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tabarani:8842 – Ibrāhīm b. Nāʾilah al-Aṣbahānī > Ismāʿīl b. ʿAmr al-Bajalī > Misʿar b. Kidām > ʿAbd al-Malik b. Maysarah > al-Nazzāl b. Sabrah > Lammā Āstukhlif ʿUthmān

[Machine] When Uthman was appointed, Abdullah bin Masud said, "He has entrusted us to someone better than himself, yet we have not received [what we had hoped for]."  

الطبراني:٨٨٤٢ – حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَائِلَةَ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَمْرِو الْبَجَلِيُّ ثنا مِسْعَرُ بْنُ كِدَامٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ عَنِ النَّزَّالِ بْنِ سَبْرَةَ قَالَ

لَمَّا اسْتُخْلِفَ عُثْمَانُ ؓ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ «أَمَّرْنَا خَيْرَ مَنْ بَقِيَ وَلَمْ نَأْلُ»  

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tabarani:8843 – Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī > Asad b. Mūsá > Abū Yaḥyá al-Ḥimmānī > Misʿar > ʿAbd al-Malik b. Maysarah > al-Nazzāl b. Sabrah > Lammā Āstukhlif ʿUthmān

[Machine] Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said, "We have been commanded to do good for as long as we exist, and not to demand."  

الطبراني:٨٨٤٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ ثنا أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا أَبُو يَحْيَى الْحِمَّانِيُّ عَنْ مِسْعَرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ عَنِ النَّزَّالِ بْنِ سَبْرَةَ قَالَ لَمَّا اسْتُخْلِفَ عُثْمَانُ قَالَ

عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ «أَمَّرْنَا خَيْرَ مَنْ بَقِيَ وَلَمْ نَأْلُ»  

suyuti:430-224b – Ibn Masʿūd Rḍy Allāh > h > Lammā
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السيوطي:٤٣٠-٢٢٤b –

"عَنِ ابنِ مَسْعُودٍ - ؓ - أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَمَّا اسْتُخْلِفَ عُمَرُ (*) أُمِّرْنَا خَيرَ من بقى ولما قال".  

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