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tabarani:8888 – Abū Muslim al-Kashhī > ʿAbdullāh b. Rajāʾ > al-Masʿūdī > ʿAwn

[Machine] "I said to Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, Ibn Mas'ud used to say, 'Indeed, these matters will be ambiguous, so whoever is pleased with them, despite being absent from them, is like the one who witnessed them. And whoever dislikes them, despite having witnessed them, is like the one who was absent from them. This is truly astonishing.'"  

الطبراني:٨٨٨٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْلِمٍ الْكَشِّيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ رَجَاءَ أَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ عَوْنٍ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لِعُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ إِنَّ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ كَانَ يَقُولُ «إِنَّهَا سَتَكُونُ أُمُورٌ مُشْتَبِهَةٌ فَمَنْ رَضِيَهَا مِمَّنَ غَابَ عَنْهَا فَهُوَ كَمَنْ شَهِدَهَا وَمَنْ كَرِهَهَا مِمَّنْ شَهِدَهَا فَهُوَ كَمَنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا فَأَعْجَبَهُ»  

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bayhaqi:14552 – Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān> Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmrawayh > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣaghānī > Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad > Shaybān > Ashʿab b. Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ > al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd a freed slave of ʿAlī > ʿAbdullāh or ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿUmayr > Yazīd b. al-Ḥārith > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] I heard Ibn Mas'ud saying, "If a sin is committed among the people, whoever is content with it as if he is absent from it, it is as if he witnessed it. And whoever dislikes it as if he witnessed it, it is as if he is absent from it." And this was narrated from another source in an elevated manner.  

البيهقي:١٤٥٥٢ – وَقَدْ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ بِبَغْدَادَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرَوَيْهِ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّ ثنا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثنا شَيْبَانُ عَنْ أَشْعَبَ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ قَالَ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ مَوْلَى عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ أَوْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ يَقُولُ إِذَا عُمِلَتْ فِي النَّاسِ خَطِيئَةٌ فَمَنْ رَضِيَهَا مِمَّنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا فَهُوَ كَمَنْ شَهِدَهَا وَمَنْ كَرِهَهَا مِمَّنْ شَهِدَهَا فَهُوَ كَمَنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا وَرُوِيَ هَذَا مِنْ وَجْهٍ آخَرَ مَرْفُوعًا  

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السيوطي:٤٣٠-١٥١b –

"عَنِ ابْنِ مسْعُودٍ قَالَ: سَتَكُونُ أُمُورٌ فَمَنْ رَضِيهَا مِمَّنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا كَانَ كمَنْ شَهِدَهَا وَمَنْ كَرهَهَا مِمَّنْ شَهِدَها فَهُوَ كمَنْ غَابَ عَنْهَا".  

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