Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah - Nasir al-Din al-Albani - (1/165)

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without the wording, “May Allah never fill his belly.” This appears to be an abridgment by Ahmad or one of his teachers. One narration adds, “He was his scribe,” and its chain is sound.

Some sects may exploit this hadith and use it as grounds to attack Mu‘awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him). Yet there is nothing in it to support them in this. How could it be so, when it states that he was the Prophet’s scribe ﷺ? For this reason, al-Hafiz Ibn Asakir said (16 / 349 / 2), “It is the most authentic report transmitted concerning the virtue of Mu‘awiyah.”

It therefore appears that this supplication was not intended as a genuine one. Rather, it was a conventional expression that Arabs used in the flow of speech without intending its literal meaning, as in his saying to some of his wives, ʿaqrā ḥalqā (“may you be wounded and barren”) and taribat yamīnuk (“may your hand be covered in dust”). It may also have arisen from his human nature, which he himself explicitly acknowledged in many hadiths transmitted successively.

Among these is the hadith of ‘A’ishah, who said:

“Two men came in to see the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and spoke to him about something—I do not know what it was—and angered him. He cursed and reviled them. When they left, I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, who has received any good comparable to what these two have received?’ He said, ‘What is that?’ I replied, ‘You cursed and reviled them.’ He said, ‘Do you not know what I stipulated with my Lord? I said: O Allah, I am only a human being; so whichever Muslim I curse or revile, make it a purification and a reward for him.’”

83 – “Do you not know what I stipulated with my Lord? I said: O Allah, I am only a human being; so whichever Muslim I curse or revile, make it a purification and a reward for him.”

Muslim narrated it together with the preceding hadith under a single chapter entitled: “The chapter concerning those whom the Prophet cursed, reviled, or supplicated against, without their deserving it; it becomes a purification, a reward, and mercy for them.” He then cited therein a narration from Anas ibn Malik, who said:

دون قوله: " لا أشبع الله بطنه " وكأنه من اختصار أحمد أو بعض شيوخه، وزاد في رواية: " وكان كاتبه " وسندها صحيح. وقد يستغل بعض الفرق هذا الحديث ليتخذوا منه مطعنا في معاوية ﵁، وليس فيه ما يساعدهم على ذلك، كيف وفيه أنه كان كاتب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم؟ ! ولذلك قال الحافظ ابن عساكر (١٦ / ٣٤٩ / ٢) " إنه أصح ما ورد في فضل معاوية " فالظاهر أن هذا الدعاء منه ﷺ غير مقصود، بل هو ما جرت به عادة العرب في وصل كلامها بلا نية كقوله ﷺ في بعض نسائه " عقرى حلقى " و " تربت يمينك ". ويمكن أن يكون ذلك منه صلى الله عليه وسلم بباعث البشرية التي أفصح عنها هو نفسه ﵇ في أحاديث كثيرة متواترة. منها حديث عائشة ﵂ قالت: " دخل على رسول الله ﷺ رجلان، فكلماه بشيء لا أدري ما هو فأغضباه، فلعنهما وسبهما، فلما خرجا قلت: يا رسول الله من أصاب من الخير شيئا ما أصابه هذان؟ قال: وما ذاك؟ قالت: قلت: لعنتهما وسببتهما، قال: " أو ما علمت ما شارطت عليه ربي؟ قلت: اللهم إنما أنا بشر، فأي المسلمين لعنته أو سببته فاجعله له زكاة وأجرا ". ٨٣ - " أو ما علمت ما شارطت عليه ربي؟ قلت: اللهم إنما أنا بشر فأي المسلمين لعنته أو سببته فاجعله له زكاة وأجرا ". رواه مسلم مع الحديث الذي قبله في باب واحد هو " باب من لعنه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أو سبه أو دعا عليه وليس هو أهلا لذلك كان له زكاة وأجرا ورحمة ". ثم ساق فيه من حديث أنس بن مالك قال: