52. Witnesses

٥٢۔ كتاب الشهادات

52.5 The just witnesses

٥٢۔٥ بَابُ الشُّهَدَاءِ الْعُدُولِ

[Machine] And the saying of Allah Almighty: "And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women from among those whom you accept as witnesses."

وَقَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: {وَأَشْهِدُوا ذَوَيْ عَدْلٍ مِنْكُمْ} وَ{مِمَّنْ تَرْضَوْنَ مِنَ الشُّهَدَاءِ}.

bukhari:2641al-Ḥakam b. Nāfiʿ > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

People were (sometimes) judged by the revealing of a Divine Inspiration during the lifetime of Allah's Apostle but now there is no longer any more (new revelation). Now we judge you by the deeds you practice publicly, so we will trust and favor the one who does good deeds in front of us, and we will not call him to account about what he is really doing in secret, for Allah will judge him for that; but we will not trust or believe the one who presents to us with an evil deed even if he claims that his intentions were good.  

البخاري:٢٦٤١حَدَّثَنَا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُتْبَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ يَقُولُ إِنَّ أُنَاسًا كَانُوا يُؤْخَذُونَ بِالْوَحْىِ فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَإِنَّ الْوَحْىَ قَدِ انْقَطَعَ وَإِنَّمَا نَأْخُذُكُمُ الآنَ بِمَا ظَهَرَ لَنَا مِنْ أَعْمَالِكُمْ فَمَنْ أَظْهَرَ لَنَا خَيْرًا أَمِنَّاهُ وَقَرَّبْنَاهُ وَلَيْسَ إِلَيْنَا مِنْ سَرِيرَتِهِ شَىْءٌ اللَّهُ يُحَاسِبُهُ فِي سَرِيرَتِهِ وَمَنْ أَظْهَرَ لَنَا سُوءًا لَمْ نَأْمَنْهُ وَلَمْ نُصَدِّقْهُ وَإِنْ قَالَ إِنَّ سَرِيرَتَهُ حَسَنَةٌ