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bayhaqi:20250 – Abū ʿAwānah > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá Kamā > Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī > Abū al-Naṣr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Faqīh > Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Wāsiṭī > Yaḥyá b. Ḥammād al-Ḥannāṭ > Abū ʿAwānah > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá al-Thaʿlabī > Bilāl b. Mirdās al-Fazārī > Khaythamah > Anas

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever seeks justice and seeks intercession for it, it is entrusted to himself. And whoever is forced to it, Allah sends down an angel to guide him." Abu `Isa At-Tirmidhi said, according to what I have heard, this is a good and strange hadith, and it is more authentic than the hadith of Israel from Abdullah Ibn Athla.  

البيهقي:٢٠٢٥٠ – وَرُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى كَمَا أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْعَلَوِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو النَّصْرِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الْفَقِيهُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الْوَاسِطِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَمَّادٍ الْحَنَّاطُ ثنا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى الثَّعْلَبِيِّ عَنْ بِلَالِ بْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ الْفَزَارِيِّ عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنِ ابْتَغَى الْقَضَاءَ وَسَأَلَ عَلَيْهِ الشُّفَعَاءَ وُكِلَ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ أُكْرِهَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْزَلَ اللهُ عَلَيْهِ ﷻ مَلَكًا يُسَدِّدُهُ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى التِّرْمِذِيُّ فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي عَنْهُ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَهُوَ أَصَحُّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى  

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tirmidhi:1324 – ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Yaḥyá b. Ḥammād > Abū ʿAwānah > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá al-Thaʿlabī > Bilāl b. Mirdās al-Fazārī > Khaythamah / al-Baṣrī > Anas

"Whoever seeks to be a judge, and asks others to intercede for him with it, then he will be left on his own. And whoever is coerced into it, Allah sends an angel down to him so that he can be correct." (Daif)  

الترمذي:١٣٢٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَخْبَرَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى الثَّعْلَبِيِّ عَنْ بِلاَلِ بْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ الْفَزَارِيِّ عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ وَهُوَ الْبَصْرِيُّ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنِ ابْتَغَى الْقَضَاءَ وَسَأَلَ فِيهِ شُفَعَاءَ وُكِلَ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ أُكْرِهَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ مَلَكًا يُسَدِّدُهُ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَهُوَ أَصَحُّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى