Hadith Twenty-Nine

40 – A group of our teachers informed us; Ibn al-Muḥibb informed us; my father and al-Mizzī informed us; Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Abī ʿUmar and Ibn al-Bukhārī informed us; Shaykh al-Islām Muwaffaq al-Dīn informed us; Abū al-Fatḥ Ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Abū al-Faḍl Ibn Khayrūn informed us; Abū ʿAlī Ibn Shādhān informed us; Abū Bakr al-Khayyāṭ informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Dūst informed us ⦗51⦘; the judge Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ashnanī informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad informed us; Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me, saying: Abū Ḥanīfah told me, from Abū Ghassān, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Dharr who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Authority is a trust, and on the Day of Resurrection it will become a source of disgrace—except for the one who assumes it with its due right and fulfills all that is required of him regarding it. But how seldom that happens, O Abū Dharr!”