Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (4/551)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Sinān, who said:
Wahb and ʿAtāʾ al-Khurasānī once met. ʿAtāʾ said to him, “Abū ʿAbd Allāh, what is this report that has spread about you concerning qadar (predestination)?”
He answered, “I have never spoken about qadar at all, nor do I know anything of what is being repeated. I have read a little over ninety of the books revealed by God—seventy of them displayed openly in the churches and twenty known only to a few—and in every single one I found this statement: whoever entrusts even the least part of volition to himself has fallen into disbelief.” ⦗1⦘

By this same chain all the way to Abū Nuʿaym: Abū Ḥāmid related to us; al-Sarrāj related to us; Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr related to us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq related to us; he said, “My father informed me that he heard Wahb say, ‘More than once I performed the dawn prayer with the ablution of the late-night (ʿatamah) prayer.’” ⦗2⦘

Wahb also said:
“Noah, peace be upon him, was among the most handsome people of his age and used to wear a face-veil. When famine struck those aboard the Ark, whenever Noah uncovered his face to them they became satiated.” ⦗3⦘

He likewise reported that Jesus, peace be upon him, told the disciples, “The one of you who panics most at calamity is the one of you who loves this world the most.” ⦗3⦘

He further said, “The believer mixes with people in order to learn, keeps silent in order to remain safe, speaks in order to understand, and withdraws in order to gain.” ⦗4⦘

And he said, “I read in some of the revealed books: ‘Child of Adam, there is no good in learning what you do not know while failing to act on what you already know. Such a person is like a man who gathered firewood, tied it into a bundle, tried to carry it but was unable—then added another bundle to it.’” ⦗5⦘

(1) Abu Nuaym, Hilyat al-awliya, 4:24; see also Ibn Saʿd, 5:543. (2) Hilyat al-awliya, 4:66–67. (3) Hilyat al-awliya, 4:67. (4) See the reference already cited on p. 549, note (6). (5) Hilyat al-awliya, 4:71.

سِنَانٍ، قَالَ: اجْتَمَعَ وَهْبٌ، وَعَطَاءٌ الخُرَاسَانِيُّ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عَطَاءٌ: يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ، مَا هَذَا الَّذِي فَشَا عَنْكَ فِي القَدَرِ؟ فَقَالَ: مَا تَكَلَّمْتُ فِي القَدَرِ بِشَيْءٍ، وَلاَ أَعْرِفُ هَذَا، قَرَأْتُ نَيِّفاً وَتِسْعِيْنَ كِتَاباً مِنْ كُتُبِ اللهِ، مِنْهَا سَبْعُوْنَ ظَاهِرَةٌ فِي الكَنَائِسِ، وَمِنْهَا عِشْرُوْنَ لاَ يَعْلَمُهَا إِلاَّ القَلِيْلُ، فَوَجَدْتُ فِيْهَا كُلِّهَا: أَنَّ مَنْ وَكَلَ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ شَيْئاً مِنَ المَشِيْئَةِ، فَقَدْ كَفَرَ (١) . وَبِهِ: إِلَى أَبِي نُعَيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَامِدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا السَّرَّاجُ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بنُ مَنْصُوْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي، سَمِعْتُ وَهْباً يَقُوْلُ: رُبَّمَا صَلَّيْتُ الصُّبْحَ بِوُضُوْءِ العَتَمَةِ (٢) . وَعَنْ وَهبٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ نُوْحٌ ﵇ مِنْ أَجْمَلِ أَهْلِ زَمَانِهِ، وَكَانَ يَلْبَسُ البُرْقُعَ، فَأَصَابَتْهُم مَجَاعَةٌ فِي السَّفِيْنَةِ، فَكَانَ نُوْحٌ إِذَا تَجَلَّى لَهُم بِوَجْهِهِ، شَبِعُوا (٣) . وَعَنْ وَهْبٍ: أَنَّ عِيْسَى ﵇ قَالَ لِلْحَوَارِيِّيْنَ: أَشَدُّكُم جَزَعاً عَلَى المُصِيْبَةِ، أَشَدُّكُم حُبّاً لِلدُّنْيَا (٣) . وَعَنْ وَهْبٍ، قَالَ: المُؤْمِنُ يُخَالِطُ لِيَعْلَمَ، وَيَسْكُتُ لِيَسْلَمَ، وَيَتَكَلَّمُ لِيَفْهَمَ، وَيَخْلُو لِيَغْنَمَ (٤) . وَعَنْهُ: قَرَأْتُ فِي بَعْضِ الكُتُبِ: ابْنَ آدَمَ، لاَ خَيْر لَكَ فِي أَنْ تَعْلَمَ مَا لَمْ تَعْلَمْ وَلَمْ تَعْمَلْ بِمَا عَلِمْتَ، فَإِنَّ مَثَلَ ذَلِكَ كَرَجُلٍ احْتَطَبَ حَطَباً، فَحَزَمَ حُزْمَةً، فَذَهَبَ يَحْمِلُهَا، فَعَجِزَ عَنْهَا، فَضَمَّ إِلَيْهَا أُخْرَى (٥) .

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