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I have never seen pain for anyone more severe than for the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace
ما رأيت الوجع على أحد أشد منه على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
Thank God he became innocent
أصبح بحمد الله بارئا
You, by God, after three days, Abdul-Assar, and I, by God, see that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, will die from this pain. I know the faces of the Banu Abdul Muttalib at the time of death. Take us to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. Let us ask him about this matter. If it is among us, we will know it, and if it is among others, we will know it, so he recommended to us.
أنت والله بعد ثلاث عبد العصار وإني والله لأرى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سوف يتوفى من وجعه هذا إني لأعرف وجوه بني عبد المطلب عند الموت اذهب بنا إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فلنسأله في من هذا الأمر إن كان فينا علمنا ذلك وإن كان في غيرنا علمناه فأوصى بنا
By God, if we asked the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he withheld it, people will not give it to him after him. And by God, I will not ask the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, for it.
إنا والله لأن سألناها رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فمنعناها لا يعطيناها الناس بعده وإني والله لا أسألها رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
Give me this siwak, Abdul Rahman
أعطني هذا السواك يا عبد الرحمن
Shall I write for you a book after which you will never go astray?
هل أم أكتب لكم كتابا لن تضلوا بعده
Come to me and I will write for you a book after which you will never go astray
ائتوني أكتب لكم كتابا لن تضلوا بعده أبدا
Bring me a book and I will write for you a book after which you will never go astray
ائتوني بكتاب أكتب لكم كتابا لن تضلوا بعده أبدا
Leave me, for what I am in is better than what you are calling me to
دعوني فالذي أنا فيه خير مما تدعوني إلي
أخرجوا المشركين من جزيرة العرب وأجيزوا الوفدة بنحو ما كنت أجيزهم
He recommended the Book of God
أوصى بكتاب الله
O people, nothing remains of the glad tidings of prophecy except the righteous vision that the Muslim sees or sees for him. Indeed, I have been forbidden to recite the Qur’an while bowing or prostrating. As for bowing, glorify the Lord in it, and as for prostration, strive hard in your supplication, for it is certain that you will be answered.
أيها الناس إنه لم يبق من مبشرات النبوة إلا الرؤية الصالحة يراها المسلم أو ترى له ألا وإني نهيت أن أقرأ القرآن راكعا أو ساجدا فأما الركوع فعظّموا فيه الرب وأما السجود فاجتهدوا في الدعاء فقمن أن يستجاب لكم
O Aisha, I still feel the pain of the food that I ate in Khaybar. This is the time when I feel that my aorta has stopped from that poison
يا عائشة ما أزال أجد ألم الطعام الذي أكلت بخيبر فهذا أوان وجدت انقطاع أبهري من ذلك السم
May my father and mother be sacrificed, O Messenger of God. Do not accuse yourself, for I only accuse the food that was eaten with you in Khaybar
بأبي وأمي يا رسول الله ما تتهم بنفسك فإني لا أتهم إلا الطعام الذي أكل معك بخيبر
And I don't blame anyone else. This is the time for my aorta to stop
وأنا لا أتهم غيره هذا أوان انقطاع أبهري
The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, walked with me as he was dying in the pain in which he died, and I cried. Then he walked with me and told me that I would be the first of his family to follow him, and I laughed.
سارني النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه يقبض في وجعه الذي توفي فيه فبكيت ثم سارني فأخبرني أني أول أهله يتبعه فضحكت
As for what follows, the people are increasing in number and the supporters are few, until they are to the people like salt in food. So whoever of you is entrusted with something that harms some people and benefits others with it, let him accept the good of them and ignore the evil of them.
أما بعد فإن الناس يكثرون ويقل الأنصار حتى يكونوا في الناس بمنزلة الملح في الطعام فمن ولي منكم شيئا يضر فيه قوما وينفع فيه آخرين فليقبل عن محسنهم ويتجاوز عن مسيئهم
The people who trusted me with his companionship and wealth were Abu Bakr, and if I had taken a friend other than my Lord, I would have taken Abu Bakr, but the brotherhood and affection of Islam does not leave a door in the mosque except the door of Abu Bakr.
إن أمن الناس علي في صحبته وماله أبو بكر ولو كنت متخذا خليلا غير ربي لاتخذت أبا بكر ولكن أخوة الإسلام ومودته لا يبقين في المسجد باب إلا باب أبي بكر
If I had taken a friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr
لو كنت متخذا خليلا لاتخذت أبا بكر
I am not willing to go between you, and if you see us allowing me to be with Aisha, you will do so
إني لا أستقيع أن أدور بينكن فإن رأيتنا أن تأذن لي فأكون عند عائشة فعلتن
When the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, complained, he would recite to himself the exorcist and blow his nose. She said, “When his pain became severe, I would recite it to him and wipe it with his right hand, hoping for its blessing.”
إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كان إذا اشتكى يقرأ على نفسه بالمعوذات وينفث قالت فلم اشتد وجعه كنت أقرأ عليه وأمسح عليه بيمينه رجاء بركتها
Send me seven waterskins that were not sweetened, so that I may entrust them to the people
هريقوا علي من سبع قراب لم تحلى الأوكية هن لعلي أعهد إلى الناس
May the people you have become afflicted with. Trials have arrived like a strip of a dark night, the last of which follows the beginning. The afterlife is worse than the first. O Abu Muwayhibah, I have been given the keys to the treasures of this world and eternity therein, then Paradise, so I was given a choice between that and meeting my Lord and Paradise.
ليهنلكم ما أصبحتم فيه مما أصبح فيه الناس أقبلت الفتن كقطاع الليل المظلم يتبع آخرها أولها الآخرة شر من الأولى يا أبا مويهبة إني قد أعطيت مفاتيح خزائن الدنيا والخلد فيها ثم الجنة فخيرت بين ذلك وبين لقاء ربي والجنة
By God, Abu Muwayhiba, I have chosen to meet my Lord and Paradise
والله يا أبا مويهبة لقد اخترت لقاء ربي والجنة
O Messenger of God, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, so take the keys to the treasures of this world and eternity therein, then Paradise
يا رسول الله بأبي أنت وأمي فخذ مفاتيح خزائن الدنيا والخلد فيها ثم الجنة
O Muadh, you may not meet me after this year, or you may pass by this mosque of mine or my grave
يا معاذ إنك عسى ألا تلقاني بعد عامي هذا أو لعلك تمر بمسجدي هذا أو قبري
By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, one day will come upon one of you and he will not see me, and then because he sees me, he will be more beloved to him than his family and his wealth with them.
والذي نفس محمد بيده ليأتين على أحدكم يوم ولا يراني ثم لأن يراني أحب إليه من أهله وماله معهم
The purpose of the hadith is to urge them to attend his noble gathering, may God bless him and grant him peace
مقصود الحديث حثهم على ملازمة مجلسه الكريم صلى الله عليه وسلم
A servant, God gave him the choice between giving him the flower of the world and what he had, so he chose what he had
عبد خيره الله بين أن يؤتيه زهرة الدنيا وبين ما عنده فاختار ما عنده
We reward you with our fathers and mothers
فديناك بآبائنا وأمهاتنا
It is as if Abu Bakr understood the symbol indicated by the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, based on the context of his mention of that during his death illness, and he sensed from him that he wanted his soul, so he cried.
وكأن أبا بكر فهم الرمز الذي أشار به النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من قرينة ذكره لذلك في مرض موته فاستشعر منه أنه أراد نفسه فلذلك بكى
This was done by women who came from these people and referred to the land of Abyssinia
هذا فعل نساء جئن من هؤلاء وأشار إلى أرض الحبشة
This is a disease that God would not have inflicted on me. No one will remain in the house except Al-Tad
إن ذلك لداء ما كان الله ليقذفني به لا يبقين في البيت أحد إلا التد
Glory be to You, O God, and praise be to You I ask your forgiveness and repent to you
سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك
أستغفرك وأتوب إليك
Gabriel used to discuss the Qur’an with me every year He opposed me twice in the year I do not see him until my time has come
أن جبريلا كان يعارضني بالقرآن كل سنة
وإنه عارضني العام مرتين
ولا أراه إلا حضر أجلي
I may not see you after this year
لعلي لا أراكم بعد عامي هذا
I mourned the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, when it was revealed
نعيت لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم نفسه حين أنزلت
So they asked Sultan Suleiman for safety and handed over the country to him on the condition that they take out their women, children, and money and go wherever they want and that none of the soldiers attack them. The Sultan answered them with this after the ministers had lost their safety because they were the fall of the power of disbelief and because if they were saved with these treasures they would be able to strengthen themselves with them.
فطلبوا من السلطان سليمان الأمان وسلموا له البلاد على شرط أن يخرجوا نساءهم وأولادهم وأموالهم ويتوجهوا حيث شاءوا ولا يتعرض لهم أحد من الجند فأجابهم السلطان إلى ذلك بعد أن هاهو الوزراء عن أمانهم لأنهم سقوط قوة الكفر ولأنهم إذا نجوا بهذه الخزائن أمكنهم التقوي بها
He was described by numerous sheikhs, Sufyan al-Thawri, Abu Dawood al-Tayalisi, Yunus bin Muhammad al-Mu'addeb, Muhammad bin Yunus al-Kudaimi, and Abu Abdullah bin Mandah.
وقد وصف بالإكثار من الشيوخ سفيان الثوري وأبو داوود الطيالسي ويونس بن محمد المؤدب ومحمد بن يونس الكديمي وأبو عبد الله بن مندة
I wrote about six thousand sheikhs
كتبت عن ستة آلاف شيخ
It was a great lesson
كان درسا جليلا
How can I not present a man who knows the Qur’an and Sunnah?
كيف لا أقدم رجلا عارفا بالكتاب والسنة
He was unique in his knowledge of readings throughout the world and spread it in many countries, and it was his greatest art and the most exalted of what he had, as if God created him for that reason, so he singled him out for this art, since the legacy he left behind became the pillar of those who came after him in this noble knowledge.
وقد تفرد بعلم القراءات في جميع الدنيا ونشره في كثير من البلاد وكان أعظم فنونه وأجل ما عنده وكأن الله خلقه لذلك فخصه بهذا الفن إذ صار ما خلفه من تراث هو عمدة من جاء بعده في هذا العلم الشريف
God knows the truth, and if it is authentic that this gem was issued by a friend, then he is among those whom God has knowingly misled
والله أعلم بالحقيقة واذا صحى صدور تلك الكريمة عن صاحب فهو ممن أضله الله على علم
He memorized the Qur’an, Al-Shatibitain, Mukhtasar Ibn Al-Hajib Al-Fari’i, and Al-Taseel in grammar, and he learned it through Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Jiyani and Abu Al-Qasim Muhammad bin Al-Qasir, and he read Al-Tahtheeb by Abu Saeed Al-Barada’i, and according to him he learned jurisprudence, and he went to the council of the community judge, Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdul Salam, and benefited from it, and on him, and on Abu Abdullah Al-Wadi Yashi. He heard the hadith and wrote in his handwriting that he heard Sahih Al-Bukhari according to Abu Al-Barakat Al-Balqini, and some of it with approval, and Sahih Muslim on Al-Wadi Yashi, and he took it. The seven readings individually and collectively. Rather, he also read Khatma to Yaqoub on the authority of Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Saad bin Nazlin Al-Ansari, and he showed him the Shatibiyyah and Arabic on the authority of his father, Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Al-Arabi Al-Hasari, Abu Abdullah bin Bahr, Al-Maqri, Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Al-Shawas Al-Zawawi, Abu Abdullah bin Al-Qassar, and Lazim Al-Ala, Abu Abdullah Al-Ishbili, and he benefited from it. He also took from Abu Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Al-Hadrami and Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al-Abu. The one who taught the reasonable in Morocco and others and paid attention to literature and matters of writing and calligraphy. He took that from his father and others and was skilled in all of it. He memorized the Mu’allaqālāt, Hamas al-A’lām, the poetry of Habib ibn Aws, a piece of Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry, and Wat al-Zand by al-Ma’arri.
وحفظ القرآن والشاطبيتين ومختصر ابن الحاجب الفرعي والتسهيل في النحو وتفقه بأبي عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله الجياني وأبي القاسم محمد بن القصير وقرأ عليه التهذيب لأبي سعيد البراذعي وعليه تفقه وانتاب مجلس قاضي الجماعة أبي عبد الله محمد بن عبد السلام واستفاد منه وعليه وعلى أبي عبد الله الوادي ياشي سمع الحديث وكتب بخطه أنه سمع صحيح البخاري على أبي البركات البلقيني وبعضه بالإجازة والموضع على ابن عبد السلام وصحيح مسلم على الوادي ياشي وأخذ القراءات السبعة إفرادا وجمعا بل قرأ ختمة أيضا ليعقوب عن المكتب أبي عبد الله محمد بن سعد بن نزالن الأنصاري وعرض عليه الشاطبيتين والعربية عن والده وأبي عبد الله محمد بن العربي الحصاري وأبي عبد الله بن بحر والمقري أبي عبد الله محمد بن الشواس الزواوي وأبي عبد الله بن القصار ولازم العلاء أبا عبد الله الإشبيلي وانتفع به وكذا أخذ عن أبي محمد عبد المهيمين الحضرمي وأبي عبد الله محمد بن إبراهيم الأبو اللي شيخ المعقول بالمغرب وآخرين واعتنى بالأدب وأمور الكتابة والخط وأخذ ذلك عن أبيه وغيره ومهر في جميعه وحفظ المعلقات وحماسة الأعلم وشعر حبيب بن أوس وقطعة من شعر المتنبي وسقط الزند للمعري
He became attached to the royal servants and was assigned to write the scholar on behalf of the ruler of Tunisia. Then, in the year 53, he went to Fez and fell into the hands of its sultan, Abu Anan. Then he was examined and arrested for about two years. Then he was appointed to write the secret to Abu Salem, Abu Anan’s brother, and also looked into grievances. Then he entered Andalusia and came to Granada in the early spring of Rabi’ al-Awwal in the year sixty-four. His sultan, Ibn al-Ahmar, received him upon his arrival and organized him among the people of his council, and he was his messenger to the great Franks in Seville. So he glorified him, honored him, carried him, and carried out the task that he had been instructed to do. Then he went in the year 66 to Bejaia, and its owner delegated to him the management of his kingdom for a period. Then he moved to Tlemcen by summoning its owner and resided in the Arab Valley for a period. Then he went from Biskra to Fez, and plundered on the way. Its owner died before his arrival. However, he stayed there for two years, then headed to Andalusia, then returned to Tlemcen, where he stayed for four years. Then he traveled in Rajab in the year 80 to Tunisia, where he resided from During the month of Ramadan, he asked for permission to perform Hajj, and he was granted permission. He crossed the sea to Alexandria, then arrived at the Egyptian lands in Dhul-Qa’dah in the year eighty-four, so he performed Hajj. Then he returned to it, and its people met him and honored him and frequented him and frequented him. Rather, it was issued for reciters at Al-Azhar Mosque for a while, and he stayed with Al-Tanbugh Al-Jubani, so we took care of him until Al-Zahir Barq decided to teach him Al-Qamhiyya in Egypt. Then, the Malikis ruled in the Egyptian lands in the inanimate objects of the afterlife in the year 86, so he disguised himself for the people, so that none of the judges stood up for him. When they entered to greet him, along with his apology to those who blamed him in general, he killed many of the notables of the signatories and witnesses, and he began to be punished by slapping him and called him “pusher.” If he became angry with a person, he said, “punish him,” and he would be slapped until his neck became red.
وتعلق بالخدم السلطانية وولي كتابة العلامة عن صاحب تونس ثم توجه في سنة 53 إلى فاس فوقع بين يدي سلطانها أبي عنان ثم امتحنا واعتقل نحو عامين ثم ولي كتابة السر لأبي سالم أخي أبي عنان وكذا النظر في المظالم ثم دخل الأندلس فقدم غرناطة في أوائل ربيع الأول سنة أربع وستين وتلقاه سلطانه ابن الأحمر عند قدومه ونظمه في أهل مجلسه وكان رسوله إلى عظيم الفرنج بأشبيلية فعظمه وأكرمه وحمله وقام بالأمر الذي ندب إليه ثم توجه في سنة 66 إلى بجاية ففوض إليه صاحبها تدبير مملكته مدة ثم نزح إلى تلمسان باستدعاء صاحبها وأقام بواد العرب مدة ثم توجه من بسكرة إلى فاس فنهب في الطريق ومات صاحبها قبل قدومه ومع ذلك أقام بها قدر سنتين ثم توجه إلى الأندلس ثم رجع إلى تلمسان فأقام بها أربعة أعوام ثم ارتحل في رجب سنة 80 إلى تونس فأقام بها من شعبانها إلى أن استأذن في الحج فأذن له فاجتاز البحر إلى إسكندرية ثم قدمت ديار المصرية في ذي القعدة سنة أربع وثمانين فحج ثم عاد إليها وتلقاه أهلها وأكرموه وأكثروا ملازمته والتردد إليه بل تصدر للإقراء بجامع الأزهر مدة ولازم الطنبغ الجوباني فاعتنا به إلى أن قرره الظاهر برق في تدريس القمحية بمصر ثم قضاء المالكية بالديار المصرية في جماد الآخرة سنة 86 فتنكر للناس بحيث لم يقم لأحد من القضاة لما دخلوا للسلام عليه مع اعتذاره لمن عتبه عليه في الجملة وفتك في كثير من أعيان الموقعين والشهود وصار يعزر بالصفع ويسميه الزج فإذا غضب على إنسان قال زجوه فيصفع حتى تحمر رقبته
