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Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

of my distress, it is because of you and your companions. By Allah, if I possessed enough [gold] (1) to fill the earth, I would use it to ransom myself from Allah’s punishment before I saw it.”

Also in Sahīh al-Bukhārī (2), it is related from Amr ibn Maymūn in the hadith concerning Umar’s killing: “O Ibn Abbas, find out who killed me. Ibn Abbas went about for a while, then returned (3) and said, ‘Al-Mughīra’s slave.’

Umar asked, ‘The artisan?’

He replied, ‘Yes.’

Umar said, ‘May Allah destroy him! I had given him only a reasonable order. Praise be to Allah, who did not allow me to be killed (4) at the hand of a man claiming to be a Muslim. You and your father wanted the number of foreign slaves in Medina to increase, and al-Abbas owned more slaves than anyone else.’

Ibn Abbas said, ‘If you wish, I shall do it’—that is, ‘If you wish, we shall kill [them]’ (5).

Umar replied, ‘You are mistaken! Not after they had learned (6) to speak your language, faced your qiblah in prayer, and performed Hajj as you do.’

He was carried to his home, and we went along with him. It was as though the people had never suffered a calamity before that day. Some were saying, ‘He will be all right,’ while others were saying, ‘I fear for him.’ He was brought a date infusion and drank it, but it came out of his abdomen. He was then brought milk and drank it, but it came out through his wound (7). They realized (8) that he was dying. We then went in to him (9),

(1) The word *dhahaban* (“gold”) is absent from all the manuscripts; I have supplied it from al-Bukhārī. In *Fath al-Bārī* 7:52, *tilāʿ al-ard* is vocalized with a kasra under the undotted *tā* and without gemination; it means “enough to fill the earth.” The basic sense of *tilāʿ* is everything upon which the sun rises; here it refers to an amount of wealth that rises above and overtops the earth. (2) 5:16–17, Book of the Virtues of the Prophet’s Companions, chapter “The Account of the Pledge of Allegiance.” (3) (H), (B): “Then he came to him.” (4) (R), (M), (Y): *qitlatī* (“my being killed”); al-Bukhārī: *mītatī* (“my death”). (5) (H), (M), (B): “We shall kill them.” (6) Al-Bukhārī: “They spoke.” (7) (N), (M), (R), (Y), (B): “A reading in al-Bukhārī has: ‘from his abdomen.’” Ibn Hajar states in *Fath al-Bārī* 7:65 that the *nabīdh* mentioned here was made by placing dates in water—that is, soaking them in it. They used to do this to make the water more palatable. (8) (N), (M), (R), (Y), and a reading in al-Bukhārī: “Then they recognized.” (9) (H), (B): “And we entered.”

مِنْ جَزَعِي فَهُوَ مِنْ أَجْلِكِ وَأَجْلِ أَصْحَابِكَ، وَاللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ لِي طِلَاعَ الْأَرْضِ [ذَهَبًا] (١) لَافْتَدَيْتُ بِهِ مِنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ أَرَاهُ ". وَفِي صَحِيحِ الْبُخَارِيِّ (٢) عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ فِي حَدِيثِ قَتْلِ عُمَرَ " يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ انْظُرْ مَنْ قَتَلَنِي، فَجَالَ سَاعَةً، ثُمَّ جَاءَ (٣) فَقَالَ: غُلَامُ الْمُغِيرَةِ، قَالَ: الصَّنَعُ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: قَاتَلَهُ اللَّهُ، لَقَدْ أَمَرْتُ بِهِ مَعْرُوفًا، الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَمْ يَجْعَلِ قَتْلِي (٤) بِيَدِ رَجُلٍ يَدَّعِي الْإِسْلَامَ، قَدْ كُنْتَ أَنْتَ وَأَبُوكَ تُحِبَّانِ أَنْ تَكْثُرَ الْعُلُوجُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ، وَكَانَ الْعَبَّاسُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ رَقِيقًا، فَقَالَ: إِنْ شِئْتَ فَعَلْتُ؛ أَيْ: إِنْ شِئْتَ قَتْلَنَا (٥) . قَالَ: كَذَبْتَ، بَعْدَ مَا تَعَلَّمُوا (٦) بِلِسَانِكُمْ، وَصَلَّوْا قِبْلَتَكُمْ، وَحَجُّوا حَجَّكُمْ، فَاحْتُمِلَ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ، فَانْطَلَقْنَا مَعَهُ وَكَأَنَّ النَّاسَ لَمْ تُصِبْهُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَبْلَ يَوْمَئِذٍ، فَقَائِلٌ يَقُولُ: لَا بَأْسَ، وَقَائِلٌ يَقُولُ: أَخَافُ عَلَيْهِ، فَأُتِيَ بِنَبِيذٍ فَشَرِبَهُ، فَخَرَجَ مِنْ جَوْفِهِ، ثُمَّ أُتِيَ بِلَبَنٍ فَشَرِبَهُ، فَخَرَجَ مِنْ جُرْحِهِ (٧) ، فَعَلِمُوا (٨) أَنَّهُ مَيِّتٌ. فَدَخَلْنَا (٩) عَلَيْهِ،

(١) ذَهَبًا سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ جَمِيعِ النُّسَخِ، وَأَثْبَتُّهَا مِنَ الْبُخَارِيِّ، وَفِي فَتْحِ الْبَارِي ٧/٥٢ طِلَاعَ الْأَرْضِ بِكَسْرِ الطَّاءِ الْمُهْمَلَةِ وَالتَّخْفِيفِ؛ أَيْ: مِلْأَهَا، وَأَصْلُ الطِّلَاعِ مَا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ، وَالْمُرَادُ هُنَا مَا يَطْلُعُ عَلَيْهَا وَيَشْرُفُ فَوْقَهَا مِنَ الْمَالِ. (٢) ٥/١٦ - ١٧ كِتَابُ فَضَائِلِ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ، بَابُ قِصَّةِ الْبَيْعَةِ. (٣) ح، ب: ثُمَّ جَاءَهُ، (٤) ر، م، ي: قِتْلَتِي، الْبُخَارِيِّ: مِيتَتِي. (٥) ح، م، ب: قَتَلْنَاهُمْ. (٦) الْبُخَارِيِّ: تَكَلَّمُوا. (٧) ن، م، ر، ي، ب: قِرَاءَةٌ فِي الْبُخَارِيِّ مِنْ جَوْفِهِ، وَقَالَ ابْنُ حَجَرٍ (فَتْحِ الْبَارِي ٧/٦٥) الْمُرَادُ بِالنَّبِيذِ الْمَذْكُورِ تَمَرَاتٌ نُبِذَتْ فِي مَاءٍ، أَيْ نُقِعَتْ فِيهِ، كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ ذَلِكَ لِاسْتِعْذَابِ الْمَاءِ. (٨) ن، م، ر، ي، قِرَاءَةٌ فِي الْبُخَارِيِّ: فَعَرَفُوا. (٩) ح، ب: وَدَخَلْنَا.