مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب المناقب
The Book of Merits
(أَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ هَاجَرَ إِلَى الشَّامِ)
(The best of people is the one who migrates to Sham)
Hadith 6275
وَعَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّهَا سَتَكُونُ هِجْرَةٌ بَعْدَ هِجْرَةٍ فَخِيَارُ النَّاسِ إِلَى مُهَاجَرِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ» . وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ: «فَخِيَارُ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ أَلْزَمُهُمْ مُهَاجَرَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَيَبْقَى فِي الْأَرْضِ شِرَارُ أَهْلِهَا تَلْفِظُهُمْ أَرَضُوهُمْ تَقْذَرُهُمْ نَفْسُ الله تَحْشُرهُمْ النَّارُ مَعَ الْقِرَدَةِ وَالْخَنَازِيرِ تَبِيتُ مَعَهُمْ إِذَا بَاتُوا وَتَقِيلُ مَعَهُمْ إِذَا قَالُوا» . رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
`Abdallah b. `Amr b. al-`As told that he heard God's messenger say, "There will be emigration after emigration, and the people who are best will be those who go to the places to which Abraham emigrated." A version has "The best people on the earth are those who cleave most closely to the places to which Abraham emigrated. The worst of its people will remain in the earth, cast out by their lands, abhorred by God, collected along with apes and swine by fire which will spend the night and midday where they are in their company." AbuDawud transmitted it.
