بَابٌ فِي فَضِيلَةِ صُحْبَةِ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ وَمُخَالَطَتِهِمْ

37. The Virtue of Befriending Muslims and Mingling with Them

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٥٣ - أَخْبَرَنَا ٱلْحَاكِمُ أَبُو عَبْدِ ٱللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْحَافِظُ ﵀، ثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللَّهِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ ٱلْخُرَسَانِيُّ ٱلْعَدْلُ بِبَغْدَادَ، أَنْبَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ نَاصِحٍ، ثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ٱلثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنِ ٱلْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنُ وَثَّابٍ، عَنِ ٱبْنِ عُمَرَ عَنِ ٱلنَّبِيِّ ﵌ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: «ٱلْمُؤْمِنُ ٱلَّذِي يُخَالِطُ ٱلنَّاسَ وَيَصْبِرُ عَلَى أَذَاهُمْ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِ ٱلَّذِي لَا يُخَالِطُ ٱلنَّاسَ وَلَا يَصْبِرُ عَلَى أَذَاهُمْ.»
Hadith 53: Al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ – may Allah have mercy on him – informed us: Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Khurāsānī al-ʿAdl narrated to us in Baghdad: Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Nāṣiḥ informed us: Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us: Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated to us, on the authority of al-Aʿmash, on the authority of Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb, on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, on the authority of the Prophet – may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace – that he said: “The believer who mingles with people and endures their harm is greater in reward than the believer who does not mingle with them or endure their harm.”