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لا أرضى بهذا ولا أقدر على دفع من يدعوني به
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
O my people, whoever claims prophethood after Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, does he not claim the kingdom with Camphor? That is enough for you
يا قوم من ادعى النبوة بعد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أما يدعي المملكة مع كافور فحسبكم
كافور
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
This is more abundant and costs less, but it is done willingly by the one who gives it, because it is from nature, and this is from cost
هذه أجزل وفيها تكلف وتلك أقل ولكن عن طيب نفس من معطيها لأنها عن طبيعة وهذه عن تكلف
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
He is among the modern poets like Murru’ al-Qais among the ancients
وهو في الشعراء المحدثين كمرئ القيس في المتقدمين
ابن كثير
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
As for his poetry, it is at the end
وأما شعره فهو في النهاية
ابن خلكان
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
People are divided into classes regarding his poetry. Some of them give preference to Abu Tammam and those after him, and some of them give preference to Abu Tammam over him.
والناس في شعره على طبقات فمنهم من يرجحه على أبي تمام ومن بعده ومنهم من يرجح أبا تمام عليه
ابن خلكان
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
The pomegranates of eternity are filled with arrows until my heart is covered with arrows, so when I am hit by arrows, the blades break upon the blades.
رمان الدهر بالأرزاء حتى فؤادي في غشاء من نبالي فصرت إذا أصابتني سهام تكسرت النصال على النصال
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
In a crowd, the eyes will see dust, as if they were seeing with the ears
في جحفل سترى العيون غباره فكأنما يبصرن بالآذان
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
And when I contemplated his poetry with a modified eye far from whims and an eye of knowledge that its owner had never gone astray or gone astray, I found it divided into five categories: five for the purpose for which he was unique, five for good poetry in which he was equal to others, five for average poetry, five for less than that, and five for the retreating purpose that he did not care about. Its absence is better than its presence, and if Abu al-Tayyib had not said it, may God protect him from its evil, for it was she who dressed him in the guise of a blamer and made his width a badge for the arrows of the peoples.
ولما تأملت شعره بعين المعدلة البعيدة عن الهوى وعين المعرفة التي ما ضل صاحبها وما غوى وجدته أقساما خمسة خمس في الغاية التي انفرد بها دون غيره وخمس من جيد الشعر الذي يساويه فيه غيره وخمس من متوسط الشعر وخمس دون ذلك وخمس في الغاية المتقهقرة التي لا يعبأ بها وعدمها خير من وجودها ولو لم يقلها أبو الطيب لوقاه الله شرها فإنها هي التي ألبسته لباس الملام واجعلت عرضه شارة لسهام الأقوام
ابن الأثير · مثله السائر
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
This is more abundant and costs less, but it is done willingly by the one who gives it, because it is from nature, and this is from cost
هذه أجزل وفيها تكلف وتلك أقل لكن عن طيب نفس من معطيها لأنها عن طبيعة وهذه عن تكلف
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
Did you come to lunch, oh Arab faces?
هل أموا يا وجوه العرب إلى الغداء
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
The horses, the night, and the desert know me, as do the sword, the spear, the paper, and the pen
الخيل والليل والبيداء تعرفني والسيف والرمح والقرطاس والقلم
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
Woe to you, you killed me
ويحك قتلتني
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
Even if life remains alive, we will count the brave astray, and if death is not necessary, then it is impossible to be a coward.
ولو أن الحياة تبقى لحي لعددنا أضلنا الشجعان وأذا لم يكن من الموت بد فمن العجز أن تكون جبانا
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
The most unjust people are those who become envious of those who spend the night in their bliss
وأظلم أهل الظلم من بات حاسدا لمن بات في نعمائه يتقلب
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
I did not see anything in people's faults like the lack of those capable of perfection
ولم أر في عيوب الناس شيئا كنقص القادرين على التمامي
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
The wise man is miserable in bliss with his mind, and the brother of ignorance enjoys happiness in misery
ذو العقل يشقى في النعيم بعقله وأخ الجهالة في الشقاوة ينعمو
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
The dearest place in the world is a swimming saddle, and the best companion in time is a book
أعز مكان في الدنا سرج سابح وخير جليس في الزمان كتاب
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
One of the hardships of this world for a free person is to see his enemy as having no friendship
ومن نكد الدنيا على الحر أن يرى عدوا له ما من صداقته بد
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
If you venture in the honor of Maromi, do not be satisfied with what is less than the stars, for the taste of death in a lowly matter is the same as the taste of death in a great matter
إذا غامرت في شرف مرومي فلا تقنع بما دون النجوم فطعم الموت في أمر حقير كطعم الموت في أمر عظيم
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
I am in need of you. You looked at me, insulted me, and threw me out of my mind. I am not to blame. I am to blame for placing my hopes in someone other than my Creator.
أبعين مفتقر إليك نظرتني فأهنتني وقذفتني من حالقي لست الملوم أنا الملوم لأنني أنزلت آمالي بغير الخالقي
المتنبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (24) | The death of the great poet Ahmed bin Al-Hussein (Al-Mutanabbi)
It is We who revive the dead and write down what they came forward and their traces
إنا نحن نحيي الموتى ونكتب ما قدموا وآثارهم
القرآن الكريم · سورة يس
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
If a person dies, his work ceases, except for three: ongoing charity, beneficial knowledge, or a righteous child who prays for him.
إذا مات الإنسان إنقطع عنه عمله إلا من ثلاثة إلا من صدقة جارية أو علم ينتفع به أو ولد صالح يدعو له
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم · عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
I have never seen anyone among the worshipers more diligent than Al-Muzani, nor have I seen anyone more diligent in worship than him, nor have I seen anyone with greater reverence for knowledge and its people than him.
ما رأيت أحدا من المتعبدين في كثرة من لقيت منهم أشد اجتهادا من المزني ولا أدوم على العبادة منه وما رأيت أحدا أشد تعظيما للعلم وأهله منه
عمر بن عثمان المكي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
I am one of the morals of Al-Shafi’i
أنا خلق من أخلاق الشافعي
الإمام المزني
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
Al-Muzani’s summary emerges from the world as a virgin who did not have sexual intercourse, and it is the origin of the books compiled in the doctrine of Al-Shafi’i, may God be pleased with him. According to his example, they arranged and explained his words.
يخرج مختصر المزني من الدنيا عذراء لم تفض وهو أصل الكتب المصنفة في مذهب الشافعي رضي الله عنه وعلى مثاله رتبوا ولكلامه فسروا وشرحوا
أبو العباس أحمد بن سريج
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
The country was filled with his summary of jurisprudence, and many of the greats explained it, so much so that it is said that the firstborn had a copy of Al-Muzani’s summary in her system.
وامتلأت البلاد بمختصره في الفق وشرحه عدة من الكبار بحيث يقال كانت البكر يكون في جهازها نسخة بمختصر المزني
الذهبي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
I never put a hadith in the Book of Sahih except that I washed myself before that and prayed two rak’ahs
ما وضعت في كتاب الصحيح حديثا إلا اغتسلت قبل ذلك وصليت ركعتين
محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري · عن الفربري
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
I did not include a hadith in the Sahih except after I sought guidance from God Almighty and was certain of its authenticity
ما أدخلت في الصحيح حديثا إلا بعد أن استخرت الله تعالى وتيقنت صحة
محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري · عن الفربري
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (23) | The death of Imam Al-Mazni
Your father memorized a thousand hadiths
أبوك يحفظ ألف ألف حديث
أبو زرع
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
Take any book, if you wish, from all the books of the author. If you wish, you can ask me about the speech so that I can tell you the chain of transmission, and if you want the chain of transmission so that I can tell you the speech.
خذ أي كتاب إن شئت من كتب وكيع من المصنف فإن شئت أن تسألني عن الكلام حتى أخبرك بالإسناد وإن شئت بالإسناد حتى أخبرك أنا بالكلام
أحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
I never wrote a hadith except that I acted on it until it happened to me that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, cupped and gave Abu Taybah a fire, so I cupped him and gave the cupping a fire.
