Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (6/5)

[Section on the Rāfidī’s Remarks Concerning Umar—may Allah be pleased with him]
[What Umar—may Allah be pleased with him—Said as Death Approached]

Section (1)

The Rāfidī (2) said:

“Among these is what they related (3) from Umar. Abū Nuaym al-Hāfiz narrated in his book (4), Hilyat al-Awliyāʾ, that he said (5): When death approached him, he said (6), ‘If only I had been a ram belonging to my people! They would have fattened me (7) for as long as they saw fit. Then the one dearest to them among their people would have come to them, and they would have slaughtered me. They would have made (8) half of me into roast meat and half into dried meat, and then eaten me, so that I would become excrement rather than a human being.’ Is this anything but equivalent to the unbeliever’s words (9): ‘If only I were dust!’ (Surah al-Naba: 40)”

He said (10): “Ibn Abbās also said as death approached him: ‘If I possessed enough to fill

(1) “Section”: omitted from (H) and (R). In (Y): “Section Thirty.” (2) In (K), p. 136 (M). (3) (H): “what he related.” (4) (H) and (B): “in his book.” (5) “He said”: omitted from (K). (6) “He said”: omitted from (H) and (B). (7) (N): *fa-yusamminūnī* (“and they would fatten me”); (M): *fa-yusammūnī* (“and they would call me”), which is a textual corruption. (8) (H) and (B): “and they made.” (9) (K): “because of the words of the Exalted: ‘And the unbeliever will say…’” (10) That is, the Rāfidī, immediately after the preceding passage.

[فصل كلام الرافضي على عمر رضي الله عنه] [كلام عمر رضي الله عنه عند الاحتضار] فَصْلٌ (١) قَالَ الرَّافِضِيُّ (٢) : " وَمِنْهَا مَا رَوَوْهُ (٣) عَنْ عُمَرَ، رَوَى أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ الْحَافِظُ فِي كِتَابِهِ (٤) " حِلْيَةِ الْأَوْلِيَاءِ " أَنَّهُ قَالَ (٥) لَمَّا احْتَضَرَ قَالَ (٦) : يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ كَبْشًا لِقَوْمِي فَسَمَّنُونِي (٧) مَا بَدَا لَهُمْ، ثُمَّ جَاءَهُمْ أَحَبُّ قَوْمِهِمْ إِلَيْهِمْ فَذَبَحُونِي، فَجَعَلُوا (٨) نِصْفِي شِوَاءً وَنِصْفِي قَدِيدًا، فَأَكَلُونِي، فَأَكُونُ عُذْرَةً وَلَا أَكُونُ بَشَرًا، وَهَلْ هَذَا إِلَّا مُسَاوٍ لِقَوْلِ الْكَافِرِ (٩) : {يَالَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ تُرَابًا} ) [سُورَةُ النَّبَأِ: ٤٠] " . قَالَ (١٠) .: " وَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ عِنْدَ احْتِضَارِهِ: لَوْ أَنَّ لِي مِلْءَ

(١) فَصْلٌ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ح) ، (ر) ، وَفِي (ي) : الْفَصْلُ الثَلَاثُونَ. (٢) فِي (ك) ص ١٣٦ (م) . (٣) ح: مَا رَوَاهُ. (٤) ح، ب: فِي كِتَابِهِ. (٥) قَالَ: لَيْسَتْ فِي (ك) . (٦) قَالَ: لَيْسَتْ فِي (ح) ، (ب) . (٧) ن: فَيُسَمِّنُونِي، م: فَيُسَمُّونِي، وَهُوَ تَحْرِيفٌ. (٨) ح، ب: وَجَعَلُوا. (٩) ك: لِقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: وَيَقُولُ الْكَافِرُ. (١٠) أَيِ: الرَّافِضِيُّ بَعْدَ الْكَلَامِ السَّابِقِ مُبَاشَرَةً