Al-Jawāb as-Sahīh li-man baddala dīn al-Masīh - Ibn Taimiya - (5/466)

do such a thing would fall upon me alone and not upon them. So release his neighbors to him.”

Imām Aḥmad, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī also report from Anas ibn Mālik:

“No person was dearer to them than the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him; yet whenever they saw him they would not stand up, because they knew how much he disliked that.”

This version comes through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī—who said, “Hammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Ḥumayd, from Anas.”

Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Shaykh, and others likewise transmit—on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās—that:

“Allah sent an angel to His Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, together with Gabriel. The angel said, ‘Allah has given you the choice: to be a servant-prophet or to be a king-prophet.’”

كُنْتُ أَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ لَعَلَيَّ وَمَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِمْ، خَلُّوا لَهُ جِيرَانَهُ» . وَرَوَى الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ، وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ، وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: " «مَا كَانَ شَخْصٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَكَانُوا إِذَا رَأَوْهُ لَمْ يَقُومُوا، لِمَا يَعْلَمُونَ مِنْ كَرَاهَتِهِ لِذَلِكَ» " رَوَاهُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ: ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْهُ. وَرَوَى عَنْهُ أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ وَأَبُو الشَّيْخِ، وَغَيْرُهُمَا، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: " «أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَرْسَلَ إِلَى نَبِيِّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَلَكًا مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ مَعَهُ جِبْرِيلُ، فَقَالَ: الْمَلَكُ: " إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَيَّرَهُ بَيْنَ أَنْ يَكُونَ عَبْدًا وَبَيْنَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَلِكًا.