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tabarani:18529 – Aḥmad b. Dāwud al-Makkī > ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Najdah al-Ḥawṭī > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Ṣadaqah b. Yazīd > b. Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ from her father

[Machine] I said, "O Messenger of Allah, is a person who loves his people a nationalist?" He said, "No." I asked, "Then who is a nationalist?" He said, "The one who aids his people in wrongdoing."

الطبراني:١٨٥٢٩ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْمَكِّيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ الْحَوْطِيُّ ثنا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ صَدَقَةَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَتْنِي بِنْتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ عَنْ أَبِيهَا قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ الرَّجُلُ يُحِبُّ قَوْمَهُ أَعَصِبِيٌّ هُوَ؟ قَالَ «لَا» قُلْتُ مَنَ الْعَصَبِيُّ؟ قَالَ «الَّذِي يُعِينُ قَوْمَهُ عَلَى الظُّلْمِ»

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ahmad:17472 – Ziyād b. al-Rabīʿ > ʿAbbād b. Kathīr al-Shāmī from Ahl Filasṭīn > Āmraʾah Minhum Yuqāl Lahā Fusaylah from my father

“I asked the Prophet ﷺ: ‘O Messenger of Allah, is it tribalism if a man loves his people?’ He said: ‘No, rather tribalism is when a man helps his people to do wrong.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3949)

أحمد:١٧٤٧٢ – حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ الشَّامِيُّ مِنْ أَهْلِ فِلَسْطِينَ عَنْ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْهُمْ يُقَالُ لَهَا فُسَيْلَةُ قَالَتْ

سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَمِنَ الْعَصَبِيَّةِ أَنْ يُحِبَّ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ؟ قَالَ لَا وَلَكِنْ مِنَ الْعَصَبِيَّةِ أَنْ يُعِينَ الرَّجُلُ قَوْمَهُ عَلَى الظُّلْمِ