحف في المطبوع إلى " النضري " ولم أجده في " تاريخ دمشق " المطبوع.