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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:25171a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:٢٥١٧١a –

"لا تَقْضِيَنَّ وَلا تَفْصِلَنَّ إِلا بِمَا تَعْلَمُ، وَإِنْ أشكَلَ عَلَيْكَ أمْرٌ فَقِفْ حَتَّى تَبيّنَه أوْ تَكْتُبَ إِلَىَّ فِيهِ".

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ibnmajah:55 – al-Ḥasan b. Ḥammād Sajjādah > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Amawī > Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. Ḥassān > ʿUbādah b. Nusa > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ghanm > Muʿādh b. Jabal

"When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me to Yemen, he said: 'Do not pass any judgment or make any decision except on the basis of what you know. If you are uncertain about a matter, wait until you understand it fully, or write to me concerning it.'" (Maudu')

ابن ماجة:٥٥ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ سَجَّادَةُ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الأَمَوِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ نُسَىٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ غَنْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ قَالَ

لَمَّا بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ قَالَ لاَ تَقْضِيَنَّ وَلاَ تَفْصِلَنَّ إِلاَّ بِمَا تَعْلَمُ فَإِنْ أَشْكَلَ عَلَيْكَ أَمْرٌ فَقِفْ حَتَّى تُبَيِّنَهُ أَوْ تَكْتُبَ إِلَىَّ فِيهِ