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مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد
Majma' al-Zawa'id
كتاب المناقب
Book of Virtues
بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي فَضْلِ الشَّامِ .
Reports on the virtue of Syria
Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 16649
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وَعَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - : " تَجَنَّدَ النَّاسُ أَجْنَادًا ، جُنْدٌ بِالْيَمَنِ ، وَجُنْدٌ بِالشَّامِ ، وَجُنْدٌ بِالْمَشْرِقِ ، وَجُنْدٌ بِالْمَغْرِبِ " . فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ : مَرْحَبًا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ، خِرْ لِي ، فَإِنِّي فَتًى شَابٌّ ، فَلَعَلِّي أُدْرِكُ ذَلِكَ ، فَأَيُّ ذَلِكَ تَأْمُرُنِي ؟ فَقَالَ : " عَلَيْكَ بِالشَّامِ " . رَوَاهُ الطَّبَرَانِيُّ فِي الْكَبِيرِ مِنْ طَرِيقَيْنِ ، وَفِيهِمَا الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ وَفِيهِ خِلَافٌ ، وَبَقِيَّةُ رِجَالِ أَحَدِ الطَّرِيقَيْنِ رِجَالُ الصَّحِيحِ .
Sayyiduna Wathilah bin al-Asqa' (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "People will be divided into various groups: an army in Yemen, an army in Syria (al-Sham), an army in the East and an army in the West." A man said: "Welcome to you, O Messenger of Allah! Make a choice for me (that is, recommend something), for I am a young man and I may live to see such a situation; so what do you instruct me to do in that case?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You must go to Syria." Al-Tabarani recorded this report in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir through two routes; both contain a narrator, al-Mughirah bin Ziyad, about whom there is disagreement. The remaining narrators of one of the two routes are the narrators of the Sahih.