ما كتبت حديثا إلا وقد عملت به حتى مر بي أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم احتجم وأعطى أبا طيبة دي نارا فاحتجمته وأعطيت الحجام دي نارا
أحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
I have never seen anyone more knowledgeable or pious than him
ما رأيت أفقها منه ولا أورع
عبد الرزاق
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
If we sat in a group praising him, we would not mention his virtues in their fullness
لو جلسنا مجلسا بالثناء عليه ما ذكرنا فضائله بكمالها
يحيى بن معين
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
I left Baghdad and did not leave behind a man better, more knowledgeable, more knowledgeable, and more pious than Ahmad ibn Hanbal
خرجت من بغداد فما خلفت بها رجلا أفضل ولا أعلم ولا أفقها ولا أتقى من أحمد بن حنبل
الشافعي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
O Ahmed, answer me this so that I may make you one of my people and among those who step on my carpet. Then Ahmed says, O Commander of the Faithful, they bring me a verse from the Book of God that they took a year from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, so that I can answer them to it.
يا أحمد أجبني إلى هذا حتى أجعلك من خاصتي ومن من يطأ بساطي فيقول أحمد يا أمير المؤمنين يأتوني بآية من كتاب الله أخذوا سنة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حتى أجيبهم إليها
المعتصم وأحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
There was no one among the people who disbelieved me more severely than them
لم يكن في القوم أشد تكفير لي منهما
أحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
No, O Commander of the Faithful, do not do so. If he is killed or dies in your house, the people say, “He was patient until he was killed,” so the people took him as an imam and remained steadfast in what they were upon. But release him at the hour, and if he dies outside of your house, the people will doubt his matter.
لا يا أمير المؤمنين لا تفعل فإنه إن قتل أو مات في دارك قال الناس صبر حتى قتل فاتخذه الناس إماما وثبتوا على ما هم عليه ولكن أطلقه الساعة فإن مات خارجا من منزلك شك الناس في أمره
ابن أبي دؤاد
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
So I was released, and I only felt that I was in a room of a house and the chains had been released from my legs
فأطلقت ولم أشعر إلا وأنا في حجرة من بيت وقد أطلقت الأقياد من رجلي
أحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
He is free from hitting me
هو في حل من ضربي
أحمد بن حنبل · رواه أحمد بن سنان
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
It will not benefit you if God tortures your Muslim brother because of your insults
وما ينفعك أن يعذب الله أخاك المسلم في سبابك
أحمد بن حنبل · قال أبو عبد الله
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
She has completed seventy-seven years and entered eight
استكملت سبعا وسبعين سنة ودخلت في ثمان
أحمد بن حنبل · رواه ابنه عبد الله
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (22) | Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal released from prison
Nations are about to call upon you from every horizon, just as eaters call upon their bowl. He said: We said, O Messenger of God, that our few will be safe on that day. He said: On that day you will be many, but you will be scum like the scum of a torrent. Fear will be removed from the hearts of your enemy, and weakness will be placed in your hearts. He said: We said, “What is weakness?” He said: “Love of life and hatred of death.”
يوشك أن تداعى عليكم الأمم من كل أفق كما تداع الأكلة على قصعتها قال قلنا يا رسول الله أمن قلة بنا يومئذ قال أنتم يومئذ كثير ولكن تكونون غثاء كغثاء السيل تنتزع المهابة من قلوب عدوكم ويجعل في قلوبكم الوهن قال قلنا وما الوهن قال حب الحياة وكراهية الموت
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم · حديث ثوبان مولى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (21) | Opening the city of Amoria
O zeal of God, I have suffered, so avenge your assault on women, and they are not the ones who committed it. The men attacked her for her crimes. She killed her. What about her children by slaughtering? You will be plundered.