We used to consider the plan of judges to be the greatest of positions, but when this man assumed it, we counted it as the opposite
كنا نعد خطة القضاة أعظم المناصب فلما وليها هذا عددناها بالضد من ذلك
He wrote a large history in seven huge volumes in which he demonstrated his eloquence and ingenuity
وقد صنف تاريخا كبيرا في سبع مجلدات ضخمة أبان فيها عن فصاحة وبراعة
He has other writings other than prose and poetic compositions, which are like magic, the great history translated with lessons in the history of kings, nations, and barbarians, the foreground of which is all the sciences, and the tongues of classical language are clear from their argument, so they do not move or hover, and by my life, it is only one of the works whose titles are contrary to their content, such as Al-Aghani by Al-Isbahani, which he called Al-Aghani, and in it is of everything, and History by Al-Khatib, which he called the History of Baghdad, which is the history of the world, and Hilyat Al-Awliya’, by Abu Naim, who called it Hilyat Al-Awliya’. It contains many many things
وله من المؤلفات غير الإنشاءات النثرية والشعرية التي هي كالسحر التاريخ العظيم المترجم بالعبر في تاريخ الملوك والأمم والبربر حوت مقدمته جميع العلوم وجلت عن محجتها ألسنة الفصحى فلا تروح ولا تحوم ولعمري إن هو إلا من المصنفات التي سارت ألقابها بخلاف مضمونها كالأغاني للأصبهاني سماه الأغاني وفيه من كل شي والتاريخ للخطيب سماه تاريخ بغداد وهو تاريخ العالم وحلية الأولياء لأبي نعيم سماه حلية الأولياء وفيه أشياء جمة كثيرة
In this event, you will be defeated by the Tatars. The princes will say to him, “Say, God willing.” He will say, “God willing,” as an investigation, not a comment.
إنكم في هذه الكرة منصورون على التتار فيقول له الأمراء قل إن شاء الله فيقول إن شاء الله تحقيقا لا تعليقا
That is, whoever is punished with the same as what he was punished with, and then transgresses against him, God will surely grant him victory. Indeed, God is Most Pardoning, Most Forgiving
ذلك ومن عاقب بمثل ما عوقب به ثم بغي عليه لينصرنه الله إن الله لعفو غفور
These are of the same type as the Kharijites, and they believe that they are more worthy of the matter, and these claim that they are more deserving of establishing the truth than the Muslims, and they blame the Muslims for the sins and injustice they are red-handed while they are red-handed with something that is many times greater than it.
هؤلاء من جنس الخوارج ورأوا أنهم أحق بالأمر وهؤلاء يزعمون أنهم أحق بإقامة الحق من المسلمين ويعيبون على المسلمين ما هم متلبسون من المعاصي والظلم وهم متلبسون بما هو أعظم منه بأضعاف مضاعفة
If you see me from that side with a Qur’an on my head, kill me
إذا رأيتموني من ذلك الجانب وعلى رأسي مصحف فاقتلوني
Your Lord is amazed at the despair of His servants and the nearness of His care. He looks at you always in despair and continues to laugh, knowing that your relief is near.
عجب ربك من قنوط عباده وقرب غياره ينظر إليكم أزلين قنطين فيظل يضحك يعلم أن فرجكم قريب
You killed a soldier from my army, and I want his blood money to be one hundred thousand dinars
أنتم قتلتم جنديا من جيشي وأريد ديته مائة ألف دينار
They counted the Christians who were killed there, and they numbered more than forty thousand
وحصروا من قتل فيها من النصارا فكانوا فوق الأربعين ألفا
Humiliating to the believers, dear to the unbelievers
أذلة على المؤمنين أعزة على الكافرين
He converted to Islam three times
وا إسلاماه ثلاث مرات
Poetry calms anger, extinguishes the fire, informs the people, and gives relief to the beggar
الشعر يسكن به الغيظ وتطفأ به النائرة ويتبلغ القوم ويعطى به السائل
تعلم الشعر ففيه محاسن تبتغى