Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (8/46)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

You are ruined and have led others to ruin. You are nothing but Abū ‘Know Me!’ (1)” Then he took him by the ear and led him (2) out of the mosque.

Abū Hātim narrated in his book The Abrogating and the Abrogated (3): “Al-Fadl ibn Dukayn (4) narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from Abū Hasīn, from Abū Abd al-Rahmān al-Sulamī, who said:

“Alī came upon a storyteller addressing the people and asked, ‘Do you know the abrogating from the abrogated?’

“He replied, ‘No.’

“Alī said, ‘You are ruined and have led others to ruin.’”

Abū Hātim also said: “Zuhayr ibn Abbād al-Ru’āsī narrated to us; Asad ibn Humrān (5) narrated to us, from Juwaybir, from al-Dahhāk:

“Alī ibn Abī Tālib entered the mosque of Kufa and found a storyteller addressing the people. He stood over him and said, ‘You there, can you distinguish the abrogating from the abrogated?’

“He replied, ‘No.’

“Alī asked, ‘Can you distinguish the Medinan portions of the Quran from its Meccan portions?’

“He replied, ‘No.’

“Alī said, ‘You are ruined and have led others to ruin.’ He then said, ‘Do you know who this is? This is a man who says, “Know me! Know me! Know me!”’”

Ibn al-Jawzī also authored a volume on the virtues of al-Hasan al-Basrī (6),

(1) (N): *Abū Arfūnī*; (M): *Abū an Fūlī*. The latter is a corruption. (2) (M): *wa-akhrajahu* (“and he led him out”); (S) and (B): *fa-akhadhahu* (“so he took hold of him”). (3) Sezgin did not list this book among the works of Abū Hātim al-Rāzī preserved in manuscript. See Sezgin, M [0–9], 1:298. (4) (M): *Dhukayn*. Ibn Hajar states in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 8:270: “Al-Fadl ibn Dukayn—Dukayn is a sobriquet; his father’s name was Amr ibn Hammād ibn Zuhayr ibn Dirham—al-Taymī, a client of the family of Talha, Abū Nuaym al-Mulāī, al-Kūfī, al-Ahwal.” He then records, at 8:275, the disagreement over the year of his death, which was approximately 218 AH. (5) (M): *bin Harrān*. (6) This is Ibn al-Jawzī’s book *Fadāil al-Hasan al-Basrī: Adabuhu, Hikmatuhu, Nashatuhu, etc.* (*The Virtues of al-Hasan al-Basrī: His Conduct, Wisdom, and Upbringing, etc.*). It was printed in Cairo in 1350 AH, and a manuscript copy is held at Ayasofya under no. 1642. See Sezgin, M [0–9], 4:10.

هَلَكْتَ وَأَهْلَكْتَ، إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ أَبُو: اعْرِفُونِي (١) ، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِأُذُنِهِ، فَأَخْرَجَهُ (٢) مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ. فَرَوَى أَبُو حَاتِمٍ فِي كِتَابِ " النَّاسِخِ وَالْمَنْسُوخِ " (٣) : حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ (٤) ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي حَصِينٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ، قَالَ: انْتَهَى عَلِيٌّ إِلَى قَاصٍّ وَهُوَ يَقُصُّ، فَقَالَ: أَعَلِمْتَ النَّاسِخَ وَالْمَنْسُوخَ؟ قَالَ: لَا. قَالَ: هَلَكْتَ وَأَهْلَكْتَ. قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ الرُّوَاسِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَسَدُ بْنُ حُمْرَانَ (٥) ، عَنْ جُوَيْبِرٍ، عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ: أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ دَخَلَ مَسْجِدَ الْكُوفَةِ، فَإِذَا قَاصٌّ يَقُصُّ، فَقَامَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَقَالَ: يَا هَذَا تَعْرِفُ النَّاسِخَ مِنَ الْمَنْسُوخِ؟ قَالَ: لَا. قَالَ: أَفَتَعْرِفُ مَدَنِيَّ الْقُرْآنِ مِنْ مَكِّيِّهِ؟ قَالَ: لَا. قَالَ: هَلَكْتَ وَأَهْلَكْتَ. قَالَ: أَتَدْرُونَ مَنْ هَذَا؟ هَذَا يَقُولُ: اعْرِفُونِي اعْرِفُونِي اعْرِفُونِي. وَقَدْ صَنَّفَ ابْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ مُجَلَّدًا فِي مَنَاقِبِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ (٦) ،

(١) ن: أَبُو عَرْفُونِي، م: ابُوا عَنْ فُولِي، وَهُوَ تَحْرِيفٌ. (٢) م: وَأَخْرَجَهُ، س، ب: فَأَخَذَهُ. (٣) لَمْ يَذْكُرْ سِزْكِينُ هَذَا الْكِتَابَ ضِمْنَ كُتُبِ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ الرَّازِيِّ الْمَخْطُوطَةِ. انْظُرْ: سِزْكِينَ م [٠ - ٩] ج ١ ص ٢٩٨. (٤) م: ذُكَيْنٍ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ حَجَرٍ فِي " تَهْذِيبِ التَّهْذِيبِ " ٨/٢٧٠: " الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ وَهُوَ لَقَبٌ وَاسْمُهُ: عَمْرُو بْنُ حَمَّادِ بْنِ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ دِرْهَمٍ التَّيْمِيُّ، مَوْلَى آلِ طَلْحَةَ، أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ الْمُلَائِيُّ الْكُوفِيُّ الْأَحْوَلُ " ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ ٨/٢٧٥ اخْتِلَافَ النَّاسِ فِي سَنَةِ وَفَاتِهِ وَهِيَ ٢١٨ تَقْرِيبًا. (٥) م: بِنُ حَرَّانَ. (٦) وَهُوَ كِتَابُ " فَضَائِلِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ: أَدَبِهِ حِكْمَتِهِ نَشْأَتِهِ. إِلَخْ " تَأْلِيفُ ابْنِ الْجَوْزِيِّ، طُبِعَ بِالْقَاهِرَةِ سَنَةَ ١٣٥٠ وَمِنْهُ نُسْخَةٌ خَطِّيَّةٌ فِي أَيَا صُوفْيَا رَقْمُ ١٦٤٢، انْظُرْ سِزْكِينَ م [٠ - ٩] ج ٤ ص. ١٠.