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malik:20-82Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab Yuḥaddith > Abū Hurayrah

Yahya related to me from Malik, from Yahya ibn Said, that he heard Said ibn al-Musayyab relating from Abu Hurayra that he was once coming back from Bahrayn, and, when he reached ar-Rabadha, he found a caravan of people from Iraq in ihram, who asked him whether they could eat the meat of some game which they had found with the people of ar- Rabadha, and he told them they could eat it. He said, "Afterwards I had doubts about what I had told them to do, so when I got back to Madina I mentioned the matter to Umar ibn al-Khattab and he said, 'What did you tell them to do?' I said, ' I told them to eat it.' Umar ibn al-Khattab said, threatening me, 'If you had told them to do anything else I would have done something to you.' "  

مالك:٢٠-٨٢وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّهُ أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ بِالرَّبَذَةِ وَجَدَ رَكْبًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِرَاقِ مُحْرِمِينَ فَسَأَلُوهُ عَنْ لَحْمِ صَيْدٍ وَجَدُوهُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الرَّبَذَةِ فَأَمَرَهُمْ بِأَكْلِهِ قَالَ ثُمَّ إِنِّي شَكَكْتُ فِيمَا أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ ذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِعُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ مَاذَا أَمَرْتَهُمْ بِهِ فَقَالَ أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِأَكْلِهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ لَوْ أَمَرْتَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ لَفَعَلْتُ بِكَ يَتَوَاعَدُهُ  


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bayhaqi:18983Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Ḥāfiẓ > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb > Jaʿfar b. ʿAwn > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Abū Hurayrah > Aqbalt

[Machine] "I arrived from Bahrain until I reached al-Rabadha, when some people from Iraq, who were forbidden from hunting, asked me about buying and eating a floating fish they found on the water. I instructed them to buy it and eat it, even though they were forbidden. Then I arrived in Madinah and doubt crept into my heart about what I had instructed them. So, I mentioned this to Umar ibn al-Khattab, and he asked me, 'What did you instruct them?' I replied, 'I instructed them to buy it and eat it.' He said, 'If you had instructed them otherwise, you would have done wrong, as if you had deceived them.'"  

البيهقي:١٨٩٨٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا يَحْيَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى أنبأ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الْحَافِظُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ أنبأ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ أنبأ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

أَقْبَلْتُ مِنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ حَتَّى إِذَا كُنْتُ بِالرَّبَذَةِ سَأَلَنِي نَاسٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِرَاقِ وَهُمْ مُحْرِمُونَ عَنْ صَيْدٍ وَجَدُوهُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ طَافٍ فَسَأَلُونِي عَنِ اشْتِرَائِهِ وَأَكْلِهِ فَأَمَرْتُهُمْ أَنْ يَشْتَرُوهُ وَيَأْكُلُوهُ وَهُمْ مُحْرِمُونَ ثُمَّ قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَكَأَنَّهُ وَقَعَ فِي قَلْبِي شَكٌّ مِمَّا أَمَرْتُهُمْ فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِعُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ فَقَالَ وَمَا أَمَرْتَهُمْ بِهِ؟ قَالَ أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ أَنْ يَشْتَرُوهُ وَيَأْكُلُوهُ قَالَ لَوْ أَمَرْتَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ لَفَعَلْتُ أَيْ كَأَنَّهُ تَوَعَّدَهُ