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tabarani:6939 – al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Rajāʾ b. Muḥammad b. Rajāʾ al-ʿAdawī > Shāhīn Abū Ḥāzim > Rawḥ b. ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Maymūnah from his father > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever is invited to the authority and does not respond, he is an oppressor with no right."  

الطبراني:٦٩٣٩ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا رَجَاءُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ رَجَاءٍ الْعَدَوِيُّ ثنا شَاهِينُ أَبُو حَازِمٍ ثنا رَوْحُ بْنُ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي مَيْمُونَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَنْ دُعِيَ إِلَى سُلْطَانٍ فَلَمْ يُجِبْ فَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لَا حَقَّ لَهُ»  

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bayhaqi:20485 – Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad > Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Dāwudī > Abū ʿAlī al-Luʾluʾī > Abū Dāwud > Muslim b. Ibrāhīm > Jaʿfar b. Ḥayyān > al-Ḥasan

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said, "Whoever is invited to a judgement by the rulers and does not respond, then he is a wrongdoer. This is a directive."  

البيهقي:٢٠٤٨٥ – وَفِيمَا أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثنا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ الدَّاوُدِيُّ ثنا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ اللُّؤْلُؤِيُّ ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ ثنا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثنا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ حَيَّانَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَنْ دُعِيَ إِلَى حَكَمٍ مِنَ الْحُكَّامِ فَلَمْ يُجِبْ فَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ هَذَا مُرْسَلٌ