يا غيرة الله قد عانيت فانتقم هتك النساء وما من هن يرتكبوا هب الرجال على أجرامها قتلت ما بال أطفالها بالذبح تنتهبوا
إبراهيم بن المهدي
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (21) | Opening the city of Amoria
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the answer is what you see, not what you read, and the infidels will know who is behind the house
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الجواب ما تراه لا ما تقرأه وسيعلم الكفار لمن عقب الدار
المعتصم بالله · الرد على كتاب ملك الروم
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (21) | Opening the city of Amoria
Here you are, here you are
لبيك لبيك
المعتصم بالله · استجابة لاستغاثة المرأة الهاشمية
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (21) | Opening the city of Amoria
There was no one in his time who sought knowledge from him. He collected a great matter. No one was less in error than him. He was a man who had memorized hadith.
لم يكن في زمانه أطلب للعلم منه جمع أمرا عظيما ما كان أحد أقل سقطا منه كان رجلا صاحب حديث حافظ
أحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
I carried knowledge on behalf of four thousand sheikhs, and I inherited knowledge on behalf of a thousand sheikhs
حملت العلم عن أربعة آلاف الشيخ فرويت عن ألف الشيخ
ابن المبارك
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
أجمع العلماء على قبوله وجلالته وإمامته وعدله
أبو عمر بن عبد البر
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
كان عبد الله رحمه الله كيسا مستثبتا ثقه وكان عالما صحيح الحديث وكانت كتبه التي يحدث بها عشرين ألفا أو واحدا وعشرين ألفا
ابن معيم
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
عجبت لمن لم يطل بالعلم كيف تدعوه نفسه إلى مكرمة
ابن المبارك
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
I sit with the Companions and Followers and look at their books and traces, so what should I do with you when you backbite people?
أجلس مع الصحابة والتابعين أنظر في كتبهم وآثارهم فما أصنع معكم أنتم تغتابون الناس
ابن المبارك
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
I have never seen anyone more wise than Ibn al-Mubarak or more diligent in worship
ما رأيت أعقل من ابن المبارك ولا أكثر اجتهادا في العبادة
نعيم بن حماد
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
I borrowed a pen in the land of the Levant, so I went to return it. When I came, I looked and saw that it was with me, so I returned to the Levant until I returned it to its owner.
استعرت قلما بأرض الشام فذهبت على أن أرده فلما قدمت مر نظرت فإذا هو معي فرجعت إلى الشام حتى رددته على صاحبه
ابن المبارك
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
This, by God, is the king, not the king of Aaron, who does not bring people together except with conditions and helpers
هذا والله الملك لا ملك هارون الذي لا يجمع الناس إلا بشرط وأعوان
أم ولد لأمير المؤمنين
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
If the crops have expired, then life has also expired, so I reward him for what I have previously said
إن كانت الغلات قد فنيت فإن العمر أيضاً قد فني فأجز له ما سبق به قلمي
ابن المبارك
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
And you, Abu Omar, are among those who slander us
وأنت يا أبا عمر ممن يشنع علينا
ابن المبارك
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
There is no one on the face of the earth like Ibn Al-Mubarak, and I do not know that God created one of the good qualities except that He placed it in Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak.
ما على وجه الأرض مثل ابن المبارك ولا أعلم أن الله خلق خصلة من خصال الخير إلا وقد جعلها في عبد الله بن المبارك
إسماعيل بن عياش
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (20) | The death of Imam Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak
My son, he was like the sun to the world and like well-being to people. Does she have two successors or a substitute for them?
يا بني كان كالشمس للدنيا وكالعافية للناس فهل لها ذين من خلف أو منهما عوض
أحمد بن حنبل
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (19) | The death of Imam Al-Zuhri
God does not seize knowledge by snatching it from the servants, but He seizes knowledge by seizing the scholars, until when there are no scholars left, people take ignorant people as their leaders, and issue fatwas without knowledge, and they go astray.
إن الله لا يقبض العلم انتزاعا ينتزعه من العباد ولكن يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء حتى إذا لم يبق عالماء اتخذ الناس رؤوسا جهالا فأفتوا بغير علم فضلوا وأضلوا
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
▶ Ramadan events and lessons | Episode (19) | The death of Imam Al-Zuhri